Google's 'Wallet' App Aims to Turn Our Smartphones into Digital Wallets

[Tharic-Nar]

Furthering the idea that our smartphones should be able to do it all, Google has announced its "Wallet" mobile app that should soon become available for public consumption. Acting as a digital wallet, this app will be able to store multiple credit cards (no word on bank cards), gift cards and loyalty cards and be usable at a cash register equipped with MasterCard's "PayPass" near-field communication device.

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[TheCrimsonStar]

WOAH. THAT IS COOL!!

 

[RobbyBob]

So, basically what our friends in Japan have been doing for years.

 

[Kougar]

Hmm, and Paypal didn't even wait a day to sue Google over this. Should be interesting to watch that one go down.

So, basically what our friends in Japan have been doing for years.

Pretty much. Except hardly anything here will work when waving our cell phone in front of it, but almost everything already relies on or incorporates such technology in several Asian countries. But yeah, I am looking forward to when it catches on in the US.