Help Phone with good NFC performance?

[Winfried]

Hello,

As backup for the bank card, I'd like to get an NFC-capable Android smartphone.

Ideally, it should be < €/$200 new (I don't mind buying it second-hand, so it could more expensive new), and have a < 5,5" screen — besides the extra weight, I find Xiaomi Redmi Note 5's 6" screen a bit big, and liked Huawei P9 Lite's 5,2" better. Considering the price, I guess I'll go for Chinese brands again.

Does NFC work well on all phones, or are some clearly better/worse than others?

Thank you.

 

[ocnbrze]

Hello,

As backup for the bank card, I'd like to get an NFC-capable Android smartphone.

Ideally, it should be < €/$200 new (I don't mind buying it second-hand, so it could more expensive new), and have a < 5,5" screen — besides the extra weight, I find Xiaomi Redmi Note 5's 6" screen a bit big, and liked Huawei P9 Lite's 5,2" better. Considering the price, I guess I'll go for Chinese brands again.

Does NFC work well on all phones, or are some clearly better/worse than others?

Thank you.

with tech, you get what you pay for. so cheap phones will always have issues over flagship phones. samsung pay is pretty good. but i have only used it on samsung note series phones and now with the fold 3 and 4. so i assume they should work on both budget and mid range samsung phones.

also have the samsung galaxy watch 3, the galaxy s3 frontier, and now the watch 6. and all of them have nfc with samsung pay. its pretty cool when i use my watch to pay for things. it trips out the cashiers....i love their reactioins when i do this....lol

 

[Winfried]

Thanks. I'm not sure the bank allows other payment providers than Google Pay, but I'll check it out.