cellular phones may additionally update Oyster playing cards

technology that shall we users pay for products and services the use of their cellular telephone as a virtual wallet is being trialled at Manchester metropolis's soccer ground this season.

some 2 hundred season price tag holders are using Nokia 3320 handsets containing a chip that is study through a scanner as they skip thru the gates.

The era, referred to as near area conversation (or NFC) technology, we could users buy small cost tokens which are stored on their handsets till used. Nokia hopes that this era may be incorporated into handsets subsequent year.

NXP Semiconductors , the organization at the back of the technology used within the Manchester city trial, additionally gives the technology for the Oyster card device in London.

The enterprise believes that handsets will replace Oyster playing cards within the next few years. It says that the token device is safe, because the money can be deactivated need to the handset be stolen. And the procedure of including credit score to the cellphone is covered via a PIN code so that a thief cannot withdraw coins to the handset.