It has been reported that Google, the online search giant has planned to joint hands with Citigroup and MasterCard to allow the owners of its Android smartphones pay for purchases via the NFC technology.

The move points to suggestions made by Google at the time of the launch of the Nexus S NFC enabled mobile phone. It would also allow the search titan a response to the plans of Orange UK to use the technology of Barclay card for contactless mobile phone payment.

It is also understood that Apple is considering engaging the NFC chips in the future iPhone models of its.

It has been reported by the Wall Street Journal that the outlined payment system would be allowing Google to offer more data regarding their customers to the retails, besides helping them target discount offers and adverts to the users of mobile devices near their stores.

This approach is expected to differ from hearsales on how Apple could be implementing its system, although no vivid details have yet come of any plan of the maker.