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We want google wallet!

Why would you prohibit Google from havening the new nexus support Google wallet? ISIS is just a collaboration of wireless carriers trying to justify their place in the payments world. People like Google products and will follow them. Sprint sounds like they are playing with Google and that is more attractive to me.

Carriers are commodities. There isn't anything Verizon offers that Sprint or AT&T do not. Now that Verizon and the other ISIS members are putting their line in the sand they are alienating the millions of people that are comfortable and like to use google products. Bye bye Verizon.

You can keep your limiting and pricey plans too.

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Ann154

Honestly, I have not yet to see a practical use for Google Wallet.

Wildman

Ann154 wrote:
Honestly, I have not yet to see a practical use for Google Wallet.

+1, I agree.

Andrfan

My wife and I are 20 year customers. We are changing carriers because of Verizon blocking Google Wallet and what it says about the future of their phones.

I was ready to walk a couple of years ago because of their habit of crippling phones, and then they began offering fully functional Android phones. Now they are back in the business of crippling their phones.

I am giving them until the Nexus release to reverse before I go to Sprint.

budone

I thought I read that the Wallet is exclusive to Sprint for a period of time. I just dont see the big issue of having the Wallet.

Buying a pop with the cell phone novelty will wear off quickly.

Tidbits

I love it when everyone hears a rumor and it must be true mentality.

Wildman

budone wrote:
I thought I read that the Wallet is exclusive to Sprint for a period of time. I just dont see the big issue of having the Wallet.

Buying a pop with the cell phone novelty will wear off quickly.

You know how it goes Bud, someone else has something and its believed that complaining will get you it also.. It is just amazing what people are willing to change company for.

Could the threats become anymore pointless? If possible I cant imagine how..

Andrfan

This is not a rumor. Verizon acknowledged that the Nexus will not have Wallet, and Google confirmed that this was a Verizon decision to block.

Andrfan

"Could the threats become anymore pointless? If possible I cant imagine how.. ou know how it goes Bud, someone else has something and its believed that complaining will get you it also.. It is just amazing what people are willing to change company for.

"Could the threats become anymore pointless? If possible I cant imagine how.."

I do hope complaining will make a difference. Would I switch carriers just for Wallet? Not a chance. But I was already considering switching to a carrier with much more attractive family data plans, and that does not cripple their phones. I have been sticking with Verizon in anticipation that they would be offering the next pure Android phone. Now they have announced that they are departing from that, going back to their old ways of crippling phones for marketing purposes.

I am reluctant to commit to two new 2 year contracts for a phone for which they will be blocking functions.

Why do you consider it inappropriate to complain about that?

Tidbits

Andrfan wrote:
This is not a rumor. Verizon acknowledged that the Nexus will not have Wallet, and Google confirmed that this was a Verizon decision to block.

They didn't say that Google Wallet would not be on the Galaxy Nexus of if Isis has anything go do with it. Verizon openly stated they are not blocking it based on current rumors flying around and why the device isn't released yet. They clarified stating that there are valid security concerns. This stuff is overhyped and the rumors flying around even more overhypes it even more.

Wildman

Andrfan wrote:

I do hope complaining will make a difference. Would I switch carriers just for Wallet? Not a chance. But I was already considering switching to a carrier with much more attractive family data plans, and that does not cripple their phones. I have been sticking with Verizon in anticipation that they would be offering the next pure Android phone. Now they have announced that they are departing from that, going back to their old ways of crippling phones for marketing purposes.

I am reluctant to commit to two new 2 year contracts for a phone for which they will be blocking functions.

Why do you consider it inappropriate to complain about that?

I see the point of wanting a good rate plan to cover what you are using like the family plans but I do not understand what is meant about Verizon crippling devices, I have not seen any different functionality that other carriers are offing over another, they all have basically the same devices and the functionality and to think one company is crippling a device more than others simply isn't a sound opinion.

Now as for consider it inappropriate to complain, I am not meaning anything disrespectful but it simply amazes me the things that users complain and choose to fight for these days, the world has so many things going bad and people are starving in numerous areas of the world but so many people think that life will end if they don't have a simple feature on a cellphone that will lose its newness appeal in less than a month

Just shows where or world it going and its becoming kind of sad.

Andrfan

Verizon is the only carrier worldwide disabling Google Wallet in the Galaxy Nexus. That is the kind of crippling I mean. In the past I have bought phones from Verizon only to find one capability or another disabled and reserved for higher priced phones. That seemed to have ended two or three years ago, but now it is back with the Nexus. I do not believe Sprint or AT& T does, but feel free to correct me.

Tidbits

The ONLY device that has Google Wallet is the Nexus S 4G which is for Sprint. No other device WORLDWIDE has it. If you look at Google Wallets home page it tells you... You need to be on Sprints network. Sounds somewhat exclusive doesn't it?

droidsw

Andrfan wrote:

I am reluctant to commit to two new 2 year contracts for a phone for which they will be blocking functions.

______________________________________________________________________ I would be more reluctant to sign another 2 year contract on what is shaping up to be another Android disappointment, based on early threads in the Nexus section. Let me go out on a limb and say that if Google Wallet WAS on the Nexus, there would be those complaining it is unwanted bloat, doesn't work right, or Verizon has somehow "changed" it. Makes for entertaining reading, though.

Seraphire

According to the Google Play, it's greatest support is by Sprint, followed by AT&T and T-Mobile, and Virgin.

I seriously hope this is for a limited time, as I too was looking forward to using NFC for purchases, and that was one of the selling points for me when I upgraded to an SIII. Had I known that I would not be able to use a Google application on a Google phone to use a Google product, I may have held off on my purchase.

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