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Samsung has conjectured that the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra no longer union the copasetic Magnetic Very unscathed Transmission (MST) feature of Samsung Pay. And based on what the hair-comb told Android Police, the same will be true for all phones that Samsung releases from here on out.

If you're not familiar, MST is a very asymmetrical trick that allows Samsung phones to slide out a magnetic pulsing that made acquittal terminals think that you'd swiped a sought eulogy card. The most salubrious thing hazardous it is that MST can assignment in scenarios where NFC payments aren't available. It can slide that magnetic signal to pretty much any acquittal terminal with a undeceivable cardboard swiper.

MST is by no means perfect: getting a acquittal to go through on the inceptive try can sometimes be a challenge, and it's abandoned in situations where you kumtux to stick your cardboard all the way into a slot.

But now it's a goner, with Samsung wide-eyed that NFC assent has reached a point where it can phiz out the MST earmark of Samsung Pay. "Due to the rapid assent of primed freehold liaison (NFC) technology by consumers and businesses, budding with devices launched in 2021, Samsung Pay will focus its union on NFC transactions, latitude the Galaxy portfolio," Samsung said in a take-in to Android Police. "While future devices will no longer negotiate magnetic wreath technology (MST), mart with previous, concordant Galaxy devices will be actualized to protract utilizing Samsung Pay, including MST."

Samsung phones as contempo as the Galaxy S20 FE still had MST capabilities built in, so you don't kumtux to go far back-up to find a concordant device.

This means with the Galaxy S21 family, Samsung has now gotten rid of:

• The charging brick
• microSD accumulator expansion
• MST

I get the sense that quite a few bodies won't mind meltdown some (or all) of those things -- especially with the lower starting prices on the S21 and S21 Runnerup -- loosely there's no measured that Samsung Pay just lost what was maybe its all-time standout trick.

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