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PostHeaderIcon Leave Credit Cards Use Android

This is the breakthrough that Google’s attempt at market driven. Platform Android smartphone has now been widely used for various brands will be developed to turn their phones into a means of payment of financial transactions as well as credit cards.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was showing off a prototype mobile phone at the opening of Web 2.0 Summit in San Francsisco, USA. From the outside view is not different from other Android-based smartphone, but the components in it have been equipped with special chips that support Near Field Communication technology. According to Schmidt, the latest version of Android, called Gingerbread, will support this technology.

This can replace the function of credit cards, payment systems To enable it, users must use a smartphone that uses NFC chip and operating system Android. Users just need to get closer to simbl or certain signs in the goods to be purchased to make automatic payments.

Schmidt confirmed that Google will focus on working with developers processor technology and will not establish special relationships with retailers. Cooperation submitted independently fixed transaction between credit card issuers and sellers of goods. Google also will not attract a fee from the transaction through such technology.

Schmidt did not know when the dream really uses a lot of people. However, sooner or later people will leave a credit card and financial transactions directly from a cell phone.