Google launches android pay app which enables payment using android phones

DUBLIN, Ireland - Google launched Android Pay in Ireland on Wednesday. 

Customers in the country, with Samsung, Sony and other Android phones can now pay for the items they wish to buy by simply swiping their phones.

This system will work in any place that accepts Mastercard or Visa contactless debit and credit cards issued by AIB or KBC. 

This Android Pay app works like a contactless bank card. Users would merely touch their phone off the card reader.

According to Google, using a service like Android Pay is more secure than using a plastic card as it uses tokenization to process all payment details. This means that the retailer gets a newly-generated virtual number - rather than the real card number of the purchaser.

Though there is a 30 euros limit on transactions and a cap of five transactions per day, bigger individual transactions are accepted at some retailers. This move makes Android Pay the first phone payment system in Ireland where the use of contactless cards continues to grow. 

Irish people using the Android Pay app can also use the system when travelling in the U.S., U.K., Poland, New Zealand and Hong Kong.