Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Paul Lester wrote:
>
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>> In a convenience store in Shibuya I think I saw a sign
>>recommending you to go to the SUICA place (JR station guy) and get
>>an Edy enabled SUICA card so you can use it for both buying at the
>>convenience store and also for your train pass. Is this true? Or did I
>>just read it too fast? If this is the case it looks like Edy and Suica
>>are merging their tech together.
>
>
> It's the same technology. The Felica cards have a chip on it that runs
> Java; you download programs to the chip, and it runs them.
I don't believe this to be the case; to the best of my
knowledge Felica cards run native code.
j.
Received on Sun Jul 4 04:38:46 2004