Remember Coin? When it was announced back in 2013, it promised to shrink your bulky wallet into a single card. Well, after some production trouble, Coin is finally available to backers everywhere. So what’s it actually like to use it? Jon has had the card for a few weeks, and formulated his thoughts in the video above. In short, it’s great, but it still needs a lot of work. What Coin...
I was just going through all of the products I’ve backed recently and realized that a few of them never shipped to me. One of those products is the Coin card, the device that was supposed to replace my wallet and was introduced last year. I signed up for the Coin Beta, which means I should have received my unit sometime around November, but of course it never arrived. I had my...
Coin, the all-in-one credit card, hasn't even hit the market yet and it looks like it may already have some serious competition in the form of Plastc. We've been following Coin for some time now, but with deliveries being delayed until spring 2015, folks have lost some interest in the new card that was supposed to replace our credit cards. Now it seems a new company has taken several...
Remember Coin? Hopefully you still do, at least if you invested in the project that promises to offer a single card to replace all of your existing debit, credit and shoppers club cards. Well there may be a major obstacle in the way of the product’s eventual launch: a patent owned by Amazon. While we haven’t heard of any clear interest of Amazon’s to enter the payment space in this form...
Coin wants to make wallets obsolete, and the days-old company has already obliterated its first hurdle. In under 40 minutes, Coin hit its $50,000 crowdfunding goal, putting it on pace to become one of the most successful hardware crowdfunding campaigns in history. So to commemorate its early success, the company on Wednesday announced some big new features coming to the Bluetooth Low...
We’ve been promised wallet replacements before. We’ve been told smartphone solutions are coming any day now—yet our billfolds still remain stuffed. In a world of shiny digital screens, plastic is still the dominant and preferred method of payment. But one company is attempting to make your credit card collection more manageable. Coin, a new startup jumping headfirst into the...