Mobile Suica with Vodafone too Mobile Phones / Vodafone Posted by zmcnulty on Sep 05, 2006 - 10:30 AM Vodafone and JR East Japan have announced that you'll be able to use Mobile Suica with Vodafone handsets from December 2nd at 4PM. Mobile Suica uses the "FeliCa" contactless chipset found in many modern Japanese handsets to allow users to ride trains without paper tickets. Only two Vodafone handsets currently available will support Mobile Suica: the 904SH and 905SH. The name of the service itself will also be changed from "Vodafone live! FeliCa" to "S! FeliCa" when Vodafone's brand name changes to "SoftBank" on October 1st of this year. Inspired by: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/30887.html [1] Press Release: http://www.vodafone.jp/japanese/release/2006/20060905_1j.pdf [2] This article is from TechJapan   http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1342 Links in this article   [1] http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/30887.html   [2] http://www.vodafone.jp/japanese/release/2006/20060905_1j.pdf