"Wallet" - Soon to be launched Smartphone by Google

Courtesy: WSJ

Google Inc. showed off its plans to create a digital wallet that will allow consumers with Android smartphones to pay for goods and services or receive coupons and offers by waving the device in front of a special reader at the checkout counter.
 

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