MasterCard has followed up on their iPhone and BlackBerry apps with ATM Hunter for Android, allowing users to find the nearest bank machine based on their phone’s GPS coordinates. Results can be filtered based on needs for particular financial institutions, accessibility, surcharges, deposit sharing, drive-through, or 24-hour access, to boot. If you’re trying to help a friend find an ATM, you can also text them a location through the app. If the ATM you’re using is having issues, you can even use the app to report the problem to MasterCard.
ATM Hunter is pretty cool and all, but I’m really interested in seeing MasterCard provide some NFC apps now that the hardware is starting to become available. Right now the Samsung Nexus S could in theory work with PayPass so you just tap your phone on a sensor and pay for goods and services. Even if that core function is already built in, a dedicated app would let you keep digital receipts, send alerts elsewhere when the function is used. Maybe you could even dictate an allowance of NFC transactions to be made, so your kid could have an NFC phone off at college to pay for stuff, but you could set a cariety of limits.
For now that’s all wishful thinking, though; if you want to get cash the old-fashioned way with a little help from your phone, ATM Hunter is available in the Android Market, BlackBerry App World, or iTunes at the link below. It’s only got a star and a half out of 41 reviews in App World… here’s hoping the Android version is better.
[via BusinessWire]