Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay Date: 5 May 2024 14:33:37 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1o9got62136hu$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> X-Trace: individual.net EAPAbjhbCmr6Yro76k7rAgP58Dpe3itB1S869ZbJ8y1w9469K7 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:FhBw8dHYBK7mPN/YsJX5D04iojM= sha256:f0ULZPKlOsR3UQEblvlDY1jwDF9vcq8v++kIQ9zADrQ= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 1725 VanguardLH wrote: [Most other points already covered by Arno.] > What about the contractor that, say, cuts down a tree, and wants to be > paid? He has his phone, but can your mobile pay app using NFC connect > to his mobile pay app via NFC on his phone? In our country (The Netherlands) and probably in most of Europe and the rest of the 'western' (and other?) world, we have several person-to-person payment systems, which also work on smartphones. One system is phonenumber-to-phonenumber, so you only need the contractor's phonenumber, which you probably already have. Another one is a 'tikkie' (tap on the shoulder), where the contractor's bank app sends a payment request (normally via WhatsApp) and you pay via your bank app. So no NFC, and no USB card readers required. [...]