{"id":22464,"date":"2012-09-19T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=22464"},"modified":"2012-09-19T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T11:21:45","slug":"fnb-looks-to-windows-phone-8-for-next-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/22464\/fnb-looks-to-windows-phone-8-for-next-app\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB looks to Windows Phone 8 for next app"},"content":{"rendered":"

First National Bank (FNB<\/a>) is investigating Windows Phone<\/a> 8 as opposed to Windows Phone 7 for its banking app, head of FNB Connect ISP and business operations Farren Roper<\/a> recently told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

Representatives from FNB\u2019s app team previously said that they were developing a Windows Phone 7 app.<\/p>\n

The FNB banking app, launched in July 2011 for Android<\/a>, BlackBerry<\/a>, and iOS<\/a> (Apple<\/a>) devices (support for Nokia<\/a>\u2019s Symbian devices was added later). The app lets account holders perform a variety of transactions, locate branches, and make calls using FNB\u2019s VoIP service.<\/p>\n

There are also some types of transactions only available through the app such as \u201cGeoPayments\u201d, which was added to the app during May 2012.<\/p>\n

Asked about their plans for Windows Phone devices, Roper said: \u201cOur development life cycle always follows market and handset demand and we are optimistic at the prospects for Windows 8. However, no specific timeframe can be given at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roper also said that it was premature for them to comment on what Windows Phone 8 offers their developers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe features will at least be on par with our current App,\u201d Roper said, adding that they will optimise for the platform and focus on usability, ease of use, desirability and value added services.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than that I cannot say at this stage without giving away competitive advantage,\u201d Roper said.<\/p>\n

\"Farren

Farren Roper, FNB Connect head of products<\/p><\/div>\n

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FNB iPhone deal in the works<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FNB is looking to develop its banking app for Windows Phone 8 – possibly leaving Windows Phone 7 in the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961],"tags":[2003,76,26,3611,3252],"class_list":["post-22464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-banking-app","tag-fnb","tag-headline","tag-windows-phone-7","tag-windows-phone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22468,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22464\/revisions\/22468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}