FeliCa Support
Japan often gets different hardware variants of the same smartphones released internationally. That’s because they need to have an Osaifu-Keitai compatible secure element in the device so they not only read and write to FeliCa cards, but also do card emulation. The Google Pixel 2 series did not have such a secure element in the device, but this year, the Pixel 3 does. Here are the 4 hardware variants of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL:
G013A – Pixel 3 international
G013B – Pixel 3 with Osaifu-Keitai compatible secure element
G013C – Pixel 3 XL international
G013D – Pixel 3 XL with Osaifu-Keitai compatible secure element
The band support is also a bit different across the models. The Japanese ones have band 21, while the U.S. one doesn’t. The U.S. one has bands 71 and 32 and TDD 46, while the Japanese ones don’t.