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]