On January 18, Starbucks stated that it is taking its effort of pay-by-smart phone on national level in more than seven thousand eight hundred locations al across the country.

People using Apple's iPod touch and iPhone or BlackBerry Tour, Curve of Research in Motion or Storm smartphones will be able to download the new Starbucks Card Mobile Application to pay for their pastries, coffee and other goodies at Starbuck's six thousand eight hundred stores and as many as one thousand Starbucks location in Target stores.

As soon as the download gets completed, users may enter their card number. Their device will show a barcode which they can use as their Starbucks Card for purchasing at the register's 2-D scanner.

Starbucks Card Mobile users can also check their balance, view transactions, reload their card with any major credit card, and follow Stars in the My Starbucks Rewards program.

The program characterizes a massive expansion of the company's test flights, which got initiated in the month of September of 2009 across all Starbucks locations in Northern California, Seattle and New York.

Starbucks made a statement saying that every one out of five Starbucks transactions is now made with the store cards, on which customers loaded more than one and a half billion dollars in the last year.

The new Starbucks Card Mobile applications should take the firm's mobile payments system to even more users.

There are a few conspicuous omissions from Starbucks Card Mobile's platform support, namely Android, which now accounts for twenty five percent of all U. S. smartphones, and Windows Phone 7, which are expected to pick up steam this year. Starbucks reported to Mashable that it is working on the Android app.