Clint
TVWBB Olympian
I got a new phone a few days ago, couldn't sleep the night before last, & I saw android pay, watched a couple youtube videos, & it looked like Samsung Pay worked the best.
I installed it the next morning & tried it at 3 stores. Target and the grocery store both had modern card readers at the self checkout stations & it worked well there, then I stopped at a small burger joint for their Golden Burger (pastrami burger on Texas toast). The small burger joint had an old-style terminal like you've seen over the last 15 years & the clerk said "I don't think it'll work". I just held my phone by the card slot & it went through like magic! Next place to try it will be at the gas station.
So it works with the chip reader machines & old magnetic stripe. 3 tries yesterday, 0 fails.
Why use it???? I'm not sure.... Other than being new, I guess I just had to have a card replaced because the chip failed, magnetic strips wear out, and it's supposed to use the same upgraded security that the chips use (doesn't tx a static numeric stream like the magnetic cards do, it generates single use tokens (or something) for each transaction.
I installed it the next morning & tried it at 3 stores. Target and the grocery store both had modern card readers at the self checkout stations & it worked well there, then I stopped at a small burger joint for their Golden Burger (pastrami burger on Texas toast). The small burger joint had an old-style terminal like you've seen over the last 15 years & the clerk said "I don't think it'll work". I just held my phone by the card slot & it went through like magic! Next place to try it will be at the gas station.
So it works with the chip reader machines & old magnetic stripe. 3 tries yesterday, 0 fails.
Why use it???? I'm not sure.... Other than being new, I guess I just had to have a card replaced because the chip failed, magnetic strips wear out, and it's supposed to use the same upgraded security that the chips use (doesn't tx a static numeric stream like the magnetic cards do, it generates single use tokens (or something) for each transaction.