A Jawbone / American Express association?

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According to the powerful Wall Street Journal, credit card provider American Express is expected to formalize a partnership with Jawbone later this week that would allow customers to use the brand's next smart health connected bracelet for contactless payment.

The anonymous source explains what it would be thanks to NFC technology that users could easily pay without contact, on the same principle as the Apple smartwatch, whose pre-orders were opened last week. No other information was leaked, so we don't know if Jawbone would plan to associate Visa or Mastercard in its project as well. If American Express were the exclusive partner of the Quantified Self specialist, this would obviously limit its application…

The brand's latest smart health connected bracelet, the Jawbone UP3, will not integrate an NFC chip, according to the anonymous source. It will therefore require a later version of this activity sensor whose pre-orders will be delivered on April 20, in order to be able to see an alternative to the Apple Watch. Sales of the UP3 bracelet should resume from this date.

04/16 Edit: it's now official, the new Jawbone UP4 will allow contactless payment!

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