Comment Wow, this is just too advanced... (Score 1) 187
We've been doing smartphone based banking over over 10 years now.. Nordea (Swedish/Finnish bank) launched mobile on-line banking service in January 2000. Granted, you didn't call handsets "smart phones" and they weren't as shiny as iPhone (Nokia 7110 for instance) and the service was (and is, I guess the service is still running) based on WAP instead of HTTP over TCP/IP but still it was smartphone based banking of the time. Source:
Nordea Annual Report 2000, page 4. Personally, I've been doing all my personal daily banking needs (wire transfers, paying of bills, checking the balance and so on) using Nordea's online bank since 1997 (then called Merita). The site hasn't changed that much for over 10 years now except for minor layout face lifts and addition of services, and that's great. I've been using the same simple service meant for desktop browsers with phone browsers for many years. This stuff really shouldn't be very exiting..