Samsung Pay not arriving on Gear S2 until 2016
If you’re a Samsung fan who shelled out for the Gear S2 earlier this fall with the understanding that the ability to pay from your smartwatch via Samsung Pay would be just around the corner, we’ve got some bad news for you. It might not be a very big delay, seeing as it’s almost 2016 as it is, but Samsung has announced that they would be pushing back the Gear S2’s Pay capability to next year.
Samsung Pay was originally promised to arrive on the Gear S2 by November at the latest, but Thanksgiving came and went with no word from Samsung, and no sign of Pay for Gear S2 users to speak of. In a customer service tweet, Samsung revealed that we should push back our expectations to beyond New Year’s, but the company offered no further information.
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For those not in the know, Samsung Pay is a mobile payment service that’s currently available on all major US carriers. It was initially released in October of this year after a brief beta run, and the app can be found in the Google Play Store. It’s effectively Samsung’s response to Apple Pay, and it requires a compatible smartphone like the Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, and is unfortunately not available for older devices.
Do you have any experience with Samsung Pay? How has it been working for you? Are you eager to see it arrive on the Gear S2? Let us know in the comments!
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