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SAMSUNG Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch Pedometer (Bluetooth), SM-R760NDAAXAR
Brand | SAMSUNG |
Model Name | gear |
Style | US Version |
Color | Dark Grey |
Screen Size | 46 |
Special Feature | Activity Tracker, Heart Rate Monitor, Sleep Monitor, Touchscreen, Alarm Clock, GPS, Pedometer |
Shape | Round |
Target Audience | Unisex Adult |
Age Range (Description) | Adult |
Compatible Devices | Smartphone |
About this item
- A distinctive steel bezel that you can rotate to access apps and notifications, strap with buckle: 2.76 inches, large strap with holes: 5.12 inches, small strap with holes: 4.33 inches
- Text, call and get notifications directly from your watch through your bluetooth connected smartwatch. Battery charging method - Wireless charging dock
- Make payments with Samsung pay almost anywhere you swipe or tap a credit card; Battery type and Size: 380mAh Li ion
- With military grade performance, the Gear S3 resists water, dust, extreme temperatures and the occasional drop; Typical usage: Up to 3 days
- Compatible with Android and iOS smartphones (compatible with select Bluetooth capable smartphones using Android OS 4.4 and later with at least 1.5GB RAM as well as iPhone 5 and later with iOS 9.0 and above; Gear S3 supported smartphones may vary by carrier and device; For a list of compatible smartphones and features
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Customer Ratings | |||||
Mobile App | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.4 | — | 4.2 |
Sleep tracking | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.3 | — | 4.2 |
Battery life | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | — | 3.6 |
Sold By | Celltraders | MOBILESUPPLY | eDealHunt | Hyper Microsystems | Amazon.com |
size | US Version | 41 mm | 45 mm | 47mm | 47mm |
operating system | Android Smartphones (Compatible with Android 4.4 and up, 1.5GB RAM and higher) | Tizen 4.0 | Android | Android | Android |
display size | — | 1.2 inches | 1.2 inches | 47 millimeters | 47 millimeters |
connectivity tech | Bluetooth | Bluetooth, USB | Bluetooth, USB | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
supported applications | Pedometer | GPS | GPS | — | Sleep Monitor |
input interface | buttons | microphone | microphone | touch screen | — |
wireless standard | 802 11 B, 802 11 G, 802 11 N | bluetooth | bluetooth | bluetooth | bluetooth |
water resistance | water resistant | water resistant | water resistant | — | water resistant |
From the manufacturer
At a Glance:
- Text, call, and get notifications directly from your Bluetooth connected watch.
- Make payments with Samsung Pay almost anywhere you can swipe or tap a credit card.
- The built-in GPS keeps track of your activity and makes it easy to share your location.
- With military-grade performance, the Gear S3 resists water, dust, extreme temperatures, and the occasional drop.
Samsung Gear S3 frontier
Stay in touch, without reaching for your phone, with the smartwatch that’s engineered for adventure. With the Gear S3, you can pay right from your wrist, track your location, and withstand any weather .
Additional Features:
- Rotate the distinctive steel bezel to easily access apps and notifications.
- Go nonstop for days on a single charge and recharge on the wireless charger.
- With the built-in S Health app, track your steps, monitor your heart rate, and more.
- Access the apps you use every day on your Gear S3.
- Make it your own by customizing your watch face and swapping out the standard 22mm band.
- Samsung Gear S3 is compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones.
Never Miss A Moment
The Gear S3 is Bluetooth connected, so you can receive texts, emails, and alerts without reaching for your phone. With a built-in speaker and microphone, you can also make and answer calls hands-free.
Leave Your Wallet Behind
Pack light for your next adventure. With Samsung Pay on your Gear S3, you can easily make payments with your watch almost anywhere you can swipe or tap a credit card—even without your phone or wallet.
Get Out There
Whether you’re off-roading or exploring a new city, the built-in GPS tracks your activity and makes it easy to share your location.
Designed For The Elements
The military-grade Gear S3 is tough enough to handle the elements. It resists water, dust, extreme temperatures, and the occasional drop so you can venture out with confidence.
Access Apps In An Instant
Rotate the distinctive steel bezel to easily access apps and notifications so you can instantly check texts, updates, and more.
Power On
Go nonstop for days on a single charge. When it’s time to recharge, the wireless charger lets you power up without slowing down.
Track Your Fitness
With the built-in S Health app, track your steps, monitor your heart rate, and more. Set goals, post results, and check leaderboards to see how you stack up.
