Use Your Cell Phone Instead of Your Credit Card
‘Ever wish you could pay for something with your cell phone? Chances are if your friends have kids, they’ll whip out their cell phone to show you pictures. So why not put other staples of the wallet–such as driver’s license, credit cards, and membership cards–on the cell?
Although we’re a ways off from putting driver’s license info on our handset, we can now link a credit card to our mobile, allowing us to pay for things like restaurant bills, parking meters, and cab fares using our phone. This is a promising concept, but the services are not yet nationwide, and the process needs fine-tuning, as I found in some recent hands-on trials.
For starters, I tested Watertown, Massachusetts-based MobileLime. It’s one of the first mobile payment systems in the United States that lets you use any cell phone on any carrier to pay for goods and services. MobileLime works only at merchants that have partnered with it. For now, the service is limited to a few dozen vendors in the Boston area and one in upstate New York.’
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