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MWC 2013: Samsung announces Samsung Wallet, competes with Apple’s Passbook

Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Softonic-MobileWorld-Congress-2013Samsung announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is working on a brand new app, Samsung Wallet. The app will allow users to store useful information like tickets, boarding passes, rewards cards, and coupons.

From what we’ve seen, Samsung Wallet bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s Passbook. The interface is sorted by cards for different services. Tapping on a card will bring up information about that event, flight, or movie. Wallet will also offer location-based notifications like Google Now. This means the app can alert you to pull up your boarding pass once it detects you’re at the airport.

What’s missing from Samsung Wallet, as well as Apple’s Passbook, is the ability to use near field communications (NFC) to make payments with your phone. This is something that Google Wallet does. Samsung is currently working with credit card companies for a mobile payment service so it’s safe to assume that mobile payments will eventually make their way into Samsung Wallet.

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Wallet is currently only available as a preview for developers. There is an SDK and API for app developers to integrate their services into the app. This is important for Samsung Wallet’s success.

Samsung Wallet will probably be one of many new features that the company will highlight at it’s Galaxy S IV event that will take place on March 14th.

Source: The Verge

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