Applications include contactless transactions such as payment and transit ticketing, keys, data transfers including electronic business cards, and access to online digital content.

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The phone can also store loyalty programs, present offers, work as a boarding pass and eventually pay at electronic turnstyles, like the London underground, or as announced today, New Jersey Transit trains and buses.

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