Samsung payment service to more countries

Tech January 6, 2016 14:28

- Samsung launches its mobile payment service in the short term in Australia, Brazil and Singapore. In addition, the service will soon be used via the gear S2 smart watch of the company.

         Samsung Pay made his debut last August in South Korea. In September, followed by the United States and also has plans to launch in China, Spain and Britain.
The payment service should help Samsung to protect its market share against rivals such as Apple and Huawei. Moreover, Samsung is hoping that users because of the convenience it offers the service, willing to pay a premium for the devices.
Last week, Samsung announced that the payment service is also available on cheaper devices. Today it added that also adds the gear S2 smart watches the company will support the service.
Samsung Pay has a successful start in his native South Korea and the United States. Samsung Pay is used as a significant advance on the payment of Apple and Android that technology is already used in many stores. In order to support Samsung Pay retailers do so to install new equipment, such as is the case for apple pay and Android Pay that work through NFC technology.