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On it, but I couldn't have said it better :) To expand on Felica vs. ISO a bit:

Theoretically Felica is a different stack from ISO 14443, but it's close enough that it almost got specified as a variant of ISO 14443 as well (C; MIFARE and most other systems use A). NFC does specify Felica as one possible official tag type (then called NFC-F, as opposed to NFC-A and NFC-B), so practically, most mobile devices can just also read it.

For anybody wanting to experiment a bit, I can highly recommend getting any Android device and installing NFC tag reader by NXP; it'll show you what technology exactly a given card uses, and in some cases can show you other interesting information as well. There's also an app that lets you read the current balance of various transit cards.



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