This surely sounds familiar to many google wallet. It was the first contactless payment app that the company launched in 2011 in the United States, but in 2015 it was replaced by Pay Android then in 2018 replaced by Google Pay. Well it looks like Google is going back to origins retrieve the ‘Wallet’ brand.
According to leaks google wallet it would come to life as Google’s new home for our payment cards, loyalty cards and passes, following in the footsteps of Apple Wallet and Apple Pay. On the one hand we would have google wallet like our payment-enabled wallet app Google Pay.
Google Wallet as new wallet for all card types
Two years ago, in the United States, India and Singapore, Google launched a new Google Pay application with more social features, offers, sending money between users and canceled banking ambitions with which Google wanted to partner with banks so it could use its new GPay app as a banking app, but two years later Google abandoned those plans.
From left to right: New wallet icon, GPay and Google Pay
Last week the new Google Wallet icon was leaked, showing an icon that is quite reminiscent of Apple Wallet but with the colors of the Google logo, and today the first images of the Google Wallet app.
Con google wallet It looks like we’ll be facing a rebranding and redesign of the Google payments and cards app, but rebranding it would make a lot of sense, because it doesn’t make much sense as an app for storing loyalty cards, a COVID passport or public transit tickets is called Google Pay when you’re not going to pay. The name Google Wallet is therefore a much more appropriate name.
Google’s plans with this new app fame are unknown, but rumor has it that Google may get more offers and discounts on loyalty cards to encourage more Android users to use this app as a wallet. It’s also possible that Google will change the name of the app in case they add ID card support.
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