Samsung Pay is only available for its Android devices so far. ETNews reported that Samsung has plan to introduce its payment platform to more countries and regions by releasing Samsung Pay Mini service. Samsung Pay Mini is available on the third party Android smartphone, iOS devices and even PC.
It is reported that Samsung Pay Mini will be released next month. It aims to release Samsung Pay Mini service to stimulate more users to apply its payment platforms. Only a few users use Samsung Pay to pay online, the usage share is under 20%.
The complicated feature of Samsung Pay limits its further development. ETNews claimed that Samsung Pay screen won’t be prompted automatically all the time. Users have to recall which credit/debit card they set default with payment when they place orders.
In comparison, Samsung Pay Mini is easy to use. It is compatible with Marshmallow Androice devices and onwards, iPhone with iOS 8 and onwards, iPod touch and iPad.
Samsung will introduce this new service to more devices. It reported that Samsung is testing to apply this service to Windows and Mac pc, but the release date might be some day later this year.
However, Samsung Pay Mini is not compatible with MST. Theoretically, MST is compatible with most of POS products regardless of they are with NFC feature or not. Samsung Electronics implants the Samsung Pay Mini service into its high-end smartphones.
By this February, Samsung Pay obtained 5 million users, and the transaction revenue reached $500 million. Then Samsung introduced this service to China and United Kingdom. It claimed to introduce it to Australia, Brazil, Spain and Singapore later this year.
The steady business extension is a key to Samsung Pay. Apply Pay is its competitive rival. It obtained 12 million active users by March. While Android Pay announced to obtain several millions of users as well.