Google Wallet continues to improve. The NPC chip in wearables such as watches offers useful functionalities such as making payments by bringing the wrist close to a POS terminal. However, although debit and credit cards could be integrated into WearOS systems, they still did not support loyalty cards, something that will change from now on.
Loyalty cards have gained more and more prominence nowadays, as more and more brand stores have loyalty cards to attract the same customers again in the future. Now, in addition, WearOS, the operating system of Android smartwatches, will also have this integrated service.
Loyalty cards on your watch
The arrival of loyalty cards to the Google Wallet smartwatch app will be greatly celebrated by those who are accustomed to making their payments through their wrist. As revealed by 9to5Google, this new feature has already been implemented and will gradually roll out to all markets through an update.
In fact, to make matters worse, users won’t have to do anything, since if they already have their loyalty cards registered in the Google Wallet application for smartphones, the loyalty cards will automatically appear on the watch display.
WearOS, Android watches
There is no doubt that if there is a dominant watch in the market of smart wearables, it would be the Apple Watch, which paved the way that all others have followed over time. However, WearOS, the operating system for Android watches, is increasingly showing the possibilities that a device in this category with Google’s software also has.
In fact, if we have to highlight an Android watch above the rest, it would be the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic line, two watches that, currently dominating the Android wearables market, were presented last July and broke sales records in many countries around the world. However, as a result of this, the sales of their previous models have plummeted faster than in previous years.
