{"id":6661,"date":"2014-12-15T09:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2014-12-15T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:06:00","slug":"first-time-used-apple-pay-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2014\/12\/first-time-used-apple-pay-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time I Used Apple Pay Was Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just a quick note that it is indeed possible to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-pay\/\">Apple Pay<\/a> internationally. i erm, broke my phone last week and was forced (ha) to upgrade to an iPhone 6 a couple days before i left for this trip. i&#8217;ve been looking forward to trying out Apple Pay but didn&#8217;t have a chance to patronize a store that accepted contactless payments at home, so it had to wait until today, when i was shopping for junk food in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p><a 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\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>it was pretty easy to use, just like in the demos, except the display of the credit card reader* wasn&#8217;t very clear about when to initiate the payment process and when it was done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/v\/apple-pay\/a\/images\/contactless_logo_large.png\" width=\"112\" height=\"66\" class=\"alignright\" \/>* the payment terminal didn&#8217;t have a contactless payment area &#8212; i just held the phone up to it; i only knew it accepted contactless payment because i saw a sticker with the symbol (the ))) thing) at the entrance to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spar.at\/de_AT\/index\/unternehmen\/geschaeftstypen\/spargourmetmaerkte.html\">the store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>just a reminder to use cards that don&#8217;t have foreign transaction fees when traveling abroad! oh and i should note that <strong>you do not need to have an internet connection<\/strong> to use Apple Pay, so no roaming data required, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/everything-you-want-to-know-about-apple-pay\/\">says CNET<\/a>. however, i would assume that you won&#8217;t get the transaction list that appears when you view your card in Passbook unless\/until you get a data connection, although this may depend on how the credit card company is integrated with Apple Pay (like, for my Chase card, it only shows transactions i made via Apple Pay, but for my Amex, it shows all recent transactions).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: i oughta mention that getting a local SIM is super easy in Austria, and relatively cheap. you can do it at the airport (IIRC there&#8217;s a post office-ish kiosk that sells cards, which is what i did when i was here in <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/jonk\/before-midnight-or-new-year-s-eve-in-vienna\">2012 for New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/a>), or at any cell phone store in town. i went to the 3 store across from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Stephen's_Cathedral,_Vienna\">St. Stephan&#8217;s 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