Amazon quietly released wallet applications

Tencent Technology News Amazon's first smart phone market soon, as the infrastructure tools for this phone, Amazon recently quietly released a wallet application, can be considered to make up for a blank point in the wallet applications.

The phone software called "Amazon wallet," where users can save a variety of gift cards or membership cards, you can use the mall supermarket settlement.

It is reported that Amazon has reached cooperation with more than 70 retailers in the United States to electronically store the membership cards and gift cards of these merchants in Amazon wallets including DressBarn and others.

Amazon's Fire smartphone will be officially on sale Friday, while Amazon wallet software, which will be built into the phone as an infrastructure service for Amazon, is currently available for download at Google's Play Store. The future, whether Amazon will develop wallet software for iOS users, is still unknown.

In addition, many wallet software on the market, have a mobile payment function. Slightly regrettable is that Amazon Wallet, currently does not support the preservation of credit card and savings card information, can not make mobile payments.

As Amazon Wallet is still in the testing phase, it does not rule out the future will increase the function of mobile payment.

Amazon said the user's various entity card information, will be stored in the Amazon cloud platform, as long as the user needs, the card information, will be bar code, two-dimensional code, text or pictures on the phone to be displayed.

In the wallet application, Amazon has lagged behind peers in the market, there are already numerous wallet software, such as the most famous Google wallet, has a strong mobile payment capabilities, in addition, Apple's Passbook, its purpose is to eliminate various entities Membership cards, credit cards, gift cards, so that all kinds of cards to achieve digital portable.

However, the U.S. media commented that taking Google Wallet's NFC payment function as an example, for consumers, "brushing" a mobile phone is not as convenient as brushing a credit card at a mall supermarket when it is settled, which makes cell phone payment very popular in the United States slow. Reflect the market downturn, Google Wallet also introduced several new versions, and even introduced to the cash machine ATM withdrawals card, in order to be closer to the gas.

Previously, the industry media once reported that Amazon is developing a wallet application.

The first smartphone released by Amazon sparked a reaction in the industry with a huge innovation. An innovative feature of the phone is Firefly, which enables the image recognition of a wide variety of real-world products and music videos, as well as quick links to Amazon's vast product portfolio that will make the Fire phone an Amazon Marketplace A super powerful offline purchase terminal.

In addition there are media analysts said that Amazon has previously launched the Fire Tablet PC, and in the payment industry, there are already many companies for merchants launched Tablet PC or smartphone based payment solutions, the future, relying on the tablet and wallet software , Amazon may also enter the "tablet cashier" market.

In addition to the wallet, Amazon also announced on Tuesday a new batch of new client software for the Fire handset, including eBay, classified information Craigslist, Fandango, Kid and more.

It is worth mentioning that, Amazon has long ago entered the third-party payment market, with sufficient technical reserves, it is expected that their mobile wallet APP, will soon be able to achieve payment capabilities. (Dawn)