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thelostone
16-11-2010, 06:39 PM
The next generation of Android is coming in a few weeks, and that update to the mobile operating system "could replace credit cards," according to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
At the Web 2.0 Summit (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. in San Francisco, Schmidt said Android 2.3 (code-named Gingerbread) will combine location services with "tap-and-pay" functionality.





"Imagine that instead of typing my search, my phone is sending me information all the time," Schmidt said. "Maybe I tell [my phone] I need a pair of pants, and I get relevant information as I walk down the street."
Android, an open-source operating system widely used (http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/07/technology/google_android/index.htm) in smartphones, will soon use so-called "near-field communications" sensors to read RFID tags and link up with other phones and payment systems. That move will put Google squarely in the center of the growing field of developers working on mobile payments (http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/26/technology/paypal_mobile_payments/index.htm).