Those of you living in a city graced by Square’s Card Case have been gleefully opening tabs and making plastic-free payments at select merchants since May. Starting today, iPhone users will now save precious seconds of shopping time as opening tabs has been automated — as soon as you’re close enough to designated establishments, tabs open themselves courtesy of new geo-fencing APIs exposed in iOS 5. For those who are unfamiliar, the previous iPhone and Android apps required users to manually open those tabs from within the vicinity of a Square-approved merchant. After that, users complete purchases as before by simply confirming their name to a store clerk. That’s one more step in society’s never-ending quest for frictionless payments, but those with an evil twin or a stalking doppelgänger might want to think twice before joining the Square revolution.
Square updates Card Case, enables hands-free payment on the iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
