Changing life: Samsung/Xiaomi/NFC-SIM bus swiping experience

Changing life: Samsung/Xiaomi/NFC-SIM bus swiping experience

On December 19, Samsung SAMSUNG Pay finally supported the bus card function. The first batch of cities to open it were limited to Beijing and Shanghai. Previously, Xiaomi Mi pay was also the first to support mobile phone swiping for buses and subways. Even earlier was the mobile phone swiping for buses promoted at the operator level. The three major operators including China Mobile/China Unicom/China Telecom all have NFC-SIM card services that support mobile phone swiping for buses.

"Mobile changes life" is the slogan of China Mobile. It is particularly suitable for China's mobile Internet era. The popularity of smart phones has greatly facilitated people's lives. The use of bus and subway cards is a good example. Mobile phones support swiping bus cards, which not only facilitates travel, but also makes bus card recharge more convenient. In fact, a few years ago, the three major operators including China Mobile attached great importance to the mobile payment business represented by NFC-SIM cards, but ordinary people did not seem to be interested in it. Therefore, after one or two years of promotion, NFC-SIM cards have achieved little effect and the penetration rate is very low. Most people may have never heard of NFC-SIM and do not know what it is. This embarrassing situation has continued to this day. Even the mobile bus card claim page of a certain operator's mobile payment APP is still a few years ago. Xiaomi Mi Pay's bus card In the past two years, with the popularity of mobile phone NFC, mobile payment has gradually become popular. Various mobile phone manufacturers have launched their own XX Pay mobile wallets, and mobile phone swiping for buses and subways has encountered spring again. As a mobile phone user who loves to tinker, I went to China Mobile's business hall to change an NFC-SIM card. I have been using the NFC-SIM card to swipe buses and subways. A while ago, Xiaomi Wallet also supported bus cards. I wanted to experience its principle and opened a virtual transportation card with Xiaomi mobile phone. On December 19, Samsung SAMSUNGPay also launched the transportation card function, so I tried to open it again. So which of these three mobile bus cards is better? First of all, from the APP interface, Samsung Pay/Mi Pay/Beijing Mobile One Card APP all open a virtual transportation card, which is not bound to the original bus card. Samsung Pay/Mi Pay charges a fee for opening a bus card, but there are currently discounts and exemptions. Samsung Pay only charges a symbolic one yuan card opening fee for opening a card, and the card opening cost is not high.
Mi Pay/NFC-SIM card/Samsung Pay interface Samsung Pay/Mi Pay/NFC-SIM card applications all support bus card recharge. If there is no money in the virtual card, you can recharge it through the bound bank card, which is very convenient. In terms of card discounts, China Mobile's NFC-SIM bus card has a very large discount. Every month, you will get free transportation fees when you swipe the bus card. I have received 60 to 70 yuan in bus fees from China Mobile in more than two months of use, and there are additional gifts for recommending a user; Samsung Pay/Mi Pay does not have discounts for bus swiping. How to swipe the bus card with a mobile phone? After installing any of the above three bus cards on your phone, you can swipe the bus. So how to swipe the bus? What if it is embarrassing if it does not respond to the gate for a while? The following editor will talk about how to use the above three types of virtual bus cards. Xiaomi Mi Pay bus card First, let's talk about Xiaomi Mi Pay bus card. Xiaomi phones support their own Mi Pay bus cards but do not support the operator's NFC-SIM card. If a friend's Xiaomi phone has changed the NFC-SIM card, it may prompt that the phone has no security module, so Xiaomi phone users should use Xiaomi's own bus card. When Xiaomi Mi Pay swipes the bus, you need to start the Municipal Transportation Card APP, that is, you need to wake it up. The specific method is to press and hold the volume down button or the Home button of the dual-machine in the screen off state to call it up, and then put it on the gate to swipe the card. Bus card supported by NFC-SIM card Next, let's talk about the bus card supported by NFC-SIM card. Since the editor's personal phone is Samsung S7 edge, the NFC-SIM card and Samsung Pay bus card are activated on the same phone. The editor first activated the bus card supported by Beijing Mobile NFC-SIM card. The NFC-SIM card only needs to be replaced for free at a specific business hall. It is no different in size from an ordinary SIM card, but it has an integrated NFC module. Download the "Hebao" APP to install the Municipal Transportation Card APP, and then you can swipe the card after recharging. When swiping the bus or subway, you only need to turn on the NFC function on your phone. You can swipe the card regardless of whether the phone screen is on or not, that is, you can swipe the bus or subway by taking the phone out of your pocket, which is very convenient. In addition, NFC-SIM cards are only available on Android phones, and iPhones do not support them. Samsung Pay's bus card Finally, let's talk about Samsung Pay's bus card. I have just used it for two days since it was opened on the 19th. Although the Samsung server was very stuck when it was opened and it took two hours to open, the final experience of swiping the bus and subway was still very powerful. The way to swipe the bus with Samsung Pay's bus card is the same as the operator's NFC-SIM card, that is, the phone does not need to be on the screen, and you can even swipe the bus and subway as long as the NFC function is turned on when the phone is turned off. After talking about the ways to swipe the bus with Samsung Pay/Mi Pay/NFC-SIM cards, I will summarize their respective advantages and disadvantages. Let's start with Mi Pay. The bus card on Xiaomi phones needs to wake up the Xiaomi Wallet APP every time you swipe the card, which is slightly inferior to the Samsung Pay/NFC-SIM card method that does not require any operation in terms of convenience. There is a certain probability that the operator's NFC-SIM card will not be recognized when swiping the subway, and it needs to be placed on the gate twice more, but there is no problem when swiping the bus. When swiping the bus with Samsung Pay, the phone needs to be as close to the gate as possible. So from the user experience point of view, the three have their own advantages and disadvantages; the editor personally tends to use Samsung Pay and NFC-SIM card to swipe the bus. The Xiaomi bus card that wakes up the APP has a certain cost of use, but the success rate of Xiaomi Mi Pay for swiping the bus and subway is indeed relatively high among the three. In general, the experience of swiping the bus with Samsung Pay/Mi Pay/NFC-SIM card is very good. Compared with the card bus card, it is more convenient and efficient. For office workers, the editor highly recommends that they open any of the above three types of virtual bus cards according to the mobile phone they use. Of course, for iPhone users, they can only look on.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.

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