Like I said, normal folk never really use it anyway lol, so it probably won't matter. 845/8GB does though.

I personally need NFC though to check the balance on my Icoca/Suica cards (amongst many other things), but I'm not looking for a new phone anytime soon myself lol. Just sticking around to see the ongoing results of Xiaomi's interesting little (which is actually what Poco means in Spanish) experiment here.

That said that launcher is pretty dope though. Categorising apps by colour? That's some crazy shit right there Xiaomi and I like it.

The whole phone was directed towards emerging markets - NFC is not much of utility in emerging countries.  Of course, the price/performance ratio is pretty much unprecedented for 2018, and the inclusion of power-user friendly features such as expandable memory, headphone jack and a large battery makes up the lack of NFC

Maybank QRPAY better, e-wallet w/out NFC

Haha, who uses Samsung Pay nowadays?
Better use Boost. Even mamak got Boost.