Orange and Barclaycard are to launch a second Quick Tap contactless-enabled handset. The Samsung Wave 578 follows their launch of the UK’s first mobile contactless payments service earlier this year.

To support this, Barclaycard is providing Orange customers with £10 cash added to their account upon activation, and 10 per cent cash back on all Quick Tap purchases made in the first 90 days. Barclaycard, Barclays debit or Orange credit card users can then load funds of up to £100 onto the handset’s Quick Tap app.

David Chan, CEO at Barclaycard Consumer Europe, says: “Paying with a mobile phone means never being without the right change, and always having access to funds. That’s why I believe contactless mobile is the future of payments, and I’m keen it’s made available to as many of our customers as possible. At the launch of our first contactless handset earlier this year we promised we would roll out greater choice in the Quick Tap range and I’m pleased to be able to announce the first of these new handsets today.”

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