Circle Launches Mobile Apps for iOS and Android
Circle has confirmed its mobile apps are US-only for the moment, but that international versions are "imminent" - along with support for more languages and currencies. Bitcoin-based consumer finance company Circle has released native apps for both iOS and Android platforms, aiming to bring as many features of its online platform as possible to the mobile world. Unlike other mobile bitcoin wallets out there, 'Circle for Bitcoin' integrates with banks and credit card accounts to allow both deposits and withdrawals. There are also the more familiar bitcoin wallet features like send and....
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Circle Internet Financial has given the world a first look at their mobile applications destined for the Android and iOS mobile platforms this evening, drawing even more excitement to the platform that aims to make using bitcoin as simple as possible. The company's CEO, Jeremy Allaire, revealed and demonstrated the mobile application at the Coinscrum meetup in London, and the first images of what the app will look like are coming in from users on Twitter. @circlebits's CEO Allaire gives exclusive demo of iOS & Android apps @coinscrum in London #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency....
Circle released today the first native Circle apps for both iOS and Android. These apps are a critical companion to the Circle web service, allowing customers to use native apps to make payments, send and request money, and instantly deposit and convert money between dollars and Bitcoin. I am a user of the Circle web service since the closed beta before the public launch, and Circle is now an important part of my Bitcoin storage and transfer chain. I have always been impressed with the professional quality and immediateness of the user interface, and the responsiveness of the customer....
Bitcoin company Circle gave a sneak peek of its mobile apps to those who attended the CoinScrum meetup in London yesterday. Company CEO Jeremy Allaire explained to the 170-strong audience that the iOS and Android apps has just entered beta phase, before demonstrating how to use them to make a transaction - instantly sending bitcoin from one Circle account to another. "We are working hard to provide a cross-platform experience that makes it easy for consumers to access bitcoin and experience the benefits of digital currency," said Allaire. "We hope to add iOS and Android native apps to our....
It was recently noted that Circle Internet Financial had mobile applications for iOS and Android in the works. In fact, the Boston-based company demonstrated their mobile applications in London last month, but we haven't really gotten a good look at the Android version of the app. Until today. Kind of. Nat Tarbox, Product Designer at Circle, posted an image this week offering users a very tiny glimpse as to what they can expect the Android version of the app to look like. Here it is: It's certainly got something in common with the Circle website, and that's that it looks clean and spiffy.....
Commentary by Giulio Prisco. Google has announced an upcoming mobile payments framework called Android Pay, Forbes reports. Android Pay will not be a separate payment app, but a platform that enables developers to integrate mobile payments into their apps using an API layer. Google's senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Google Apps Sundar Pichai announced the upcoming payment platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona."We are doing it in a way so that anybody else can build a payments service on top of Android," he said at a press event. "In places like China and Africa, we....