The pain of sitting by your computer and reading of tales depicting the awesomeness that mobile payments bring other countries will soon be pain no more. This fall, September specifically, small scale trials of mobile payment software, hardware, and services will run in NYC. Scheduled to run through the end of the year, the pilot program of sorts will give all the players involved (and believe me, there’s a ton) a chance to see how well the technology works out in the real world. Of course, they should already know how it works as Japan in particular has been using mobile payment technology for years.
Initially, the testers will have small chips “installed” in their phones. Whether it’s a messy open heart surgery type of install or a simple USB plugin isn’t specified. Though I’d side with the latter.
2005 tech is almost upon us folks. Are you excited at the possibility of leaving your wallet at home?
If there is one thing people like, it is taking ten different objects and turning them into one multi-function power house. For the digital minded, that is why we have smartphones. Calendars, address books, web browsers, email, etc. are all at our finger tips meaning we don’t have to carry each one of the mentioned and unmentioned objects with us seperately. Remember, there was a time when we did, but now with technology and mobile devices becoming so much more widespread, smaller, and more capable, it is almost hard to even remember back to that time, even though it was just a few short years ago. Mobile payments have the ability to greatly shrink the size of our wallets and purses and make us overall lighter. No longer will we have to fumble around with various pieces of plastic just to for our purchases, instead we’ll just wave our mobile device over a scanner of some sort and all will be taken care of. Would you believe that technology has been around for years, hoever, the U.S. just might start seeing it in the near future. Excited?
