Has Visa Europe blocked Samsung Pay’s biggest advantage over Apple Pay? Photo: Samsung

Samsung Pay’s best feature — the one that makes it better than Apple Pay, Android Pay, and about every other mobile payments service — could be missing when it arrives in the U.K.

According to a new report, Visa Europe won’t support Samsung’s Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) technology, which means Brits may have to rely solely on NFC.

Android Pay is expanding its reach. Photo: Google

Android Pay, which made its debut in the U.S. just five months ago, is already gearing up to take its fight against Apple Pay international.

The U.K. will be the second market served by Google’s mobile payments system, according to a new report — and Britons will be able to sign up by the end of March.

Get your Galaxy S7 early in the U.K. Photo: Samsung

Samsung fans who live in the U.K. will be the first to get their hands on the company’s latest flagships. Both the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge arrive three days early on the other side of the Atlantic when purchased from a number of carriers and retailers.

Note fans in the U.K. won’t miss out in 2016. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

Samsung’s decision not to launch the Galaxy Note 5 in the U.K. last year, making the Galaxy S7 edge+ its only flagship phablet, may not have worked out quite as well as it hoped.

The South Korean company is reportedly reversing that decision for 2016, with a plan to deliver the Galaxy Note 6 but not the Galaxy S7 edge+ to Great Britain.

Galaxy Note 5 is expanding its reach in 2016. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

Europe’s wait for the best phablet money can buy is almost over.

Samsung sources have confirmed that the Galaxy Note 5 will finally be available in the U.K. and other European markets in early 2016. But with rumors of a Galaxy S7 right around the corner, will it be too late?