In Catchup Mode, Samsung Announces Mobile Payment System, Smartphones
Samsung announced new models of its flagship Galaxy S series of smartphones and a mobile payment system designed to compete with the one that Apple debuted a few months ago.
The Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge will come with Samsung Pay, which the company said will debut in the second half of the year, protected in part by new security systems it calls Samsung KNOX. Samsung Pay is designed to be device-, merchant- and card-issuer agnostic, Samsung said. Apple Pay has been adopted by most major banks and at least 200,000 retailers so far, giving it a significant head start in creating a truly secure mobile wallet that is both more convenient and much safer than traditional credit cards.
The Edge is the first Galaxy smartphone to include an extra curved bezel along the length of the phone’s right edge that can either extend the main screen or display customized streams of additional information. The Edge design first debuted as a variant of last year’s “phablet” model from Samsung, the Note 4. Both new phone models will use version 4 of Corning Gorilla Glass, and come in multiple colors. Both models’ rear-facing camera will include a 16-megapixel sensor, a new quick-launch capability and a range of options to further hone photo quality.
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