Visa finally announced their credit card payment service for the Android mobile phone platform. The opportunity to use ShopSavvy’s barcode reading and pricing comparison engine combined with the ability to BUY IT NOW! with Visa is game changing. We are VERY excited about the opportunties that Visa brings to the mobile space and specifically to the Android community. Read more about the convergence in a post by Jacqueline Emigh of BetaNews, ‘Convergence for the smartphone and credit card is nearer.‘
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September 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
If the G1 were a ketai launching in Japan it would likely have a Near Field Communications chip ( a kind of short range RFID chip ) that supports purchases, railroad fares, etc. This chip would work not only with with railroad turnstiles, but with a touchpoint on your laptop. It would also likely include some kind of biometric, such as facial recognition. The combination would provide a 3 factor authentication scheme that would be very useful in the corporate environment where increasingly we work with people with whom we never shake hands. You are much less likely to lose your phone than an RSA token.
Is anything like this on your radar screen?