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Pixel phones bought outside Japan supposedly can if you do a little adb hacking to enable it, but I don't have a Pixel to try it myself.
by xingped 20d ago
Pixel phones bought outside Japan supposedly can if you do a little adb hacking to enable it, but I don't have a Pixel to try it myself.
- mathrawka 20d agoPixel phones outside of Japan are missing the Felica chip. Apple pays the fee for all phones in the world to have the chip. Google only pays for Japan devices.
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- xingped 20d agoAs far as I could tell from everything I've read from multiple sources, every Pixel since Pixel 4 _has_ the chip, it's just not enabled and you can enable it with rooting. https://xdaforums.com/t/global-pixel-device-unlock-felica-suica-pasmo-payment-root-required.4706218/ https://xdaforums.com/t/global-pixel-device-unlock-felica-su...
- makeitdouble 20d agoThe chip is not missing, the configuration is. I assume it's a licensing issue, where Google is too cheap to pay JR for the phones sold outside of Japan, so only setup the JP models and only pay the license for those.
- kelnos 19d agoNo, the chip is there, gated by a SKU check, so that Google only pays the licensing fees for their Japanese SKU.