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

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, loyalty cards, boarding passes,

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, and

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cards. It replaces the old Samsung Pay app on Android-powered Galaxy devices and is currently available in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Vietnam, UAE, the U.K. and the U.S. Samsung Wallet also supports a variety of transit cards, such as T-money and cashbee in South Korea, as well as

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in Hong Kong. However, due to the region-specific nature of Samsung Wallet, users from other regions are not able to utilize these transit cards from their own devices. Samsung has also announced that digital government ID cards will be coming later to the app.

Ecosystem

Samsung Wallet has a passes feature, which exists in a larger ecosystem. Passes are presented in the Menu tab of the app, or can be added to the Quick Access tab. Developers must first be granted access as a Samsung Wallet Partner to the Samsung Wallet Cards API before they can author such items. An interaction (or transaction) between a pass and a system is facilitated by a 1D or 2D code, although it requires the customer to initiate the activity. Passes can also contain nothing but plain text or an image. As of June 2022, Samsung Wallet supports memberships (loyalty cards), gift cards, health passes, and boarding passes. Memberships specifically also allow for users to create their own custom pass.

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