Apps At Your Command
Access the apps you use every day on your Gear S3. Catch a ride, check scores, stream music, and more.
Tailored to you
Make the Gear S3 your own. Customize your watch face, choosing from thousands of striking colors and designs. Plus easily swap out the standard 22mm band.
Android and iOS Compatible:
Connect your Samsung Gear S3 with both Android and iOS smartphones. Pair your smartwatch via Bluetooth using the Samsung Gear companion app to see where the freedom of Samsung Gear S3 can take you.
Samsung Gear S3 (Bluetooth) is a companion device for compatible Android and iOS smartphones, sold separately. Full connectivity functionality requires Bluetooth pairing to a wireless network-connected phone. Some features are not available on iOS smartphones. Visit Samsung's official website for details.
For best results, Samsung Pay on Gear S3 requires network connection through LTE, Wi-Fi or via Bluetooth pairing with compatible smartphone. After Initial setup, Samsung Pay on Gear S3 can make at least five transactions without reconnecting to a network.
Samsung Pay on the Gear S3 is only compatible with select cards, carriers and Android smartphones.
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Product information
Product Dimensions | 1.81 x 1.93 x 0.51 inches |
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Item Weight | 2.24 ounces |
ASIN | B01M7MDK5S |
Item model number | SM-R760NDAAXAR |
Batteries | 2 CR123A batteries required. |
Customer Reviews |
4.4 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #27,945 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics) #763 in Smartwatches |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
OS | Android Smartphones (Compatible with Android 4.4 and up, 1.5GB RAM and higher) |
Wireless communication technologies | Bluetooth |
Connectivity technologies | Bluetooth |
Special features | Activity Tracker, Heart Rate Monitor, Sleep Monitor, Touchscreen, Alarm Clock, GPS, Pedometer |
Display technology | AMOLED |
Other display features | Wireless |
Human Interface Input | Buttons |
Color | Dark Grey |
Battery Power Rating | 380 Milliamp Hours |
Whats in the box | charger, watch |
Department | Men's |
Manufacturer | Samsung |
Date First Available | November 7, 2016 |
Weight | 2.24 ounces |
Standing screen display size | 46 |
Memory Storage Capacity | 4 GB |
Ram Memory Installed Size | 1.5 GB |
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Product Description
Stay in touch, without reaching for your phone (1), with the smartwatch that's engineered for adventure. With the Gear S3, you can pay right from your wrist, track your location, and withstand any weather (2). Enhanced Connectivity: The Gear S3 is Bluetooth connected (1), so you can receive texts, emails, and alerts without reaching for your phone. With a built-in speaker and microphone, you can also make and answer calls hands-free.
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Customers like the performance, ease of use, and quality of the wearable computer. For example, they say it does almost everything well, the heart monitor works flawlessly, and the Bluetooth connectivity works well. Customers are also impressed with the quality, and appearance. That said, opinions are mixed on the app, battery life, heart rate monitor, and value.
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Customers like the quality of the wearable computer. They say that the catalog is extensive, high quality, and easy to navigate. The software is amazing and smooth, and the apps are solid and don't feel cheap. Overall, customers find it to be a nice phone companion and has a strong and noticeable speaker.
"...Functionally, the watch is great...." Read more
"...Yes, they do get their own section because they are varied and amazing. Personally, I love the PipBoy Fallout 4 watch face...." Read more
"...It's awesome that the watch has a decent and passable speaker that you can easily take a call and hold a conversation with someone in a mostly quiet..." Read more
"...It now tracks altitudes as well as distance, has a strong and noticeable speaker for those quiet mornings without a headset, and looks as beautiful..." Read more
Customers like the performance of the wearable computer. They mention that it does almost everything well, the heart monitor works flawlessly, and the overall function experience is pleasant to use. It's universal and works well with any style, and connectivity/app uses the Bluetooth works well. The Gear S3 is a wonderful piece of technology and can do some basic stuff. It is full of all kinds of features that customers have not yet explored, but they learn something about them. It also supports an offline functionality where you can download maps of an area.
"...the LTE, I continue to use it as a bluetooth device only and it works flawlessly!! Samsung really hit it out of the park with the Gear S3 Frontier...." Read more
"I'm a big fan of le Galaxy Gear for its ease of use and effectiveness at keeping me in touch with the everyday goings on of my smartphone...." Read more
"...I've found this to be rather untrue. I've found that it pretty much doesn't work unless you are moving your hand from a stationary position, such as..." Read more
"...This is easy...works all the time.4. Speaker phone. Yeah, I have a phone nearby with a speaker...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the wearable computer. They say that it is a very good looking watch, the Tizen OS is nice and fast, and the machine inside is nothing short of breathtaking. The display is very vibrant and looks like a watch.
