After messing about with some odd little money transfer tools and some boring football marketing nonsense, UK banking giant Barclays has finally pushed out a complete, fully featured mobile banking app. The Barclays Mobile Banking Android app lets users check balances and recent transactions, send money to people already in your online banking payee list and shuffle your pennies about between your own accounts to help fend off the bailiffs for another month.
Android 2.3 or higher is required to run it, plus Barclays says its mobile banking app won’t work for those using rooted Android phones, no doubt due to possible security concerns.
You probably already knew about this one. Catching up on the “news” today after a bit of a technical nightmare.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Mark
/ July 15, 2012Barclays technical hitches aside, it’s good to see them doing innovative stuff like this, rather than what those useless twats at First Direct are upto. They have taken the head in the sand and hope Android goes away stance. What’s more likely, is First Direct going away, as HSBC are too ashamed to put their name to them.
tafkawac
/ July 15, 2012I can see from your screenshots that you are loaded. Can you lend me a monkey?
Nice to have the site updates again! Glad your inter-webs is fixed!
Gary_C
/ July 15, 2012If only they were my screenshots. Having £42.35 in a savings account is but a distant dream.
mintvilla
/ July 15, 2012wont work on rooted phones… highly annoying.
MarkG
/ July 15, 2012Not really, it’s common sense. Your phone can’t safely do encryption or decryption, which means banking and DRM is all offlimits.
mintvilla
/ July 16, 2012Irrelevant, your PC is “rooted”
On most rooted roms like Cyanogen you can diable root access yet it still detects that you have a custom rom and wont allow you to use it.
DTEG
/ July 16, 2012Just need to persuade Santander to pull their fingers out too now… AFAIK their app is resolutely available for Spain only, where no-one can afford a phone to run it on.
anon
/ July 16, 2012Can i manipulate the Libor with it?
Bob Diamond
/ July 16, 2012I certainly hope so!