Samsung Pay just killed its best feature on the S21
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Samsung has removed MST, or magnetic secure transmission, from the US editions of the Galaxy S21 phone and all future Galaxy phones sold in the US. This feature let you pay at almost any terminal, even ones that don't support NFC or mobile payments.
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This feature was really useful, more than a 100x zoom for sure
Agreed
Agree
Agreed 100% samsung Said it is not needed i live in Dallas, I so have places that I go to that do not Accept nfc. This is a big fail. Samsung also stopped giving points for purchases there is no reason to stay so I will just be moving to gpay
@@hugopaz5220 i realized that too on my s20 ultra that why I'm not getting rewards. I thought there might be something problem with app and I forced stopped app and cleared cache. Then I saw this video and ur comment😢😢😢
@@prashantanawkar666 yup, I used it a lot and everywhere, now it is worthless might as well just use gpay. You get money back on purchases and give you address where you can save money
Samung is trying so hard to be like apple. Removing everything.
They need to do something to lower the cost, cuz Samsung has caught on to fact of majority of customers purposely wait for like 2-3 months after launch for prices in stores to go down like $200-$300 so they are needing to remove stuff to maintain more profits from vast discounts taking away so much money so quickly
Is Samsung could trust their launch prices would stay all year long like iPhones do, they wouldn’t need to remove stuff to cheapen the phones
I honestly think it's stupid how Samsung removed some of its features 😐😒
@@sherrimoquin5553 they needed to lower the cost somehow
@@bryanmiller476 I guess
I can’t tell you how many people were like “we don’t have that here” and I’m like “yes you do”. Had a full on argument with a Burger King drive thru. She angrily took my phone, put it near the card swipe and the receipt popped out. She was dumbfounded. Handed my phone back and slammed the window in my face.
I bet they spit on your burger
Lol 😂 it's a cool feature
😂😂 the feeling of defeat
Hahaha I love it. The look on their face is priceless.
we don't live the world of iphones
Bruh The tellers would be like we dont accept that here Im like bruuuuuuh just bring the thing closer so I can make you a believer and the 6 ppl behind me waiting impatiently🤣🤣🤣
Exactly. The only reason I kept getting Samsung. This feature is awesome. Especially in the south where we don't have a lot of wireless pay.
It was a magic trick using Samsung Pay and to hear Sir we don't take apple pay and hit with the let me just try and plus it isn't Apple pay and you hear "oh I didn't know we took that"
Lg V40 and on have MST. Lg pay is fairly new, but this feature is so good that changing to an Lg phone just for this is worth it.
Facts
Unless you shop at Walmart or homodepot
This sucks. I have so much fun showing stores that Samsung pay could do what Apple and Google pay couldn't.
The U.S was literally the only country to still accept card swipes instead of NFC or EMV chip. The rest of the world has been accepting NFC for years. It was redundant to keep the MST to feature. More merchants need to accept NFC payments.
FACTS been doing it for years. I literally found out the day I was going to buy the 20, I couldn't pay with my phone, which I use 98% of the time, so declined buying it. Boy I need a new one, but that is my # 1 feature, next to the Great Pics. 😉
@@adamtajyar If I do ever travel to the US, then I need to remember that I can't just tap and go willy like I do here. Hopefully by then NFC will be more ubiquitous.
@@adamtajyar we need to still swipe our card for a reason. Credit cards matter too, I just got Mines a few days ago.
@@adamtajyar yeah it pretty cheap to buy a card reader that supports contactless NFC payments but Samsung should still support the MST payment feature
Everybody talking about this after its removed, but no tech channel mention this in any review/comparisons before when it was there. Great!
MKBHD did mention it in his review
So true. Initial reviews are always rainbows and unicorns so the phones sell, then they slow roll the bad news.
They talked about it back when Samsung pay first came it I guess you could mention it each year
@@socomon69 I blame the embargo
Mrmobile did
I really enjoyed surprising shop owners with the MST payments, when they claimed their machine would need a physical card only. But in Jan 2020, the govt. made EMV chip cards mandatory. So new cards themselves would not have data on the magnetic stripe. Instead they had a chip and NFC too. So the POS machines are also upgraded at a lot of retailers to accept chip cards only and the swipe function was disabled on the POS machine itself. So MST would be useless as the machines would have that function disabled or newer POS machines do not have a swipe feature at all.
