Samsung Releases Samsung Wallet, Its 'Passbook' App for Android
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Posted August 9, 2013 at 4:01pm by iClarified
Samsung has released Samsung Wallet, a new app that brings Passbook functionality to its Android devices. As you can see here, the app also looks a lot like Apple's Passbook.
Samsung Wallet is a one-stop destination for your boarding passes, membership cards, coupons, and event tickets. Start adding Tickets from applications you love! Look for ‘Load to Samsung Wallet’ button within your favorite application, press it, and you are set.
Features: - Optimized for HD and Full-HD Samsung devices - Store and manage tickets, coupons, mobile boarding passes and membership cards in one convenient place - Offers 5 default categories for easy management of Tickets. You can also add categories for more personalization. - Customizable time and location-based reminders to show the Tickets at the right time and place. - Synchronize all your Tickets to multiple devices using Samsung account - Receive and store Co-marketing offers - Create your own tickets manually by using ‘Create my ticket’ feature - Discover grocery coupons and digitally save them to loyalty card of participating groceries
It does not work. Made me install Expedia app for a flight I have next week. After that, it does not import the info into the app, it just lets you open expedia from within Wallet and launches it. Nothing from the Expedia data displays in Samsung Wallet.
Worthless, uninstalled both immediately. Email is way more reliable (Expedia will send me the email, I click the link and check in with my phone - already done it). This isn't worth the trouble and complication, and it's certainly not worth having to install multiple apps on my phone (Wallet + Expedia + Amtrak and anything else I may want to track tickets for).
That's the fundamental flaw of all these apps. If they cannot integrate on the back end without forcing the user to install so many apps, then it's simply not worth the trouble. Email works better for now, so I'll stick to that.
Ciao.