Comments on: Samsung and Visa Sign Global Alliance Agreement, payWave App to Come Pre-installed on All NFC Devices

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:45:00 +0000

I wonder if Samsung will block Google Wallet from their phones and tablets, or try too block it, in similar fashion that VZW does. Or how will Samsung get it past their vzw branded phones that they sell on vzw. VZW will not allow Sammy to include it on their phones for vzw network.

By: Jroc869, Nexus-Life

Jroc869, Nexus-Life — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0000

I never thought about the about the master card so that is a valid point. K cups are what goes in a keurig coffee machine. I only brought that up because since keurig machines went big it seems like every company from dunkin to starbucks started making them. Keurig set a standard and pretty damn quick because of its popularity and thats what I hope this partnership does.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:36:00 +0000

I have no idea what k cups is. We have Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and Krispy Kreme here. I agree with you. However, limiting it to only one type of card is killing it before it starts. My debit and credit cards are MasterCard. Not to mention, MasterCard pioneered NFC in the US with PayPass.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:33:00 +0000

That ship has sailed.

By: Jroc869, Nexus-Life

Jroc869, Nexus-Life — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:29:00 +0000

Its not necessarily apple, but insert x brand of whatever that has taken off and the market will follow. Look a k cups they are every where now but there were plenty of competitive options for coffee. Samsung has so much market share right now that it should apply pressure to retailers to get with NFC as a payment option.

By: DC_Guy

DC_Guy — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:11:00 +0000

I just tried it again at the grocery store about 10 minutes ago. Didn’t work yet again. That’s the fourth time in a row. What gives Google?

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:54:00 +0000

Or at&t, or T-Mobile.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:53:00 +0000

The problem is that there are too many competing “standards” and lack of marketing. . Has nothing to do with apple.

By: renGek

renGek — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:10:00 +0000

I use my google wallet half a dozen times per week. Have been doing so for at least 10 months. I generally don’t have any issues and it all works well. The times it does not work I can almost predict it by looking at the terminal at the cash registers. There is a variant of those terminals that fails 50% of the time. I used to see them at Old Navys, Whole Foods and some Macys. Whole foods no longer has any issues for me because they changed to a new type of terminals.

Sometimes the issue is with the cashiers because they don’t know what to do. They’ll ask “what did you just do” and I’ll tell them “just select mastercard paypass” and all is good.

By: Caleb Loop

Caleb Loop — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:30:00 +0000

Stock 4.1 rooted. I believe.

By: David Narada Brown

David Narada Brown — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:59:00 +0000

Are you sure that was a google rom? Which rom where you running when you got bootloop?

By: Caleb Loop

Caleb Loop — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:50:00 +0000

I mean as long as they work yeah. My main point was the fact that I have not yet used one that works as advertised. I always have to try a few times before it will work. With the exception of vending machines with my Nexus 4 for whatever reason. Those always work super fast.

By: Caleb Loop

Caleb Loop — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:49:00 +0000

I tried to use google Wallet on my old Galaxy Nexus once and It caused my phone to bootloop and I had to re-flash the stock rom before It would boot again. Thats never happened to me with any other app. Its googles app.. On googles phone, with googles rom. This shouldnt happen. Ever.

By: Abel

Abel — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:04:00 +0000

This is why Google needs to get wallet worldwide fast…. Stop beta testing Google

By: Dan Peters

Dan Peters — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:47:00 +0000

Anyone think this new app might be compatible with the Galaxy Nexus, and available in the play store for older devices with the NFC hardware?