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Use Your Wear OS Watch to Pay With Google Pay in New Countries

Tim February 28, 2023 2

Google announced this week that users in additional countries can use their Wear OS-powered smartwatch to pay for items with Google Pay. The addition of these markets brings the list of total supported countries for this method of payment to 60. That's a solid...

New Google Wallet Rollout Begins to Replace Google Pay

Kellen July 18, 2022 29

Google announced back at Google I/O that we would soon be welcoming back an old friend, Google Wallet. They didn't provide any sort of specific timeline, but as of today, a small group of folks have begun receiving the update that rids their phone of Google...

The New Google Wallet is Official With Driver’s License Support

Kellen May 12, 2022 19

A new Google Wallet was announced this week. Yes, we have another Google Wallet app. It looks like it's just a rebranding of the "Google Pay" (not GPay) app you currently have, but with a throwback name to get re-familiar with. Or maybe it's new. Whatever the...

Google Pay on Wear OS Now Available in More Countries

Tim December 7, 2021 1

Google announced this week the expansion of Google Pay on Wear OS into new countries, bringing the total number of supported markets up to 40. Google highlights a few of the newly supported countries as Israel, Kazakhstan, and the Netherlands. Shoutout to the...

You’ll Soon See Groupon Deals Inside the Google Pay App

Tim November 2, 2021 16

Groupon, the service that's good at saving you money on local experiences and adult toys, announced a new partnership with Google Pay this morning. The partnership will bring Groupon's deals right to the Google Pay app, opening up Pay users to lots of savings...

Google Updates a Bunch of Wear OS Apps for Galaxy Watch 4, But There’s Bad News

Kellen August 11, 2021 23

Samsung just announced the Galaxy Watch 4 line with the new Wear OS 3 platform and Google then followed up to talk about new experiences they'll launch with it. They mostly revealed a bunch of big app updates that'll work on Wear OS 3 watches, but also...

Old Google Pay App Now Just a Payment Machine

Kellen July 21, 2021 11

About a month ago, Google said that it was close to stripping the old Google Pay of any useful feature, leaving you little reason to keep it on your phone. We noted at the time that the only real feature remaining was the NFC payment portion, where you could...

You Can Now Pay In-Store With Your Google Pay Balance

Tim July 8, 2021 7

Google is now rolling out a new feature for Google Pay users in the US, allowing them to use a new virtual card tied to their Pay balance to pay for goods in-store using their Android device via NFC. This feature is rolling out now to all eligible Android...