Now you can shop with nothing but your mobile phone in your hand. No cash, no credit cards, no cheques required – just take your goods to the counter and you can pay for them by sending a text. This comes courtesy of a new service called Beem.
Basically Beem allows you to create an account tied to your mobile phone. You can transfer money into it from your regular bank account, then make payments by text.
A nifty enough idea, we suppose, but currently the service is very limited in terms what you can actually use it with. At present a few small pizza chains are on board, plus a handful of taxi firms and university students unions – until that increases to take in some big name companies, shops and restaurants, we can’t really see Beem taking off – but if you’re interested take a look at the website below.
Out now | Beem