Home Depot updated their facilities with new payment systems, a few months back. And they still don't work with NFC. Luckily my note 20 Ultra still works with MST in that situation.
Cards with smart chips almost always still have the magnetic strip on the back because the smart chip can easily be corrupted if it is pulled out while it is actively being read. (just like a memory card can be corrupted if you yank it out while it is active and not ejected properly) If the chip gives an error code 3 times it will then prompt you to swipe the card instead. Even the Apple Credit card has a magnetic strip on the back.
But the thing with Samsung Pay was that it was smart enough to switch between MST and NFC at a moment's notice. I don't even think it would be possible to find a POS terminal with magnetic swipe turned off as well as NFC
FUQ those Piece Of Sh** machines.
I'm Canadian, and we have been using chip and pin for our cards for a long time. When I went to San Jose five years ago, I was surprised that I still had to swipe my card and sign for a credit card purchase when I didn't need to back home. 😊
By the way, I just got a Samsung phone, yet I can't use Samsung/Android Pay since my bank doesn't support it. 😒
Took away battery replacement, removed physical buttons, removed headphone jack, raises prices at Apple levels, remove power brick, removes the magnetic pay. Dear Samsung if your going to try and be like Apple, than I am going to just buy an iPhone going forward. Goodbye Samsung.
Might as well just get the real thing. iOS also has better App quality than Android.
* raises prices past Apple levels
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun I 100% agree with you.
@@jevonsims900 not true truecaller works better in android
Exactly I'm like should i just get an iPhone now? All the features Samsung had that i used iPhone now has. (To me iPhone just caught up) so I'm trying to find reasons to stay with Samsung that iPhone doesn't do still.
I hate to see this go! I have schooled so many people who said "we don't accept apple pay".. beeep. I use Samsung pay.
Ditto. They looked at me like I was some kind of wizard from the future.
@@socomon69 exactly
Exactly,I would casually say you can't do that on I phone's and would walk away like James Bond
Best feeling in the world lmao
😭😭 Same!
This was a big feature for me. I was upset when they took it away from the Galaxy Watch but said, hey at least they will keep it on their phones. Samsung keeps going backwards now.
No they don't, it was a primitive method which the whole world stopped using and became NFC compatible. Samsung is doing what apple did with the headphone jack
Yes, this was a really helpful and cool feature, it saved me so many times when I forgot to carry my cards with me.
Same. I set it up when I got my phone, then forgot about it until I was almost stranded one day running out of gas with no wallet in the middle of nowhere. The fact that samsung pay worked on the reader at the shoddy little country store nearby really saved my butt. From then on I was a hardcore samsung pay and MST advocate.
Samsung is getting to close to the Apple ideology, so I'm sticking with my S20 Ultra and not upgrading any more
Yeah some reason I, sticking with my note 9. Samsung : our new phone is worst than last year’s and cost more so buy it.
@@jcgw2 sheesh talk about overreacting. I know the feature was cool, but it is not that serious.
@@TonyJenn why are they downgrading the phone and asking more money for it. Samsung is removing features every year. Removing heaphone jack, removing IR, removing SD card.
@@jcgw2 the sd part annoys me cause what am i gonna do with my current sd. I liked that we could expand the memory of the phone with the sd card. Smh. IPhone was what you get no option to expand unless you paid for storage
I absolutely agree with you, sister! 99% of my purchases have been made with Samsung Pay over the past 5 years, because the region of the US that I live in has very slow to adopt NFC technology. MST was super convenient. 😕
As much as you never hear about it, I will actually miss the MST feature. Living in a small town in Texas, that's basically the only reason I could pay with my phone because there's still a lot of stores out here that still don't have tap-to-pay set up.
Exactly, the biggest grocery retailer in Texas, HEB doesn't even support contact less payments, nor does Walmart, there's a lot of big retailers that for their own personal agenda don't adopt nfc payments, samsung should've kept mst, they wouldn't have lost or gained anything by just keeping it there.
