It is hard to pick a wallet app that’s best for everyone, but if you are a Samsung Galaxy user, Samsung Wallet is certainly worth checking out. Despite being limited to select Samsung Galaxy handsets, the Samsung Wallet app gives some tough competition to Google Wallet, which works on all supported Android phones.
While all wallet apps have their strengths and weaknesses, Samsung Wallet has just gained a powerful feature called Trips that users, especially travelers, will find hard to ignore. Trips in the Samsung Wallet app seemingly want to give users more clarity over their entire journey by bringing scattered travel details into a single place.
Trips in Samsung Wallet brings seamless journeys for travelers
Trips in Samsung Wallet wants to solve a common problem every traveler faces on their journeys. On its official Samsung Newsroom website, the South Korean tech giant has announced that Trips will introduce what it calls ‘Trip timeline,’ a place where all your travel-related plans will be available.
We haven’t tested the feature yet, but this sounds like a genuinely handy feature for everyone planning their trips. All your travel-related plans in a single place would mean all your bookings in hotels, flight itineraries, and car rentals will be available in a single view. Not only that, but the ‘Trip timeline’ will also include tickets for buses, trains, theme parks, and sporting events.
Samsung Wallet will automatically group these items, but it’ll also allow users to manually add itinerary items and memos to include key reminders throughout the journey.
However, it’s worth noting that not every travel-related item that you receive from different sources will automatically appear in Samsung Wallet. You’ll need to add them to Samsung Wallet first so it can group them based on time and location.
Google Wallet can store many of these travel-related items and can pull information from Gmail, but what it lacks is a dedicated space where users can see only their travel plans throughout the day. This is where Samsung Wallet will now have a slight edge over Google Wallet, but only for users of select Galaxy handsets.
However, buying a Galaxy phone that supports Samsung Wallet won’t be enough to enjoy the Trips feature. You’ll have to live in the United States, the United Kingdom, or Korea to use the feature.
If you are based in any of these places, you can use Trips in Samsung Wallet from this month if you are running Samsung Wallet version 5.9.32 or higher in Korea, version 6.4.97 or higher in the U.S., or version 6.4.98 or higher in the U.K.
