{"id":36687,"date":"2013-02-27T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=36687"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:36:06","slug":"mwc-2013-samsung-announces-samsung-wallet-competes-with-apples-passbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mwc-2013-samsung-announces-samsung-wallet-competes-with-apples-passbook\/","title":{"rendered":"MWC 2013: Samsung announces Samsung Wallet, competes with Apple’s Passbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Softonic-MobileWorld-Congress-2013\"<\/a>Samsung announced today at Mobile World Congress<\/a> in Barcelona that it is working on a brand new app, Samsung Wallet<\/strong>. The app will allow users to store useful information like tickets, boarding passes, rewards cards, and coupons.<\/p>\n

From what we’ve seen, Samsung Wallet bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s Passbook<\/a>. The interface is sorted by cards for different services. Tapping on a card will bring up information about that event, flight, or movie. Wallet will also offer location-based notifications like Google Now. This means the app can alert you to pull up your boarding pass once it detects you’re at the airport.<\/p>\n

What’s missing from Samsung Wallet, as well as Apple’s Passbook, is the ability to use near field communications (NFC) to make payments with your phone. This is something that Google Wallet<\/a> does. Samsung is currently working with credit card companies for a mobile payment service so it’s safe to assume that mobile payments will eventually make their way into Samsung Wallet.<\/p>\n

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Wallet is currently only available as a preview for developers. There is an SDK and API for app developers to integrate their services into the app. This is important for Samsung Wallet’s success.<\/p>\n

Samsung Wallet will probably be one of many new features that the company will highlight at it’s Galaxy S IV event that will take place on March 14th.<\/p>\n

Source: The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is working on a brand new app, Samsung Wallet. The app will allow users to store useful information like tickets, boarding passes, rewards cards, and coupons. From what we’ve seen, Samsung Wallet bears a striking resemblance to Apple’s Passbook. The interface is sorted by … Continue reading “MWC 2013: Samsung announces Samsung Wallet, competes with Apple’s Passbook”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":36688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-36687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333315,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36687\/revisions\/333315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=36687"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=36687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}