Google Wallet hacked onto Verizon phones
Verizon's controversial decision to ask Google for Wallet-less builds of the Galaxy Nexus might be moot, as hackers have discovered that the functionality is there none the less.
Hackers have managed to gain access to the Google Wallet functionality lurking within the Verizon spin of the Galaxy Nexus, allowing the telco's customers to buy a Big Mac with a tap of the phone, despite the operator's objections.
The Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus phone is Google's flagship Android handset, and supports Near-Field Communications (NFC) for wireless payments as well as other proximity applications. But not the Verizon variant, which comes without Google Wallet at the request of the operator but, it now seems, the Wallet is still there and can even be accessed without having to root the phone, though users report varying degrees of success.