I thought I was so cool with my s7 edge.. I remember that Hannibal commercial lol
Bruh The tellers would be like we dont accept that here Im like bruuuuuuh just bring the thing closer so I can make you a believer and the 6 ppl behind me waiting impatiently🤣🤣🤣
I literally have NO REASON to be a loyal Samsung customer. I've bought the best version of EVERY Galaxy phone since the Galxy S3 and I fell in love with Samsung Pay with the S6 Edge. If they're just going to have the same features as every other phone, there's absolutely NO REASON to spend upwards of $1100 each year for the newest model. A LOT of places I go to still don't have NFC payments and the MST was all I needed. This is an absolute dealbreaker for me, unless it will be featured in newer phones & I'll be sticking with my Note 20 Ultra until it falls apart.
Really no need to upgrade newer phones. The s21 is about 10% better than a oneplus6. Cameras and wireless ch.
Galaxy Note10 is equipped with Samsung Pay and SecurebyKnox. No biggie
There's absolutely no need to be upgrading to a new phone model every year either. You gave them so much $$ they wouldn't care about losing u as a customer 😏
@@zerocal76 I upgrade each year bc I like having the latest and greatest and Samsung usually makes the most desirable products. The only reason I was buying Samsung phones is bc of the Samsung Pay feature that made it work everywhere. So losing that feature is the only thing that bothers me. Trust, I know that NO company has loyalty to its customers, only loyalty to turning a profit.
Not to mention most of the time I tried to pay with NFC on Google pay it wouldn't work because the NFC on the stupid machine was broken somehow, Samsung MST worked everytime.
Never heard about MST here in Europe, everything is nfc only. US should upgrade their stuff.
Dude we don't have universal healthcare.
Upgrade? Im not in the Us but NFC is not a mandatory feature for any device as it restricts the components used for the chassis and panels.
It does not matter, once NFC becomes more of a standard in the US (if not before), phone manufacturers will find an excuse to remove it. I mean, what is more standard than a headphone jack? And that's gone, so...
@@hectorg.7282 its not that more people use it. Its the fact, that stores are turning that feature off on their terminals. I would Samsung pay or Google pay at almost every terminal.
@@2078smith you misunderstood my comment, I know it is the stores that have turned it off (like walmart) or that they just do not have it.
NFC had been on premium phones for many years now, but most people in the US did not even use it.
S21 ultra - so many downgrades from my Note 9. No iris scanner, no heart rate sensor, no MST.
And no SD card, no 3.5 jack. Still keeping my Note 9 too. Still a great phone.
@@SilvioBritto note 9 was a serious beast. Easily could have stayed relevant if they had maintained support for it
I am so glad that I purchased a Note 9 as a backup device. Just incase my Note 8 dies
Same with my galaxy Note 8 .
Yep! I’m very happy to keep my s10 plus 1tb. I’m so extremely disappointed in Samsung
I'm with you. 😔 After MST is removed I'm going back to Google pay
The rewards program for Samsung is kinda trash. It was really good in the beginning but i feel like after a while it just became worse?
I use samsung pay for pretty much anything. It's getting worse and worse, they love to pester you with adverts right as you are trying to pay also
They are changing so many things even the reward system isn't going to give you points anymore. The only reason to keep using it would be the safety side of things.
@@mikehunt545 Yes, this has happened to me a few times, and it's confused me so much at the moment that I end up using my physical card or cash, as I thought my transaction wasn't going through for some reason.
they are removing the rewards program
MST was the only thing that kept me with Samsung, so after being exclusive to them for years, they may have just lost me.
Same here .
Yes, kinda the same thing here. I'm still rockin' my S9 Plus, but after this, there's no real reason for me to stick with Samsung. I guess I could go to a OnePlus after this.
I've done the same .. but I do hold on to my S3 frontier which is the last watch to have mst so I can continue using mst ... Yayyy
@@_Ace._ the allure is needing only 1 device and no wallet of cards .. some ppl care about that .. u probably won't get it
I understand the frustration since I am going to miss this feature. However, I have to admit that the removal of MST is for the better because a lot of stores are starting to disable MST transactions.
The dumbest mistake samsung to this date, why would I want to buy another samsung device.
Being I'm a truck driver there are places that still don't have nfc equipment ready terminals, hence why I still use my galaxy gear s3 classic
I've had this conversation so many times, LOL!
Cashier: 🙅♀️ No our machines don't do that!
