In the past few days, you may be proccupied by Apple news as it just released its iPhone 6S. Now Google launched a new mobile-based contactless payment service, Android Pay to compete with Apple Pay.
Android Pay is a update of its past mobile payment platform Google Wallet. Its working theory is much similar to the iPone-locked counterpart, availing of NFC tech to pay without using traditional coins and cards.
Android Pay isconsidered as the best Apple Pay alternatives. But don’t rush yourself using this service as it is only available in US at present. Its trails have been going well in more than 1 miliion stateside locations.
Android Pay currently is only available to a few sites. It is said that the payment platform will be accessed by all US-based Android handsets running Android 4.4 onwards in the following weeks.
Google did not make any comfirmation about when it will release Android Pay in UK.
As it is a modification from Google Wallet app, Android Pay only works with select US banks. When you apply Google Android Pay, it will let you make in-app payments using nothing more than your stored card details and a security check by a swipe of your passcode-holding thumb.
The contactless payments may be the most popular mainstream payment in the future. And the advanced tech and modifications for them will allow them work better.
