Buy a Hot Dog with Your Cell Phone
December 14th, 2005 11:51 AM | by Christen da Costa | 2 Comments
Paying by cell phone for goods has finally arrived on a mass scale at Philips Arena in Atlanta (albeit at one location). Customers of Cingular and Chase Bank using their Nokia 3220 mobile phones equipped with Philips’ (the arena is sponsored by Philips too, brilliant) NFC semiconductor chips will be able to purchase hot dogs, beers, and more at over 150 concession stands by simply placing their cell phone near a secure terminal.
How many people get wrongly charged, or purchase goods for people in front or in back of them is another story.
Story via PhoneScoop
[...] We keep hearing about ‘contactless’ payment with cell phones – you know, walk up to the kiosk, wave your phone by the register and be on your way. One of the challenges, or so it would seem, would be waiting for the rollout of the next gen phones sporting the necessary security measures and protocols to do this. If the SanDisk Corp has its way this won’t be the case. In fact, you’ll just run to the store and pick up a compatible memory card that contains the necessary credits and hardware. Known as SmartMX, SanDisk has already began a pilot program on the microSD card format, and hopes for a “broader commercial rollout by 2007�. [...]
[...] are manufactured by Samsung and the payment system is ran by Western Union. Philips ran some trial runs of this back in 2005, but I’m not sure if it really went anywhere. SanDisk also announced [...]