"...I'm using the standard band that comes with the watch, which looks good, but I like that I can easily switch bands if I want to...." Read more
"...I put it on and paired it and was super impressed with the exceptionally well designed and responsive UI...." Read more
"...It's so nice, I'm not even sure I'm going to use it while mowing...." Read more
"...This is an area the Pebble Steel Time won out at hands down. It looks great though, it's very classy looking (in my opinion) and it's easy to switch..." Read more
Customers like the ease of use of the wearable computer. They say it is intuitive, convenient, and user friendly. The design and interface are simple yet functional, and the added features are easy to install and remove. The Gear S3 is simple to set up and effortlessly integrates with email. The watch with built-in GPS is simple yet effective, and it provides information about your steps and activity. The bezel as an interface is great and works well. The compatibility is seamless with Samsung phones.
"I'm a big fan of le Galaxy Gear for its ease of use and effectiveness at keeping me in touch with the everyday goings on of my smartphone...." Read more
"...This is easy...works all the time.4. Speaker phone. Yeah, I have a phone nearby with a speaker...." Read more
"...First the hardware, everyone can agree it's smooth, amazing and easy to navigate.The software......" Read more
"...Absolutely no Google apps are available for it. No Google Now...." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the battery life of the wearable computer. Some mention that it has excellent battery life, while others say that it needs to be recharged frequently. They say that the watch still has horrible battery life and that it wastes a lot of battery when using GPS.
"...and am now using a Motorola X Pure Edition and I must say, battery life is even BETTER!!..." Read more
"...unknown reason, the battery life, which was 3+ days, has gone down to about 8 hours...." Read more
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"...The battery life is a step up from the previous generation: It takes longer to charge and has a tendency to get hot, which halts the charging process..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the wearable computer. Some mention that it's reasonably priced, has GPS, and can be used to pay without bringing a hefty wallet full of cards. They also mention that the cost of replacement was not prohibitive, and the watch has good GPS signals. However, some customers say that there are several cheap and poorly designed bands, and that the watch is not a very good fitness watch.
"...I'd say those four capabilities make the watch worth the money (it's a tech luxury, but worth it)...." Read more
"...It's a nice watch with an elevated price tag. Like 90% of smart watches out there, it has relatively lack luster battery life...." Read more
"...to alter the start of my runs to get good GPS signals but it’s worth the trade-offs. The music integration is very nice...." Read more
"...There are some decent apps such as a Basic Calculator, Discount Calculator, Weather app, youtube app, music player, flash light, calendar, to-do list..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the app. Some mention they were happy with the quite a great selection of apps available, while others say that the apps are lacking on it. They say the S-Health app is cool, and the weather app is nice. However, some complain that the selection of applications is very limited, and that some apps would not download. They also say that some of the apps do not support all the exercise functions that the phone app does.
"...The only issue with regard to Tizen is the lack of apps, but I don't really care about extending the capabilities beyond what it already does..." Read more
"...No Android Pay. No Gmail. Nothing. The Spotify app is pretty nice, but for some reason I can't select Spotify Radio stations in it, only playlists...." Read more
"...Too bad there aren't that many apps to install but I can live with that and don't need anything special on mine...." Read more
"...apps such as a Basic Calculator, Discount Calculator, Weather app, youtube app, music player, flash light, calendar, to-do list, yelp, news headlines..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the heart rate monitor. Some mention that they like the heart monitor, the step tracker, weather updates, and that the watch is accurate at picking up their activities. Others say that the heart-rate monitor is not as accurate as the chest strap, and the stair counter is not very accurate.
"...The watch has decent sensors for 'exercise', though I suspect there are superior watches for that...." Read more
"...I have had a few issues with activity detection...." Read more
"...This watch face displays the following information, but you can find probably another 100 that do the same in zany and creative ways: Time, Date,..." Read more
"...I have heard it is horribly inaccurate especially when doing interval or split training. It seems fine for me for just general regular pace runs...." Read more
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I'm giving a temporary 3-stars in hopes that I can figure out a solution. If I can, I'll bring this up to 5-stars. If I can't, I'll lower this to 1-star and return it. Either way, once I figure out what I'm going to do, I'll provide better feedback with what I like and dislike, etc....
