Google Discloses Its Mobile Payment Platform Android Pay
BANGALORE: Sundar Pichai, Vice President for Chrome, Android and Google Apps, confirmed that the company is working on a new mobile payment framework named ‘Android Pay’. The statement was made at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. The Google executive further added that this wouldn’t be a new venture from the tech company but an ‘API’ layer that would extend security in payments on Android for online as well as physical stores, reports Forbes.
“We are doing it in a way in which anybody else can build a payments service on top of Android,” stated Pichai. “So, in places like China and Africa we hope that people will use Android Pay to build innovative services.”
Pichai also claimed that Android Pay will start working with NFC-capable registers and would take in biometric sensors in due course. According to speculations, this would be identical as working in-built fingerprint scanners spotted in Samsung’s Galaxy Flagship Phones which is also present as a security feature in Apple Pay. Apple Pay has also been using the Touch ID fingerprints sensors for more secured transactions. However, Pichai cleared the mist stating that the company has no intentions for a face-off with Samsung Pay.
Samsung lately introduced biometric enabled secure payment mobile system, Samsung Pay, which would be available in the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. The new venture by Samsung places it in a direct face-off with Apple Pay. Google will presumably work relative to Samsung’s process to look for potential for collaboration between Android and Samsung Pay.
Meanwhile, Google Wallet would be an independent service following the framework of Android Pay. Google Wallet had not been upto the mark to standout against the Apple Pay. However, the scope of Google Wallet has been rejuvenated with the increasing fame of Apple Pay.
Android Pay, after the launch, would work on Visa, American Express and Master Card. the company is yet to unveil the details on Android Pay which is likely to take place at Google’s I/O developer conference in May.
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