[hdhrufjdi]

You don't need an Android phone for messengers.

Just get Beeper and a Linux Matrix Client and you can communicate with iMessage, Telegram and WhatsApp users without having an Android phone

My bank account works in the Browser

[pleb_nz]

Bank App, NFC bank card payments?

Tap and pay or paywave are the best thing to happen in mobile IMO. I don't even carry a wallet anymore. I had having to carry a phone and wallet. Now it's back down to only have to carry one thing. Perfect

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> I don't even carry a wallet anymore.

That is a lot of faith in the technology. You don't worry about a dead battery? Cracked screen? Phone getting stolen out of your hand in the subway?

[pleb_nz]

Home is never far away. If something like that happened 99.9% of things can wait until I've been home to collect my wallet. Just as much chance if me loosing my wallet as most of the things you mentioned.

[adql]

I don't trust phone security enough to do that.

[pleb_nz]

It's the same as having a credit card for web orders that has a lower limit, you load the same card into the phone...

[clircle]

> My bank account works in the Browser

Sounds like pure hell on mobile.

[hdhrufjdi]

It isn't though. What fits into a app screen of a phone also fits into a browser screen on a phone

[CoolCold]

how your bank's push notifications work without native app? Recently I see there is fingerprint support in browsers on Android, but AFAIK it's quite new - have you had to enter password each time?

[toast0]

Webpush is a thing? But I don't get push notifications from my bank, so I don't know what I would be missing?

Also, not everyone is willing to use fingerprints, so there's that too.

[CoolCold]

I'm interested in technical possibility, so I can understand utility limits/options.

Willing or unwilling is per person and bit different question which is out of my interest for now.