If you thought it was weird that St George launched its Lite Banking app on Windows Phone 7, you may find it even weirder that they’ve backed it up by launching on Android before iOS.
The service is only designed to check your bank balance, not actually do anything with your money, but given St George says that 70 per cent of mobile banking logins only want to see how much cash they have, it makes sense to have an easier way to access that information.
Mobile Banking Lite is an option within the St George mobile banking app, not a separate app, and is free to download.
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Mitch
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2:48 PMI just find it weird that we’re STILL waiting for an ANZ Android “app” that does more than just link to their mobile site.
Mr Biggles
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2:54 PMI don’t really want to start an iOS/Android fight here, but it still amazes me that while there are more phones running Android than iOS, companies still choose to ignore Android completely when it comes to releasing apps for their business…
Westpac is probably the worst, which had an iPhone app, AND a mobile browser extension formatted for Safari only… Yum! two ways to bank from your iPhone… at least have a mobile browser plugin that can be used on any browser…
Ben Thomas
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 3:25 PMWestpac internet banking looks the same on the Android and Safari browsers now.
Mr Biggles
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 3:46 PMby the fires of Zeus, that’s awesome!
There was also 3rd Party Android app for Westpac, but like hell I’m gonna try something like that out…
Adam
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 12:19 AMI’m pretty surprised, WP7 had it a while back too. St George is the first and only banking app on WP7 as far as I know.
Beredan
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 2:56 PMI tried this a fair while back and it was basicly a short cut to there mobile site. not sure if this has changed since.
Anonymouse
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 5:38 PMBank SA / St George mobile banking is fine. I just have the link saved as a bookmark.
matt
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 10:11 PMWRONG!
while that may be the case in actuality, I would still think the most valuable thing about this type of app would be the ability to move your money out of your high interest saver into your transaction account, as you stand in line at the ATM.
Gab
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 12:48 PM…And this year’s award goes to St George, for the worst app UI/Design ever. Using bevel/emboss on the logo? Are we in 1997 again? WOW, I’m amazed by how a bank would launch an app like that. Are you sure this is the official app, or just some dodgy app designed by the same people who send those fake bank emails asking you to click on a link and bla bla bla…