Swipe Credit Cards With Your iPhone
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Apple may have its own in-store, handheld “cash” registers using modified iPod Touches, but what if you, too, want a slick and small credit-card payment system? Sure, you could get one of those chunky, cellular card-readers on loan from the credit card company. Or you could get a dongle for your iPhone.
That’s what VeriFone’s new Payware Mobile is for. The card-reading case hugs the iPhone and an accompanying application runs the transaction. Swipe, sign the screen with a stylus and then send the information in to, well, wherever these numbers are sent. We imagine something like the underground bank staffed by goblins from the Harry Potter books, only with the goblins in cubicles, and endless streams of data instead of actual gold.
So how do you get this device for your own home/store/restaurant/magic wand shop? You need to sign up for a two-year contract with Payware, whereupon the card reader will be tossed in for free. It’s only available for pre-order right now, but we fully expect to see similar solutions from other vendors, not least the Square iPhone Payment System from Twitter’s Jack Dorsey.
Payware Mobile [VeriFone]
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