PayPal Android app gets NFC makeover

PayPal for Android 3.0 is here – but why do we care? Well, it’s just another clue in the mystery that is the long awaited arrival of NFC mobile payments. PayPal has overhauled its Android app so that users can transfer money between their accounts in a few easy steps. The indebted enters an amount, taps the NFC handset against their friend’s NFC handset then their friend enters a password and voila – having no change is no longer an excuse.

Of course, this scenario requires a pair of Galaxy Nexus or Nexus S smartphones but plenty of other manufacturers like Nokia and HTC are dropping rather large hints that 2012 will be the year of the NFC phone for them, too. And this app update might break PayPal out of its eBay cage.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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