The Galaxy S21 doesn’t support Samsung Pay’s most convenient feature
Image: Samsung Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra no longer support the convenient Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) feature of Samsung Pay. And based on what the company 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 cool trick that allows Samsung phones to send out a magnetic pulse that made payment terminals think that you'd swiped a regular credit card. The most beneficial thing about it is that MST can work in scenarios where NFC payments aren't available. It can send that magnetic signal to pretty much any payment terminal with a traditional card swiper.
MST is by no means perfect: getting a payment to go through on the...