Android Pay

Android Pay now supports 17 more banks and credit unions in the United States, with Google expanding the compatibility list of its mobile payments service earlier this week. As is usually the case, the Alphabet-owned Internet giant didn’t draw attention to Android Pay’s newly expanded availability in any particularly high-profile manner and has instead simply […]

Google on Wednesday announced that Android Pay is now officially available in Spain, with the service rolling out in the European country as of today, adding that its mobile payments solution is already supported by more than a million stores. Spain is the sixth country on the Old Continent to receive Android Pay, though the […]

UK Android Pay users can now add American Express cards to the app for use with mobile payments at supported retailers and websites. That being said, there are AMEX cards which are and are not supported, so users will want to make note of that. Of the supported cards included are UK AMEX cards which […]

Android Pay, which is Google’s latest attempt on mobile payments, routinely announces a slew of new banks being added to the list of supported financial institutions. In the latest round of updated banks, Android Pay has added around 72 new financial institutions. At this point, these are mostly smaller banks and credit unions, ones that […]

Android Pay is adding new promotions and app support today letting users get the most of Google’s mobile payment solution through some of their favorite applications while also getting some good deals in the process. Android Pay already supports a fair number of apps so you can use it as a method of payment when […]

Those in Canada with an American Express card can now use it with Android Pay. It’s the latest card issuer to join the service in the Great White North. Users will be able to add their American Express card through the Android Pay app and use it to pay for things with their smartphone. there […]

Android Pay support has expanded to 60 new banks in the U.S., though it is worth noting that most of these are smaller banks and this has been the case for quite some time as most of the larger establishments have been support for a while. That said, there are lots of users who bank […]

Google is promoting Android Pay in Australia with giveaways. Although Android Pay has been available in the region since 2016 it would seem that Google wants more Australian citizens to use the mobile payment solution, so it’s turned to offering prizes to consumers who choose to use Android Pay where accepted when the opportunity arises. […]

Within a short time after its launch, a new update is now rolling out to the ASUS Zenfone AR. This update adds several applications, updates the security patch and improves the camera performance of the smartphone. In the release notes that accompanied the update, ASUS stated that the new update should improve the device’s camera performance […]

The Google Wallet Android app looks set to see some security-focused changes arriving with a future release. One of which is the addition of a new feature (fingerprint support), while the other is the change to an existing feature (PIN support). Neither of these changes are currently live in the Google Wallet app, although their […]

T-Mobile and Verizon are both sending out updates to Samsung’s latest smartphones – the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus – which bring Android Pay to the devices. A bit of a surprise that it wasn’t on the device before (it wasn’t pre-loaded, but it did work on the Galaxy S8). But now, Galaxy S8 […]

It seems Android Pay is about to gain a new feature which should cut down on the amount of time Android Pay users spend with adding cards to their account. That is, membership cards and rewards cards. At the moment the new feature is not quite live, but traces of the feature have now been spotted buried within […]

A Google executive has stated that the search giant is trying to find ways to implement its payment service, Android Pay, to desktops. According to Google’s director for emerging platforms Spencer Spinell, the desktop implementation of Android Pay will be designed to complement its current offering of mobile payment service. However, Spinell stated that they […]

Android Pay in Canada goes live today with eight banks, as Google’s Canada Blog has just announced this morning that it has begun to roll out the service to users to bring mobile payments to Canada and make paying for goods and services that much easier for consumers. Participating banks that are so far supported […]

Android Pay is set to become widely available to Android device owners in Canada, starting from May 31, a week today. This is based on the latest information coming through from MobileSyrup, who in turn credits “sources that have reached out” for the information. So while this does not act as an official confirmation from Google, […]

PayPal launched a new update to its Android application earlier this week, officially integrating the platform with Google’s mobile payment solution Android Pay. Following the update, PayPal users can add the service as a payment method for Android Pay; however, it’s important to note that users will only be able to pay using their PayPal […]

Google rolled out Android Pay in Russia where the service is live for all eligible devices as of Tuesday, May 23. The Mountain View-based tech giant revealed that the solution currently supports credit and debit cards issued by 15 banks in the country, including Sberbank, Russian Standard Bank, Tochka, Tinkoff, and Raiffeisen Bank. Not all officially supported financial institutions […]

The newest OTA update for Nexus and Pixel owners on the Developer Preview builds of Android O seems to be bringing back Android Pay functionality, but only for some users. There has been little in the way of hard evidence as to whether or not Android Pay will work after the update for a given user, […]

Google‘s new Weebly partnership is helping to expand Android Pay support to online merchants, making the mobile payment platform that much more accessible and viable of an option for consumers when going to checkout and pay for their goods and services when shopping online. Since this partnership is between Google and Weebly, the payment support […]

Although no specific dates were given, Google has confirmed that Android Pay is finally going to be making its way to Canadian users “in the coming months.” The announcement was made yesterday at the company’s I/O 2017 developers conference. The move comes as part of Google’s efforts to expand the availability of Android Pay and Canada […]

