Mobile phones taking over credit cards!

Mobiles phones are very hand for number of reasons. They are also becoming a new method of payment. I often travel to places by subway back home and the option of payment rather amused me. I hadn’t been back home for a couple of years and travelling on the bus and subway by myself made me nervous. When I went to the ticket booth to ask for tickets I realised that they no longer sold the paper tickets they used to. We could either purchase a one-time use card by pay with our phones. I was amazed to find a little chip which almost looked like a sim card inside my phone. This apparently was the new method of paying. I soon realised that the chip was linked directly to by dad’s credit card and if you placed them on top of the ticket machines, they automatically charge you.

I soon realised that it was not only subway and bus tickets that you could pay for. People could use them to buy things out of vending machines or even go shopping with them. For those of younger age without credit cards, this was a fast and easy method of payment. When going to through high ways you can also place your phone by the front window. When you drive through at slow speed, the bill is also automatically charged to your phones.
I have noticed that New Zealand is beginning to change to. I notice that majority of the car park ticket machines also have a new option of paying by text. This makes me wonder how far mobile phones will go in the future, and will they replace our everyday items?