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.<br />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.<br />"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.<br />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.<br />The goal here is to reduce friction in the payments process.<br />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.
