Amazon is planning to roll out a mobile credit card reader, known as Amazon Card Reader, which has been designed to plug into smartphones and tablets to validate and execute card payments.
Internal staples documents cited in 9to5Mac show that the reader will be priced at $9.99, and may be launched in US from 12 August.
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It is believed that the device can be used in a similar way as that of Square’s mobile card reader.
Most recently, Amazon launched its own Mobile Wallet app for Android. It s expected that the forthcoming card reader will work in conjunction with its digital wallet.
At present, Amazon’s Mobile Wallet does not support credit or debit card payments.
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