Curve doesn't work in the USA, to save my fellow subjects a minute clicking through the play store
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Does it work for mainland EU?
I'm not seeing anything on regional restrictions, if anything their website makes it sound like they work globally (or I assume with anything that takes visa cards?)
It works in the entire European Economic Area (EEA).
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that
if you're using Graphene, you're probably overly privacy sensitive. If you're [...] just use cash instead.
I feel that's the advice for the people like me, here. But I appreciate all the detail information.
Just use the card your bank gives you.
In Poland some banks directly use NFC for contactless payments, thanks to that I can pay with my degoogled phone (Murena Fairphone 5).
Here in Germany too: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/nfc-datenschutzfreundlich-bezahlen-mit-dem-android-phone/
Same with Crédit Agricole (France), works just fine on LineageOS.
There's precious little detail about what's going on here, but I assume Curve's NFC payment system hasn't enabled Device or Strong verification like Google Wallet.
I'm honestly ok with that "lower security" as long as there are appropriate safeguards to only paying when the phone is unlocked (which it should never be outside of my control). But that itself seems to assume Curve won't enable those things in the future, which is uncertain.
Needs Play Services, not interested. I'll stick with cash for now, it's less traceable anyway (if you use coins, bank notes are numbered and thus traceable)