Google experiments with a way to pay without taking out your phone
- 8 years ago
Google is rolling out a pilot program today that introduces a new way to pay cashiers - and it involves leaving your phone in your pocket.
It's called Android Pay Hands Free , and it's a way to basically connect your phone with a point of sales system using the sensors on your phone.
"When you think about a user, in a bunch of situations, the experience is quite crummy right now, it's quite clunky," Google senior director of product management Pali Bhat said.
Users basically walk up to a cashier, which can detect that the phone is in the area and gives the point of sale system the ability to charge the user's card that's tied to Android Pay.
The goal here is to reduce friction in the payments process.
That was the main attempt of tools like Android and Apple Pay: being able to pay for products with just your phone and not having to take out your wallet and pay with a credit card.
It's called Android Pay Hands Free , and it's a way to basically connect your phone with a point of sales system using the sensors on your phone.
"When you think about a user, in a bunch of situations, the experience is quite crummy right now, it's quite clunky," Google senior director of product management Pali Bhat said.
Users basically walk up to a cashier, which can detect that the phone is in the area and gives the point of sale system the ability to charge the user's card that's tied to Android Pay.
The goal here is to reduce friction in the payments process.
That was the main attempt of tools like Android and Apple Pay: being able to pay for products with just your phone and not having to take out your wallet and pay with a credit card.