At an event today at MWC, Visa announced a partnership with Samsung that will result in its payWave mobile wallet app getting installed on the "next generation" of Samsung smartphones. PayWave will work with the NFC chip on those devices to enable mobile payments, but Visa says its agnostic about exactly which credit cards get used with the app. It's part of the "Visa Ready Program," which lets all sorts of companies connect to Visa's network of payment systems — instead of just banks, but manufacturers and carriers as well. In that vein, Visa says that its offering future Samsung customers the ability to hook up any Visa card to the secure NFC element in their smartphones for mobile payments.
PayWave is actually able to accomodate...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4027688/next-generation-samsung-smartphones-visa-nfc-payment
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