IDG Contributor Network: Can Vodafone Pay work when the phone is dead? Depends on how you define 'dead.'

Since the earliest days of NFC mobile transactions, one of the most oft-repeated criticisms was, "What happens when the phone battery dies?" Well, one mobile payment system says it has solved that problem, but the truth is that it's only solved part of it. Still, something is better than nothing.

On Oct. 10, Vodafone made this claim for its own payment system. "Vodafone Pay can even be used to make a payment when the phone is switched off or out of battery life because the contactless SIM can contact automatically to the contactless terminal to make the transaction," said Vodafone's statement.

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