Google Android Smartphone-the NFC Mobile payments to eWeek test

The Google test the mobile payments in shops in New York and San Francisco, the company's latest offer to improve the experience for Android Smartphone.

Bloomberg reported on March 15, the search engine will cost thousands of cash machines of different companies from VeriFone systems will be installed.

Sales terminals accept payments for your game characters equipped with Android smartphones and software, NFC (near field communication), short-range wireless technologies bring to each other in the immediate vicinity of the sensors.

The project, it will confirm the Google fell, barely out of nowhere. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt in November said the Android 2.3: Gingerbread "build would give consumers the opportunity to take the NFC phones equipped with Gingerbread, tap against the objects and computers with wireless sensors, in order to make the NFC data exchange, including, but not limited to, payment of the goods in stores.

December Google launched the Samsung Nexus S-the first smartphone based on its new Android 2.3 "Gingerbread", the operating system, which is the original NFC support.

Google began testing the Nexus-S NFC Portland, Ore processing, but was limited to. posters and signs. Months later, the job posting you receive Google's NFC specialist Careers Web page.

Now Google can test the aviation licences NFC handsets, toasted in the next four months, according to Bloomberg.

In no event shall VeriFone and Google declined to comment on the speculation.

It is easy to grok why the search engine would, on the one hand, and by leveraging NFC Android phones users. Mobile payments are sort of delaying frictionless Graalin, which gives consumers the opportunity to use the puhelimensa instead of lugging around the wallets credit cards.

Google, locked in a tough competition in the mobile phone market, Apple wants to lure as many developers and users of Android devices.

NFC capabilities provide compelling new opportunity for developers to recover applications, which use wireless payments-based Smartphone in shops. Good apps will add to the end users, which in turn is serviced by the ads on the Google ad network.

Although slow to materialize in the US, the mobile payments market is huge, BIG in Japan and parts of Europe despite the absence of a fixed standard. For this reason, inter alia, to the shops have been reluctant to take the NFC enabled computer systems.

Yet analysts NFC mobile payment market Bust based on a billion-dollar multi-gnome the following years, propelled by the figures of AT&T, and Verizon Wireless backup, ISIS-environment.

Research in Motion and Nokia are all working hard for the construction of the NFC systems. Apple is also rumored to be prepping NFC iPhone 5, but a new report for independent software vendors (ISVs), the company holding the General standard

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