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Nokia is trying to get into the mobile transactions space with Nokia Money. The service looks to be as simple to use as sending an SMS to a friend. I don’t know about you, but I loathe carrying around cash. Credit cards and debit cards are nice, but signing a piece of paper or entering a 4 digit pin in a machine just seems a bit dated. Having a device that can handle transactions with you all the time opens the possibility for a huge amount of commerce between a much larger, and more diverse, set of players. I’ll shut up now since I know this is going to be slow to take off, and probably isn’t going to become mainstream for at least another 5 years. That being said, I hope one day we look back at money and shake our heads at how stupid we used to be, much like Captain Kirk and Spock did when trying to get on a bus in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
[Via: S60 Blog]
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
