Categories
Close
Menu
Menu
Close
Search
Search

Featured Articles

RSS
123

Opinion Articles

Opinion

How I built my own mobile wallet

Mark

Share:

Print

Rate article:

No rating
Rate this article:
No rating

Mark Bridge writes:

Orange Quick Tap is official. You can buy a Samsung Tocco Lite-a-like, add the details of a participating card provider and Bob's your uncle.

Except I've already got a phone. And a credit card that's not from Barclays. So what can I do?

Well, in the absence of an app that'll clone my credit card and store it on the phone, I need a plan. Here it is.

I take the NFC credit card I already have. I slide it inside my phone case. And I fire up my card company's mobile web page.

Now, I'll admit my homemade solution doesn't quite have the functionality of the app on the Tocco - and I don't get an up-to-the-minute report on my spending - but it's close enough.

All I need to do now is find a case that’ll also hold a few postage stamps and some change for the bus. Then it’ll be more like a real wallet.

Comments

Collapse Expand Comments (0)
You don't have permission to post comments.

Recent Podcasts

ExclusivePodcast - 30th May 2012

This week's mobile industry news podcast from The Fonecast takes a gloomy look at HP's job losses, the end of the Cisco Cius tablet and the growth in Android malware - before cheering up with encouraging news from Orange, Yahoo! and Sidecar.

You can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by using our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.

ExclusivePodcast - 25th May 2012

Performance marketing network Tradedoubler has introduced a new mobile platform this week.

We asked Rob Wilson, who runs the company's UK and Ireland operations, to explain the challenges and opportunities of mobile commerce.

ExclusivePodcast - 23rd May 2012

Facebook's flotation is the big news story this week - but there's plenty more to talk about, including two new UK virtual networks, the launch of a new mobile payment service and mobile WiFi arriving on cross-channel trains.

ExclusivePodcast - 18th May 2012

We talk to Dariush Zand, founder and CEO of Ovivo Mobile, about his new advertising-funded UK MVNO. Our conversation covers everything from setting up a 'virtual network' to Ovivo's plans for the future.

ExclusivePodcast - 16th May 2012

It's been another busy week for the mobile industry, with European roaming charges, Facebook applications, Yahoo's CEO, mobile payments, free messaging and financial results all hitting the headlines.

RSS
First3233343537394041Last

Follow thefonecast.com

Archive Calendar

«June 2026»
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
25262728293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293012345

Archive