Samsung Pay has surprisingly been enjoying a significant amount of popularity and support in the US, rivaling even Apple Pay. Part of its success can perhaps be attributed to its Magnetic Secure ...

There's a lot to talk about the Galaxy S21 series, mostly because of how much Samsung packed into the phones. That includes price tags that are almost too good to be true if you know Samsung. That ...

The just-launched Samsung Galaxy S21 series doesn’t support magnetic stripe technology (MST). Instead, Galaxy S21 owners will need to rely exclusively on NFC payments. There’s no clarity on the ...

One of the reasons Samsung’s Gear S3 was so compelling was the addition of Samsung Pay. Being able to pay from your wrist is very handy, and the Galaxy Watch can still do this. However, Samsung has ...

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Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A24 last month in Vietnam. Since then, the company has been releasing this budget smartphone in multiple markets. Today, the firm debuted this handset in its home country ...

Rumors suggest that LG Electronics has long been looking for a way to enter the mobile payments market and it now seems that the company has settled on a method that uses Magnetic Secure Transmission ...

Mobile payments may be the future. Indeed, researchers at eMarketer predict contactless payments, or transactions completed with “tap-to-pay” tech like Android Pay or Apple Pay, could grow 210 percent ...

Samsung Pay, Samsung’s eponymous mobile payments platform, has so far remained firmly within the company’s walled hardware garden — it’s only compatible with Samsung’s Galaxy line of Android ...

Mobile payments have become a really useful tool, but they’re still not accepted everywhere. Samsung broke that rule with its clever MST tech that could emulate a traditional card, but with the Galaxy ...

It seems as though everyone and their brother has some sort of mobile payments system to offer their customers these days. Apple and Samsung have their own payment methods, and of course Google has ...