Visa Tests iPhone Instant Payment System


The iPhone has just taken a step nearer being your address book, calendar, phone, cinema, translator, newspaper, calculator, bank, husband/wife/lover, Guardian of the Five Temples of Xnor...

OK. Got a bit carried away there. Calm down.

The iPhone has just taken a step nearer ousting your bank/credit card.

Visa Europe has launched a little gizmo you plug into your iPhone.  You also download an app.  Enter your details.  And you'll them be able to pay for goods and services by just swiping your phone over a terminal.

Don't get too sweaty just yet. It's out for testing at the moment. And there aren't that many merchants with the swipey machines. But it will happen. Mark my words

Now where was I?  Oh yes....Temples of Xnor and ..........

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