Samsung Pay

Samsung Pay on Gear S2 smartwatch now available in public beta

Samsung Gear S2 and S2 Classic

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 […]

MWC 2016: Samsung Pay coming to Canada in 2016

Samsung Pay global expansion

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

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 Gear S2 and S2 Classic

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 U.S. and South Korea later this year

Samsung Pay

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 […]