Let’s take a look at the features of Google’s new app. A teaser video was posted at android.com/pay along with the placeholder text “Android Pay: Pay your way”.
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Over the past week, details about Google’s new mobile payment system broke as Google officially launched Android Pay, with a flurry of retailers stating their support for the service either immediately or in the coming days following Google’s announcement.
According to the Android website, Android Pay also provides extra layers of security: tokenization, transaction tracking to consumers can confirm payment and watch for suspicious activity, and, using Android Device Manager, devices can be locked remotely or wiped if they are lost or stolen. One is that it requires merchants to support NFC technology at their POS terminals, and this isn’t as widespread in the U.S. as it is in other parts of the world. Like Apple Pay is built into iPhones, Android Pay will be integrated into smartphones running Googles mobile operating system. Alongside the launch of Android Pay, Google also announced three more potential cities to get Fiber service, which includes Irvine, California, San Diego, California, and Louisville, Kentucky.
For the many Android phones that do not have a fingerprint sensor, you can verify your purchases with a four-digit PIN code similar to the way you now verify yourself at an ATM.
The interface for Android Pay is similar to Apple’s, displaying a virtual wallet with virtual versions of all your cards. Through this, the real credit or debit card number isn’t sent or transferred to the store with the payment transaction. He was talking about Samsung Pay’s entrance into the mobile payment market, but this was before Google pushed out Android Pay. Google says Android Pay will soon be accepted at over a million store locations across the USA, and in over 1000 Android apps.
Samsung is launching with major payment networks like MasterCard and Visa on board, but so is Android Pay, which Google started rolling out last week. After the card information has been entered into Android Pay, the app will generate a code called a token.
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The service is an upgrade and a replacement for Google Wallet, the mobile payment app first launched in 2011.
