Smart testing Mobile Credit Card Reader

During Smart’s sale event last week-end, the company tested a new mobile credit card reader. This allows merchants to allow credit card payments via a smartphone.

The smartphone (the photo shows an Android handset from HTC) serves as a modem for the card reader.

The system makes it more affordable for merchants to charge customers using MasterCard. The solution looks like it’s still in testing phase so we’re not sure when it will become available for merchants to use.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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10 Comments

roland says:

12 years ago

hmmm.. there is an existing credit card payment made with iphone before. It think it was launch 2009. Product is Square Card Reader
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roland says:

12 years ago

hmmm.. there is an existing credit card payment made with iphone before. I think it was launch 2009. Product is Square Card Reader
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Ghost Riley says:

12 years ago

Smart just killed my startup idea. Just like that.
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roiji says:

12 years ago

ayos to’ sana walang mataas na merchant fee, pwede rin Visa or Cirrus, at sana pwede rin sa Debit card :}

si ate naman baliktad pang mag swipe…
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Benchmark says:

12 years ago

Well like what DTI said, cash payment and credit card payments are both the same. Walang “service” charge dapat, yet kahit siguro gawin ganyan ang credit card payment, making it cheap, for them, making their kita bigger.

Mga gahaman talaga.

Pano pa aasensyo kaya ang Pinas kung sa mga ganyan eh gahaman na…tsk tsk tsk
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Loki says:

12 years ago

Ohh, another opportunity for identity theft and credit card dupes :D

Easy to hack if connected to Wifi/3G/4G connection :D
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