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

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.

Get Samsung Internet 4.0 on your Galaxy now. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Get Samsung Internet 4.0 on your Galaxy now. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Still waiting for Samsung’s ad-blocking web browser to reach your Galaxy device? Now you can go grab it yourself.

Samsung Internet version 4.0, which supports content-blocking plugins and was previously only available on Galaxy devices running Marshmallow, is now available in Google Play.

Miitomo is almost here! Photo: Nintendo

Miitomo is almost here! Photo: Nintendo

The wait for Nintendo’s first smartphone game is almost over if you live in the U.S.

Miitomo, which racked up a whopping 1 million downloads in three days after making its debut in Japan a fortnight ago, will be available on Android and iOS on Thursday, March 31.

Samsung Pay has arrived. Photo: Samsung

Samsung Pay has arrived. Photo: Samsung

After almost two years of planning, Apple finally launched Apple Pay in China last month — and, wouldn’t you know it, Samsung’s keen to catch up!

To that end, the company officially launched Samsung Pay in China today, partnering with the state-backed China UnionPay to do so.

And, right away, it claims that it will be available in more places than Apple’s rival system.

Do you want to be the very best? Photo: Pokémon

Do you want to be the very best? Photo: Pokémon

If, like me, you sank countless hours into Pokémon games during your misspent youth, there’s some great news: Pokémon GO, an augmented reality game for smartphones is one step closer to rolling out.

And it looks great!

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