MSE Blog: Can my wallet go digital?

Former_MSE_Helen

Hi all, this is a thread to discuss the MSE blog:
Can my wallet go digital?

"My wallet is bursting. Not with cash, but with cards...

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TVman

This would be very useful as I don't carry all my cards as there are too many. I just take them as needed apart from the main ones.

20aday

It'd be very useful if the mobile phone manufacturers agreed on an industry wide standard.

For example Nokia and select Android phones have NFC whereas Apple have Passbook.

If they could agree on how best to take it forward and adopt it I feel it could revolutionise the market.

If Apple have no intention of using NFC in their iDevices then UK retailers need to take on Passbook.

reclusive46

20aday wrote: »

It'd be very useful if the mobile phone manufacturers agreed on an industry wide standard.

For example Nokia and select Android phones have NFC whereas Apple have Passbook.

If they could agree on how best to take it forward and adopt it I feel it could revolutionise the market.

If Apple have no intention of using NFC in their iDevices then UK retailers need to take on Passbook.

Check out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO8vpmXTYeM - Very interesting concept but wouldn't work here in the UK as our chip card magnetic stripes don't allow this on chip card readers.