Skins on cell phones to make mobile payments

Instead of a contactless payment sticker for your mobile phone, why not just skin the entire phone? That’s the reasoning behind Phoolah the product that that Mobile Payment Skins, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based provider of mobile contactless payment service solutions that is launching this fall. The name comes from a combination of payment card, personalized skin and mobile phone.

When a card holder receives his personalized vinyl skin embedded with a contactless payment chip linked to a prepaid debit card, he peels it from its backing and wraps it about his phone.

[via NFC News]

emily | 5:14 PM | Technology |
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