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Update: So, after the watch completely discharged its battery, and I let it fully charge again, I'm back to a full 3 days of use. The only setting I changed after it charged was turning the 'connections -> wifi' from 'auto' to 'off'. I figure I almost always have my phone, and if I don't, I'm probably not near an open access point WITHOUT a captive portal (requiring browser-based login). That doesn't necessarily explain the battery drain because this was how I had the setting previously.
This is a great watch, based on what I was looking for. I previously had an LG G watch, one of those goofy-ass rectangular smartwatches, and other than the style, i really liked the functionality. I like the style of many new round smartwatches, but they were either prohibitively expensive (Tag Heuer), or the battery life was crap (most smartwatches), or, in the case of the LG Watch Sport and Style, you either got more than you wanted and paid for it, or not enough.
My criteria:
Looks (subjective, but essentially, a round smartwatch that wasn't too bulky, but with a screen big enough to use)
Functionality (had to work with a non-Samsung Android smartwatch, show notifications from hangouts, SMS, calendar, etc)
Battery Life (had to very easily make it through 24 hours)
Non-LTE version
I think the watch looks great. I'm a bigger dude, so the watch doesn't look out of place and huge on my wrist like some of the other photos I've seen. If you have svelte features, maybe the size would be problematic. I'm using the standard band that comes with the watch, which looks good, but I like that I can easily switch bands if I want to.
Functionally, the watch is great. I get notifications from SMS and Hangouts, as well as from Google calendar, which I use at work for upcoming meetings. Initially, as I was researching the watch, I wasn't sure if a non-Samsung watch would pair well with this, since it doesn't run Android Wear (it runs Samsung's Tizen OS). The only issue with regard to Tizen is the lack of apps, but I don't really care about extending the capabilities beyond what it already does (wihch is what I need/want). The watch has decent sensors for 'exercise', though I suspect there are superior watches for that. I don't exercise that much and don't care about measuring my heart-rate anyway. I can feel my heart about to explode out of my chest when I play hockey, which is a good enough indicator that I'm getting some exercise.
Battery life is awesome. I'm currently on my third day since its last charge, and other than the weird drain issue I first wrote about, the watch has been solid. I do currently have wifi off, as well as location, since I usually have my cell phone nearby; the watch gets that info from the phone. Knowing I can turn either of those on, if I needed to, is nice. I also have my watch face set to only turn on when I move my wrist or push a button. I've read that keeping the display always-on would reduce battery quite a bit. Good thing I'm not always looking at the watch face.
Bonus features!
Samsung Pay. I never used Android pay (NFC) for purchases. I was sort of waiting until it was more ubiquitous and expected, as opposed to everyone looking at you like 'one of those types'. That's just my own insecurity though. But with this watch, I just press a button, select a card, and then hold the watch near the card-paying-thingie (NFC terminal) at the store. That's great and all, but what's really super great is that it doesn't have to be an NFC terminal. As long as it's got the magnetic strip, this watch will work! I tried it at a local liquor store and the woman said, "this device is really old and doesn't have that fancy technology." I replied, "this watch is magic, check this out!". We were both pretty impressed.
Another feature I really like is how you can reply to messages. There is an old phone style keyboard, with 2-3 letter per number, which is just terrible. There is the ability to speak into the watch, which I don't use because nothing comes close to Google's speech recognition, in my option. And the other option is to draw the letters on the screen. I wasn't sure how well that would work; it works great! Just draw each letter, quickly, if you want, with an underscore for a 'space', and then send. Love it.
Finally, Dick Tracy, you can answer phone calls through your watch. Just speak into it. I haven't really used this, and figure I will never use it unless I'm tied to a shark, which is tied to a missile, or maybe if I'm driving (I don't have Bluetooth in my car). But it's cool.
Anyway, this is a good watch.
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2017
I'm giving a temporary 3-stars in hopes that I can figure out a solution. If I can, I'll bring this up to 5-stars. If I can't, I'll lower this to 1-star and return it. Either way, once I figure out what I'm going to do, I'll provide better feedback with what I like and dislike, etc....
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Update: So, after the watch completely discharged its battery, and I let it fully charge again, I'm back to a full 3 days of use. The only setting I changed after it charged was turning the 'connections -> wifi' from 'auto' to 'off'. I figure I almost always have my phone, and if I don't, I'm probably not near an open access point WITHOUT a captive portal (requiring browser-based login). That doesn't necessarily explain the battery drain because this was how I had the setting previously.
