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LG Joins NFC Payment Party With LG Pay (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the gaining-momentum dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple and Samsung have been fattening their pockets with digital wallets for years, and now LG wants in. The company rolled out LG Pay in South Korea on Friday, it said in a statement. South Korean users of the LG G6 will be the first to be able to use the service. LG Pay allows users to register up to 10 of their frequently used cards, including credit, membership and transportation cards. To make payment with LG Pay, users tap their phone against a credit card terminal and scan their fingerprint.

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  1. Why not just a single standard by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why not just make a single standard NFC Pay that any phone with NFC can implement? We already have Android Pay. What is the advantage of having LG Pay vs. Android Pay on an LG phone that already has Android installed? I have a Samsung phone that supposedly supports Samsung Pay, but I've never even configured it as I don't think I've seen a single store that advertises accepting Samsung Pay.

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    1. Re:Why not just a single standard by XXongo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why not just make a single standard NFC Pay that any phone with NFC can implement?

      That question was addressed by the first post: https://xkcd.com/927/