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Visa Tests iPhone Payment System in NYC, NJ and L.A.

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 3:34 PM

If you’re tired of having to swipe your card or pull out cash every time you want to ride the subway or bus in New York City, New Jersey or L.A., Visa is making it easier on you if you have an iPhone or payWave enabled phone. The new system will be using payWave technology, which allows you to just wave your device over the payment system and you’re all set to go.

We’re told by Visa reps:

As part of a pilot program with the New York City subway, PATH rail system and NJ TRANSIT, commuters can use their Visa payWave enabled phones – including the iPhone – to make payments at the fare gate and on the bus by simply holding the phone in front of a contactless reader, which are also in the backseats of more than 10,000 New York City cabs.

Check out the video below to see just how this works, and the press release on the following page.

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Marc Flores

Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.

  • cgforever

    i like this now if i could get this for my bank card cause im always losing it