Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch - UK Version

This is my first smart-watch so I can't compare it to anything else. The rotating bezel is very useful and used for many things depending on what you're doing with the watch at that moment, from selecting widgets from the home screen, to navigating through settings, to adjusting the volume during a call and so on. In fact it's so useful I think that having a smart-watch without an interactive bezel would be a big disadvantage. The watch's operating system is fast and intuitive and it's great being able to change the watch-face. Sometimes I'll choose one of the many free digital watch-faces and other times an analogue version. Some are already installed on the watch but others can be installed in seconds either directly by using the watch or by finding them within the Gear app on your phone, and then sending them to your watch. It's incredibly simple. I'm also surprised by how accurate the heart monitor is. I used it the other day while on a cross-trainer which has a heart monitor where you wear the sensor like a belt around your chest. I checked the watch against the cross-trainer three times, twice the watch gave the exact same reading and the third time it was only two BPM out. I was surprised as I'd often heard heart monitors on watches weren't usually very reliable. In fact, I was also amazed that the watch automatically detected I was on a cross-trainer without me telling it I was doing a workout, really impressive. As for durability, it's definitely well made and a solid watch but like anything metal or glass, try to avoid scratching it. I've since changed the supplied leather strap to (in my opinion) a much nicer looking silicon 22mm strap from Amazon, which is also far more flexible and therefore easier/quicker to take on and off. I actually bought a bright orange strap and then used a pre-installed black/orange digital watch-face and I think it looks pretty smart. Making/receiving calls through the watch is easy and surprisingly good. I wouldn't want to use it where there's a lot of background noise but if I'm at home it's ideal if I've got my hands full and don't want to take my phone out of my pocket. This version of the S3 cannot however make or receive calls on its own, it does it by connecting to your phone via Bluetooth. For its size the sound is more than acceptable. Don't expect wonders if you want it to play music as look at the size of it, it's a watch. It's fine to hear notifications and make a call in a relatively quiet room and that's all you should expect from it anyway. I like being able to customise the watch with which widgets I want to be easily accessible from the home-screen and in what order. I also like being able to quickly check to see if a notification is worthy of attention rather than having to get my phone out of my pocket. I'll make this my last point, as I could go on and on, but I only have positives to say about this watch. Battery life, it's great and will easily last me four or five days at a time between charges, and it doesn't take long to charge back up. I do take it off and switch it off at night though, have a mainly black watch-face and set it only to illuminate if I press a button or raise my arm to see the time. If you chose a bright watch-face and set it to always on then obviously the battery life would be drastically reduced. Without doubt an excellent watch.

I have owned an Apple watch, Pebble smartwatch and a moto 360 and this is without a doubt the best smartwatch I have owned. Once you have used a smartwatch for more than about a week you soon realise the main use cases (at least for me) boil down to: checking notifications, changing songs and checking the weather or time at a glance only occasionally actually using apps. This can, of course, be done on any smartwatch but none are as streamlined as this one. Notifications behave much the same as an apple watch coming in you can keep looking and the notification will "expand" into more detail or lower your wrist and it will go away. But when it comes to checking notifications that have already come in it's as simple as turning the ring around the watch to the left to cycle through them, and your weather and music widgets are accessed by turning the ring to the right instead. It is very intuitive. The touchscreen is very responsive and is a very good resolution for its size. Anyone familiar with a Samsung device will know that they come loaded with options and this watch is no exception, there are more options than I can even be bothered to look at but the end result is a watch that can behave exactly the way you want it to. It syncs to your phone via the Gear app (which is now preloaded on most Samsung phones I think but can be downloaded from the app store, although at the time of my purchase any non-Samsung phones had to jump through multiple hurdles to get the watch to work and in some cases it didn't have all the features so it is best to check your phone is supported before purchasing). The Gear app allows you to change the order of the widgets (or remove/add new ones) as well as adding health information and transferring songs to the inbuilt 4GB of storage, useful if you intend to take it running with wireless headphones (The UK only has the WiFi version of the watch so whilst you can run with it and listen to music you will not receive texts/calls without having your phone on you). One of the best features in my opinion though is the ability to receive notifications from your phone if the watch is connected to WiFi, even if your phone is on 3G and not connected to the watch by Bluetooth. This means you can walk around the house, leaving your phone upstairs and still get texts sent to your wrist. Overall, this is a very good smartwatch, in fact probably the best you can buy right now, its crammed with features and its water resistance gives you that added piece of mind but whether it's worth the money or not is ultimately down to you and how much usage you think you will get from it.

