Android Pay launched in the UK – ANGLIA.today

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Owners of phones with Android might be jealous of Apple fans the possibility of paying the phone. They can stop now.

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Android Pay should reach the phones in the UK as early as this week. Network Pret A Manger has even launched such a possibility of paying in their terminals, so you can expect to launch in a few days.

What is Android Pay? It is a system of contactless payment using your phone. To use it you need to download from the Google Play Store application (for the moment not available, leaks say that you are now about 18 hours). If we added a credit or debit card to Google to select it, served to Android Pay – if we do not, then we will have to add it. Our phone must be equipped with NFC module, the application works on systems of KitKat 4.4 upwards.

Support for Android Pay announced banks: HSBC, First Direct, Halifax, Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, M & S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide. The next to be added, but it is unclear how it will be with Barclays – the bank has in fact its own application to pay the proximity.

Among the stores that support Android Pay for now we find Aldi, Costa Coffee, Greggs, KFC, Boots, Pret, Starbucks, Waitrose and Superdrug. The application also supports Transport for London, which means that you will be able to travel not only without the Oyster card, but also at all without a credit card.

The advantage of Android Pay over just a proximity card is that the pay must unlock the phone. On the one hand, this is a gesture more, but on the other cards are by their constant readiness to use slightly easier target for cloning them thieves.

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