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Stumbling upon Droid Life randomly after purchasing a Motorola DROID in late 2009, then setting out to learn everything he could about Android, Tim quickly became an integral part of the site's comment section. After quite some time of strictly commenting on Droid Life, Tim was offered an opportunity to write feature stories for the site, such as custom ROM overviews, as well as interviews with Android community members. Following success of those, Tim became a full time writer and editor for Droid Life, now spending his time on news articles, device reviews, producing videos, and much more. Tim currently resides in Portland, OR with his longtime girlfriend and two wonderful dog children (Loki & Thor). In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing guitar, drinking coffee, practicing photography, and destroying kids on Call of Duty.

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  • They should re do it in ICS style. I’m starting to notice these flashy custom interfaces slow me down.   Looks like a hack job iOS port if you ask me.

  • As long as it works and gets adopted nationally, I could care less who backs it. That said, I would rather Google Wallet take off because it ties into my Google account and its one less password to remember.

  • I’m honestly pulling more for Isis here rather than Google Wallet. Google Wallet looks great, but it lacks widespread support from carriers and who wants a platform locked down to Android? Honestly, what are the chances of Blackberry, Windows Phone, or the iPhone getting Google Wallet? Not great. Even if Google tried, how many of them would snub Google? Isis is a multi-carrier supported solution that is a lot more likely to be multi-OS and catch on better. Besides, in the public eye, Google and private information don’t go well together. How many people are going to feel comfortable giving sensitive credit card information to Google?

  • The current biggest issue for me with G-Wallet is that two or three places I’ve gone to don’t know how to work the paypass system with their registers

    • Happened today. The cashier at CVS didn’t think their pay pass worked until I asked her to run it as credit and it worked fine.

  • Don’t care for the look really, purple is well…purple, blah!  I just hope it functions good. Waiting for this payment system is beyond annoying at this point. It’s pretty bad really that the U.S. is so far behind in regards to NFC payment systems. I better see VISA on it also

    • it’s the purple that made me think “hm, i can switch from gwallet…” 😉  but then i remembered that i’m a loyal google fangrrl and got sad again

  • try LevelUp.  It’s totally free, attaches to your card, and builds rewards when you spend at places often.  Isis is garbage

  • I was weary at first because VZW had their hands on it but after seeing this I’m excited.

  • Am I the only one wishing for a commercial with Archer in a strip club club trying to pay the stripper by rubbing the phone on her breasts. That would make my year. If your confused your missing the funniest show on TV

  • As much as I want to use Google Wallet for eventually all my payments, I need a NFC Payment system that I can use with my current Credit Cards/Bank account. I have Capital One AND Chase accounts so this seems perfect. I have to go with whatever fits what I have currently. I don’t want to open another credit card just to use Google Wallet because of my stubborn support for everything Google. As much as I love Google. I love my money more 🙂

  • as long as it’s free and i can load more than a mastercard… i’ll gladly show off my phone’s capabilities any chance i can.

  • As an Android developer this UI offends me – whoever made this is living in 2009 – bottom graphical navigation bar???

  • Isn’t that 2.1 above? I thought the AM and PM were displayed smaller? God i’m such a geek for knowing that if I am right. 

  • I like the color scheme and layout. Now they just need to release it. I was using Google Wallet every day until they screwed up the prepaid card provisioning, now I can’t get my prepaid card back after switching ROMs and have been too lazy to call to see if there is a fix.

    • I’m in the same boat. However, i did call Google Wallet support last Monday, and the guy told me that the prepaid cards were expected to be back up and running within two weeks. Guess we just have to wait and see.

  • Doesn’t look ICS-optimized. What a surprise. A platform endorsed by banks and wireless companies is using outdated tech.

    • smh. It doesn’t need to be optimized. There’s no point whatsoever. They need to write these apps for old API levels to allow compatibility on all devices.

    • Why? I used my $10 gift from google wallet and paid for stuff at Macy’s just using the phone. I don’t know man, it’s pretty sweet…don’t care if it’s google wallet or ISIS. 

      • Agreed. Until you’ve used it, one should not judge so quickly. I was like”meh” too until I tried it – then  realized how damn qiuck/simple it was. I thought I’d tap..let it authenticate..wait  wait..then it’d go through. But it’s freaking instant. I’m all about anything that makes tedious tasks quicker in my life

  • can almost guarantee root devices will be blocked when it gets released. hopefully chase freedom will work with google wallet one day or the devs can get it to work with root!

  • With all the work they’ve put into this payment method, couldn’t they have put a little more work into the name?  Isis just doesn’t seem like a catchy enough name to get people interested.  I know that sounds ridiculous, but Google Wallet sounds like a name people would be willing to accept more than Isis.

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