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Phone wallet payments

Recorded year2004

NTT Docomo's Osaifu-Keitai lets Japanese phones pay with a tap in 2004; Google Wallet (2011) and Apple Pay (2014) spread it worldwide.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.