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Android Pay, which allows owners of Android smartphones to tokenise their credit or debit cards and pay with their phones at contactless terminals, will launch in the UK "in the next few months", promises Google.

From Does 'pay by app' mean an end to shopping queues? - BBC News

In the US, Google have relaunched their wallet product without the physical debit that it had before.

Google Wallet has been given a makeover, focussing peer-to-peer payments and wallet-to-bank transfers, making the physical card obsolete.

From Google ditches Wallet debit card

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