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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Samsung Wallet vs Google Pay
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 13:01:24 -0700
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On 5/4/24 3:31 AM, Jim the Geordie wrote:
> In article <v14bui$1117t$1@dont-email.me>, bashley101@gmail.com says...
>> 
>> On 5/3/24 4:29 PM, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>> > Any preferences here - and why?
>> 
>> I have often wondered about the value of any of these.  What's wrong 
>> with a credit card which gives you a rebate?
> 
> You can use credit cards as well as debit.

So it's just another layer? I can see how it would be handy if you can 
use your watch.  Is such a smartwatch usable all by itself, or does it 
have to be in contact with your phone?

> I use it because I always I always have my phone, but seldom carry my
> card.

Exactly the opposite.  I walk to the gym and can just put the card in my 
velcro-flap pocket without worrying about it falling out or me falling 
on it and breaking it -- just in case I want to stop at Trader Joe's or 
the supermarket on my way home.  I only carry my phone when I think I 
might need it or want to use the camera.

> Yes I have a Samsung or I wouldn't have asked and yes I have NFC.
> 
> I simply wondered whether the physical action of paying is simpler with
> one or are they both the same.
> The question arises because I often get asked (by a bloody machine!) to
> try my fingerprint again when it had already accepted it 5 seconds
> earlir. Grr.

The fingerprint reader at the gym I used before The Plague ALWAYS failed 
and required assistance from the attendant. I refuse to use the reader 
on my phone, which is probably even less reliable.

> These answers are to the group and not particularly to you Bev.

That's why we have groups :-)


-- 
Cheers, Bev
   My computer doesn't have to be friendly;
   civil is entirely sufficient.