This might not seem all that important but the thing is that officially the Google Wallet, the fancy payment app from Google, is only available right now on the Sprint version of the Samsung S 4G. However, according to an Android blog called Droid Life the app has been spotted on an unlocked version of the Galaxy Nexus, Google’s flagship handset, that was using an AT&T SIM card.
Of course this will probably be great news to a large number of people who are looking forward to being able to use Google’s payment service for all their purchase needs, well at least in stores that will support it.
Curiously though the payment system uses Near Field Communication (NFC) circuitry to allow for retail purchases using your smartphone but even though this NFC technology is making its way into more and more smartphones as standard technology only Sprint owners of the Galaxy S 4G are ‘technically allowed’ to use the Google app.
Of course NFC payments using smartphones is being declared as the next big are of commerce as we all excitedly throw away our wallets and dive in head first to paying for everything with our smartphones, which of course all the providers, hardware and software, want us desperately to do since they will all make a nice slice of cash off of our purchases; not to mention but add extensively to their coffers of aggregated data.
via CNET
