NAB Internet Banking now as NAB iPhone & iPad App

NAB extends the iPad App to the iPhone, Blackberry and High-end Nokia devices

This will not sound news to those who have owned an iPad for a while now as the NAB app was always available on the iPad. The National Australian bank has launched the same app for the users of the iPhone/ Blackberry and Nokia mobiles the app shall be bringing all the features of the NAB iPad Internet Banking app to the iPhone. The NAB Internet Banking has been optimized for mobile phones since September last year, but this is the first time that NAB has launched an iPhone specific Internet Banking App.

NAB Internet Banking now as NAB iphone & iPad App

You just have to go to www.nab.com.au in your mobile phone web browser and you’ll find the link for internet banking. NAB has also created an iPhone icon on its webserver, so if you add it to your home screen, you get a neatly formatted NAB logo button. (They’re not making an iPhone app available though, because they have designed the site to be handset compatible.)

The surprise was to see the Android missing out on the app we tried to consider the decision and we did find some really good answers. One the android operating system is too widely distributed and now even low cost and less secure handsets have got the same installed the Samsung Spica and the Spice C100 being the latest ones. Also, amongst the Nokia phones not all are getting the app as the low cost models are not very secure.

Sam Plowman, Executive General Manager for Direct Banking at NAB expects the iPhone app and its bigger brother the NAB iPad App will stimulate take-up of mobile banking with NAB.

“NAB is seeing a huge appetite for mobile banking, with 170 per cent growth in usage over the past six months.We expect even more customers to start banking on their mobile now that an iPhone app is available, with improved useability and added functionality,”he said. The NAB iPhone app comes after resounding customer feedback from the launch of the NAB Internet Banking app for Apple’s iPad. The bank has done quite a lot actually to keep itself on the top of the banking scene and hence has become one of the consumer’s favourite. NAB is, of course, getting it enormously right in some areas that matter greatly: the abolition of account overdraw fees, dramatic reduction of credit card late fees (down to $5 a month, rather than the exploitative $30 – $50 charged by some banks) and, in January, the abolition of monthly account keeping fees from many account types — including ones with Visa Debit cards.

NAB iPad Application

“Our goal is to give customers choice of how they bank – and when we launched the NAB app for iPad, our customers told us an iPhone app would make mobile banking even easier and more convenient. NAB will continue to listen to our customers’ feedback and invest in making banking available anywhere, anytime, on any device.” said the executive general manager.

In line with the NAB app for iPad, the iPhone app will include internet banking, an ATM and branch locator and currency exchange rates. NAB plans to expand functionality of both apps, over coming months. The NAB app for iPhone and iPad are both available free, from the App Store. Download NAB iPhone app from the apple app store or visit http://www.nab.com.au/ipad for NAB iPad App.