{"id":4333,"date":"2016-06-15T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/samsung-pay-arrives-in-australia-to-try-and-eat-apples-lunch\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T05:25:44","slug":"samsung-pay-arrives-in-australia-to-try-and-eat-apples-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/samsung-pay-arrives-in-australia-to-try-and-eat-apples-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Pay arrives in Australia to try and eat Apple&#039;s lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f116729%2f1b5b3970084c4ae3927ef9c9fa3c03f2\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/UOkbpcfLmxK4V2ZivyV9f0OjtXY=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F116729%2F1b5b3970084c4ae3927ef9c9fa3c03f2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Samsung+Pay+arrives+in+Australia+to+try+and+eat+Apple%27s+lunch&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F15%2Fsamsung-pay-australia-launch%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F15%2Fsamsung-pay-australia-launch%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>More than eight months after Apple Pay launched in Australia, Samsung Pay has arrived and it&#8217;s trying to make nice with the local banks.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile payments service is now available on\u00a0compatible Samsung smartphones including the Galaxy S6 and\u00a0Galaxy Note 5, but only to customers who bank with Australian launch partners, American Express and Citibank. If you have an American Express-issued card or a Citibank Mastercard or Visa card, you can start using Samsung Pay immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one better than Apple Pay, however, which kicked off in November 2015 with only American Express but has <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/27\/apple-pay-anz-australia\/\">since added<\/a>\u00a0Australian bank ANZ. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/15\/samsung-pay-australia-launch\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/samsung-pay\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Samsung Pay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/samsung\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Samsung<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/apps-software\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps Software<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/QDYOcPJ0SYI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than eight months after Apple Pay launched in Australia, Samsung Pay has arrived and it&#8217;s trying to make nice with the local banks. The mobile payments service is now available on\u00a0compatible Samsung smartphones including the Galaxy S6 and\u00a0Galaxy Note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/samsung-pay-arrives-in-australia-to-try-and-eat-apples-lunch\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[831,728,1455,3350,725],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps-software","tag-australia","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-pay","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}