Iberia makes check-in with Samsung Gear 2-smartwatch possible

Samsung and Spanish airline Iberia to introduce an app that allows Iberia passengers to their Samsung Gear 2-smartwatch can use to check in. According to Iberia, the app will be available soon.

This way of checking is similar to checking in via a smartphone, which has for some time been possible. “We are one of the first airlines to which such boarding pass. We think that this way of check-in to be immensely popular among our passengers,” says Miguel Ángel Henales, head of Iberia’s digital department, at Aviation Media.

Samsung gave last month an sdk for all products on Tizen running. Because of this, developers have the opportunity to develop apps for the Galaxy Gear 2-smartwatch. Thursday announced Samsung the Samsung Gear App Challenge, a contest that is intended to the market for wearable apps is a move in the right direction. The total prize pool of the contest amounts to 1.25 million dollars and the winner of the contest receives $ 100,000 for his app.

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