Me: 🤳🏾 It just did.
Cashier: 🤯
its all fun and games until the machines is out of your reach and the cashier refuses to try
They always kill something... lowkey kinda makes me sad.
I always use MST on my S10+, i am going to really miss it when my s21 arrives. 🥺
I'm not upgrading my phone as I use MST almost everyday.
Same here. I'm going to on the lookout for a Note 20 Ultra. I have a Note 10+. Won't be getting a Note 21 when they release it for this exact reason!
@@Tampabruh it was a very stupid decision, I had the note 10+ and now on the fold 2, My wife has the 20 ultra.. Both of us use MST. We will keep our phone longer now and won't update for either the new note or the new fold and when we eventually upgrade I'll switch to Google Pay, no reason to use Samsung. Actually, I may look for other manufacturers. MST is one of the major reasons for getting Samsung in the first place.
@@AmrMetawie Same here!
Eventually you will. Maybe not this year or next but eventually you will.
@@animated000 Or buy a different brand of phone all together! Samsung is removing features that just barely kept them ahead of rest of the bunch and the price point DOESN'T JUSTIFY WHAT THEY ARE OFFERING!
This is why I'm not buying a Samsung phone, there's no reason anymore. It's so disappointing they removed a very useful feature.
No just get the note 20 ultra...Cuz it's got the last of EVERYTHING, LMFAO!!!
I reallly feel like this feature was not well enough advertised...I didn't know about it till it was removed! Would love to see the feature come back and have multiple options for payment. I would love to leave my wallet at home and just my phone for everything.
It was never mentioned when apple pay took over. All people talked about was apple pay this or that, but samsung pay never mentioned it.. they should've sold more phones if this was mentioned
I agree with you. In my country the rollout of payment terminals that support NFC is quite slow, so MST was the real option.
They removed heart rate sensor, they removed tof sensor camera, they removed micro sd card slot but the micro sd doesnt bother me
Trying to lower the price point.
Living in Australia MST would have been helpful back in 2015/16 but.... Literally all POS EFT machines are now equipped with NFC. Including mum and dad businesses. Pretty sure the banks incentivised the upgrade here.
Came here to say this. Literally do not miss that it’s gone bc unlike the US we have modernised out infrastructure quickly. I never understood the obsession that CNET, and Lexy as a presenter had with MST over the years.
Same in Malaysia. Magnetic strip banned since 2014. Either chips or wave.
Samsung is going in the WRONG direction! I've switched to Google Pay. MST, removeable batteries, headphone jacks and micro SD card storage are all gone now. So sad! Everything that made Samsung great is been taken away!
uP
The Note 20 still has MST and still has removable microSD card slot. The last of its breed.
If battery is removable
The phone will not be high quality and fancy
Looks like I won’t get another Samsung. That was my only reason for having a Samsung phone.
Same here .
Wow I thought MST is a heart of Samsung Pay. That's sad to hear.
MST was one of the features that had me locked into Samsung. It saved me on an incredibly important weekend when my card got disabled due to an automated 'potential fraud' flag on a Friday, just late enough to not be able to get to the bank. I wish Samsung would keep these special features that makes them stand out.. MST, IR Blaster, Aux port, Removable Battery, SD Card.. these were all big features for me.
And the headphone jack!
It's probably weird... But I legitimately miss the IR Blaster in my everyday life...
More than I even cared for the death of the removable batteries, chargers in box, headphone jack, micro sd cards or MST...
But seriously... *The killing off of these little things that actually contributes to the ease of life, has to STOP!* 😤
i bought a used phone with IR Blaster, i carry it around it when i go traveling. i used to switch hotel TV input so i can stream my not kid video on the hotel tv. haha
@@vgm006 seriously, that thing is so functional AF, it really applies to our everyday life... It's practically beyond spec sheets.
I used it for both fun and function... I messed with public TVs and ACs at bars & restaurants... But also, I very much used it as remote control for my TV set, cable tv and dvd console.
Too bad I'm just too careless to log around a secondary device like you do, else, I'd had totally gotten one with an IR Blaster (a headphone jack and an sd card slot). I guess Xiaomi is the only major brand that still offers infrared blasters on their new phones... What a shame.
