NFC payment for train and bus fares

The usage of Near Field Communication (NFC) for payment is a convenient method. But this innovation technology is going to fail once again even with the pushed by IDA.

WHY?
The reason is simple and boiled down to dollars and cents and others as highlighted below.

1. Consumers will not be paying $37.45 to purchase a NFC Sim Card to use the contactless payment.

2. The e-wallet had a validity of 5 years only. Isn’t this a scheme to made more money from the consumers

3. Payment of $5 EZ Link registration fee. But I believe most telcos will wave it off.

4. Limited number of NFC smartphones to support the application.

In view of the above reasons, the project will not going to be a successful. But if NFC Sim Card are provided free of charge to consumers, then it will be a viable project. Our telcos will not absorb the charges unless the government paid for it.

EZ Link cannot even made its current app to work on all NFC enable smartphones to check their EZ-Card value. I am not confident on how they are going to made this a success. They still have a lot to learn from how HongKong partner on the Octpus Card.

We will update the feasibility of this project in a year time.

Read the NFC Payment on Straits Time>>>

POSB Digibank SG

The POSB android app that serves us for past few years will be remove from the Google Play Store. This app is ready lacking behind in terms of design and functional as compared with OCBC and Standard Chartered.

2016-03-26 13.29.41
The traditional POSB app lacks the design innovation.

We will not missed the app but looking forward to the new POSB Digibank app. The new app should provide us the functional needs for the end users.

POSB Digibanking
The new POSB Digibank app.

This new POSB Digibank is already in the Google Play Store. The old app will cease it’s operation on 1st April 2016.

Download the new POSB Digibank>>>

SMRT Pasir Ris Accident

It was unfortunate that 2 SMRT maintenance staff lives were lost during their course of works. They were part of a team trying to rectify the signal issue on the track. They were knock down by the oncoming train.

SMRT Pasir Ris Accident
Credits from Mediacorp, Channel 8

The standard operating procedure (SOP) maybe correct for the staffs. But the risk assessment may have flaw. As the risk is higher, the train should have maintained a speed of 30KM/H or lesser. There is an airflow resistance force generated as air passing through is restricted between the train and the peoples. There maybe many factors on why they were throw off balance and hit by the oncoming train. We shall leave to the expert’s and investigation team to provide an answer to the deceased families and the general public.

May the 2 honorable SMRT staffs rest in peace.

Sandisk GTO for your smartphone

Always running out of space on your Android smartphone? No slot for external SD card? 
If the above two are affecting you, Sandisk GTO is the perfect solution for you. Once plug into your Android smartphone, it will be detected as a USB drive. You can copy files or retrieve data from it.

Sandisk GTO
Sandisk GTO 64GB is selling at S$30 at Challenger stores.

Drop us a comment if you want one deliver to your mail box.

Collection of car

My Kia Cerato II had completed the repair and was ready for collection. It takes about slightly more than a week to get back my car. But the workshop informed me investigation is still on going.

I will get my transport claims from my insurer after the investigation had been completed. The car was nicely done up and look like new once again.

1457445828840
NTUC Authorized Workshop

NTUC Orange Force

NTUC Income is the only motor insurance that have a special team to help you when your car break down or met with an accident. They will appear at the scene within 15 to 30 min upon calling them.

Orange Force
NTUC Income Orange Force

I called the Orange Force after a traffic accident. The call centre dispatch the team to the site. You will received an sms that the rider is on the way to site.

The rider advised us on how to proceed to do our third party claim. He also snapshot the traffic accident scene and capture all the details onto his phone. He even advised the other party as AXA Insurance does not have a team to help their customers on site.

He provide a list so that we can contact the authorised workshop whom can arrange a tow truck to tow vehicle to theit workshop.

The rider even sms you back 24 hours later to gather feedback.

Call Orange Force at 6789 5000.