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How to redeem a Google Play gift card
A Google Play gift card is useless unless you know how to redeem it
Android users have many entertainment options when they receive a Google Play gift card. Gift-giving for someone who owns an Android phone or Android tablet doesn't have to be complicated. The odds are they have a wishlist of apps, books, movies, or albums on their Play Store wishlist.
Where to buy Amazon gift cards
All the best places to buy Amazon gift cards from Amazon.com to third-party retailers
Shopping for gifts isn't easy. You're looking up great ideas online, shuffling through tons of products, and battling tough choices. But sometimes, the perfect gift is to let your loved ones choose what they want. Amazon gift cards are a good way to give them that luxury.
Google Play gift cards have been gradually spreading to more countries for some time, and the latest addition to the list is the United Arab Emirates. They're available in five denominations from 13 retailers.
Everybody uses multiple devices these days, and having access to your files across all your gadgets is practically essential (or, at the very least, super handy). Cloud storage is the simplest way to make sure your stuff goes where you go, and Amazon's throwing in a nice bonus with purchase of a year subscription to Dropbox Plus: a $20 Amazon gift card.
File this one in the "Did you know?" category of weird limitations placed on Google and Android services. If you have many gift cards that you want to add to your Android Pay account, you might hit an arbitrary and unforeseen limit at some point. Tipster Ananya Gupta encountered the issue while adding several gift cards to his account: the above pop-up showed up and he couldn't add any more cards. So he contacted a Google support rep who explained the limits:
Amazon Prime Day is here, and the deals are rolling in. Right now you can snag Huawei Watches for up to 52 percent off, and you can knock a quarter of the price off the Nexus 6P. But if you want to make more money to buy stuff with, Amazon is offering $10 in promotional credit when you purchase at least $50 in gift cards.To get the extra money, follow this link and hit the yellow "click to add the code to your account" button. Then add a gift card. This deal is only valid today.The $10 promotional credit will arrive within two days after your gift card ships. Warning, it expires pretty quickly. You have until August 27th to spend that ten bucks.Source: Amazon
Google updated its support pages with an interesting item recently. Down at the bottom of the gift card page, is a US-only option called "Google Play credit gifts." And sure enough, a new option to send a gift has popped up in the web Play Store. So, just in time for the holidays, you can give the gift of Google Play via email.
Want to buy Google Play gift cards in The Netherlands? Of course you do! Assuming, that is, you live in The Netherlands. It looks like Google's plastic little cards, and their digital equivalent, are now making their way to that particular corner of Europe.
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- One reader in the UK has shared this screenshot of what appeared when he followed the link above.
Yesterday a reference to something called "music gifts" appeared on a Google Play support page. Now a separate page has popped up that fleshes out precisely what this feature is, something Cody came across in a recent Play Music teardown just under a month ago.
A reference to something called "music gifts" has appeared on the Google Play support page for Play gift cards today, and we frankly have no information at this point suggesting what they could be. The support entry, below, doesn't really provide any information, so we're left to speculate.
You can't gift people apps, books, or albums from the Play Store―but with Google Play gift cards, you can effectively do the same thing. But first, there's the little technicality of where you live. Depending on which country you call home, those little plastic rectangles aren't yet available.
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Google Play gift cards first started appearing in the US back in 2012. Since then it's been a slow rollout to other countries, and now it looks like India is up next. Google has updated its support pages to list India-specific terms, but you can't buy them quite yet.
This deal isn't for everyone, but if it is for you, it's a really good one. The device in question is a carrier locked AT&T LG G3 in either of its color schemes and 32 GB of storage. No matter how you choose to buy it - without a contract, on-contract, or via the Next program - you'll get a $100 Amazon gift card after your purchase.
Amazon's foray into the world of digital wallets started in July of last year. The company released the Amazon Wallet app on the Play Store and its own Appstore. If you go looking for it today, you'll come up empty handed. Amazon has pulled the apps and ended support for Amazon Wallet.
Google has an odd definition of "soon." For example, five of the countries that just received access to Google Play gift cards were first told that they were coming "soon" almost five months ago, and the last one has been waiting a further six weeks. Oh well, I suppose it's best not to look a gift card in the mouth. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden have been added to Google's gift card system, and merchants should have gift cards in stock well before Christmas.
Open up the Google Wallet app on your Android device, because there might be a $5 surprise waiting for you. Many Android users are reporting on various social media that they have found $5 gifts to various vendors for no apparent reason waiting for them in their Wallet app.
For dedicated Android users, there's a certain feeling of comfort that comes from seeing Google Play gift cards line the shelves of their local convenience store. The visibility serves as a sign of the platform's popularity and reach, a little reminder that the OS we've come to rely on isn't going away anytime in the near future. Now those little cards are appearing in two more countries: Turkey and South Korea.
Gift cards for digital storefronts have been around some time, but Google first unveiled them for the Play Store back in 2012, just a little over two years ago. Since then, they've been rolled out to a fair number of countries across the world, and we're curious: have you ever actually bought one?