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Samsung Wants to Store Your COVID-19 Vaccination Status in Samsung Pay

Tim August 18, 2021

Samsung announced this week that it wants to make the process of showing your vaccination status super easy, which is just in time as many places nationwide are opting to require folks be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend select in-person events....

Samsung Pay Purchases to No Longer Earn Rewards Points, Rewards Tier Program Ending

Tim December 21, 2020 39

Late last week, Samsung sent out emails to Samsung Pay users, detailing a big change that will take effect on December 31 at midnight. If you use Samsung's Rewards program, this news is important, so listen up. As of January 1, users will no longer earn...

Pocketable OV Valet Brings Samsung Pay Goodness to All for $69

Tim October 20, 2020 14

OV Valet, a new superkey/keychain device, is licensing and bringing Samsung Pay's touchless payments technology to the masses. And sure, while being available on Samsung Galaxy devices is already the definition of being available for the masses, with millions...

Samsung Money by SoFi is Now Live in the US

Tim July 23, 2020 12

Samsung Money is now live in the US for Samsung Pay users. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's probably because a lot has happened since it was first announced back in May. That's 2020 for ya, folks. To catch you up, Samsung Money is a digital-...

Samsung Money by SoFi Launches This Summer, Includes Cash Account and Debit Card

Tim May 27, 2020 19

Samsung detailed Samsung Money by SoFi this morning, a followup announcement to the company's Samsung Pay Getting Debit Cards news from earlier this year. We already knew these new cash accounts would be backed by SoFi, but now we're getting a few more details...

Samsung Pay’s Big News for 2020? Debit Cards…

Tim May 7, 2020

2020 will bring a new type of Samsung Pay experience, one that might feel a bit archaic compared to the current one -- physical plastic cards. That's right, Samsung this week announced a partnership with SoFi, soon to allow Samsung Pay users to get debit cards...

Samsung has a Free $5 in Rewards Points to Give You

Kellen March 19, 2020

Samsung knows you like free stuff, Samsung phone owner, so how does a free $5 to spend in rewards points sound? Cool, here's how to get just that. On your Samsung phone that has Samsung Pay (basically any modern Samsung phone dating back to 2015), open the...

Wednesday Poll: Do You Use Mobile Payments?

Tim February 5, 2020

It's 2020, and according to science fiction, by now we should all be flying around in hover cars and paying for things using a small implant that we have located in our wrists. Obviously we're not quite there yet, but our smartphones can act as digital wallets...