Today, Verizon announced payment plans for off contract phones, very similar to what T-Mobile now offers with their Uncarrier approach. You can buy a phone for full price, and the carrier will offer you a payment plan to pay it off over a period of time instead of paying $600 up front. However, T-Mobile uses this instead of contracts. Their fees don’t… Read more
With T-Mobile’s new Uncarrier plans and LTE network announcement comes a new line of phones. T-Mobile has announced a few devices, but the ones we are most excited about are the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4. Two of the biggest Android flagships of the year are arriving on T-Mo, so you’ll have plenty of choice if you are switching (and now is as… Read more
Mobile payments are the future, but they are still so unpopular. Google Wallet has been a push for NFC payments, but being restricted to a handful of devices really doesn’t help. There are a few Google Wallet competitors out there, but none of them are widespread. Carrier-friendly system Isis is coming eventually, and now we have a new Visa/Samsung… Read more
Google’s official support site for Google Wallet has pretty much confirmed the physical Google Wallet card (as if we weren’t already sure!). We reported on the card earlier, but now we have even bigger news. A new Google Wallet app sans NFC support will hit all Android devices running 2.3.3 or later. This means that the app will be able to control the… Read more
Isis has confirmed that they are launching the service on October 22nd. And just like before, it shall launch in Austin and Salt Lake City for now. They also claim “as many as” 20 smartphones will support Isis, but the older devices might be left out. A bit sad, I always hoped my aging AT&T Galaxy S II will get Isis, since it has an NFC chip. Though the… Read more
It’s official: we have another competitor for the mobile payment crown. And though Google Wallet has that crown, it’s the only one in the game. Soon, ISIS will be released to the world, and will most likely surpass Wallet. There is really no reason it will not. But now MCX has been announced, standing for Merchant Customer Exchange. What an awesome… Read more
Google Wallet never supported anything but Citi MasterCards, further limiting its already tiny audience (since only a few phones ever supported Wallet). However, that tiny audience gets to use other cards from now on. Google Wallet now supports all MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover bank cards. However, it isn’t true support. It has… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOe1M2p0u1I&feature=player_embedded#! So the clever devs at XDA have gotten Google Wallet to run on the Verizon Galaxy S III (like in the video) along with any other variant of the Galaxy S III. As you probably know, Verizon T-Mobile and AT&T block all their phones from using Wallet, due to having their own system come out… Read more
The biggest news is that the Starbucks for Android app now supports mobile payments in both the UK and Canada! This is great for all you hipsters (and hard working people) who love some Starbucks. Along with support for other countries, the app now supports refilling your Starbucks card with PayPal. You can also view account balance, monitor your… Read more
First, we ask a question: How many of you have NFC enabled phones? Not many, but there are quite a few. Now we ask THE question: How many of you are able to use your phones as a digital wallet? That’s right, not many. There are 6 phones that are able to officially use Google Wallet, and they are all (but one) on one carrier, Sprint. There is the… Read more
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