contactless pay

michaelmrc

does the s9pp have the ability to due contactless payments. ie samsung pay or google pay. i know other suunto models do but cannot find out any info on the s9pp if it does or not. thanks

@michaelmrc S9PP doesn’t have a NFC (Race has).

SuperFlo75

I think that no Suunto Sports Watch has the possibility of contactless pay

michaelmrc

@twekkel thanks i was afraid of that.

GiPFELKiND

@SuperFlo75 said in contactless pay:

I think that no Suunto Sports Watch has the possibility of cantactless pay

Why the new race has a NFC chipset?!

SuperFlo75

@GiPFELKiND I don‘t know… I don‘t use SR, but I never read that any Suunto watch is able to pay with… in my opionion it is not necessary because I can use my iPhone for this if I want it… or (much better) I use cash

maszop

@GiPFELKiND NFC is just a communication protocol. Payments are just one very specific use of NFC. The presence of such a chipset means nothing.
Payments are not possible not because of some hardware problem, but because of the lack of an advanced and expensive software platform. Even the big companies like Garmin has some problems with this.

For me, such a function in a watch is a simple waste of resources.

Egika

@SuperFlo75 said in contactless pay:

I don‘t use SR, but I never read that any Suunto watch is able to pay with…

Suunto 7 can do this. As it is based on WearOS, Google Pay is available on the watch.
I used it quite a lot and it is super convenient!

SuperFlo75

@Egika Sorry, I forgot that this is a real Suunto watch but as I said, I don‘t need this feature, and I prefer cash

maszop

@Egika In the case of Suunto 7, payments were handled by Google (Google Pay), not Suunto itself.

In normal Suunto watches this is unrealistic without spending a lot of money.

Egika

@maszop said in contactless pay:

@Egika In the case of Suunto 7, payments were handled by Google (Google Pay), not Suunto itself.

In normal Suunto watches this is unrealistic without spending a lot of money.

I did not say anything different.