Samsung Pay without Samsung Phone?

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Surprisingly, after 7 years of being on Android, I've switched over to an iPhone 7 Plus after the Note 7 was discontinued (coming from a Note 3...yes, long time since I've had a new phone).

I'll always be a fan of Samsung products and really had my eye on a Gear S3. For the Frontier, seeing how it is basically a "stand alone" unit, do you think you will need a Samsung phone in order to use the Samsung Pay on it or you can just load your information on the Samsung Pay on the phone and use it as a standalone.

Really hope this is the case, because I'd use Samsung Pay over Apple Pay all the time.
 

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From s3 page:
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So to answer your question, no you still need a Samsung Galaxy phone to use Samsung pay with the s3. You can however use it up to 5 times away from your phone before needing to "pair" back up to it.
 

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WRONG. I wanted to know this as well and I just had a chat with samsung support and they said the Gear S3 or Gear s2 can use samsung pay without owning a samsung phone. Because the watch is still connected via the samsung gear app. Therefore all you need is the watch.
 

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WRONG. I wanted to know this as well and I just had a chat with samsung support and they said the Gear S3 or Gear s2 can use samsung pay without owning a samsung phone. Because the watch is still connected via the samsung gear app. Therefore all you need is the watch.
Someone needs to tell Samsung then. Or whoever you talked too doesn't understand the system. Straight from their Samsung pay on the gear s2 page. ALL SAMSUNG PHONES!
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Someone needs to tell Samsung then. Or whoever you talked too doesn't understand the system. Straight from their Samsung pay on the gear s2 page. ALL SAMSUNG PHONES!
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Could you provide the link of the Samsung site in your screenshot where it says "Supported Gear 2 Watches"? Want to see what the page reads.

Too bad it can't act independently. You'd think it'd be able to
 

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Just to be clear, Gear S2 & 3 - you can use Samsung Pay ONLY on NFC enabled terminals. So if the credit card reader only have the traditional magnetic/swipe thing or they disabled NFC, then you can't use it at all. With a majority of the market refusing to install NFC, your choices are limited.

The regular Samsung Pay on newer phones from Note 5 and up is not just a software but also the MST hardware embedded on those phones which Samsung bought the rights to from another company. The MST hardware uses magnetic signal to use your phone as a giant credit card on non-NFC terminals.
 

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Just to be clear, Gear S2 & 3 - you can use Samsung Pay ONLY on NFC enabled terminals. So if the credit card reader only have the traditional magnetic/swipe thing or they disabled NFC, then you can't use it at all. With a majority of the market refusing to install NFC, your choices are limited.

The regular Samsung Pay on newer phones from Note 5 and up is not just a software but also the MST hardware embedded on those phones which Samsung bought the rights to from another company. The MST hardware uses magnetic signal to use your phone as a giant credit card on non-NFC terminals.
Gear s3 will have mst on board. But you are correct about the s2 being only nfc. So the s3 will work on most credit card machines.
 

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Thanks for this. When I read this, it sounds as though it'd be standalone.

We are on a support page for Samsung Pay on Gear S2 Beta

Under the description, it says "Only compatible with selected cards and Samsung devices"

Scroll down to Devices under compatibility and it lists phones and watches. No where do we see the language we see on the S3 (need to re-sync with a Samsung phone after 5 standalone payments).

What doesn't make sense is the fact that the S2 can use Samsung Pay as a standalone but then have the S3 have the 5 purchase limit.
 

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Thanks for this. When I read this, it sounds as though it'd be standalone.

We are on a support page for Samsung Pay on Gear S2 Beta

Under the description, it says "Only compatible with selected cards and Samsung devices"

Scroll down to Devices under compatibility and it lists phones and watches. No where do we see the language we see on the S3 (need to re-sync with a Samsung phone after 5 standalone payments).

What doesn't make sense is the fact that the S2 can use Samsung Pay as a standalone but then have the S3 have the 5 purchase limit.
I haven't used my s2 enough to see, but I am thinking the s2 also has a limit before needing to be resynced. I'm not sure though. Maybe someone that has used theirs more can chime in and offer some advice.
 

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Thanks for this. When I read this, it sounds as though it'd be standalone.

We are on a support page for Samsung Pay on Gear S2 Beta

Under the description, it says "Only compatible with selected cards and Samsung devices"

Scroll down to Devices under compatibility and it lists phones and watches. No where do we see the language we see on the S3 (need to re-sync with a Samsung phone after 5 standalone payments).

What doesn't make sense is the fact that the S2 can use Samsung Pay as a standalone but then have the S3 have the 5 purchase limit.
I just used my s2 Samsung pay to send 8 $1.00 transactions through my square nfc reader. Went through no problem all were approved without being synced to my note 5. So who knows.
 

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I just used my s2 Samsung pay to send 8 $1.00 transactions through my square nfc reader. Went through no problem all were approved without being synced to my note 5. So who knows.

That's awesome and sort of what I expected based upon the way it reads for the S2.

For the S3, not so much since it doesn't say the S3 is a "support device" itself. I guess we will need to wait, but you'd think if they are doing the S2 as a standalone, they'd make the S3 a standalone.
 

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Someone needs to tell Samsung then. Or whoever you talked too doesn't understand the system. Straight from their Samsung pay on the gear s2 page. ALL SAMSUNG PHONES!
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Ok, so I found this in the Gear S3 Manual

Register frequently used cards to Samsung Pay, a mobile payment service, to make payments quickly and securely. Samsung Pay is accepted almost anywhere you can swipe or tap your credit card. You can view more information, such as cards that support this feature at Samsung Pay. Note: You must first register cards to Samsung Pay on your connected smartphone. For more information, refer to the mobile device’s user manual.

So how do you use Samsung pay on a non Samsung phone when you must register the cards on your phone first?
 

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Lol. Yes, Samsung is not going to allow an IPHONE user to enjoy samsung pay so they can sell a $300 watch. That's why Apple makes their own - probably best to buy one of those to pair with the Apple phone.
 

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Taken from the same page at Samsung. I'm so confused. Will it work won't it. I'm just going to wait and see. The first one says no phone nessesary. The next says fully compatible with other Android phones and the last one says you can use it at least 5 times and it needs to be synced to a galaxy phone. Here's the link I got this from https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...lore%2Fgear-s3%2F%3Fcid%3Dppc-&token=CFbl0zPp
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