14 DAY TRIAL // The Mountain View company makes another step towards the long-awaited mobile phone and releases another service compatible with the handheld devices. The UK and the US phone owners are now able to buy stuff from the Internet using the Checkout platform that is now accessible from any handheld with WAP support. Obviously, the merchant must have WAP-compatible websites to allow the potential clients to visit it from the mobile phone. The differences between the original web-based Google Checkout and the one compatible with the mobile phones are quite petty because, instead of the Google login, you will be required to enter a PIN.
"Now we're taking our first step toward making Checkout available on a whole new platform: mobile. On the merchant side, US and UK Checkout merchants who have mobile-friendly sites can now offer their customers a fast and secure way to shop online while on the go. Existing merchants who have a WAP-enabled site can now use Google Checkout for mobile with no changes, and when new merchants perform a standard Google Checkout merchant integration, the mobile functionality will be implemented automatically," Peisun Wu, Checkout Engineering Team, said today.
These days, most of the Internet companies are trying to develop new flavors for their solutions because the customers need to access them from any location and obviously, from a mobile phone. Google struggled to do that because its services are currently extremely popular and most of the clients are looking to bypass the barrier imposed by the computer. Recently, the search giant developed a new edition of the Maps service, allowing the UK owners of Java-compatible phones to view maps and imagery captured from the satellites.
Although the Mountain View company is continuously developing its mobile side, Google's representatives denied that the search giant is currently working on a mobile phone, sustaining that it will remain a software firm without and hardware trend.