Mobile phones aim to take load off wallets
Look inside almost anyone's purse or pocket,and it probably contains at least a mobile phone and a wallet bulging with bills, coins, receipts, credit cards,IDs,train or bus passes.
In Japan, that may soon be a thing of the past as the mobile industry aims to combine the two with a small embedded chip that can also store money and personal information.
NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's largest mobile operator, became the first operator to launch a wallet phone, equipped with Sony Corp.'s FeliCa smart chip, which can be quickly read by passing it over a scanner.
In Japan, expectations are high that FeliCa will change the way consumers and