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As PayPal notes in its blog entry announcing the new app, this feature has been part of the iPhone PayPal Mobile app since earlier this year. It's a great addition that makes it easy to pay for group dinners or events. The split the check feature -- also a port from the iPhone app -- makes dividing a bill and collecting funds super simple.
The app also includes other features, like monitoring your balance and sending or requesting funds to/from individuals directly from the app. The new bump feature should work with other Android or iPhone devices, though I had some problems in my tests, probably because both phones were logged into the same PayPal account.
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PayPal notes the explosive growth it has seen on the mobile front. In the last six months alone, PayPal says it has generated nearly twice the mobile payment volume than it did in all of 2009. When PayPal 2.0 was released for the iPhone this spring, more than 1 million users downloaded the app in the first three weeks.
I've spoken with Osama Bedier, VP of product development at PayPal, several times this year about the company's strategy for the future. It's clear that mobile is a big part of that strategy. The company expects to close 2010 with more than half a billion dollars in mobile payments, and that's a figure the company expects to see rise in the future.
As consumers become more comfortable with the idea of microtransactions and paying with their cellphones (a concept that Europe and parts of Africa have been embracing for years), PayPal's goal has been to make it easy to work across those systems. On that front, PayPal X has held a series of developer challenges and has pushed out its iPhone SDK, with SDKs for other mobile platforms also in the works.
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