In Korea, Samsung began unifying its Pay and Pass services to bring together credit cards, keys, tickets, loyalty cards and other vouchers in a single app.
The Samsung Pass service will soon merge with the Samsung Pay app. This is what we learned today from SamMobile, which tells us that this novelty is already relevant on Samsung lands. The merger between Samsung Pass and Samsung Pay will subsequently be rolled out in other markets, and presumably also in Europe, over the next few months, it reads.
By combining these two services, Samsung wants to bring together in one place all the cards, tickets and other coupons that can be used from its smartphones. The new version of Samsung Pay (deployed on all devices running Android 9, or more recent, already compatible with the service), will thus group together credit cards, debit cards, passwords, digital keys, tickets, coupons, membership or loyalty cards… and even some digital assets.
Samsung Pay on the way to becoming a “Swiss army knife” app
” With the update of Samsung Pay, we want to provide a more convenient experience not only for payment, but also for home, car, public transport and cultural life. We plan to expand the Samsung Pay ecosystem by working with developers “, thus indicated Jini Han, VP of the branchDigital Lifefrom Samsung.
As on other competing services, including Apple Pay, this new version of Samsung Pay will also allow the sharing of digital keys (for the car, a hotel room, a digital lock at home, etc.) with friends or family. family, for example. Remember that in the wake of Apple, Samsung has also beefed up its game in terms of digital key support. Samsung thus allows the unlocking of certain compatible cars (in particular at BMW, Kia and Genesis), but also their starting.
As mentioned above, some digital assets (including Bitcoins) will be available directly from Samsung Pay. Samsung will also support some bitcoin exchanges like Bithumb, Coinone and Korbit.
Finally, and in a more classic way, we can find on the application its Airport Boarding Pass (in this respect the Korean airlines are on the other hand the first eligible) or even its cinema tickets. It will finally be possible to monitor the level of security of its digital assets through the Samsung Knox.
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