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Malaysians can now use their Nokia 6212 to make near-field Visa payments – just wave your phone in front of a sensor and bam, instant buy in over 1,800 shops. Local carrier Maxis and financial group Maybank have both partnered up with Visa to make this happen, and is hopefully the first in many deals to come. This if the first we’ve seen of NFC technology with Visa, but there’s still very little hardware that supports the magic-wand payment method. Visa has been gunning aggressively for mobile as of late, chewing through SMS notification legalities, and tapping into the Android Market, and with any luck, they’ll push their NFC initiative to other countries soon.
[Visa via Mobile Burn]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