Totally agree. I loved messing with people who were watching TV.
Since the S9, I've paid for almost everything using Samsung Pay's MST and NFC. A very useful and safe resource.
exactly! loved being able to say, "yes, it will take" and the clerk is like, "whoa" "I've never seen that before!"
im still rollin my S5+...
S7 edge baby
That's why I haven't upraded my watch or phone no mst no upgrade
MST has been probably the main reason I think twice about leaving Samsung. Now that's one less reason to stay. For the time being, it looks like I probably won't upgrade from my Note 10+ for a while. I also still have an S9+ that I use as my media and backup phone, since it has the headphone jack and SD card slot.
Couldn't agree more
RIP MST aka Loop mobile as a Kickstarter before Samsung purchase the company.
only thing was MST still didn't work at gas stations because you need a physical card to press the lever inside the card reader to activate it.
Let’s ended this contactless payment option in the middle of a pandemic. Whoa.
I am glad to see that you use the technology and I am not the only one challenging employees that tell me they do not accept "Apple Pay" in their machines and then they see that the "Apple Pay" worked to pay for anything. I love bragging that my phone or watch can pay for anything (except gas stations) anywhere.
I think this feature is one of the coolest features of all Samsung phones that had it and I made payments using this all the time at stores that didn't take phone payments. The cashier would tell me that's not gonna work in bam it did. I hope they bring this back with the next iteration.
I remember using this at subway with note 7 and I locked up all the terminals. Most retailers require a chip now. So it’s okay for mst to go away.
This 👆🏼
This happend to me at sams
Totally agreed, I still don't understand why Samsung take out this amazing key feature from their devices. Speechless
Because nobody talked about it as their key features. No reviewers mention it nowadays as an advantage. It's like the battery swap feature. No one said it was important. So they removed the wonderful feature. They won't put any money into something people aren't thrilled and praising about. It's the same for everyone. If you take their work for granted and always ask for more. They will abandon their original work and try do something new and cool.
Honestly weirded out that a country like USA hasn't adopted Contactless payments as fast as here in the UK
I'm amazed to, in Russia almost everywhere you have the NFC.
Well we are of the mindset of why fix something that isn't broken? unnecessary spending, atleast at the civilian level is generally frowned apon.
I used MST a lot because the main grocery store chain here doesn't accept NFC payments. Now I got an S2 Ultra and had to go back to pulling out my card.
Most retailers and businesses DON'T ACCEPT NFC especially when it's on Android and often if it does it doesn't work properly for some reason!
Samsung instead of putting 10 useless cameras don’t remove features like this ir blaster abs headphone jack
TOTALLY agree! MST is the MAIN reason my wife and I use Samsung Pay, and a BIG reason we've been faithful to Samsung phones. Some retailers (e.g., Walmart, I think in order to push their proprietary Walmart Pay system) have switched to systems that made Samsung Pay no longer work, or at least not consistently, but in the rural south there are still a LOT of places (like the article said, mainly mom and pop stores) that don't offer contactless payment, so MST is still often the only way to pay with phones. I'll keep my Note 10+ until it dies, (and my wife her S9+), I guess, but now there's definitely one less BIG reason to buy Samsung. So sad! 😢
Samsung Pay and texting on your Windows 10 device are the only thing keeping me from going to iPhone. They just killed one of the two reasons. It may be time to switch.
As she said, no reason to have Samsung pay anymore. Also, no need to pay more for a Samsung phone when you can get so much more with the competition for less.
As I understand Lg has MST on the V series starting with the V40, time to give Lg pay a shot.
You give LG a shot and you will get shot in the face! I had two LG phones and both of them burned me. Their software sucks
@@onpointsg35 I never read about your story, a phone hurting someone would surely make a big stir and get widely publicized. Especially if it happened twice.
However, Lg's software is lacking but to have MST, I can find alternatives to the software.
Welcome to 2021, USA! No one uses magnetic stripe in Europe. No one.
do not speak for all of Europe.
@@michiosd I’m speaking from the most forgotten, obscure and poor country in EU - Bulgaria. If I go to a forgotten village in mountains with population of 50 people and they have a store with POS terminal - I’ll be able to pay with Apple Pay no problem.
