T-Mobile is gearing up to launch Google’s new Nexus 5 smartphone on November 20, according to a leaked document that details its retail plans for next month. The carrier will also launch the Nexus 7 tablet on the same day, and both devices will be available to purchase in-store and online.
Have you ever driven down to Blockbuster just to find that the movie you wanted to see wasn’t in stock. Those wasted journeys can now become a thing of the past, thanks to Blockbuster’s new Android app. Find the movie you want to see, and the app will tell you whether your local Blockbuster store has it.
The iPhone 4S loses its crown to the enemy.
The Samsung Galaxy S III, this year’s hottest Android handset, has overtaken the iPhone 4S to become the world’s best-selling smartphone. One in every nine smartphones sold during the third-quarter of 2012 were Galaxy S IIIs, helping Samsung ship an estimated 18 million units during the three-month period.
I gotta say, the Google Play logo never looked so good. After it was discovered that Google Play gift cards were going to be in Android’s future, the only question to ask was, “when?” Well, it looks like it may be sooner than later thanks to a few pics Android Central was leaked. An anonymous tipster sent in a couple pictures of the soon to be sold $10 and $25 Google Play gift cards.
Major retails join forces on mobile payments system to fend of Google, PayPal, Isis, and other potential digital wallet competitors like Apple.
In a move that makes the Square/Starbucks partnership announced last week look like small potatoes, a group of national and international retailers announced plans to develop their own mobile payment network complete with mobile apps and digital wallet functionality. The move seems almost certain to shake up the nascent mobile payments market where a wide range of companies and organizations have been trying to figure out the secret sauce that will turn mobile payments into a mainstream retail system for the past couple of years.
The Merchant Customer Exchange or MCX, as the new company is known, plans to deliver a solution that offers convenience in both making purchases and in receiving customizable offers from retailers. Development of a mobile app and payment network are underway, but MCX has yet to announce any details about either the app or its network.
