Originally Posted by Tiersten

Only people I know that are doing it right now are Orange together with Barclays. The One X isn't supported however as you need their special app which isn't loaded on the phone and doesn't appear on the market.

http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phon...tless/overview

Apart from Orange+Barclays, nobody else seems to be doing it. There are plans for a joint NFC wallet system from Orange + Voda + O2 but nothing has happened yet.

http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3345939/or...eu-regulators/

O2 wallet will go live in the next couple of weeks. We've been testing it around the offices for months now and all is working perfectly. Some lucky customers got to try it early too

Originally Posted by spookamiester

O2 wallet will go live in the next couple of weeks. We've been testing it around the offices for months now and all is working perfectly. Some lucky customers got to try it early too

Are you talking about the NFC-enabled O2 Wallet? If not, O2 Wallet has been available on the Android market for three weeks now

Originally Posted by Evangelion01

Are you talking about the NFC-enabled O2 Wallet? If not, O2 Wallet has been available on the Android market for three weeks now

NFC
In the description it also says "This is just the start, There's still lots more to come soon"

Originally Posted by spookamiester

NFC
In the description it also says "This is just the start, There's still lots more to come soon"

That's interesting. If it's working so well, I don't understand why they didn't just release it with NFC. Now I've been left with a negative view of the application, as well as many other people (check all the reviews on the Play Store). As it is, the application doesn't realistically provide better options than Pingit. Launching with NFC would've made O2 the first company to officially enable NFC payments on a Android phone in the UK, but now that's not so sure.

Speaking of which, are you using the HTC One X to test it? Or the Galaxy Nexus? Also, I'm curious about if O2 are using the embedded secure element or the UICC. Did you have to get a new SIM card for NFC payments to work?

Just to confirm, have you tried paying for items outside of your office, in McDonald's or Greggs for example?

Originally Posted by jonstatt

I am sure in the future you will be able to use it to pay in places like Starbucks or McDonalds, but its not quite there yet.

Originally Posted by Evangelion01

Just to confirm, have you tried paying for items outside of your office, in McDonald's or Greggs for example?

Actually, the future is almost here. Google Wallet works like a charm outside the office/house
Not only that I paid a McDonalds menu & a pack of cigarettes, but I also did it in Romania, a European underdeveloped country
Head over Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S forums for more "success stories" regarding GW and NFC payments.

Originally Posted by pupilov

Actually, the future is almost here. Google Wallet works like a charm outside the office/house
Not only that I paid a McDonalds menu & a pack of cigarettes, but I also did it in Romania, a European underdeveloped country
Head over Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S forums for more "success stories" regarding GW and NFC payments.

Yes, we're aware of that - I've used Google Wallet many times myself. There's no equivalent service in the UK; we were talking about the O2 Wallet.

My bad. I was reading in diagonal

Lol you like glasses? right to read ><'

Some cool ideas:

1) Put a tag in the car mount, match with Tasker to enable Bluetooth for handsfree and disable WiFi without draining battery via location sensing...
Profit!

2) Sew a tag in your jacket pocket. When no tag has been in contact for 10mins consider it stolen and enable Prey


More ideas?

Wallet

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Google Wallet is great and with a rooted phone you can definitely use it on almost any device. I have the CDMA (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus and it works just fine. Anywhere they have the quickpass mastercard scanner thing. You see it as a little pad on top of the credit card reader. Anywhere you can scan you credit card without swiping you can use wallet.

You get $10 free from google for using it, the only problem is unless you have a certain mastercard, you have to load up money to a google gift card from another source ahead of time to use wallet.

It's not that big a deal since you can do it from your phone. It has a pin for protection to keep you secure, in case someone scummy enough to steal a phone has the mental capacity to know what google wallet is.

Has anyone used it with the screen off or while the app is closed? I have only used a few times and both times I'd already typed my pin. If you do it with the phone screen on but haven't opened wallet, it asks for pin right?

It's scary the first time you use it, I almost didn't believe it would work, but it DID!