They've actually removed the MST feature from Indian market as well. Here in India, PayTM and Google Pay dominates the market with Wallet, NFC, QR Code and UPI (Indian Payment System) and Samsung Pay really had MST + NFC as main selling point. Now, I am not too sure why they expect someone to use Samsung Pay over PayTM and Google Pay?
Moreover, its relying annoying to see these tech giants regularly removing features from their flagship phones, Audio jack gone, Charger gone, now MST gone, what's next touchscreen!?
There are still a ton of stores even large retail stores in Connecticut that don't have NFC activated on their terminals. 😠 Soooo...there is still need for MST I'd say.
MST is what prevents me from upgrading my Gear S3.
I've even gotten MST to work in little shops and grocery stores in small towns in France and Italy because they didn't have NFC.
I'm glad you made this video. The original CNET video actually brought my attention to MST on Samsung pay and I've been using nothing else ever since. It made me feel very secure knowing it was a virtual card and not actually my credit card so I had no worries of it being compromised and the fact that it was literally available everywhere even when retailers tell me no it wont work and I insist then the look on their face, to this day is still the best part about using it and for that reason I'll be holding onto the N20U for a few years.
In the beginning it worked everywhere, but after a few years many terminals started to block it on purpose for example in lowes it stopped working, and in many other terminals
I had no idea about this.
It could be VERY useful in countries like México where NFC payments are not common at all. They just announced it but I’m still waiting
lol.. mst and sd card are the only things keeping me with Samsung...so i guess i am keeping s20 longer then...
Now there's no single reason to keep using Samsung Pay instead of Google Pay. Sad news. Gladly I will be able to still use it on my Note 9 as long as I keep the phone.
Yeah this is my reason why I'm getting apple. Literally that feature was the only reason why I was sticking with Samsung. I live I a rural area and slowly but not alot of places have the new contact less readers. Now I have no reason to stay with Samsung. I will now move to Apple after 6 years
Still using magnetic stripes is what's backwards not removing MST
@@tgm9991 not all banks support the newer cards
Which is why I cancelled my order for the s21!
I had 3 upgrade of S series just coz I was hooked on Samsung pay. Back on iPhone this year.
It will make a comeback on the S22 range next year. Samsung galaxy S6 range had missing features such as IPS 68 and SD card slot. They brought it back on the S7 range. Apparently Samsung is listening to its costumers, lets hope they bring back these missing features because I'm also a Samsung fan!
No SD on S21 either... we shall see 🤔
Yeah but since then they've gotten in the habit of taking away features and keeping them off... See the headphone jack, or ir blaster
or more likely they'll bring it back but only on their $1,400 flagship and if you pay only a thousand or only $800 you'll get a compromised version.
Samsung and Apple have both turned into s***
I think they've stopped listening to us. They're listening to people in the boardroom far removed from the fans. If this year is the last Note model made, it's likely to be my last Samsung. And if it doesn't have a card slot, my Note 20 Ultra will be my last Samsung.
@@mostlymessingabout I know it's so annoying because I also use an SD card file to import my large files and videos which are shot in higher resolution.
Magnetic strip was discontinued in most countries years ago. Some bank cards don’t even have magnetic strips anymore
I just realized my Galaxy fold two had it so now I've been using it like crazy. Great video.
Shameful, you never once tried you needed this video
I totally TOTALLY agree with you. Not to say that taking it away is a total deal breaker, but makes me want to hold on to my Note 10 a bit longer, even though I do want the Note 21 when it comes out.
Missed MST. I loved being able to literally carry nothing but my phone to the store, even the ones that do not support mobile payments
THEY NEED TO BRING IT BACK! We brought back the Sd card slot a few years ago, we can get back MST too
I totally agreed. That's why I haven't switched to iPhone. I'll keep my S20 forever now....
That's one of the reasons I'm not moving from my note 20 ultra
MST was the only reason I used Samsung Pay. Unfortunately Google Pay only accepts 5 card vs Samsung's 10 card limit.
Walmart in the u.s. doesn’t do contactless payment, unless you use there app
Ohh no. I like to have mst as a backup. It was useful.. but recently i have not veen using it as much.
Google forced Samsung to remove it ...so are monopolies.
How so?
