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Samsung Pay is going to be adapted much faster than Apple Pay because. Samsung Pay offers NFC payments just like Apple Pay, its real differentiating feature is its ability to mimic traditional magnetic card swipes, technology which came over with Samsung's acquisition of LoopPay earlier this year. That means it should be compatible with the vast majority of stores with standard credit card readers -- no need to hunt down NFC-equipped registers.
 
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The Koreans have done it again. Bravo. These phones are just luscious as they are powerful. 4 GB RAM? 16 megapixel camera. Samsung Pay. Gosh. The kind of innovation coming out of this company astounding. Samsung is completely dominating the technology field. I look at my iPhone and sigh with embarrassment. I mean, fine, Apple did create the modern smartphone but Samsung is showing how it's properly done, just like Apple showed Xerox how to really make use of GUI and mice.

Haha that's an awesome imitation of someone mocking Samsung!
 
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I have a Note 4 and love it but Samsung screwed the pooch with the Note 5. I really don't think the sealed battery is that big of a deal but taking away the micro SD card slot and 64GB being the largest capacity available is stupid not to mention taking away the IR blaster. I'm hoping no one buys the damn thing so that the Note 6 brings back the micro sd slot. The main advantages of the Samsung devices were swapping the battery and sd card slot... why they chose to eliminate those is beyond me.
 
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Samsung Pay is going to be adapted much faster than Apple Pay because. Samsung Pay offers NFC payments just like Apple Pay, its real differentiating feature is its ability to mimic traditional magnetic card swipes, technology which came over with Samsung's acquisition of LoopPay earlier this year. That means it should be compatible with the vast majority of stores with standard credit card readers -- no need to hunt down NFC-equipped registers.
Samsung haven't got the balls to push this. They have just shown this with their shoddy note 5/edge plus release. I don't have confidence that this would ever come to the UK. As the days go by a loose more confidence in Samsung. It started with them closing down their stores, including their flagship in the UK. Then they stop selling computers in Europe. Regardless of whether they continue to make a product I want I don't have any confidence in them. I think at this stage I've more confidence in the nexus devices. At least Google have the might to push android pay and I would feel that at this point the after sales support and service would actually be better than samsung's who seem to be shutting up shop in the UK.
 
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galaxy s plus came out for years now.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9001_galaxy_s_plus-3908.php

also, "force touch" is just a fancy name of pressure sensitivity capacitive touchscreen which is in their note phones years ago.
Yes force touch is nothing new. It's been on Samsung phones for years. This taptic feedback on the watch, whilst I like its implementation has also been on Samsung devices for years although it has a different implementation.
 
galaxy s plus came out for years now.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9001_galaxy_s_plus-3908.php

also, "force touch" is just a fancy name of pressure sensitivity capacitive touchscreen which is in their note phones years ago.

You forgot the part about the vibration feedback that accompanies it, (present on both the Macbooks and Apple Watches) something that the Note phones do not yet have. Samsung will likely announce such a feature on their next gen phones, dubbing them "S-Touch."
 
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