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Google Wallet Test Run

by Satish on October 15, 2011

We’ve all been hearing about Google Wallet for a while now. We probably even have an idea of how it runs. Hold the phone in front of a terminal and the monies are transferred. But its always interesting to see how an app works in the real world. And the joy of a consumer who discovers a new technology that will make life easier.

Watch the video for exactly that as Google engineers demonstrate by paying people’s bills, much to everybody’s amazement. And that lady going, ‘O-M-G. Thank you Google Wallet!’.

So what, if the husband and the wife have arguments that go like “put my phone down, this instant! I am not going to pay for that!”

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