While the arrival of the Navigo Pass has been delayed once again, risking missing the Olympic Games, things continue to move forward on the Android side. Especially on Samsung. Not content with being the first manufacturer to offer dematerialized transportation tickets on smartphones in 2019, the company today announces that a similar system has been implemented on the Galaxy Watch together with Île-de-France Mobilités.
We learned about the new partnership between these two organizations in the fall of 2023. After the success of the initial tests, we only had to wait a few months for this to come to fruition. Nothing surprising: Here too, there are two strong claims that Île-de-France Mobilités is aiming for a global distribution before the start of the Olympic Games. Successful bet. Starting today, you can recharge your transportation tickets from your connected watch.
Navigo Pass officially comes to Galaxy Watches
“The generalization of this service in partnership with Samsung is in line with our dematerialization policy that we started in 2016: to make the lives of users in the Ile-de-France region simpler, more practical and more suitable for our time. We will continue to invest and increase our work in this direction,” he said. Valérie Pécresse, president of Île-de-France Mobilités and Île-de-France Region, said:
Valérie Pécresse does not say this, but the press release confirms it: The aim of this technology is also to reduce queues at ticket offices as well as at RATP terminals by allowing users to recharge their ticket transport using their connected watch. The news is timely, as more than 15 million tourists are expected to arrive in the capital during this summer’s Olympic Games, according to Le Parisien.
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