I think Apple and Google saw that MST, while useful five years ago, was not worth investing in because NFC would become the dominant payment option in short time... and they were right. Back then I kind of wanted MST on my iPhone but I quickly found that most of the time I could use NFC at most places that I shopped. Now, with Apple Pay on the Apple Watch, I don’t even need my iPhone and the process is much faster than using my iPhone!
This is stupid. A lot of retailers like Walmart blocks NFC on purposes in order to force you to use their own payment system (Walmart Pay). I still remember using MST at a US base in Okinawa and cashier freaked out accusing me of hacking their POS.
I used to use mst at Walmart all the time with Samsung pay. But recently they were able to show how block that to. Like wtf????
One additional reason to not upgrade my S10+. Thanks Samsung! :3
MST is the best feature of the gear S3 frontier that’s why I won’t get rid of it.
I live in a area of the country where nfc hasn't been widely adopted yet. Mst was very useful when I was traveling around. I was sad to hear it was going away
This is so strange. In Australia, post businesses use eftpos machines supplied by the local bank which come with pay wave by default. I've never encountered a store that accepts credit/debit card but not NFC.
I love mst I was sad when it got remove from my watch.
Looks like I'm not buying any new samsungs. And I guess I have to keep the gear S2 until it dies.
samsung paid cnet to highlight note 20 as something which is limited edition to sell all those phone left in factory
I'm not sure about other countries, but MST terminal is still a thing here in Malaysia. Very few premises has adopt NFC technology.
Great video. I'm very dissapointed Samsung removed this feature. I'm just tired of Samsung constantly removing features from there devices. I'm out!
Looks like I'm never upgrading from my s20 FE
Wait so does s20 fe have mst??
I own a s20 fe so just wanting to confirm
She covered all points. I was going to say they stopped including it with their watches. That's why I chose the s3 frontier galaxy watch because it was the last one to include mst in samsung pay.
I’ve been using Samsung Pay since s21 series came out and never had any problems yet.
Finding a hard time justifying upgrading from my S9+ to a phone that has removed the headphone jack, expandable storage and MST.
S20 still has the feature.
It's where the future is going, they want us to use cloud storage and wireless headphones like airpods and since most machines will be upgrading to nft anyways in future, I think they removed it
ALMOST ABSOLUTE SAME AS ME
MST was a deciding factor for me when it originally came out. I was looking at different options, but having the ability to have contactless pay nearly everywhere before NFC was common was huge. When I learned that they were doing away with MST on the S21 line I seriously considered jumping to Apple for the first time in a very long time. In the end the camera on the S21 Ultra was the deciding factor for me this generation, but with phones being so good regardless of brand now (IMO) I don't understand the rationale behind cutting such a differentiating feature. As it is, I don't have any meaningful incentive to continue to use Samsung Pay. I would take an unscientific guess that the people who are in the android ecosystem mainly use Google Pay with Samsung user being the exception up until now. I don't see that being the case anymore.
I'm a samsung user and has zero reason to use samsung pay. It's stupid
I remember when this feature came out with Samsung pay it was a pretty cool feature as most people are surprised that someone could pay with their phone with a non nfc card reader
I use MST on my Gear S3 and my S10+. I'm really going to miss it when it's gone.
S20 still has it
the real reason : MST probably more expensive than NFC
meaning less profit and less competitive against cheap Chinese phones
and regular people dont know about it anyway
RIP ㅠ, .ㅠ
I could be just paranoid, but maybe it's another part of Google closer integration with Samsung. Same device in what Google Messages is favored instead Samsung Messages and Google Feed could be natively used. Coincidence?
This is actually not Samsungs own decisions. At least in Europe I know that the European union considered it to be an unsafe paying method and that nfc was more secure
1:01 is that an ad in the Samsung Pay app?
For real?
Yeah!
They put ads in all of their first-party apps now, including on their overpriced devices. They're apparently strapped for cash or something. SMH
Eh, I live in the UK where NFC is accepted everywhere due to Contactless Payments being more accessible.
In Australia, I use my phone everywhere to pay including public transport. In NSW, digital driver’s license/ID is starting to be acceptable in most places. In the last 3years, I’ve been taking only my phone with me when I go out.
Sticking with my S20 5G 😌 the S21 is a huge downgrade in just about every way besides the processor.