Garmin Pay: yes, you can do NFC tap-to-pay in stores without big tech – OSnews

Late last year, I went on a long journey to rid myself of as much of my remaining ties to the big technology giants as I could. This journey is still ongoing, with only a few thin ties remaining, but there’s one big one I can scratch off the list: mobile in-store payments with NFC tap-to-pay. I used Google Pay and a WearOS smartwatch for this, but neither of those work on de-Googled Android – I opted for GrapheneOS – and it seemed like I was just going to have to accept the loss of this functionality.