Hardly. It looks amazing! I find the Apple Watch boring looking and too much like jewelry. Not my thing. But I like bulky watched like this new Samsung and the Garmin Fenix 3HR below
They've butt ugly, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
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Samsung Unveils New Gear S3 Smart Watch With GPS and LTE [Update: Will Support iPhone]
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They've butt ugly, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
Out of all the updated "OS" i'm most interested in Watch OS 3First impressions just by looking at the video, it does indeed look awesome!
But I still am happy with the Apple Watch, and more importantly am waiting for OS3 than v2.
Although I'd gladly buy a brand new one if they introduce a round design!
Edit - Before this thread turns into a pissing contest, competition is good for us consumers people and I hope Apple and Samsung keep going at it to win our affection.. eerr money lol.
Definitely a good looking watch. I believe they said they worked with Swiss watchmakers on the design, not sure what to make of that. Solid effort, and all the better if it works with iOS.
Beautiful....WOW!!!! I hope Apple is taking notes here...
This is that awkward moment when Steve Jobs would grandstand and explain why the lack of LTE is a "FEATURE" and the Reality Distortion Field would engage and Apple Fanboys would start slobbering and wetting their pants.
And to prove the point from my joke, someone here just said that being independent of the phone is NOT a feature he wants! That's like saying to Apple, "I like my car. You don't have to make a better one or study self-driving cars."
And to prove the point from my joke, someone here just said that being independent of the phone is NOT a feature he wants! That's like saying to Apple, "I like my car. You don't have to make a better one or study self-driving cars."
No device can but it doesn't make other competitors bad. And at least there's competition in this category. Look at how pitiful tablets have become. My iPad Air 2 is great but that's only because competition has given up and I have no reason to upgrade from it. I would love to see a premium Samsung Note tablet take on the iPad Pro. Do we really want competition to roll over and die?
I'll wait and see what happens on September 7th, but I'm honestly almost decided to ditch the stale Apple world. Gear S3 Frontier + Note 7 seems like an awesome, fresh, exciting combination. And I like Windows 10 enough to switch away from the neglected Macs as well (again, my patience is running ultra thin, this fall is the last deadline for me to see if beancounter Tim has ANYTHING in his mystical "pipeline" regarding Macs for serious pro users).
I hope Apple offers a larger AW next year. People with larger wrists, who like the aesthetics of big watches, want a larger screen, or require longer battery life would all benefit from a larger screen.
Apple f-ed up royally by waiting so long to make a larger phone, and as a result created a void which Samsung not only filled, but used to build their smartphone customer base. If Apple had set the market themselves and offered multiple sizes early on, Samsung would never have become a major player and Apple would enjoy much greater market share for both their hardware and iOS.
I really don't want them to repeat the same dumb, stubborn mistake by only making "small" watches and allowing the competition to gain a foothold in large watches, and then be forced to enter the large watch market much later, once people have already become Samsung users.
Apple f-ed up royally by waiting so long to make a larger phone, and as a result created a void which Samsung not only filled, but used to build their smartphone customer base. If Apple had set the market themselves and offered multiple sizes early on, Samsung would never have become a major player and Apple would enjoy much greater market share for both their hardware and iOS.
I really don't want them to repeat the same dumb, stubborn mistake by only making "small" watches and allowing the competition to gain a foothold in large watches, and then be forced to enter the large watch market much later, once people have already become Samsung users.
Not sure I like the larger design, i like the size of my apple watch and gear s2 classic, just want them thinner. Battery life doubling is a plus though.
Biggest thing Samsung needs to do is keep updating the software (includong the S2) and get more app developers on board.
Biggest thing Samsung needs to do is keep updating the software (includong the S2) and get more app developers on board.
I agree. Both about the overdue introdictons of larger iPhones and also about watches. I like LARGE watches and even the 42mm Apple Watch seems like a dorky calculator watch to me. This Samsung Gear S3 seems very well sized, especially like the "outdoor" version.
WHen AW was released, it was the best over all smart watch. It lacked GPS and the battery was not the best, but it had other neat stuff .
With this one, Samsung will for sure have the best one, unless Apple can make a counter move within a few months. I think Apple also needs LTE to steal the crown from Samsung.
With this one, Samsung will for sure have the best one, unless Apple can make a counter move within a few months. I think Apple also needs LTE to steal the crown from Samsung.
Don't lower yourself to his logic it will just frustrate you
It doesn't have an Apple logo on it. Everything without an Apple logo is ugly.
responding to texts? Answering calls? Siri (or some similar thing)?
SUrprised by Samsung pay. Would think they'd integrate that into the watch.
I still don't see the point of smart watches, but as a piece of design, this is classy and beautiful. The Apple Watch by comparison reminds me of those super chunky calculator watches from the 1980s.
Well, the question I was trying to answer was why, since that is what was asked. Merely throwing my opinion out there. It's not like I can disagree with actual tangible measurements.
First: I love the design of the watch. I'm a huge apple fan but I like how the faces actually try to look non digital.
BUT: its enormous and only looks good in pictures. Like the previous one, I went to see it in real life and it's stupidly bulky and enormous. Comically so. If this is bigger then definitely no.
I wish there could be a smart watch that looks like the Samsung one but compact like the Apple Watch
BUT: its enormous and only looks good in pictures. Like the previous one, I went to see it in real life and it's stupidly bulky and enormous. Comically so. If this is bigger then definitely no.
I wish there could be a smart watch that looks like the Samsung one but compact like the Apple Watch
To me, there is something very attractive about a larger Watch, from a males perspective at least. I have the stainless Apple Watch 42 MM, and as much as I love the size of the Watch, it's really not that big in terms of Invicta's and Omega's.
46 MM is large, but doable if you appreciate a larger Watch. I'm thinking Apple will offer a round Watch by Version 3, with larger variants.
46 MM is large, but doable if you appreciate a larger Watch. I'm thinking Apple will offer a round Watch by Version 3, with larger variants.
Did you also find the iPhone's use of skeuomorphism for years to be "offensive"?
We've been through this discussion many times already. Those of us with both smartwatch shapes have found little difference in real life viewing of information.
Re: sometimes more scrolling. So what. Literally millions of people have chosen the smaller Apple Watch and it also must scroll more.
Re: square data in round face... the same limitations work the other way around... and yet that did not stop Apple from creating round watch faces and using round UI paradigms.
Here's the thing. If Apple had been the first one to come out with a circular always-on display... while all other companies were still using 1980s style rectangular displays turning on with a wrist flick... then fanboys would be singing the praises of Apple's innovation, uniqueness, and style advantage.
And everyone knows it. Including, I suspect, Apple, who is bound to one day come out with a round model themselves. At which time those who are dissing round displays, will look just as silly as people did for dissing larger phone displays, smaller tablets, or soon, OLED screens. You'd think that people would eventually learn from history!
I'm a big omega fan but standard omega is 41mm with mid size 36mm. 46mm is really large but might look good for larger fit guys
Yes, they are! I know it's personal preference, but I've never seen a diver watch that I felt looked good.
I understood the size comment, but what did you mean by the 'OS does you know good?'