So I had watch for a few days now and I'm very impressed with it! First of all Gear S3 Classic looks really smart and expensive. With only couple touches you can change the face of watch from classic watch face to let say sport watch or something really wacky! There's hundreds of watch faces that you can find in Samsung App store for any occasion. Other fantastic feature is GPS built in. I have test GPS next to mine Garmin Fenix 3 and it was spot on! I measured cadence, heart rate, pace, average speed etc you name it. I look with a pinch of salt at HR built in watches and always use chest strap to get proper readings during workout. Saying that heart rate measured by Gear S3 during my 5K run was same as the one measured with chest strap on Garmin Fenix 3 which impressed me a lot. Another feature that I absolutely loved was able to get music on my watch, meaning I can leave my phone at home and stream music from my watch to my bluetooth earphones. Love it Love it Love it. Having Spotify app is great and love being able to control my spotify from my watch. Wish there was option to save music for offline listening to your watch but hopefully will see that enabled with future updates. Shame we don't have samsung pay in UK yet as ability to pay with your phone sounds amazing! Once again no doubt that will come in early 2017 or with the launch of Samsung Galaxy S8. Activity tracking on Gear S3 has everything you would expect: steps counter, Sleep tracking, heart rate tracking, stress levels and so on. I recommend you to use it with Samsung S-Health to take full advantage of it. I short it's perfect watch for any occasion from business meeting to great fitness watch. Pros: GPS WiFi Hundreds of face washes Great battery life Samsung Pay Spotify Storage for music Fitness watch capabilities Design (Looks Gorgeous) Built Quality feels premium Display looks stunning Fantastic rotating bezel implementation HR monitor IP68 rating Cons: Nothing so far

I have had this watch now for over a week and now think I can give a fair review. As a user of the Apple watch, from the day it was released, I always felt that it lacked something. Fortunately the Apple watch gave up the ghost and gave me an excuse to look for a replacement. Firstly, and I know aesthetics are of a personal taste, I think the watch looks great, a couple of people independently what make the watch is, and are surprised when they find out it is a digital smart watch, if wearing a posh suit, it could easily pass of as a £1,000 watch. It is quite big, but certainly not ridiculously large, although I would say it is too big for women, unless of course the oversized watch is the style they are going for. So the comparison with the Apple Watch and also using with Apple iPhone 6: Connecting to my iPhone was slightly confusing via the Samsung Gear App, it has 2 x bluetooth connections, one LE (low energy) and the other for connecting to phone calls...which brings me to the point, you can use it for phone calls with the iPhone, contrary to what I have read on other reviews. Whilst on the subject of other reviews, there are quite a few that mention disconnection problems from the phone...I just don't see that, it hasn't disconnected once, other that when it is out of Bluetooth range, it simply is rock solid...and again contrary to other reviews, you don't need the iPhone App running in the background whatsoever. The only time I use the Gear App is to upload watch faces, or watch apps, and of course to access the Samsung Health App. I mainly use the watch as a notification point, so I like to have my phone on silent but not miss calls, messages and reminders. From this point of view the watch is perfect, but so was the Apple Watch. So what made me choose this over getting another Apple Watch? Firstly it was battery life. The Apple Watch under normal use will last 18-24 hours, which effectively means I need to put on charge every night. With the Samsung Gear, the battery life in comparison is superb. From 100% at 7am, it will have 75% left when i go to bed at night at 11pm, effectively giving me 3-4 days between charges. But now I have the watch, I think there are so many things better about this; as I mentioned earlier I think it looks great, and although I think the Apple Watch is a nice design, I think it can look too casual. Whereas I think the Gear can look smart for work and sporty out of work. Also the OS is far better than Apple's, I was quite surprised how jumbled-up and bad the Apple Watch OS was, considering Apple are the kings of simplicity. The Samsung having a bigger screen for one helps, and configuring app locations is far better; for example I just swipe to the right to access my most used apps - Calendar, S-Health and Music Player. I can't say that I'm 100% sure of the accuracy of the activity monitor, for example a walk I do every day and know is 4.6m, is recorded as 4.2m, this may be something to do with my GPS set-up or something, but for the moment, it is wrong. So to summarise, I have to ask myself what I think is better on the Apple Watch? Well I do miss Apple Pay a little bit (you can get Samsung Pay if you have a Samsung phone). I miss being able to send quick default replies to messages, such as 'Yes', 'No Problem' etc. There are more apps available, but seriously...how many of these do people actually use?? The Apple Watch 2, it totally waterproof for swimming, unlike the Gear which is just ok for say having a bath. And...ermmm...that's about it. I'm in no doubt this is a better watch than Apple's, even for an iPhone user. As I said: It has way better battery life, has a better interface, looks like a high end watch, is seamless with connectivity and notifications (and that's from an iPhone user!), automatically detects a workout like a walk or run, records sleep and is cheaper. One downside is the backing-up, I had to do a factory reset and it lost all my configuration, which took an hour to get back..maybe there is a way to back this up, but can't see that? If you are in the market for a smart watch, I would highly recommend this, no matter if you are an Android or iOS user.

