Leaked App: Will the Physical Google Wallet Card be Available Soon?

  • Google Wallet promised quick, seamless payments by replacing credit cards with smartphones. But the tap and pay technology is not widely available at check outs and “let’s face it, tap payments are rarely painless anyway,” comments Android Police.
  • A leaked version of the Google Wallet app shows that Google has come up with a solution: a physical Google Wallet card that will work just like a regular credit card wherever major cards are accepted. Users select a default card on the Wallet app and the Wallet card will charge that account.
  • “The physical Wallet card could make carrier approval for Wallet a thing of the past unless you want to use tap payments,” suggests the post. “Google could publish a version of the Wallet app without NFC permissions that just allows you to switch between your cards, that could be installed on any phone (even iOS or Windows Phone, theoretically), and you just use the Wallet card for payments.”
  • Users can order their card through the app and have it mailed to their home.
  • “Other awesome new features are coming to Wallet as well,” the article continues. “The ability to deposit and withdraw money to and from a ‘Wallet Balance’ is being added (hopefully, this will integrate with the Play Store), as well as person to person money transfers. Transit cards? Wallet’s got transit cards.”
  • Android Police suggests the updated app will “reduce the chance of rival mobile payment systems of catching on,” giving Google a lead on competing systems.

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