ROAM Data Vastly Expands Supported Devices for ROAMpay Swipe to Various Android Phones and Tablets

ROAM Data Vastly Expands Supported Devices for ROAMpay Swipe to Various Android Phones and Tablets

ROAM Data continues to lead the field of Mobile POS solution providers, adding nearly two dozen new Android devices to their supported device catalog.

BOSTON, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ROAM Data, the leader in providing mCommerce applications and services across hundreds of mobile devices, announced today its expanded Android support for its ROAMpay Swipe.  The ROAMpay Swipe has become the industry standard in low cost, secure, mobile credit card acceptance.  The update increases ROAMpay Swipe support to over 20 Android devices, joining the iPhone (3G, 3GS, 4), iPad, iPod Touch, and select BlackBerry devices in their supported device catalog.  Merchants using the ROAMpay Swipe, along with a compatible merchant account, can securely swipe a customer's card and qualify for card swiped rates. Unlike similar looking devices, the ROAMpay Swipe has built-in encryption, avoiding the serious risks of skimming, theft and fraud.

    Android Device Models
     Supported Include:          Carriers:
    ---------------------        ---------

    HTC EVO 4G                   Sprint
    ----------                   ------
    HTC Hero                     Sprint
    --------                     ------
    Samsung Epic 4G              Sprint
    ---------------              ------
    LG Optimus S                 Sprint
    ------------                 ------
    Samsung Galaxy Tab           Sprint
    ------------------           ------
    Motorola Defy                AT&T
    -------------                ----
    HTC Aria                     AT&T
    --------                     ----
    HTC Nexus One                AT&T
    -------------                ----
    Motorola Droid               Verizon
    --------------               -------
    Motorola Droid X             Verizon
    ----------------             -------
    Motorola Droid Pro           Verizon
    ------------------           -------
    HTC Droid Incredible         Verizon
    --------------------         -------
    Samsung Galaxy Tab           Verizon
    ------------------           -------
    Samsung Fascinate            Verizon
    -----------------            -------
    Samsung Continuum            Verizon
    -----------------            -------
    HTC G2                       T-Mobile
    ------                       --------
    HTC MyTouch 3G Slide         T-Mobile
    --------------------         --------
    HTC MyTouch 3G               T-Mobile
    --------------               --------
    HTC Nexus One                T-Mobile
    -------------                --------
    LG Optimus T                 T-Mobile
    ------------                 --------

Following closely on the heels of the ROAMpay Swipe for BlackBerry launch, the world's first secure low cost card reader for RIM's highly popular business smartphones, this update further solidifies ROAM Data as a leader in the field of mobile payments.  Several research and analytics firms, including ComScore and Nielson, have recently confirmed that Google's Android is the fastest growing major smartphone platform.  Despite hardware complexities and OS fragmentation, which Google has often been criticized for, ROAM has managed to standardize its applications and hardware using their patented ROAM Rails technology.  ROAM is compatible with more devices for its apps and peripherals than any other provider in the industry, enabling support for more end-users.

ROAM is a technology service provider and does not offer merchant accounts, it helps merchant service providers to deliver the best mobile commerce solutions possible.  ROAM currently has over 120 merchant service providers that resell the ROAMpay turnkey solution.  For more information about ROAMpay visit: http://www.roamdata.com/roampay/us/ and for more about the full range of ROAM's mCommerce solutions including ROAMbiz, ROAMbuy, ROAMstore, visit http://www.roamdata.com

About ROAM Data

ROAM Data provides a patented device agnostic platform and service (we call Rails) to help merchants deliver valuable mCommerce apps to virtually any computing device - from iPhones, Androids and BlackBerry smartphones, to feature phones, tablets, PCs and POS devices. Apps on ROAM Rails can be turnkey or customized, with peripherals, without, for merchants or for consumers to use. These apps include: the award winning ROAMpay, which turns merchant cell phones into POS terminals; ROAMstore, which helps merchants create mobile storefronts for consumers to shop or buy; ROAMbiz, helps enterprises to extend existing eCommerce or retail systems to mobile users, more apps are coming.  Merchants can also build their own apps with ROAM IDE, or integrate secure one-step commerce into their existing smartphone apps with ROAMbuy API.   ROAM helps merchants deploy and maintain their apps across different devices for different users; all transactions go through ROAM's Level One PCI-DSS certified payment gateway. ROAM is setting the standard for scalable mCommerce application delivery on its rails.   Visit us at http://www.roamdata.com

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