(AFP ) – The South Korean electronics group Samsung announced Thursday the launch of a smartphone payment service on its domestic market and the United States, which will compete with those already offered by Apple or Google.
Samsung Pay will start on August 20 in Korea and 28 September in the United States. The group also said they intended to deploy it in China and Europe, where it cites the United Kingdom and Spain, but he gives no date for the three countries.
The payment service will be pre-installed on new Galaxy smartphones and Galaxy S6 + edge note5, Samsung presented Thursday at a parallel event organized in New York. And it will be available as a free update on Galaxy models S6 and S6 edge that the group had put on the market earlier this year.
Samsung explained that to make a payment, user will just slide his finger up on the smartphone screen and a fingerprint scanner.
The system is compatible with the payments using the technology of NFC terminals like apple pay, but also with a magnetic transmission technology (MST) that allow it to function “with most existing terminals “among traders, said Samsung in a statement.
” This means that it is the only mobile payments service that works virtually anywhere you can drag the map “in a player, will add -it.
The great rival Samsung, the US Apple had launched its own payment service smartphone in October in the United States, and has recently expanded to the United Kingdom.
The Google Internet giant, who for his part for many years an electronic wallet that had never really took off, unveiled in late May its own called Android Pay system and compatible with all devices using its mobile operating system Android. Used by many brands, including Samsung, it operates approximately 85% of smartphones sold worldwide
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