Samsung had originally hoped to put its Samsung Pay mobile payment service on the Gear S2 last year. It missed its goal and was forced late last year to push the release out to this year. Nearly a year after unveiling its NFC-equipped smartwatch, Samsung is finally making good on its promise – albeit as a public beta for the […]
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MWC 2016: Samsung Pay coming to Canada in 2016
Samsung Pay launched last year in South Korea and the U.S. In the six months that it has been available, some five million registered users have processed over 500 million dollars in transactions. The company is now getting ready to bring its mobile payment platform to at least seven more countries this year. Samsung first announced the expansion on Friday and mentioned […]
Samsung Pay global expansion plans to be announced at MWC 2016
Samsung Pay is now available in both South Korea and the U.S. Samsung is now getting ready to bring its mobile payment platform to more countries later this year. It has already confirmed plans to deploy it to China in the near future. Business Korea today reports that the company will outline further global expansion plans at its next Samsung Unpacked event on February 21st. It […]
Samsung Pay for Gear S2 delayed until 2016
Samsung had hoped to roll out its new Samsung Pay service to its NFC-equipped Gear S2 smartwatch this year. The mobile payment service launched in the U.S. back in October with support from all major U.S. carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon) but only supports a handful of smartphones so far. The company had been aiming to add Samsung Pay for […]
Samsung Pay coming to future Samsung smartwatches
Samsung launched its own mobile payment platform in September. Samsung Pay is now available in both South Korea and the U.S. and it is already being used to make an average of about 100,000 payments every day in South Korea alone. Samsung is not only looking to expand the markets in which its payment service is available but also making it available […]
Samsung Pay coming to U.S. and South Korea later this year
Samsung unveiled its Samsung Pay mobile payment platform back at Mobile World Congress. Expected to compete against Apple Pay, it is already supported on both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge despite not having launched yet. That may change soon. On the conference call that followed its latest financial results, Samsung Electronics’ Managing Director Park Jin-young said that […]