Android Pay now supports 39 more U.S. banks and credit unions as Google continues to get the service up and running for customers of various banking establishments that weren’t previously able to take advantage of the growing mobile payment platform. Google tends to add support for new banks to Android Pay about once a month, […]

Android Pay has updated their website with about 71 new financial institutions that now support the mobile payment service. The majority of these – as expected at this point – are pretty small institutions and ones that are mostly regional. Including 1st Constitution Bank, FBT Bank, First International Bank of Barry, Triangle Credit Union and […]

Google may add facial recognition to Android Pay via a new feature that’s apparently going to be called Visual ID, which could end up in the app within a near future update. While Visual ID has not yet been added into the Android Pay app a recent teardown of the latest APK file for Android […]

Google inserted a Star Wars easter egg into Android Pay this week to commemorate the celebration of Star Wars on May 4th, which is officially Star Wars Day and the day that Star Wars fans have long been recognizing the film with an attached phrase on social media that states May The 4th Be With […]

Android Pay has a 30-day limit on gift card adds it turns out. This means users aren’t able to add more than a certain amount of gift cards to their Android Pay app every 30 days. As for the limit according to one user you can only add 10 gift cards to the app within […]

Google’s Android Pay mobile platform will soon support PayPal as a payment method within the app, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Google and PayPal described the move as yet another step in their continuously growing partnership that already saw them collaborate on a number of different products and services. The firms have yet to […]

Android Pay received support for five more banks in the United States as part of its latest expansion that started on Monday. Google’s mobile payments solution now supports cards issued by the O Bee Credit Union, Florence Savings Bank, Barksdale Federal Credit Union, Security State Bank Of Hibbing, and the J.S.C. Federal Credit Union. The move marks Google’s latest attempt […]

Android Pay is gaining mobile banking app integration this week as Google has just announced that in partnership with a few different major banks it’s now easier than it’s ever been to get started with using Android Pay. With this new integration feature, users who want to add their bank cards to Android Pay for […]

Android Pay support has been expanded to 13 more banks, including the Bank of Stockton, Maquoketa State Bank, The Conway National Bank, and the Infirmary Federal Credit Union. The latest expansion of Google’s mobile payments solution comes shortly after the platform added 51 more banks to its list of supported institutions last month. In total, over 100 new […]

Huawei’s excellent 2015 smartwatch may have turned heads despite its lack of NFC, but a report from Ausdroid based on a statement from Huawei says that not only does the Huawei Watch have NFC on board that’s simply been disabled in the watch’s software, but that Android Pay is in testing for the venerable timepiece. […]

Users who switched to Simple at Google’s recommendation in 2016 – when the search giant brought its Google Wallet Card program to an end – will be happy to learn that the online banking firm has finally added support for Android Pay. Support for Google’s tap-to-pay application and its associated money sharing services was something […]

Android Pay adds new banks on a fairly regular basis, sometimes one or a couple with great fanfare, and sometimes, such as this time, a staggering 51 new participating financial institutions get added to the service’s wheelhouse pretty much silently. The list of new banks includes the likes of Alabama State Employees Credit Union, Citizens […]

Android Pay users will soon have a new place to use their favorite payment app quickly and securely; within the Etsy app. Users who have Android Pay installed will find the payment platform as a checkout option when using the Etsy app, and as long as they have a participating card on file with Android […]

Online payment service WePay announced that it’s adding Android Pay web support to its solution. In a press release sent to media outlets on Thursday, WePay said that this latest addition was made to address what it deems the biggest issue inhibiting mobile conversions – low-quality user experiences on the web that are preventing consumers from […]

It seems the latest security update (March 2017) for the Nexus 6 is likely to have been pulled back by Google. The information comes after various reports have now started to surface on social media detailing that there is an issue with the update and Android Pay. More specifically, it seems the issue is with […]

Today Google has announced the launch of Android Pay in Belgium, which has now become the tenth country where the company’s mobile payment solution has been made available thus far. Starting today, Android smartphone users in Belgium can make in-store payments using their devices at more than 85,000 retail locations throughout the country, including shops […]

Android Pay now supports 31 new banks in the United States, as revealed by the recently updated support pages of Google’s mobile payments service. The new additions include the Alcoa Pittsburgh Federal Credit Union, America’s First FCU, First State Bank of Colorado, The Hometown Bank of Alabama, Town & Country Bank and Trust, and TTCU The Credit Union. […]

Android Pay gains 9 new U.S. banks for its compatibility list, and while this is extending the amount of banks which support the mobile payment platform, 9 new banks is a significantly lower number than Google usually adds to the list whenever they update it, with the number normally being closer to 30 or 40. […]

Earlier today Google confirmed the arrival of Android Wear 2.0. It also seems as though the Google Play Store listing for the Android Pay app has now been updated to reflect the use of Android Pay on select Android Wear 2.0-running smartwatches, like for instance the LG Watch Sport. The updated Play Store listing now includes screenshots […]

