Google has an acid addiction of bearing assorted applications all with about the aforementioned purpose (see: every Google messaging/chat app). Thankfully, for Google’s acquittal apps at least, accepted faculty prevailed afterwards the chase behemothic accepted that Google Wallet and Android Pay will be alloyed calm into a new cast – Google Pay.
While Google Wallet isn’t identical to Android Pay – the above focuses on person-to-person transactions, a bit like PayPal, while the closing was congenital for NFC affairs in retail food – Google’s accommodation to amalgamate anniversary app’s functionality beneath a single, apparent cast name is, as one of my colleagues altogether put it, continued overdue.
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What we didn’t don’t apperceive is how absolutely Google will rollout its retooled acquittal system. Will you accept to download an absolutely new app, or will the Android Pay app get an check in an accessible update?
The acknowledgment is still up in the air, but assorted users are now advertisement that Google Pay branding can already be begin ambuscade on assertive Android devices. A clairvoyant over at Droid Life apparent the G Pay-styled logo on a Moto X Pure aural their phone’s absence NFC payments settings.
Users accept additionally begin the logo hidden abroad on the Google Pixel 2 XL (it’s acceptable there on the accepted Pixel 2 as well). A affiliate of the Android Authority in the US absolute its existence, although it’s account acquainted that I can’t see it on my Pixel 2 XL actuality in the UK.
- Google Pay logo spotted on Pixel 2 XL and Moto X Pure.
- Rebranded acquittal app referenced in Tap & pay menu.
- Android Pay and Google Wallet set to absorb into Google Pay cast afterwards this year.
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