With the introduction of Samsung Wallet in India, many changes are also going to be made. The company will merge its 2 old apps into the new app. Know how this new Wallet app of Samsung will be now.
Samsung offers two services to users in India by the name of Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass. Recently, the company announced that it is also going to introduce another new service Samsung Wallet in India. Now the company is going to introduce Samsung Wallet in India on January 31, but with many changes.
It’s finally here and it’s better than ever before! Meet #SamsungWallet, a smarter way to pay securely and conveniently. Now simply Tap & Pay or UPI with Samsung Pay. Store your Digital IDs in one place and make your Wallet your password with Samsung Pass. T&C apply. pic.twitter.com/BO122QfujS — Samsung India (@SamsungIndia) January 30, 2023
What changes did Samsung make?
South Korean company Samsung is going to merge its 'Samsung Pay' and 'Samsung Pass' in India with the new 'Samsung Wallet' app. It should be noted here that Samsung Pay is a mobile payment service while Samsung Pass is a password management service.
Giving this information through its official Twitter account India, Samsung said that Samsung Wallet is here and it is better than ever. The company described it as a smart way to make secure and convenient payments. Describing its features, the company said that through Samsung Pay, now you just tap and pay or do UPI. Store your important digital IDs in one place in Wallet and create your password through Samsung Pass.
Samsung Wallet will start in these countries
Samsung is launching in India along with eight countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Significantly, Samsung started this service last year only in 6 countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US.
But later the company also introduced it in other countries like Bahrain, China, Denmark, Finland, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Vietnam, and UAE. After which Samsung is going to introduce this service in many other countries including India.
What is the Samsung Wallet service?
Users can keep their important documents securely organized and easily accessible through the Samsung Wallet service. In these documents, users can also store and upload their ID cards along with other necessary certificates like the digital key of their bank card, driving license, and student ID. In Samsung Wallet, users can access all these documents with just one swipe.
To make the Samsung Wallet service secure, the company has resorted to another service Samsung Knox. Talking about its security features, users get features like fingerprint and encryption in it, which keeps the important data of the users safe.
The company claims that Samsung Wallet stores users' sensitive data in a way that provides an additional layer of privacy to their data. This also gives users protection from hackers.
Users will get updates
Samsung will be rolling out an update to existing Samsung Pay users in India that will convert their app to the new Samsung Wallet. Apart from this, new users can download the app by visiting Google Play Store.
