Google Planning NFC announcement tomorrow

[cheezy321]

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/google-nfc-event-youtube/

More proof: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/vivotech-google-nfc/

Will be interesting to see what they do. I am all for this. I would love to make 100% of my payments thru my cell phone and not have to carry a wallet. Would make my life much easier!

I just hope apple follows suit with the iPhone 5 and has this technology built in as well.

What do you all think? Is this technology ready for prime time?

 

[zerocool84]

My brother lives in Tokyo and told me NFC is everywhere. I'd definitely love to have it over here.

 

[Glitchny]

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/google-nfc-event-youtube/

More proof: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/vivotech-google-nfc/

Will be interesting to see what they do. I am all for this. I would love to make 100% of my payments thru my cell phone and not have to carry a wallet. Would make my life much easier!

I just hope apple follows suit with the iPhone 5 and has this technology built in as well.

What do you all think? Is this technology ready for prime time?

Certainly. It has been used in Japan for awhile now and as far as the NFC technology goes it isn't that new. Hopefully this will encourage more shops to adopt NFC in their stores.

 

[alent1234]

I used my ipad at Starbucks today. Is that cooler than paying with cashier credit card

 

[Patranus]

Great.
Now Google can track everything I buy......

 

[AstroManLuca]

What does Google have to do with the National Football Conference?

 

[sciwizam]

I'm more interested in the non-payment uses of NFC. During the Google I/O conference they had a session on NFC showcasing "zero-click" sharing of apps, data, songs etc.

 

[compman25]

What does Google have to do with the National Football Conference?

And no love for the AFC?

 

[Dulanic]

Great.
Now Google can track everything I buy......

Mmmm depends how it works. If it works with the existing RF devices then no it just sends the card #.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

The problem with this is that you need a phone specifically with NFC. I think the way Square is implementing this sort of payment system is a lot more ubiquitous.

 

[AstroManLuca]

And no love for the AFC?

They must be niners fans.

 

[Patranus]

Mmmm depends how it works. If it works with the existing RF devices then no it just sends the card #.

Looks like it is 2 way with backwards compatibility for PayPass.

Interesting it is setup with MasterCard.
I wonder why Visa is on the sidelines.

There have been rumors about Visa working with Apple. Should be interesting.

 

[dlock13]

Looks like it is 2 way with backwards compatibility for PayPass.

Interesting it is setup with MasterCard.
I wonder why Visa is on the sidelines.

There have been rumors about Visa working with Apple. Should be interesting.

Isn't Visa backing up Square? Wouldn't this be competition between the two if Visa decided to go with both?

 

[sciwizam]

Looks like there will be NFC stickers, with limited capability, for phones without NFC chips.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/sp...oogle-wallet-to-android-phones-that-lack-nfc/

You could probably slap this sticker to any Apple, RIM or Blackberry phone and use Google Offers + Wallet, if Google makes a Google Wallet app for those platforms and it's approved.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

yeah useless as my main cards are AMEX and Visa....

 

[DivideBYZero]

Any NFC system that isn't ubiquitous will fail.

 

[shabby]

Why do you still have to sign your signature? Whats the purpose of that seeing that when shopping online or even when buying gas you don't need a signature.