This is a great watch, based on what I was looking for. I previously had an LG G watch, one of those goofy-ass rectangular smartwatches, and other than the style, i really liked the functionality. I like the style of many new round smartwatches, but they were either prohibitively expensive (Tag Heuer), or the battery life was crap (most smartwatches), or, in the case of the LG Watch Sport and Style, you either got more than you wanted and paid for it, or not enough.
My criteria:
Looks (subjective, but essentially, a round smartwatch that wasn't too bulky, but with a screen big enough to use)
Functionality (had to work with a non-Samsung Android smartwatch, show notifications from hangouts, SMS, calendar, etc)
Battery Life (had to very easily make it through 24 hours)
Non-LTE version
I think the watch looks great. I'm a bigger dude, so the watch doesn't look out of place and huge on my wrist like some of the other photos I've seen. If you have svelte features, maybe the size would be problematic. I'm using the standard band that comes with the watch, which looks good, but I like that I can easily switch bands if I want to.
Functionally, the watch is great. I get notifications from SMS and Hangouts, as well as from Google calendar, which I use at work for upcoming meetings. Initially, as I was researching the watch, I wasn't sure if a non-Samsung watch would pair well with this, since it doesn't run Android Wear (it runs Samsung's Tizen OS). The only issue with regard to Tizen is the lack of apps, but I don't really care about extending the capabilities beyond what it already does (wihch is what I need/want). The watch has decent sensors for 'exercise', though I suspect there are superior watches for that. I don't exercise that much and don't care about measuring my heart-rate anyway. I can feel my heart about to explode out of my chest when I play hockey, which is a good enough indicator that I'm getting some exercise.
Battery life is awesome. I'm currently on my third day since its last charge, and other than the weird drain issue I first wrote about, the watch has been solid. I do currently have wifi off, as well as location, since I usually have my cell phone nearby; the watch gets that info from the phone. Knowing I can turn either of those on, if I needed to, is nice. I also have my watch face set to only turn on when I move my wrist or push a button. I've read that keeping the display always-on would reduce battery quite a bit. Good thing I'm not always looking at the watch face.
Bonus features!
Samsung Pay. I never used Android pay (NFC) for purchases. I was sort of waiting until it was more ubiquitous and expected, as opposed to everyone looking at you like 'one of those types'. That's just my own insecurity though. But with this watch, I just press a button, select a card, and then hold the watch near the card-paying-thingie (NFC terminal) at the store. That's great and all, but what's really super great is that it doesn't have to be an NFC terminal. As long as it's got the magnetic strip, this watch will work! I tried it at a local liquor store and the woman said, "this device is really old and doesn't have that fancy technology." I replied, "this watch is magic, check this out!". We were both pretty impressed.
Another feature I really like is how you can reply to messages. There is an old phone style keyboard, with 2-3 letter per number, which is just terrible. There is the ability to speak into the watch, which I don't use because nothing comes close to Google's speech recognition, in my option. And the other option is to draw the letters on the screen. I wasn't sure how well that would work; it works great! Just draw each letter, quickly, if you want, with an underscore for a 'space', and then send. Love it.
Finally, Dick Tracy, you can answer phone calls through your watch. Just speak into it. I haven't really used this, and figure I will never use it unless I'm tied to a shark, which is tied to a missile, or maybe if I'm driving (I don't have Bluetooth in my car). But it's cool.
Anyway, this is a good watch.
I did a ton of research before buying my first smart watch about 6 months ago. Before I purchased this, I did some cursory research and found the Gear S3 was still pretty great, despite newcomers to the market, so I purchased it.
When I first got the watch, I was so excited. I put it on and paired it and was super impressed with the exceptionally well designed and responsive UI. Using the bezel to control the watch is a stroke of pure genius, honestly. Despite the small area of the physical face of the watch, and how very tiny the icons on it are, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was able to easily and without error interact with the small icons.
Then came the disappointment.
The app store for the Gear is exceptionally anemic, primarily consisting of watch faces and applications that are very niche. There is no Gear support for Pandora, or Audible. Absolutely no Google apps are available for it. No Google Now. No Google Maps (although there is a well-designed app available in the store that uses Google Maps for like $2). No Android Pay. No Gmail. Nothing. The Spotify app is pretty nice, but for some reason I can't select Spotify Radio stations in it, only playlists. I was exceptionally disappointed as I have based everything in Google. Pretty much, the only apps that are really any good are from Samsung. This was a further disappointment as Samsung apps are usually fat and offensively slow.
