Samsung Wallet is a

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platform developed by

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. It is available for the

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Android operating system, and was announced on February 9, 2022, at the February 2022

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History

The "Samsung Wallet"

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was first used for the company's mobile wallet system of the same name, which was introduced in 2013 before being migrated into a new app called

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in 2015. Samsung Wallet now contains the Samsung Pay service for payment cards, alongside other features such as cryptocurrency assets and digital credentials. Although in South Korea both the service and the app are still known as Samsung Pay.

Features

Samsung Wallet allows users to store items such as

payment cards