To you know if wechat or alipay work? I need these while traveling. They use QR codes for payment and other services. I wish this took off everywhere as nfc payments are locked into only a few apps.
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Use a separate phone for them. The Chinese state can not be trusted.
Does Android Auto still not work?
It's been working fine for me for months.
That's great to hear, I think I'm jumping back to graphene
I really wanna switch to e/os or graphene (especially on Motorola), but in Denmark you need MitID to live in society and it only works on Android and iOS 😭
A draft of a draft of a plan that I just thought of right now.
I might just have to carry two phones lol. One is a small cheap phone just for all those pesky financial and governmental apps, and one main phone with graphene.
Your country has sold you to american companies
It rubs me the wrong way to have to resort to a burner like trash device with less scope/(security) features to handle the most sensitive things.
How about we force everyone to do all that only on Linux instead of Windows when on a desktop? Fuck this infra.
I'm glad to have found the banking app compatibility list from her FAQ and see that a few of the big banks in my country is proven working. This gives me hope of jumping ship from my S24U.
I couldn't have predicted how much shittier Samsung was going to be when I weighed the S24U vs the Pixel 9/10 (the 10 was newer at the time of research thus expensive), as I put a lot of weight on the stylus the S24U have. Had I known that samsung were to
- Disallow bootloader unlock
- And soon in their android 17 update, close off fastboot functions IIRC (please correct me)
I would have bit the bullet getting the pixel 9 and installed graphene. I also got spooked off by overheating issues in hot climate countries and network issues. And in hindsight I think I would have been fine with the theoretical lower performance of the tensor chip vs the snapdragon in my S24U.
I also wished this FAQ existed sooner / researched more properly regarding app compatibility on graphene, so this is wholly my mistake
Cest la vie
I'll do better next chance I get.
I have GOS on a pixel8a and my solution to the banking apps was to make a browser bookmark on my homescreen that goes straight to the bank mobile login site . it feels just like the app...except I can't deposit checks via the camera.
I guess I am not a defeatist either, good to know.
I watch the British "Coronation Street" and see them just swiping their phones at a little gadget when buying a coffee at the local diner. Swipe and go, no other steps.
Sadly NFC doesn't work on graphene though
Honestly, the US (where we live) does this surprisingly well, considering how backwards of a country it is in a lot of other ways.
Credit cards, and even debit cards (like the one from our bank), generally have NFC these days, just like phones do. But you don't need to faff about with your phone. Just pull out your card, tap it, done.
No app compatibility to deal with, just as easy as phone NFC, I don't know why that's not the standard over there. (Plenty of people do use phone payments here too though. I don't get why.)
-- Frost