OK Greg, sit down. I know you don't want to hear it, but you've got a bit of a spending problem. Now the best way to solve this would be to give up all your material possessions and live in Tibet with the monks for about a year. Send your stuff over to me, I'll look after it for you while you're gone.
I have the Gear S2 and love love love it. And FWIW, I opted for the LTE version. As I get older I find myself halfway to wherever I'm going when I realize that I left my phone at home more often than I'd care to admit.
I received a Gear S3 Classic for Christmas, and I love it! I went 5 days of light use on a single charge. I replaced the leather band with a metal one, and that made the wearing experience superb.
I've had my Gear S3 for 2 months and love it! My favorite feature is Samsung pay, it works almost everywhere. The best part is everyone saying it won't work, then the look of shock on their face. And since it's safer than using your card, I use it everywhere I possibly can.
I got the Samsung S3 Frontier for Christmas. Its a beautiful smart watch with a lot of features packed in. Mine usually last me 3-4 hours per day and I don't really reply to text messages on it or even use it as a phone. I use it just for the notifications, like if I'm waiting for a important text or important phone call. The watch lets me see that notification right away. I'm happy with the gift and I'm glad I have it.
I've been using my gear S3 classic for 4 days now and its a very handy piece for getting notifications and reminders. I often miss my notifications and reminders on my phone because I can't feel it vibrate in my pocket. Its also really cool to be able to send texts secretly. The style of it makes it nearly impossible to tell that its a smart watch, giving the wearer the element of surprise. The most glaring weakness is the limited number of apps available for it. Evernote is the only app the I was able to find that I use heavily. I would argue that $300 is a bit overpriced, but then again so is the apple watch. Its a very nice piece but $300 still feels steep.
I just wanna set something straight. I read all the reviews of bad battery life on the gear s2. yet I own one and I get about 2 days. no (screen always on) at 4 brightness, with auto adjust. I get many social media notifications. and use quick replies a couple times a day. I'd say I'm a medium user.soo
Just because you don't have problems doesn't mean the majority of users experience mixed results, i.e. 8 hours one day, 16 hours the next. Inconsistency is undesirable.
I owned the original Galaxy Gear smart watch. With its terrible battery life, I had it setup for most of my regular notifications and got usually 2 days between charges (and I even used the camera on some of my trips and got some very decent photos with it). Same with my Gear S2 Classic. It all comes down to how you use the device. I love the S2 Classic. And i'm glad Salazar Studios is happy with his S3. I think they are some of the best looking smart watches available.
I would probably upgrade if I didn't make the mistake of backing something on indiegogo I was waiting for. Got the gear 2 neo and this seems like the first worth while upgrade in the smartwatch scene in some time. Very nice brief overview!
Great video & good decision going w/the Gear S3! I just subbed to your channel. Gear S3 is the best smartwatch on the market right now, even with the new LG Watch & Huawei Watch 2. I'm still amazed by all the awesome capabilities & style that the Gear S3 delivers. & customizing is so much fun. In fact, I'm a little obsessed & bought ungodly number of leather, metal, and silicone watch bands for it haha. XD
I bought this watch as well and I got to tell you I love it. I bought the frontier version. The only thing apple has over this watch in my opinion is how easy it is to change out the bands. It would be nice for Samsung to design a easier more robust way to change the bands on the fly. Other than that it's the best smartwatch I have owned
Genuine leather is a grade of leather. From what I can tell it is the third highest grade of leather out of four grades. Thanks for the video, I am shopping for a smart watch and its nice to see some of my tech youtubers share their opinions about them.
I checked benchamrks of 1700 vs 7700k on jokerproductions and 7700k is same or better. Thats because i7-7700k has more ipc/single threaded performance.
I've got an LG G Watch R, before they discontinued it, and damn I love it. I'll go 3-5 days without charging it and i use it all the time to send texts and play music (while in the car) and track my workout. My only gripe with it is there is no speaker so I can't call with it.
Hey, i dont know if you can hear it but you need to adjust something with your audio. Every time you talk there is a faint buzz that ive noticed in your last few videos
I have last year's model and it works great. I like to make calls on it when driving, so I don't have to worry about holding my phone. I got it for free with a bogo that att was offering at the time. My battery usually last two days. I love it when working out, because it has the workout app that has various workout in it, which monitors calories and heart rate. plus it connects with Bluetooth headset and has a music player in it to use while working out, so no need to carry your phone with you at the gym. I bought a rubber band that looks great with it and don't have to worry about sweat when in use.
Hey Greg, have you ever just had a regular watch? Like a Seiko or something. Also, the price ceiling on watches is famously nonexistent, so $300 for a good smartwatch really isn't that absurd. Good fit and finish for a normal lifestyle watch is around $200 at least anyway.
dogboy0912 That's a good point, I look at the Huawei watch I bought for $250 over a year ago and it's still totally worth the money. You could easily pay more for a normal watch that also is made of stainless steel and a sapphire glass. In the end it comes down to personal preference, hence why some spend ungodly amounts on watches. The issue is that they won't last nearly as long as real watches, a few years at most. Plus charging every couple of days is a drag (especially with the Huawei watch charger)
I have owned a Gear S2 Classic for a year now, and the battery is fine. I have my screen on 8% brightness and can get two days easily out of the watch, a full day with screen on all the time. I rarely take it off and even sleep with it on (sleep tracking is awesome and very accurate). I will agree with the strap though, I recently swapped my leather strap out for a metal one because the leather started to look really tatty. But buying replacement bands isnt an issue as it is a standard 22mm strap. If a budget buy is needed, I well recommend the S2 Classic it does everything the S3 does, and even with lower specs, it is rare I see any lag!
