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Re:Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments by pcl on Sunday September 30, 2012 @01:59PM (#4593471)
In San Francisco, PayByPhone has put stickers on many (all?) of the parking meters, enabling you to pay for your parking via their mobile app. In addition to a unique number, the stickers are also NFC-capable, so presumably an NFC phone owner can wave a phone against it to input the meter ID in the app.

(I use an iPhone, so this is speculation on my part.)

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Re:Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments by sahaskatta on Sunday September 30, 2012 @05:30PM (#4594249)
I've used those NFC stickers on the parking meters with my Nexus. You don't even need to have the PayByPhone app open or running. When I tapped my phone it automatically launched the app with the parking spot number inputted so I just had to confirm a duration.

Also, if you don't have the app installed, your phone should launch the Play Store to download and install it automatically.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the use cases for NFC outside of payments by timdoug on Sunday September 30, 2012 @02:22PM (#4593570)
'"What’d be cooler would be if you just pulled into the parking spot and walked away."'

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/irreducible/

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