![]() Like other mobile payment technologies, it allows you to carry almost your whole wallet without looking like George Costanza. Samsung Pay is really, really convenient. I’ll explain why in a minute - but I’m going to split the reasons why I think Samsung Pay is awesome into two sections: convenience and benefits. In fact, I bought a second watch for my wife. I’ve been using Samsung pay for almost two years now and I’m thrilled with it. As long as you can load the Samsung Gear app from your app store, you should be able to use the Gear S3 Frontier and Samsung Pay. The watch simply connects to your phone via Bluetooth (they also make an LTE version with a SIM card that you could add to your cell phone plan, though I don’t see much benefit in that as I’d rarely be without my phone – and the S3 will allow you to pay a limited number of times even when not connected to your phone). This will work with Android phones running Anroid 4.4 or later. Apparently, Apple has blocked that portion of the app and thus you can not pay if you have your watch paired with an iPhone. Update: The Gear S3 is compatible with both Android and iPhone (using iOS 9.0 or later), but critically important is that Samsung Pay will not work with iPhones. Note that Amazon no longer sells the watch new themselves, but they offer a “renewed” model here (also our affiliate link). Since the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier (the model I’ve got, which you can check out here on Amazon – our affiliate link) works with any Android phone (running Android 4.4 or later), many readers can probably use the Gear S3 with Samsung Pay. I have a lot more experimentation to do, but so far it is. Of course, I knew that this represented both Greg’s generosity as a great boss and an assignment: get out there and use Samsung Pay to see if it’s all it is hyped up to be. Who says working for Frequent Miler doesn’t have its perks? Greg sent me the most awesome random gift in the mail…. Samsung has built this technology into its latest smartwatches, enabling you to pay from your watch at just about any terminal - if you have an Android phone (see update below). Literally, all you have to do is hold your device near the part of the terminal where you’d swipe a credit card and it works. This means that Samsung Pay should work almost anywhere, and indeed it has in my initial experiments. The key difference here is that Samsung Pay should work at nearly any credit card terminal equipped with the ability to swipe a credit card. In a nutshell, this technology kind of “fools” the credit card machine into thinking that a card has been swiped, It sends a signal through the magnetic card reader portion of the terminal that emulates a credit card being swiped. On the other hand, Samsung Pay uses a technology called MST (Magentic secure transmission). While newer terminals with this capability are being installed more widely all the time, the fact is that many places do not yet have the equipment to accept Apple Pay and Android Pay, and not everyone who has the equipment actually seems to have it enabled. I’m not a true techie, but my layman’s understanding is that this requires a credit card terminal equipped with this special NFC technology so you can tap your phone to it and pay. However, Samsung Pay is significantly different from its competitors in the way the technology works.Īpple Pay and Google Pay, which are designed for iPhones and Android phones, rely on a technology called NFC (Near-field communication). Like Apple Pay and Google Pay (formerly called Android Pay), Samsung Pay is a mobile payment technology that allows you to use a mobile device to pay for in-store purchases. After my initial experiences, it’ll be a game-changer in my household. Samsung Pay is awesome, and just about anyone with an Android or Apple smartphone (See update below Samsung Pay is blocked on iPhones) in the US can get it and use it. ![]() However, I’vehad the chance to use a mobile payment technology over the past couple of years that should be of interest to rewards enthusiasts & travelers: Samsung pay. Mobile payments are all the rage these days but with some forms working at one register and not another, it can be confusing.
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