LG Pay is likely launching as LG Wallet alongside the G7 in the US soon

The Korea-only LG Pay digital wallet platform has its sights set on the US market, according to reports, where it might be renamed as LG Wallet during H1 2018.

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LG Wallet app listing suggests LG G7 name will stick after all [UPDATE]

The app was published to the Play Store, left for LG Android phone users curious enough to download in confusion and had a hint of flagship moniker projection.

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LG Pay is finally deployed to the G6 only in Korea as a feeble Samsung Pay rival

LG Pay is more than a little late to the digital wallet platform party, not to mention largely unremarkable and targeted at a tiny audience for starters.

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Facial recognition software may arrive soon on LG G6, with secure payment support

Both LG Pay support and "3D face scanning" tech could be enabled on the LG G6 in a couple of months, with the two services even working together.

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LG Pay will go after Samsung Pay in June, exclusive to Korea and the G6 for starters

With "Wireless Magnetic Communication" technology and wide credit card support, LG Pay could be a fierce domestic Samsung Pay rival starting June.

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Either LG Pay or wireless charging for the more expensive G6

The reasoning for the rumored feature triage is supposedly because of different markets and different interests. Whatever the interest, it will be costly.

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Could LG Pay have MST? It could appear on G6

LG has yet to introduce its proprietary mobile payments system. It was supposed to include a Coin-like virtually interchangeable credit card and the chaebol was looking for banks to partner with.Now we’re hearing word from The Electronic Times in Korea that the company has abandoned the so-called “White Card” and snagged a little ace from

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LG Pay hits yet another roadblock on its seemingly doomed path to market

Apple, Samsung and Google are not just the world’s three leading mobile industry players in general, thanks to their active involvement and commercial success in many profitable market niches, also spearheading the early progress of mainstream on-the-go payment services.But you can never afford to rest on your laurels in such competitive businesses, with

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Long-delayed LG Pay card will have integrated circuit chip

We’re in the back half of 2016 and that weirdo mobile payments system we’ve been talking since October of last year still isn’t here. What gives, LG?Well, the Korea Herald is reporting from its sources that the chaebol wants to continue currying favor with banks and card issuers. Read into that what you may, but in the meantime, LG is said to be planning on putting a chip-and-pin mechanism to its

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Sources point to big steps in LG wireless charging tech

Wireless charging is still nice and all, but laying the phone onto one specific position on a flat surface is so passé. We’re still a good time away from extended range wireless charging, so what are the mobile hapless to do? Watch ...

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LG Pay doesn’t look like it’s coming to MWC, after all

We’ve been looking forward to LG stepping up to join the likes of Samsung and Apple with its own mobile payment solution since rumors first started brewing last fall, and with the leak of a physical Coin-like electronic payment card just a couple weeks back, things were looking like they were nicely falling into place for a possible MWC debut. LG’s MWC event is set to explode upon Barcelona in just another six days, with the flagship G5 headlining the festivities. And while the G5 will be joined by plenty ...

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LG Pay’s physical card leaks ahead of rumored MWC reveal

With the rise of both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, it feels like if you fancy yourself a serious smartphone manufacturer these days, you’re expected to offer users a bespoke mobile payment system. Last fall we heard that LG could be the next company to introduce something along those lines, with word that the so-called G Pay could be nearly ready to debut. But unlike Apple’s pure-NFC system or Samsung’s that uses NFC in concert with magstripe emulation (while keeping all the hardware on your ...

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