Last year, Target confirmed it would launch its own mobile payment solution in 2017. With only a few weeks left in the year, the retailer officially launched Wallet — available in the Target app for iOS and Android.
To use the new feature, you need to add a Target REDcard, a store-branded card that offers savings perks. Target’s REDcard can either link to your bank account as a debit card, or you can sign up for a credit card instead.
With Wallet, customers can check out in-store using their smartphone while also applying Cartwheel digital coupons or discounts after scanning their barcode. Shoppers will also receive five percent back by using the Target REDcard, which can be pre-uploaded to the app.
Once you have the app open, you scan the barcode of the specific item you want to purchase. You then have the option to add the item to your list and save the offer from Cartwheel. After you’re done shopping, you can present your Wallet barcode at the register to check out.
According to Target, using the new Wallet feature proved to be up to four times faster than checking out with other payment methods. Customers will be able to soon use Target GiftCards with the new feature as well.
The rollout of Wallet isn’t the first of its kind for retailers — Walmart launched Walmart Pay in 2015 and is currently available in all of its stores nationwide. All you have to do is install the Walmart app to use while shopping, and then scan the QR code that appears on the debit card reader at checkout when you’re ready. You then receive an electronic receipt when the payment goes through.
Both Target and Walmart are retailers who are part of CurrentC — a group of retailers with their own mobile payment solution. This means the retailers have decided not to opt-in to Apple Pay or Android Pay, and are instead trying to encourage customers to use its own apps while shopping.
Currently, Wallet is only open to those who have the Target REDcard, but the feature will roll out to non-cardholders soon. Customers will eventually be able to store and redeem Target GiftCards in the future as well.
Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.
Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.
I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.