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by gck1 41 days ago
Oh, then the biggest pain point I've had is now resolved. I should give it another go.

I've seen payments being another problem - but Garmin watch handles it for me. And paying with a watch becomes a conversation starter with merchants for some reason.
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Sayrus 41 days ago
I'm not sure how Garmin works, but for instance with Google Wallet-compatible watches, you need a phone where wallet can run. I've had this setup for a year where I loaded the cards from another phone and used a watch to pay.

However Wallet didn't like this setup. Tokens expired at varying delays, sometimes a day, sometimes a week or payment failed without reasons.

Nowadays, I just use my bank's app which work fine on GOS.

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gck1 41 days ago
You only need a phone to add the card to the watch. After that it works without a phone.

I was actually very surprised Garmin supported the country I'm in. They don't even support the language script, I get squiggles, but payments - better than Google Wallet.

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