Comments on: Isis NFC Payment System Receives Official Name, Secures First Banks, and Briefly Discusses Plans for 2012 Rollout

By: Wilsonium

Wilsonium — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:27:00 +0000

I am hopeful that there will be no charges to the end user. I thought ISIS’s revenue model draws revenue from the banks offering services similar to the way NFC cards work today through the merchant fees. However, since the carriers precluded Google Wallet from their phones by omitting a secure element we will be probably have to tie ourselves to a carrier supplied SIM or SDCard with a secure element. The carriers are going to try to chain you onto their service as a way of keeping you there. If they choose a SIM option, consider the PITA it would be to change carriers AND all your NFC info. All this no doubt will come at an additional charge to us somewhere either up front on our cellular bills or on the backend as merchant fees passed along in the cost of goods.

And yes, it’s sad that we have to wait for the sheep to give Android users the critical mass for merchants and additional banks to get on board. Apple has the customer base, a monolithic mobile platform and could quickly transform iTunes into a hybrid store/transaction processor. Think of all those sheep asking merchants… “Do you accept iPhone?”

By: SavageJeep

SavageJeep — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Anyone hear anything about an updated timeline as to when Google was going to fix the prior pre-paid cards? IT IS STILL UNAVAILABLE!!

By: summit1986

summit1986 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:44:00 +0000

Will a locked out Secure Element with Google Wallet be an issue when Isis comes out, or will it be exclusive to Wallet? Sorry if it’s a dumb question.

By: gadgetryan

gadgetryan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:04:00 +0000

as long as I can use my google wallet at 711 im good!! oh, now they have google wallet terminals at Chevron I am covered!!

By: Rmadler

Rmadler — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Google Wallet works fine on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus.

By: Rmadler

Rmadler — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Google Wallet is currently tied to Sprint. ISIS is tied to Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T. Let the games begin.

By: Rmadler

Rmadler — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Not true. There already is a fee that the merchant pays when you use a credit card. Google and ISIS will participate with that fee and the consumer pays nothing.

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:11:00 +0000

They’re all over. To locate all the Google Wallet capable machines (almost all BP, CVS, Home Depot have em)

This app has all update locations (pulls your location & checks that way) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mastercard.paypass

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:43:00 +0000

Where did u use it? Cuz I wanna try it out

By: KevinC

KevinC — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:33:00 +0000

yeah right, no way I’ll be ditching my wallet anytime soon….at least until they fix the battery life on these LTE phones.

By: q`Tzal

q`Tzal — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:52:00 +0000

I’m curious to see how incompatible NCF/ SD cards will be with the inductive charging door on my Droid 4.

Back when the D4 release was Dec 9, 2011 I thought I’d wait for the D5 with built in NFC and a non-pentile screen.
After the D4′s mysterious release date delay, followed by delay, followed by more delay, followed by Motorola’s PR statement about slowing down all smartphone releases I decided not to wait for a D5 that would likely not be released until all its component advances were obsolete.

By: Austin Mutschler

Austin Mutschler — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:34:00 +0000

Kellex, are you forgetting something? Just like mobile hot spot was amazing, so is this. However, it also gives the carriers the right to put a huge and outrageous price on the feature, just like mobile hot spot. If Google supported more cards, and wasn’t blocked by carriers, it would dominate the NFC payment business. If you ask me, this is just another feature that I don’t have enabled on my phone because it cost way to much.

By: Austin Mutschler

Austin Mutschler — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:29:00 +0000

And it will only cost $50 more a month!

By: Jim McClain

Jim McClain — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:11:00 +0000

used my google wallet just today, works just fine

By: Matty G

Matty G — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Cornering the hispanic market