I contemplated returning it in favor of a Huwaii or a LG Watch Sport, but I figured I'd give it a few days. The interface is just SO well made. It is very responsive. The Samsung apps actually aren't crap this time, and they covered most of the use cases I have for my watch. So I gave it a few days.
This is the part where the 5 stars come in.
After using it for a few days and acquainting myself with it's various idiosyncrasies, I began to realize that all I actually need for it are the Samsung apps. It *would* be nice if there were apps from Pandora and Audible and CityMapper and Moovit and it supported Google Now, but it doesn't and that is actually a very workable scenario.
The watch allows me to control my phone, basically, without taking it out of my pocket. So while I'm on the bus, if I swipe down on the watch face and hit the music note icon, I can control all aspects of the playback on my phone from the watch. Rewind, fast forward, pause, change the volume, change tracks, all of it. The altimeter is very accurate. I can create reminders and appointments right on the watch face. It displays the weather and my agenda using very will designed UIs. With a tap, I can zoom in on the weather and agenda to get more information, and I can plot the route to an appointment, if I included location information in the calendar item (although you have to open the phone to see the route). There is an Uber app for the watch that makes it very easy to call a cab.
Finally, the watchfaces. Yes, they do get their own section because they are varied and amazing. Personally, I love the PipBoy Fallout 4 watch face. It displays an amazing amount of information using the interface of one of my favorite games. This watch face displays the following information, but you can find probably another 100 that do the same in zany and creative ways: Time, Date, Heartrate, Water Consumption, Coffee Consumption, Battery Level, Step Count, plus shortcuts to Music and Pictures, Samsung Health Daily Review, Alarms and Calendar. I wish the PipBoy interface showed the temperature, because if it did it would be on there too.
Now, for the downsides, and there are some doozies.
1) Samsung Pay does not work on my phone because I enabled the Samsung-provided Knox feature. I later disabled it because I didn't like it. But you know what that did? It flipped flag on my phone that disables Samsung Pay. The Gear only works with Samsung Pay. Let me repeat that - A Samsung supplied feature, Knox, disables Samsung Pay, because it flips the flag that says the device has been rooted. You are probably thinking "OK, so I contact Samsung support and they fix it, right?" Nope. Samsung has no way to flip this flag back. They designed Knox in such a way that it makes your phone think it has been rooted, and they have no way to fix it if Knox is later disabled. That is exceptionally stupid. I am an engineer. I am aghast to think of the internal processes at Samsung that allowed a feature to be released into the wild that breaks your phone and does not supply a fix. It requires a monumental level of dysfunction for that to happen.
2) You are limited to the Samsung ecosystem. So if you don't like Samsung mail, too bad. No other mail client available. Don't like Samsung Pay? Too bad. No other option available. Etc.
3) If Samsung Mail is enabled, and it is connected to a company mail server that requires the watch to be encrypted to view mail, you will have to type in a pin just to check the time. Yup, you read that right. Want to just check the time really quick? Nope! You gotta type in your password first. Again, as an engineer, how does that get through focus testing without any developer hearing a customer say "that is amazingly stupid". How does a developer, in their OWN DEVELOPMENT of the software, not get tired of typing in their password to check the time? It's amazing.
4) When you make the motion typical of checking the time on a watch, the watch face is supposed to light up automatically. I've found this to be rather untrue. I've found that it pretty much doesn't work unless you are moving your hand from a stationary position, such as standing at a bus stop or sitting at your desk. If your hand is in motion it doesn't seem to recognize the motion to look at it, despite the rather unique motion of rotating the wrist. That is a very unique movement, and I noticed that this does not happen to a friend who has the Apple watch. It seems to actually be keyed on the wrist flip to turn on, as it turns on in a movie theatre when you place your hands behind your head.
In summary, great watch despite the lack of app support
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Reviewed in Mexico on July 11, 2019
Actualizacion 17/10/2020
A casi tres años de mi compra puedo decir que no estoy arrepentido de nada, el reloj continúa como el primer día que lo adquirí. Cabe mencionar que originalmente venía con una correa como de goma, como al año y medio comencé a notar que tenía un desgaste considerable, sin que esta llegase a romperse, así que le compre una correa metálica y aparte de verse más elegante, es súper resistente. En resumen el reloj nunca me ha fallado, la batería es duradera, aproximadamente dos días y medio, solo que tengan cuidado si lo llevan a la playa, ya que los granos de arena se atoran dentro del altavoz y del micrófono del reloj, pero nada que una limpieza con aire comprimido no solucione.