Introducing Google WalletSeptember 21, 2011 – 12:44 pm |
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On September 20, Google released a new mobile app for the Sprint Nexus S 4G, the Google Wallet. The new Google app allows you to pay for goods with your mobile. How you may ask? The App virtually stores your plastic card information and releases it when you tap your mobile on the purchasing device. 
For those of you with a CitiBank Mastercard, you are able to directly place your card information into the Google App. For those who arent, youll have to purchase Google Credit points, which you can then spend. As an added incentive our friends at Google have seduced us with ‘recieve the first $10 dollars free’.
Before leaping into this great new invetion, ones finds himself asking, how safe is the mobile wallet? Well the Google Wallet has two layers of security. The first, is a simple two layer PIN code. Layer one is the pin code for entering your Anriod phone and layer two is a different access pin for the Google Wallet App. This security system prevents the ordinary theif from picking up your phone and using it to purchase goods. Security layer two is desingned to stop internet thiefs from hacking into your account. Your Google Android phone has a secure element chip in it. That is, another mini computer which stores your cards information. This information is encrypted and can only be accessed through MasterCards contactless reader. Google reassures us that the secure element chip has different layers and levels of security, which cannot be hacked. However, if your phone is stolen, you simply call up your bank and cancel your card like you would if your wallet was stolen. I guess somethings never change…
The verdict is out, and Google awaits to see if the public trusts Google Wallets security – and if so, will the everyday man adapt his life to include the Google Wallet?
I for one, think Google Wallet may not be a instant worldwide success but just wait six months to a year. The mobile phone world is drastically changing and with it so are our lives!

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