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Contactless payments

Credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, smart cards or other devices, including smartphones and other mobile devices, that use NFC for making secure payments. The embedded chip and antenna enable consumers to wave their card, fob, or handheld device over a reader at the point of sale terminal. Some suppliers claim that transactions can be […]

Google Wallet

Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone. Google Wallet can use near field communication (NFC) to “make secure payments fast and convenient by simply […]

NFC

NFC, or Near Field Communication, is used to signify a specific set of protocols that enable two electronic devices, one of which is usually a portable device such as a smartphone, to establish radio data communication with each other by bringing them closer than, typically, 10 cm (4 in) from each other. This is the […]

Samsung Pay

Samsung Pay is Samsung’s mobile payment system, a digital wallet platform for contactless payments which works in almost all stores — including those that use older magnetic stripe point-of-sale terminals — without merchants needing to opt-in to any program or update hardware. Samsung Pay only works with four Samsung phones: the Galaxy S6 Edge+, Galaxy […]