I have seen reports of inconsistencies, I guess I was lucky with my watch as I really haven't had any problems. Only thing that tanks mine is third party apps like Watchmaster. Given I have had the thing on pretty much 24/7 for the last year I am very impressed with how well the battery has lasted! You will be pleased with it though! the bezel navigation alone just feels so natural.
I actually don't see why you shouldn't charge your smart watch everyday. Lets be real everyone charges their phone every night and most people probably don't sleep with their watch on. Just charge it!
You forgot the most important part, you can get a multifunctional Pip-Boy watch-face for it - for free from Samsung :D But seriously, I bought the Gear S3 (long before this review came out) for one single reason. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 phone. I like that phone very much. I am however disabled and not very mobile. When I was outside and I got a call I was always worried about the phone just being grabbed out of my hand and someone making off with it. I looked at a number of reviews (about every one I could find from what I consider to be a reliable source) and what sold me was the quality of the connection between the watch and a phone. Having had the watch now for a few months I can confirm that the quality is really good, both on my end through the speaker and the person listening to me on their end. The battery life on it is very good, for my usage. I would give the watch my highest accolade which is, "It does what it says on the tin".
Umm, so that three days was with the display off? Coming from a Pebble where the screen is always visible, I'm not impressed with 3 days battery life if you have to grab at your hand with your other hand just to read the time.
Lol I just bought it today at Sprint, I got a really good deal because I bought S7 as well and they gave me Samsung VR for free and 300 off the phone + 40% off on beats studio wireless.
i got one with a reward card and now i have to say i am so stoked to get it but i would be classed as a heavy user most likely so how will the battery fare for me?
if battery life, sunlight visibility and looks are the top priority, wouldn't you prefer a pebble? Also would love to know the overall user experience of both apple and Samsung ecosystem, also a follow-up video after few months for both s7phone and s3 watch would be great 👍👍
I'm in the same boat in that I think wearable tech is a better idea once you see its use in person. I have a couple friends who own apple watches, they are a very novel idea.
Hardware looks great but I want Android Wear with Android Pay. The Sony Smartwatch 3 I got for £100 in November of 2015 was a steal. Sadly, there is nothing of the same value since that supports Android Pay, is waterproof and has a 2-3 day always on battery life. Were the Gear S3 Android Wear, I'd probably get one, even for the money. The dial looks great.
Ryzen benchmarks are tricky to say the least. Fine if you do it, just don't expect those to have any validity a few months from now. New platform, soms software bugs and developers who aren't used to take these new AMD CPU's into consideration. Disable multithreading for the games.
Love the s3 I have s2 classic haha paid same price I would get s3 but since watch is so big looks awakard I love watch but battery life only last me until I go to sleep
Runners, and people who go to the gym would like an option not to have to worry about their phone. I would love a watch that had cell signal. I could lift, listen streaming music, and receive only important messages, while my phone will be in my car. If I go for a 4+mile run, I would not like anything in my pocket. I would also like to use Android pay if I stop at a gas station on the way back.
Interesting video as always! But.. I'm not sure if saying you paid for it yourself is actually a good thing. It means you have a vested interest in giving it a good review - as no one wants to waste money, especially if it is their own. But that's your call as a RU-vidr.
1:20 ARGH!!! Pet peeve #1: addicting, drives me absolutely nuts when it is used instead of addictive, I thought it was just very poor translations in ads for dodgy web games, but now people are starting to actually say it I feel like I'm being driven insane.
I disagree with the battery life on the GS2, it's amazing in my experience (Easily a day and a half). just turn on auto brightness. and turn AOD off but then again, I really only use mine for style and time. not so much notifications. even though I use it to take a quick glance, but not interact with. people really don't think about how tiring holding out your arm for a period of time can get
I have a solar powered g-shock that I've been using for 12 years. Got it for my 10th birthday. I also have a ~$200 seiko diving watch, but I lost it for a year, battery died, and I've yet to do anything about it.
Samsung makes watches these days. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, in essence it is not that far away from a monitor from a technological point of view. It is weird that a company that processed fish became this technological giant, including the number 1 SSD's, thanks to some help from the USA government (the USA wanted South Korea as an ally, they arranged 'sharing' patents, low barriers for trade and stuff like that).
Abdul Fatir I think the minimum OS requirement for Android is 5.0 so you'll probably have to flash LineageOS or something since the GS3 never got the official update to Android 5.0
Abdul Fatir I just got my gear s3 Classic and I paired it with my galaxy s3 perfectly fine just last week. The sales clerk at Best Buy even double checked to make sure it would pair :)
