Following on from the plans announced during the last Google I/0 2022 conference, there will be a deployment Google Wallet as a replacement for Google Pay is becoming effective for more and more users of the Internet giant. This is expected to be the case for all of the markets included in the first phase of this change in the coming days and weeks.

Not that Google Wallet is anything new. Nothing is further from the truth: Google “e-wallet”. It has been around the Android ecosystem for more than a decade, trying to cover more and more tasks. And it goes on: replacing credit and debit cards, yes, but also transport and show tickets, boarding passes, gift cards… even for vaccination records or other types of identification, it is assumed.

Be that as it may, the next step in the development of Google Wallet is quite a way back after the first stage: to replace Google Pay as an Android application with which payments via NFT. It will do so in the coming days and weeks as a regular update to Google Pay, which will be renamed simply as Wallet and will include additional features like the ones above as they become available.

However, Google Pay will not disappear, as it will continue to function as an indication of the Google payment system in third-party services. Go to physical or virtual sites where you can pay or buy Google Pay/Wallet cards. In other words, The system will be Google Pay, the Google Wallet application addressed to the end user.

For the end user, Google Wallet will replace Google Pay in territories around the world, including Germany, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, ChiliCroatia, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Slovakia, SpainEstonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan and on Ukraine.

The truth is that Google Pay works very well and the same is expected from Google Wallet with a multi-purpose add-on waiting for it, Even so, the suspicion of Google and data, together with the fact that practically all banks allow NFT payments with their mobile applications, will make it difficult that to the internet giant. With but, this time in his favor: to have it all united in one applicationthe convenience factor that Google has always had as a flag.