Most people will know the features of this lovely watch so I'll just record a few thoughts having owned it now for a couple of weeks. The fit: very comfortable. I do have skinny wrists and so I was a little worried it might be too big but actually it's no bigger than the Pro-Trek I'd worn previously so it certainly doesn't look out of place. Incidentally, I tried it with the default large band straight out of the box and I wear it with 2 or 3 holes still free. The strap also fits neatly in the double clasps so there's no excess strap sticking out in a unsightly fashion. The battery life: like some other users, I also prefer to use it as a smart watch and so have bluetooth, wifi, location etc all activated and I'm still at the stage where I'm constantly ogling it but battery life has always been around the 2 day mark which is good in my opinion. I also installed the latest update which promised better battery life and improved bluetooth but I haven't noticed any difference. Battery performance is still around the 2 day mark and there weren't any issues with bluetooth prior to the update so I'm not sure what exactly the update was trying to accomplish. The apps: I do have a Samsung phone so I don't have any issues to report with apps/compatibility but I do note other non-Samsung phones/iPhones etc don't have the same full range of features when paired with the Gear S3. I've been a long-term Fitbit user and I don't like Samsung Health as much. When I compared Fitbit performance with Samsung Health, the Fitbit seemed more accurate for step counts/floors climbed etc. with SH generally recording less in each case than the actual, sometimes by about 10%. Heart rate measurements are similar on both devices. It's great being able to answer calls/texts using your watch and I've found the speaker to be very clear and the person I'm talking to has reported hearing my voice clearly when I talk at normal volume. Watch faces are awesome, I've taken advantage of the Facer app also with plenty of great choices. General thoughts: This watch is absolutely gorgeous. The screen is excellent quality with everything very clear and readable. I can expect the battery life to improve even more when I'm finally able to stop looking at it! The wireless charger is a nice touch, the phone just sitting gently in the cradle. Integration with Samsung S9+ is flawless. It's a top gadget. I wish I had bought one sooner. Also, I bought mine directly from Amazon and had no problem registering it on the Samsung website for the 2 year warranty. It was a UK model. I'd like to be able to try Samsung Pay but unfortunately my bank doesn't use it. Hope some of these comments prove to be useful. Have a good un.

I bought a Gear S2 Classic (excellent device) last year and liked the look of the Gear S3 Frontier as soon as it was announced but baulked at the £349 asking price, the recent Prime Day reduction saw the price dip to £249 so took the plunge. I'm perhaps not the most typical smart watch user in that by default I turn off all the notification features, the phone (Galaxy S8) does that perfectly so no need to replicate that on my wrist. I do however travel a great deal swapping in and out of Global time-zones and the Gear devices are fabulous for that - either manually changing the time zone on the phone or having the phone sync with local network time automatically means that the watch is always absolutely bang on with the right time. The S3 Frontier is everything that the S2 Classic was but in a lovely chunky (dare I say it; 'Manly') size, it has the wonderful tactile quality that Samsung have built into the S8, a genuinely nice device to hold and handle. I own a proper Breitling Aerospace watch and it feels every bit as nice in the hand - praise indeed. The rotating crown feels perfectly weighted and is notated with silver digits, 05,10, 15 etc, looks gorgeous. There is just one thing that disappoints, especially compared wih the S2 Classic and that's the strap - the S2 had a quality lined, black leather item that was both stylish and comfortable, the black silicone strap of the S3 Frontier whilst still a quality item detracts from the premier feel of the device however there are numerous alternatives - I bought a blue leather strap Quick Release Leather Watch Strap, Fullmosa Axus Series Genuine Leather Replacement Watch Strap with Stainless Metal Clasp 22mm Dark Blue , a truly quality product that fits perfectly and looks like it was meant to be there from day one. Both the S3 Frontier and the strap are recommended, buy! Update, one month into ownership. The S3 Frontier is a universally admired device even in the company of the 'Apple faithful' because it looks like a premium watch should. Battery life is remarkable, without the always-on display enabled it seems to consume about 15% charge a day (bear in mind I have most of the notification options turned off) so battery life in this mode is closing a week. With the always-on-display enabled after an 18 hour day it will go back onto the charging dock with 60-65% charge remaining, so good for a couple of days. Still impressed.

