All Credit And Debit Cards Accepted By Google Wallet

By Cornelius Nunev


Mobile payment systems are the newest thing when it comes to financial technology. Some think the products, which use cell phones to make payments ordinarily done with a card, will replace cash and plastic totally. One step is already used, as Google Wallet, Google's mobile payment program, is now working with all credit and debit cards, where it formerly worked only with MasterCard.

Change for Google Wallet

Lots of people are waiting for the moment when mobile payments, utilizing a smartphone, will surpass plastic cards and cash forever. Many people are also anticipating that rivaling hordes of robotic terminators will be unleashed by Apple, Google and Microsoft to battle for supremacy and the victors will become overlords of the earth, and will subjugate mankind.

Google Wallet is one of the businesses that have mobile payment products that work well right now. It used to only offer the option to CitiBank debit and MasterCards, according to ArsTechnica, but is has changed its system to work with anything. The mobile payment reader just reads the info on a smartphone and connects it to a bank or credit account. Then, the appropriate amount is used out. It is a really easy system, and there are only a few out that work right now.

Large jump

Google Wallet, according to TechCrunch will now works with each and every credit card and each and every debit card there is, so long as it is a Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover debit card. However, that includes just about every debit card in existence.

There are not a lot of Google Wallet customers right now, but the change was for them. About half of Google's list of supported devices is Samsung. Other devices that will support Google Wallet contain the Asus Nexus 7 tablet, the LG Viper, the LG Optimus Elite and the HTC EVO5G LTE. There will be 8 devices used total. Sprint and Virgin Mobile have the biggest advantage because most of those devices are only available through them.

Making it safe

Google really wanted to keep the personal info save, so it added some safety attributes. An individual does not have to store any financial data on their phone. In fact, all account data, after entered in, is stored on Google's secure servers instead of in the smartphone memory. This means the data will be much more protected and will be harder to hack.

However, one issue with mobile payment products are that only a few retailers have terminals with NFC readers, so there are not too many stores one can actually use Google Wallet in. At the moment, the few devices that can use it can only be used in one of the few stores that can process the payment.




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