Via ars technica comments:
"Compared to the Moto 360, the Gear S3 is 13% thicker, 6.5% taller, 16% heavier, has a 30% smaller screen, and has 89% larger bezels. But who's counting."
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Samsung Unveils New Gear S3 Smart Watch With GPS and LTE [Update: Will Support iPhone]
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In real life I get 3 days out of my s2, whether or not this is unique I don't know, but I think it's awesome..
thats a good looking watch for a smart watch. poor apple seems to be really struggling to keep up with the entire product line
I was talking about the Apple Watch.
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You can only go by the claims the company makes. Just as people do with the Apple Watch.
Yes, as the fine article says, the bezel is a control akin to the crown on the Apple Watch.
I think part of the problem is that none of these young millennial whipper-snappers today remember the 1970s, and those early LED digital watches with their blank, black faces, where you had to press a button to see the time. (NB: I really hope there's a red, 7-segment digital watch face for the Watch). To me, that's exactly what the Apple Watch looks like. Seriously, if you're going to make a 1970s throwback watch, at least make it green with a metal-stud and safety-pin motif on the band (and teach Siri some profanities)...
That says, methinks that the S3's 4-day battery life and "Always On" display mode will turn out to be "pick one".
I never found conventional watch designs to be anything but ugly, and Samsung seems to be a doing a good job at approximating something that I have always found to be an eyesore.
Actually I have pretty good vision and I find it really ugly, but I wouldn’t call you blind because your taste differs from mine.
Marketing. The "official" measurements are for the case only. It doesn't include the measurements for the top glass or the sensors on the bottom. The true actual measurements are provided for developers of accessories like bands, protective cases, etc. They can't work off marketing measurements.
Since the ring is a control mechanism, the ribbing helps with grip; making it easier to operate than a smooth surface.
Cool. I still don't like round though. Except maybe to get that awesome steampunk cosplay chick to notice me.
Also, I don't expect HoursTracker and Streaks (to name just two I use daily) to go Tizen anytime soon, or ever really.
Now thats a good looking smart watch. Great design, great features. Makes the Apple watch look like a sad phone 'lookie likey' design mistake. Hard to say being an Apple enthusiast. Apple have come up with some great innovation in their time but the watch is just plain awful.
Hello Apple - we don't want a 1980's calculator and fitness monitor on the wrist - you can do so much better.
Hello Apple - we don't want a 1980's calculator and fitness monitor on the wrist - you can do so much better.
To each his own. I have no use for smartwatches as a category, but this watch - especially the Frontier - appeals to my leaning toward chronographs. If I ever get on the smartwatch bandwagon, this watch could be the start. It looks masculine, my preferred style. Don't like the style of any of the unisex looking offerings out there today.
A lot of Apple products will be on display in modern art museums, the Apple Watch definitely.
I have old iPods and iPhones laying around the house and still admire how great their designs are.
This Samsung watch will NEVER be regarded as anything but tacky.
I'm not hating on Samsung, I've been saying for years how great the Note 5 and now Note 7 look.
I would have bought one but they run Android, which means you have to hard reset it multiple times a day and good luck it being upgraded to the latest version of Android a year later.
Also good and encouraging news to hear. I don't know anything about the Samsung Gear, but after seeing the video, aesthetically speaking, I like what I see and am interested in it.
I'm really liking the Gear 3. I wonder how much it will cost? BTW, I don't own an Apple watch, never will.
I had less than zero interest in the AW. But I'm VERY interested in the Gear 3. Seems like it would be a great running watch to replace my Garmin. And it's stylish enough to replace my casual watches.
As others have said, the AW looks like an 80s calculator watch.
As others have said, the AW looks like an 80s calculator watch.
Respect your opinion!
Surprisingly I see it the opposite. I love the sleek designs of automatic mostly but some quartz watches and seeing a smart watch that tries to pay homage to the roots of watch making sleekness while still having the "smart" features available makes it enticing.
FYI for all:
watchuseek.com is a great forum that goes down deep on almost every design, brand and model etc. of watches out there.
This is kind of like someone on a sports car forum saying they don't like the latest style of a Mustang, but when pressed, admits that they don't like any pony car shape at all.
If you hate either round or rectangular, then that's fine, but it makes any comparison opinions pretty moot
Actually those had hundreds of buttons, like a tiny Blackberry.
While the idea of wearing something that could do more than show the time was appealing, I never got one of those.
Round watches look like you operate a steam engine and have an astrolabe in your satchel.
The gland that makes the nostalgia hormone, I don't have it.
In all fairness, the whole watch industry steals from each other all day every day....they're keeping up with tradition
mmmm looks awesome, but probably not going to be able to answer a call if you have and iphone and probably many iOS feature will be out, also for celular LTE you are going to need another cellular plan LOL.
still always on screen rules! 4 day of battery really nice UI too
still always on screen rules! 4 day of battery really nice UI too