new app to top up ez-link card via smartphone
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New app turns your smartphone into a top up machine for Ez-Link cards
Land Transport Authority-owned EZ-Link has launched an app that turns your smartphone into a mobile machine that tops up the value of your ezlink card.
Touted to be the world's first, the My EZ-Link Mobile app automates payment by charging to a user-designated MasterCard debit or credit card. Users must first enter personal and payment details into the app before they can tap their Ez-Link card on the smartphone to top up.
The app works only on smartphones that are near field communications (NFC) enabled. NFC is a wireless transmission technology that allows mobile payment.
With this, commuters need not visit ATMs or Ez-Link machines anymore. The smartphone payment option adds to existing fuss-free Giro and automatic stored-value reload options tied to the POSB ATM card and most credit cards.
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not bad.....good for ppl living not near mrt station and they only take bus to work
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Not working on HTC One, running Android 4.4 KitKat.
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important question...is it FREE? I know auto GIRO top up incurs a fee.
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The My EZ-Link Mobile app can only be downloaded from the Google Play store and will only work with compatible NFC-enabled Android phones. iOS devices are not supported. Supported phones include:
- Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 with LTE
- Samsung Galaxy Express
- Samsung S III
- Samsung Galaxy Note II with LTE
- Samsun Galaxy S4 with LTE
- Sony Xperia Z Ultra
- Sony Xperia Z
- LG G2
- LG Optimus G
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30cts per top up
free till 31 May 2014
just downloaded to try it out
(using S4)
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Not working on samsung galaxy note 2 running 4.4 kitkat.
Working on samsung galaxy note 3 running 4.3.
Not working on samsung galaxy note 3 running 4.4 kitkat.
So for those who really need to use it, don't upgrade your android phone software to 4.4 kitkat yet, until the app is updated to accept 4.4.
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@ditzy : Is it working for your EzLink Adult Card on samsung note 3 running 4.3 ?
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played with it today
cannot scan my card
S4/4.3
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This is the reason why it will not work on the S4-LTE.
Not working on S4 This app will not work on the Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505 as the phone uses a BCM2079x NFC controller and Broadcom NFC Chip. It doesn’t read MIFARE Classic tags, including EZ-link compatible cards such as NETS Flash Pay. For this app to work, the only solution would be for EZ-link enabled cards to incorporate MIFARE Ultralight or NTAG203 NFC chipset or Samsung Galaxy S4 and other newer Android models such as the Nexus 4 to change to NXP Chip which is highly unlikely.
In layman terms, our ez-link cards are older tech, than at the rate android phones with NFC tech are being released.
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Originally posted by Jhonpaul2020:
@ditzy : Is it working for your EzLink Adult Card on samsung note 3 running 4.3 ?
I dunno leh, I have to go back to the samsung shop to try. I don't own a Note 3.
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HAIIIIIZZZZZ~~~
LTA still has not given the go ahead to implement a EZ link wallet app in our phone via NFC -___- Seriously, I'm very curious on what is stopping it.
So in the end, we got this mobile app to top up our card instead. -___-
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Oh btw:
Touted to be the world's first, the My EZ-Link Mobile app automates payment by charging to a user-designated MasterCard debit or credit card. Users must first enter personal and payment details into the app before they can tap their Ez-Link card on the smartphone to top up.
World first top up because technology advances and allow us to use NFC, which is more commonly availiable now, to act as a reader.
However, there are already alot of countries that implement a wallet in their mobile phone to act as a travel card instead...
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Ditzy, mind your words. For the sake of our slave labourers in China harming their health collecting gold from our e-waste, don't need to be the latest in technology.Handphones also not need to use the latest smartphones.2 to 3 years old smartphones still can be used.
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Originally posted by Littleindia:
Ditzy, mind your words. For the sake of our slave labourers in China harming their health collecting gold from our e-waste, don’t need to be the latest in technology.Handphones also not need to use the latest smartphones.2 to 3 years old smartphones still can be used.
Hey clone, go fark yourself.
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My nokia 3310 cannot use.
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Acid, Government want to protect less fortunates such as IMH patients from being riddiculed by the public. People like Chee Yong will be hurted