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November 2016
(81%)
272 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(95%)
173 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Good design
Great screen
Built in LTE
2-day battery life
Nice design and materials
Alwayson watch faces are great
Rotating bezel still wonderful
Standard watch strap design
Enables Samsung Pay for all
Design It looks classy and like a real watch
Display Completely round AMOLED with great colors and brightness
Samsung Pay Contactless payments with the Gear S3 are supereasy and work almost everywhere
Battery life About two days with alwayson display
Clearer interface than Android Wear
Supports calls and texts
Accurate step counting
Waterproof
Great hardware and user experience
Stunning display
Attractive design(s)
Intuitive interface
Well-constructed
Attractive design
Clever spinning bezel interface. GPS
Speakerphone
Optional stand-alone LTE phone service and work-anywhere Samsung Pay. Spotify app streams music on the go. Works with most Android phones
And even iPhones to a degre
Battery can last several days per charge
Resists water
Dust
And shock
Bright and goodlooking display
Standard 22mm wrist band can be easily exchanged
Simple
Easy to use interface with convenient rotating bezel
Samsung Pay support
Great design
Large display is the best for notifications
Rotating bezel is a joy to use
Performance is top notch
Samsung Pay works well
Plenty of features and tools make up core experience
Easy to use
Great display
Best variety of trackable workouts
The editors didn't like
Large and bulky
Too big for many wrists
Pile of features is daunting
Clunky interaction with some apps
LTE hurts battery
Adds little value
Design again It's a little on the large side
And is pretty explicitly a men's watch
Bulky
Expensive
Samsung Pay requires you to lock the watch with a PIN
Doesn't sync with popular fitness apps
Lacklustre third-party development
It's big. Tizen-based software has less app support than Apple Watch or Android Wear. iOS connection works
But it's very buggy. Few killer apps take advantage of stand-alone LTE services
Great design, Large display is the best for notifications, Rotating bezel is a joy to use, Performance is top notch, Samsung Pay works well, Plenty of features and tools make up core experience
Design may not suit many people, Third-party apps can be buggy, 4G LTE and calls come at an added monthly price
Samsung manages to make each feature in its stacked smartwatch work, making the Gear S3 one of the most enjoyable smart wearable experiences we've had this year...
Abstract: The Samsung Gear S3 is a monster of a smartwatch that might just do everything you need — if you can fit it under your shirtsleeve. It provides notifications for email, Twitter, Facebook and most other apps; it monitors your health, sleep and steps; it ev...
Nice design and materials, Alwayson watch faces are great, Rotating bezel still wonderful, Standard watch strap design, Enables Samsung Pay for all
Too big for many wrists, Pile of features is daunting, Clunky interaction with some apps, LTE hurts battery, adds little value
With the Gear S3 Frontier and Classic, Samsung has chosen to keep with its "more is more" strategy of simply adding as many software features and hardware capabilities as possible to its wearables. The result is once again a smartwatch that will do just a...
Published: 2016-11-30, Author: Alex , review by: recombu.com
Great hardware and user experience, Stunning display, Attractive design(s), Intuitive interface
Lacklustre third-party development, Expensive
Samsung has once again built a fantastic smartwatch with top-tier hardware, buttery smooth software and some powerful features. It undercuts Apple's Series 2 smartwatches whilst retaining all-important components like GPS, wrapped up in what is arguably a...
Abstract: Samsung has finally unveiled its smartwatch, the Samsung Gear S3 , today in South Korea. It launches in the UK next week.There will be two models; the ‘Gear S3 Frontier,' which features a rugged design, and the ‘Gear S3 Classic,' which has a more refined...
Battery can last several days per charge, Resists water, dust, and shock, Bright and goodlooking display, Standard 22mm wrist band can be easily exchanged, Simple, easy to use interface with convenient rotating bezel, Samsung Pay support
Activity tracking capabilities could be improved, Limited selection of thirdparty apps, Limited compatibility with nonSamsung phones, still no iPhone support, Samsung Gear companion app can be buggy
Last year's Gear S2 was already a great smartwatch. While a little rough around the edges, it set the bar high for what was expected out of a wearable – great performance, ease of use, long battery life, to name a few examples. Because of this, the Gear S...
Published: 2016-11-23, Author: Will , review by: newatlas.com
Abstract: When a company has spent the last three years aggressively churning out smartwatches on a yearly or twice-yearly basis, trying to kickstart the "Next Big Thing," what does it do when demand sputters? If you're Samsung, the answer is apparently: not much...
Published: 2016-10-11, Author: Tomas , review by: hw4all.com
It is safe to say that Samsung has managed to make an interesting and worthwhile product. Personal Samsung Gear S3, of course, design. Now the smart watches look almost the same as the classic watches that will appeal to many buyers, because the novelty w...
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Published: 2016-09-02, Author: Tomas , review by: hw4all.com
Abstract: Special intrigue Samsung in a presentation at the IFA was not. That watch Gear S3, it was clear both in the invitation and the various leaks. But will look like this watch, no one knows, even a few hours of “leak” design showed more imaginary than real.Fr...
