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Gas Pumped with Ease and At a Lower Price with Cumberland Farms’ New App
The company known best for their affordable milk, gas stations as well as convenience stores has decided to go ‘tech’ as it stands on the brink of releasing an app which will alter the re-fueling of a car. The app which has been developed between PayPal and The Framingham carries a mobile payment system which would allow users to pay for gas at the pump using your phone. To encourage usage of the application, the collaborators are offering a discount of 5 cents off per gallon of gas pumped.
According to an article on IntoMobile, Cumberland Farms are just beginning to roll out the application and it is still at its pilot stage primarily around New England where the brand is concentrated. Reportedly, what people will like most about this app is that they will be able to finish the transaction while still in the car and can spend minimum time out in the freezing cold.
Like most other apps, the app they are calling SmartPay will have a location feature to direct you to the nearest participating Cumberland Farms. With 600 locations waiting to get the feature, users might be looking at a discount of up to 10cents off per gallon if the app is used. But for now, all the ground work must be cleared and only then can the app hit stores and be used for all of Cumberland Farms’ 600 locations.
The Fairphone 2 was first unveiled in June earlier this year, where this particular handset carried a modular design while featuring majority of its components that have been sourced from conflict-free mines. It seems that this particular handset that you can purchase with a clear conscience has begun to ship to those who happen to live across Europe.
Fairphone announced in a blog post, “It’s been almost two years in the making, and some of the earliest buyers have been patiently waiting since July to receive their new phones. As community manager, I want to personally welcome the new batch of Fairphone owners to our community.” The initial 1,000 units are tipped to ship this month, before the other pre-orders follow in January 2016.
In terms of hardware specifications, the Fairphone 2 will run on a Snapdragon 801 chipset, has a 5″ 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera, with Android 5.1 Lollipop in tow. It will be a dual SIM capable handset with a microSD memory card slot and plays nice with 4G LTE networks, retailing for approximately €525 a pop.
It looks like the upcoming flagship model from Xiaomi will feature NFC support, at least based on a document that was released by China UnionPay. Just in case you are scratching your head and wondering who China UnionPay is, they happen to be the only domestic payment gateway supplier and card organization, and hence, to see them offer detailed support concerning the newly released NFC-based payment system points to the very real possibility of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 featuring NFC capability.
After all, the Xiaomi Mi 3 was also mentioned on the list, which so happens to feature NFC, and there is no mention of the Xiaomi Mi 4 which does not come with NFC. Still, such a new payment system would be the ideal tool to see the reintroduction of NFC to the flagship model.
OnePlus did make an announcement in the previous month that the Ceramic variant of the OnePlus X will be released on November 24. True to their word, they did exactly that – although only a pitiful number of units were made available, and not only that, this was through a charity auction. Thankfully for the rest of the masses who are on the lookout for this device, it has gone on sale officially already.
Needless to say, this particular variant is available only by an invitation, although do bear in mind that standard OnePlus X invites are not good here – you will still need to snag yourself a specific Ceramic variant invite before you make a purchase. OnePlus is also on the lookout to offer additional methods of picking up this smartphone, although no further details were revealed.
The OnePlus X Ceramic will be available only in select markets, where among them include Europe, India, and Hong Kong. To date, we do know that OnePlus had made only 10,000 units of the handset available. A case of the early bird getting the proverbial worm here?