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Samsung Unveils New Gear S3 Smart Watch With GPS and LTE [Update: Will Support iPhone]
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Great looking watch with a fantastic bezel rotating UI. The most important addition is Samsung pay now with MST! Buying two on launch day. This is how you make a watch - sans Mickey and Minnie Mouse watch faces.
I thought the same thing until I got one. Since I wear a watch anyway the added features make it a no brainer for me. Just not having to take my phone out of my pocket many times per day for notifications, control music and podcasts would be enough. But wait there's more
Meh.
The LG Watch Urbane looks kinda nice. The Withings Activité looks nice.
This? This mostly just looks bulky. And it is. It's huge compared to the Apple Watch, which is already on the large side.
Huh? Are you simultaneously arguing that a circle is the "nicer" "form" and yet that the UI should be about "function"?
I bet that would be true if you owned any of those products, and if you had far more money than sense.
That may well be.
Touché. Still don't think rugged look = copying though. There are a very limited type of watch looks. Like 3-4 different main types. I think their S2 was one of the more original looking ones.
You're speculating. Give me data.
What we do know is that it's built on a 28nm process, like the A7 was, which means plenty of potential for a die shrink — thus, lower energy usage, taking up less space, more room for performance. I expect a massive boost with the S2.
But I'd still like some more data.
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I think he's being sarcastic honestly, but I'm still not 100% sure
The size and OS does me no good but I like the design. Cool w/o the geek baggage. Of course it's a video so wonder if the display looks that good in daylight or if it has a decent screen refresh. I wish Apple would come out with something similar, but smaller. Maybe.
The Apple Watch sucks. You have a semi thin device which has a crap battery life span. You don't have Samsung pay MST. You can't use Apple Pay everywhere you want. You can with Samsung pay even at gas stations but having to use a trick method.
The watch is ROUND which is already a winner. The rotating bezel UI is fantastic and if you think this watch is heavy have you ever tried on a Fenix HR? LOL, that's a $600 watch that has the worse junk "color" spinach screen display and the entire UI is slow. Sure it's fantastic as a sports watch mother of all metrics but that thing is a beast compared to any gear S watch. Apple got pwned is accurate way to say it.
Looks nice head-on. From the side it kind of resembles a Double Stuf Oreo with wings. I still prefer a square screen over a round one for usability. Always good to see stiff competition though!
Samsung is working to bring it to iOS. Its currently in testing with Korean customers and should be worldwide by the end or middle of September.
A lot of people I see have their phones always in their hand. Just how much effort is it to turn the wrist vs. looking at the phone?
The few seconds it takes to take my phone out of my pocket is nothing compared to:
Get sweaty wrist
Protect watch from accidental "clonk" damage
(Compared to my phone with case this one is out in the open and moves.
Don't forget to charge
Update when watchOS is updated
A lot of added tasks which I do not need.
As I get older reducing things to do is top on my priority list.
Since no benchmarking software is available for smartwatches, the closest I can give you is to go compare the iPhone 4s (A5 chip, supposedly similar processing power to the S1) to an Android phone with the SD 400 like the 2014 Moto G LTE. The 4s is still the better performer in this scenario. Also, reading the Anandtech review of the Apple Watch can be of some use to determine processing power I'd imagine.
To be honest, the first impression I got was it felt like a Garmin Fenix because of that rugged look. It was my gut reaction.
Upon closer inspection, the S3 is much cleaner (i.e. no screws).
Really like the look of this watch.
I'm not a fan of square watches, but the biggest thing that prevented me from buying the Apple Watch was it not being waterproof.
I'm not a fan of square watches, but the biggest thing that prevented me from buying the Apple Watch was it not being waterproof.
So its a maximum of 4 days. If you use LTE then you won't get 4 days, you'll get 4 hours.
Devil is always in the detail.
The e-sim is probably the most important advantage of this device, so it can be used as a phone - standalone.
I do not know if the lg watch urbane 2 with android wear 2.0 is the better one or the gear s3 but both of them are able to work compleately independently from a phone/
I hope apple will step up to this/
I do not know if the lg watch urbane 2 with android wear 2.0 is the better one or the gear s3 but both of them are able to work compleately independently from a phone/
I hope apple will step up to this/
