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Samsung Unveils New Gear S3 Smart Watch With GPS and LTE [Update: Will Support iPhone]

I like the look of the S2 and the S3 does look better and the feature list is great..

but 46mm is going to be too big for me. not a person who feels comfortable with a giant wrist watch. Current watch is a standard 39mm Citizen Eco-Drive watch.

Plus, I hate leather straps and like good quality metal links.
 
it looks very nice in the video, but that pic on someones wrist makes me think not so much. I did like some of those faces though...
 
Night Spring said:
Yes, they are! I know it's personal preference, but I've never seen a diver watch that I felt looked good.
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Unapologetic round and beautiful. I know the fanboys can't see past the Apple logo, but this is nice at least for Apple to take notes and make the Apple Watch much better.
 
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Flow39 said:
I see. This was mostly what I was looking for. When looking through Android's developer library, this is what I found comparing a square face to a round face:

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As you can see, the circular watch face has more wasted space on the side of the notification and more of the background image is cut off. The caption in the round watch face is also not as wide. With a longer caption, more information is available on the square watch than the round. On the circular display in the picture, the entire card is shifted up on the display. The information on the circular face is also limited to an internal square rather than going clear to the edges, which would be yield far more usable space and information on the display. I think this has a big part in why square watch faces do appear to display more info--there is no internal polygon limitation in the software. Your picture definitely does make sense, but scaling and internal limitations on text and info keeps circular displays less information-dense. The photoshopping of a map is one example of where the circular display shows more info, but I think that text-based items are going to be used far more than maps or photos. I think what it comes down to is just how the software formats text and scales different things. Maybe if we could get an optimized version of watchOS onto a circular display we could see if there would be any info loss in the case of the Apple Watch.

In the end, you showed that there really isn't a loss of anything substantial. I guess it's just personal preference to me for square smartwatches. I like the look of no wasted space, whereas round smartwatches tend have that wasted space effect towards the sides. I do love the look of round, but for me, I prefer square.
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You have to compare Apples to Apples. You're showing Android's square screen to Android's round screen, specifically the Moto 360 with the flat tire, instead of the Huawei that has an edge to edge screen. But here's a direct comparison to the Moto with text:

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Note all the unused space, even with the flat tire. Now here's the same exact text display optimized for the Moto:

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You see that so much more text can be included in the round display than with the Watch square display. Now imagine if this were a Huawei, and not the moto with the flat tire. There's a lot more space to optimize per task.

So no matter how you slice it, a similarly sized round watch even displays text better than the Watch for applications that require that. Of course the Watch gains the lead again when they get rid of those bezels, but for the last 2 years, round watches technically have had the advantage, whether they utilized it effectively or not. If Apple keeps the exact same display and bezels, then that advantage continues on for other manufactures to capitalize on it.
 
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Flow39 said:
While the Classic looks nice, I would never buy one. I still love my Apple Watch, and this is after using Android Wear and 2 different Pebbles (with Android phones) over the last year. The Apple Watch has the ecosystem, the app support, the developer support, reliability, and refinement that make me never want to stop using it and pushes it ahead of all other watches on the market. While other companies may introduce flashy features like LTE (which I don't think watches need) or phone-independency (which I also don't think they need), they still can't match the overall package of the Apple Watch in my opinion.
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The Kool Aide is strong with you.
 
It was very smart for samsung to release this amazing watch before the apple smart watch 2. I'm sure the apple watch will have less features and less functionality which is typical of Apple.
 
jasonklee said:
Damn, I have to admit it. The Korean design masters at Samsung just wiped the floor with Apple's multicultural elite design team. Wow. Got to give credit where credit is due. This should make every iWatch wearer hang their head in shame for spending so much for so little. For a rectangular watch, no less. Listen, dummies at Apple, a circle looks nicer and list view UIs work just as well as on rectangular displays. Tech is about function over form. And circle faces look better. Rectangular faces offer no advantages, other than to make one look like a dork.

This makes me want to stash my iWatch in a drawer along with the useless iPad, iPod, and MacBook Air.

Every time I see someone with an iWatch, I just laugh at their faces and they just look away, because they know they look like a dork. Why would anyone want something so ugly, something that looks like a computer strapped around their wrist? It doesn't do anything remotely useful. Health tracking? Don't make me laugh. That is so pompous, so pretentious of Apple, to think they can craft technology to help people take a little more responsiblity over their health. Disgusting.

This new Samsung watch will make everyone who dons it feel like they are wearing a premium luxury watch, that is sure to attract girls. I'd be proud to wear it in public and show off such a beautifully crafed object, by the best designers in the world. The Korean committee at Samsung.

For example, the rotating dial is a far, far more clever design than the Digital Crown. Think about it. Pushing your index finger to roll the crown is too complex and not intuitive at all. But rotating the watch dial is a very easy and intuitive design concept. Force Touch is dumb. Taptic Engine is dumb. Samsung knows it's better to have bigger battery than these stupid gimmicks. Ooh, I feel a tap on my wrist, ooh, I can interact on z-axis interfaces. Stop. Just stop.

I bow down to you, Samsung. You are the new technology overlords I will serve.
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Did Samsung pay you enough for this post?

Most ridiculous post I´ve seen this month..
 
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OllyW said:
Of course it's subjective, but I'm posting from my point of view and 46mm is still considered a large watch. There's been a bit of a backlash about the ever growing up-sizing of watches and quite a few manufactures are taking note and offering a lot more normal sized watches again. I'm not a fan of the looks of the Apple Watch but I think they got their size options pretty good.
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and then in 4 years time it'll be the 4" iPhone all over again :D

"People consume media on their watches now dude, its 2020, you can't watch a movie on a 42mm screen!!":rolleyes:
 
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