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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has demonstrated a mystery Android phone that uses a near field communication (NFC) chip that could effectively turn the handset into a credit card, offering the ability to "tap and pay."

Chatting today at the Web 2.0 Summit mini-conference in San Francisco, Schmidt would not say who would offer the phone, but it's rumored that American retailer Best Buy is set to sell a Google-branded phone known as the Nexus S. Asked whether Google is developing a new device as rumored, Schmidt said "We don't build devices."

Schmidt demonstrated the "tap-and-pay" bit, "checking in" to The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, which is hosting this week's conference — i.e., touching a pad that tells the phone it's at the hotel. And he said that technology will be offered with the next version of Android, code-named Gingerbread, which is due "over the next few weeks," according to Schmidt.

Asked if Google would consider bringing back a Nexus One–like phone and an online webstore similar to where the Nexus One was originally sold, Schmidt said: "I only said that we would never offer a Nexus Two," an obvious reference to the Nexus S rumor. ®

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