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Re:Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful by hocuspocus on Saturday May 17, 2025 @10:35AM (#44014631)
Note that on global Pixels it isn't hard to enable, either via root or flashing Japanese variants of the factory images.
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Re:Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful by xuki on Saturday May 17, 2025 @06:47PM (#44017590)
This is such a Hacker News comment.
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Re:Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful by hocuspocus on Sunday May 18, 2025 @12:18PM (#44022426)
Yes I'm not claiming it's ideal, it'd be nice not to worry about such things as a tourist, it can't be that hard or expensive for Google to just let everyone use the feature.

But at least if you move to Japan, you can essentially get a Japanese flavored Pixel at the small cost of a factory unlock/relock.

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