back to article Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard

Chinese consumer tech enfant terrible Xiaomi has bunged a special NFC chip into its fitness wearable, giving it the power to serve as a Mastercard in Russia. The Mi Smart Band 4 NFC, as the new device is known, has all the usual time-telling and movement-tracking functions. But it also includes an NFC chip cooked up by NXP to …

  1. Dr Scrum Master
    Headmaster

    West

    China to Russia to Europe sounds like a march westwards rather than to the East.

  2. TheProf
    Angel

    Maybe it's

    From the people who brought you the movie "Krakatoa, East of Java"

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