Samsung’s latest payment app, which comes in the form of Samsung Pay Mini, is expected to directly compete with Google’s Android Pay when the former service is officially launched. This is due to the fact that both Samsung Pay Mini and Android Pay are quite similar in the way the two services work. Samsung Pay […]

Android Wear 2.0 is slated to officially launch in the first quarter of 2017, and bring a whole slew of features along with it. These include things like Android Pay and Google Assistant. A report out of The Verge notes that Google will be releasing the fifth and final developer preview for Android Wear 2.0 […]

Android Pay doesn’t support every financial institution out there, but the team behind the service continues to work to bring more and more banks and financial institutions online. This past week, the Android Pay team announced that they have added another 31 banks to the list of supported institutions. This means that if you have […]

While there is now a fairly decent list of mobile payment options to choose from including Android Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, those payment solutions are still only in their rolling out phase. That is, they have yet to hit all markets and as time passes, are slowly becoming available in different regions. Take […]

It’s been over a year since Google originally debuted Android Pay, a digital wallet platform designed for making purchases on mobile devices. Since then, this successor to Google Wallet made its way to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, and a handful of other countries around the globe. While Canada was originally supposed to receive […]

When Android Pay was first launched, there were some that thought it was more of a “me too” payment method to compete with Apple Pay, but since then, it’s become one of the more popular payment methods, perhaps due to the vast amount of different handsets on the market that run Android. This alone makes […]

For some time now, Android Pay has been available in the US of A, as well as further afield, and it’s been making it much easier to pay for things at checkout for a lot of us. Of course, there are times when you don’t want to pay for something with your phone and for […]

Android Pay recently put out its latest update, bringing the app up to version 1.10. It doesn’t bring in much new, but there are a few hints at what is coming next, due to Android Police tearing apart the APK and taking a look at the code. Evidently there is a game included in the […]

Android Pay was first launched during Google I/O 2015 and it went live later that year in the United States. Fast forward to 2016, Google has been making itself busy by bringing its contactless payment service, Android Pay, to various countries. While it has been a slow process, nonetheless, Google has been making progress, with countries […]

Google seems to be doing a little bit more marketing with their products these days, and it’s not just limited to their hardware. They’re beginning to market their software-based products a little bit more too, and this includes Android Pay, and they’ve just released a new ad for the mobile payment solution that should strike […]

Android Pay has slowly but surely added all of the most widely used banks across the the country (and the world, although it’s not available in every country just yet). Today, the team added about 31 new banks to Android Pay. Most of them are smaller banks, but the big name in this round of […]

Android Pay as a mobile payment system is a great app and feature to have at your disposal. That is, if your bank or credit union supports the service, and even then there is no guarantee that they’ll support your specific type of card after they support the system. While Google can’t do much about […]

Updates are always welcomed by smartphone owners and the latest smartphones to be receiving an update in Canada are the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge. According to the details, the update is only 41MBs but packs in quite a few significant changes. For starters, this update will handle several official security updates for […]

Android Pay is Google’s approach to mobile payments and while it is not one which is as accommodating as the likes of Samsung Pay, it is one which is available on a much wider number of Android smartphones and is one which is growing in its usage. Speaking of which, the latest example of the […]

Android Pay has become one of the better-known parts of the Android ecosystem over the past year, along with the Play Store and other essential services such as the Google Play Store, and key apps like YouTube and Gmail. For Android Pay, however, it appears as if work is never done, as Google keep on […]

Lately, Google has been launching its contactless payment system, Android Pay, in various countries this year, including in the UK and Australia. This time round, Google has launched the mobile payment system in Hong Kong, allowing Android users on the island to make contactless payments in various stores. With Android Pay, residents of Hong Kong […]

If 2016 is going to be known for one new trend in the technology world, it’ll be paying for things with our phones. Sure, Google Wallet gave us this slice of the future some time ago, but it was hardly well-received and not available throughout the world like Android Pay, Samsung Pay and Apple Pay […]

Android Pay may be launching inside of Canada soon, as the most recent update (version 1.7 of the app) seems to list strings of code that include references to Interac, which is a major interbank network in Canada. Although this doesn’t give any details, such as which banks may support Android Pay following a Canadian […]

Mobile payment solutions have gotten off to a bit of a slow start, but over the years they have gradually begun to gain some popularity. The way they typically work is by using a mobile device to beam payment information into a credit card terminal at the point of sale (usually via Near-Field Communication aka […]

Android Pay has been catching on worldwide as more and more services jump on board and adoption increases. While it may be the only option for non-Samsung Android owners as far as mobile payment goes, the large number of banks and retailers that took a while to come around and the requirement to have a fairly […]

One of the reasons why Android Pay hasn’t been adopted as widely as Samsung Pay or even Apple Pay, is the bank that it supports. While there are a number of banks already supported by the service, Google has been continuing to add more and more banks and financial institutions to Android Pay. Today, they added […]