Rogers has informed us today that Suretap has now been certified for some BlackBerry and Android devices. For anyone that’s not familiar with Suretap, it’s a service that turns your BlackBerry into a mobile wallet by use of Near Field Communication (NFC). With Suretap there’s no need to carry cash to make a purchase, just tap your BlackBerry at a contactless point of sale terminal and you are good to go.
Here’s part of the email we received today from Rogers.
“To continue driving adoption and growth of mobile payments in Canada, it is essential that a strong ecosystem is established to include multiple devices, operating systems and payment networks,” said Jeppe Dorff, Vice-President of Transaction Services, Rogers. “We know our customers have strong affinity to the Android platform and we are thrilled to include Android devices amongst smartphones ready to support mobile payment applications built for suretap.”
As of today, four Android NFC-enabled smartphones and four BlackBerry smartphones are suretap mobile payment-ready. The devices include:
- BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Curve 9360, BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Z10 models
- The LG Optimus G
- Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II models
Last year Rogers launched suretap, the first mobile payment solution Canada to leverage the secure SIM card inside an NFC-enabled device. Today, tens of thousands of suretap SIM cards and hundreds of thousands of suretap mobile payment -ready devices are being used by Canadians to perform mobile payments.
Just a reminder for everyone. This certification from Rogers just means that the devices are ready for the apps to be developed so that means we still need the merchants to jump on board as well.