Use your phone to pay

User45701

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/run_out_of_cash.php

its started in the UK.
Mobile company orange teaming with barkeys will allow you to use your phone to pay for things in stors. Will be for small items as they dont want to lose there CC business. Still means not carrying loadsof chance.

Though will this increase mobile phone thefts? Well either way we are getting close to the "your life in one device" idea

Quazzie

This is soooooo 2008!!

Is the search function still down?

Hazys

What an age we live in!!!!

What will they think of next using small bits of paper as legal tender?

thelordofcheese

User45701 wrote: »

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/run_out_of_cash.php

its started in the UK.
Mobile company orange teaming with barkeys will allow you to use your phone to pay for things in stors. Will be for small items as they dont want to lose there CC business. Still means not carrying loadsof chance.

Though will this increase mobile phone thefts? Well either way we are getting close to the "your life in one device" idea

Calling Run_to_Da_Hills, has anyone seen Run_to_Da_Hills?

towel401

They actually had this in 1999 so you could buy cans of coke with your phone. didn't use any of this new fangled (and less secure) RFID ****e but they had them installed at Eircell and eventually they had to get rid of them because the people who had their bill paid by Eircell were buying ****loads of coke with it.

but i`ll stick to using cash kthxbai

Gummy Panda

Haven't the japanese had this service for ages now?

starn

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Haven't the japanese had this service for ages now?

Not sure if its Japan or Hong Kong. But you can pay for your rail ticket with your mobile. The rail company sends you the image of a barcode which you scan thru at the turnstyle. I think it uses the Imode service

Thats was four or five years ago. So its all old news.

Edit :I cant belive that this is the seventh post and still nothing form Run_to_the_hills. Has he been taken out.

Gummy Panda

starn wrote: »

Not sure if its Japan or Hong Kong. But you can pay for your rail ticket with your mobile. The rail company sends you the image of a barcode which you scan thru at the turnstyle. I think it uses the Imode service

Thats was four or five years ago. So its all old news.

Edit :I cant belive that this is the seventh post and still nothing form Run_to_the_hills. Has he been taken out.

Yeah imode comes from japan. It works for trains and vending machines i believe.

K-9

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Calling Run_to_Da_Hills, has anyone seen Run_to_Da_Hills?

They've finally got him by the looks of it. Maybe he was right and he will never respond to this thread?

Turd Ferguson

The internet is on computers now?

towel401

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

The internet is on computers now?

not anymore. its all netbooks, nettops and iphones now

Capt'n Midnight

They have been using phones to pay for stuff in Korea for a while now, all banks go through a central clearing house.

towel401

i suppose it makes sense to use your phone to pay for stuff in japan. you don't really want to be seen shoving cash into a used panty vending machine..