Samsung Galaxy owners will soon have a new app that combines two of the One UI services: mobile payments and password management. In this way, the two platforms are combined into one, Samsung Wallet, an application with which you can pay in a store or unlock your car. It’s available from today, June 16, on Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets.
Having a Samsung Galaxy opens the door to the brand’s software, that One UI layer which has a notable number of improvements; with the disadvantage that recharge devices often
Samsung merges Pay and Pass to create Samsung Wallet
The mobiles of the South Korean firm integrate a duplicity of services vis-à-vis the majority of Android devices certified by Google: Samsung Pay is a payment platform that directly competes with Google Pay and Samsung Pass is a password and pass manager that “fights” with “Autofill with Google”. These two Samsung services are now combined in a single application, called Samsung Wallet.
With unification, Samsung Wallet is the only app on the Samsung Galaxy that will store cards, passes and passwords. Whether credit cards, boarding passes or loyalty cards: from Samsung Wallet they can be added to the company account so that they are always in sync. It will even allow you to open the door of compatible cars, Wallet will store digital keys from brands such as BMW, Hyundai or Kia. Or manage wallet cryptocurrencies.
Besides cards and keys, Samsung Wallet inherits all password management from Samsung Pass, also the autocomplete service (which will continue to fight with Google). This way, all security and identification records are under the same service; which facilitates simplicity for the user and also transparency.
Samsung Wallet is now available in Europe and in five other countries: the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. All users who are going to use both Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass will be forced to update these apps to the latest Samsung Wallet. It is now available in the Galaxy Store.
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