This confirms the bank opposite NU.nl Friday after news of The Telegraph .
The function was earlier this year rolled out to five thousand units, as a test. “The results are very encouraging,” said a spokesman for ING. “We have the ambition to make it widely available before the end of the year.”
Contactless payments with a smartphone works are considered non-contact with a debit card; The smartphone is held against the side of the payment terminal, and the money is automatically transferred.
Well, the phone must have an NFC chip and run at least Android 4.4 (Kitkat). Today there are over half a million ING customers who have a device that is suitable for the new feature. The service costs 50 cents a month, the first half is free.
Rabobank
ING is the first bank to let customers pay with their smartphone. Rabobank already introduced a similar service, which can be used by owners of the Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge of Samsung Galaxy Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
iPhone
Owners an iPhone will have to wait for the same opportunity. Apple has not made its NFC chip for developers, so that no applications can be made to pay with contactless.
However, Apple has its own payment service, Apple Pay, which is incidentally not yet available in the Netherlands. ING says that service “with great interest” to follow
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