What can I say except love this watch. Ok so it hasn't got android wear on but the apps which are available are pretty good and do the job. WhatsApp messages can be replied to but you can only see and reply to the latest message received, however I've been told there is an app you can download to give you more historical message access but I've not bothered with this yet. The strap it comes with is a decent quality leather one and feels comfortable with no rashes or other such nonsense you sometimes get from other brands plus they give you a short version in the box in case you've got smaller wrists which is helpful. The wireless charger is really nice and convenient plus saves faffing about trying to plug an annoying cable in. Also you can convert part of the box it comes in to make a stand raising it up slightly which looks good. My only negative comment here is that you can't use the watch as a night clock as the screen goes black after a few seconds, however a simple button click allows you to see the time while it's charging so not really a big deal. The rotating bezel is a real delight to do things like dismiss or accept calls/reminders etc or search through functions and feels highly satisfying to use compared to a touch screen (which it also has) or buttons. I also use the activity tracking and although it slightly shorterns my running distance compared to the Garmin Vivoactive I recently returned this just encourages me to run further! Plus being able to put some music on it makes it very useful. I also enjoy the fact that if someone calls me and I can't be bothered to fish my phone out, I can talk and listen through the watch. For the price I think it's well worth it and have had comments on how smart it looks compared to other devices I've owned. I definitely recommend this and feel Samsung have done a brilliant job on this watch. Just hope they take their time brining out the next edition as I'm likely to buy that when it comes out!

This has to be hands down the best smartwatch out there and I have tried most of them - Apple Watch, Android Wear 1.5, Android Wear 2.0 and now this one. The Apple watch is a great smartwatch, but is totally tied to the iPhone and like all Apple products is expensive for the sake of it. Android wear 1.5 was interesting, although not very functional. Android Wear 2.0 has improved on this, but not quite to the level that Samsung have achieved with the S3. The rotating bezel is a work of genius. Such a small detai makes using the watch so much easier and feels natural The two buttons to the right hand side extend this. The Tizen operating system is easy and intuitive to use - a great deal of thought has gone into the design of the S3 and its operating system. There are not the level of apps that are available for the other platforms, this is true, but for my purposes there are plenty and I rarely install a new app on my watch, saving that for my (android) phone. My only niggle so far is a lack of support for Samsung Pay in the UK. Contactless payment is one of the features I used most on the Apple Watch and had the Android watches I owned had NFC hardware, I'd have used Android Pay on them too. Why Samsung have not released an official stainless steel band for this watch is beyond me. Perhaps this is to keep the heart rate monitor working as it should (it requires a reasonably tight fit on the wrist which a lot of metal bands would not provide.)There are third party ones available that work well - I have a mesh one as it is possible to keep tight(ish) and does not fall apart like a leather one would when it gets sweat on it.

Me gusto esperaba alguna mala experiencia pero al final me fusto mucho súper original con todo y su estuche nada más que si el cargador es tipo europeo pero con un adaptador se arregla,no duden es buen producto!!!

E l a r t i c u l o c o r r e s p o n d e con lo anunciado y es de una calidad aceptable pero el alimentador que trae es de enchufe americano y no sirve para enchufarlo a los enchufes de españa

Die Smartwatch gefällt mir sehr sehr gut... bietet eine Vielzahl verschiedenen Ziffernblättern im Store (zb. Pip-Boy aus Fallout 4... ;)...) Versand war ebenfalls schnell... Das einzigste was Negativ ist und ich bei der Bestellung nicht wusste, das es KEIN Eurostecker im Lieferumfang ist... daher lieber woanders bestellen... Mir persönlich stört es nicht da ich genug solche "Eurostecker/Ladegeräte" hier rumliegen habe...

Arrivato nei tempi stabiliti.Nella confezione è presente l'orologio , un secondo cinturino di una taglia piú piccola e il caricatore con attacco inglese , cosa di cui faccio a meno visto che la base magnetica di ricarica si può collegare a un qualsiasi cavo microusb. Per quanto riguarda l'orologio , la durata della batteria è di 2 giorni (se si spegne la notte) con chiamate whatsapp instagram facebook e spotify attivi .(testato con Samsung Galaxy s7)

La montre originale et son coffret sont conformes a la description. Le colis est très correct et le coffret contenant la montre, est ainsi bien protégé. Je craignais un peu sur le point de la description "Cet article est Bluetooth modèle et version internationale" : mais finalement aucun problème, la montre possède tous les menus dans toutes les langues. La montre est vraiment fantastique (couplée avec mon Samsung Galaxy s7), tout est très bien pensé. Il faut prévoir un adaptateur pour la prise électrique du chargeur qui est au format anglais ; j'en ai trouvé un pour 4€.