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The Gear S3 has the esthetics of a truly premium watch with advanced features built right into the watch design. That's why it's so easy and effortless to use the Gear S3. It's also built for you to go days without needing your phone or to recharge. You get to feel free with the Gear S3.
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I have replaced my phone with this watch and let me tell you how. I'm about 6 months into my fitness lifestyle. I work as a loan officer by day and prepping for Groove Cruise with my wife by night (getting in shape).
#1 best feature - The ability to to text full messages from it. I don't have to get my phone out in front of my clients in order to respond to things.
#2 best - is the IP68 rating. I use the spotify app which is standalone or remote on the watch to play music in the shower - yeah I'm that guy, I swim with it (not deeper than 5 feet), and I've even taken it to some sulfur soaked hot springs and It works great in all environments!
#3 best - Stand alone apps. My credit union allows Samsung Pay so I use it on my watch all the time. It get's people talking about it and I get to brag about my watch to others. I use all aspects of S Health and it monitors sleep patterns automatically, I track nutrition intake, and have been using Pear for Samsung to track exersice. Pear has a standalone app for the watch so you don't have to bring your phone with you to work out. I pair up my bluetooth headphones with the watch directly and go to town on spotify or MP3s and the voice coach of Pear. It also has a standalone Uber app to hail a ride at 2:00am on a Friday night. There's too much to talk about as far as standalone apps to write in a review. Those are the ones I use most right now.
#4 - The bezel is amazing. Use it to scroll through all menus and screens.
#5 - Quality of screen. Looks much more crisp and clear than my wife's Fossil Q.
#6 - Battery life. I'm getting about 2 days on a charge with lots of usage. I'm happy with it.
#1 best feature - The ability to to text full messages from it. I don't have to get my phone out in front of my clients in order to respond to things.
#2 best - is the IP68 rating. I use the spotify app which is standalone or remote on the watch to play music in the shower - yeah I'm that guy, I swim with it (not deeper than 5 feet), and I've even taken it to some sulfur soaked hot springs and It works great in all environments!
#3 best - Stand alone apps. My credit union allows Samsung Pay so I use it on my watch all the time. It get's people talking about it and I get to brag about my watch to others. I use all aspects of S Health and it monitors sleep patterns automatically, I track nutrition intake, and have been using Pear for Samsung to track exersice. Pear has a standalone app for the watch so you don't have to bring your phone with you to work out. I pair up my bluetooth headphones with the watch directly and go to town on spotify or MP3s and the voice coach of Pear. It also has a standalone Uber app to hail a ride at 2:00am on a Friday night. There's too much to talk about as far as standalone apps to write in a review. Those are the ones I use most right now.
#4 - The bezel is amazing. Use it to scroll through all menus and screens.
#5 - Quality of screen. Looks much more crisp and clear than my wife's Fossil Q.
#6 - Battery life. I'm getting about 2 days on a charge with lots of usage. I'm happy with it.
There's so many amazing features of this watch. Makes my life more efficient than anything in my life next to my Wife.
My Best Buy number: 2854490037
I would recommend this to a friend!
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The Gear S3 has the esthetics of a truly premium watch with advanced features built right into the watch design. That's why it's so easy and effortless to use the Gear S3. It's also built for you to go days without needing your phone or to recharge. You get to feel free with the Gear S3.
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4 out of 5Good overall smart watch
By erico
This watch is good for receiving texts, and creating reminders, etc without having to pull the phone out, had good battery life and looks great! The steps and running functions are useless (I had to get a separate running watch), and I wish there were some way to turn off those functions as they are annoying and not of much use.
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February 23, 2017
What did you try to do while using the steps and running functions? Are you pairing it with an app? Or just using the watch as a standalone device? If you're having trouble with step count and run tracking, try downloading the S Health app. There are other apps it will work with also.
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The Gear S3 has the esthetics of a truly premium watch with advanced features built right into the watch design. That's why it's so easy and effortless to use the Gear S3. It's also built for you to go days without needing your phone or to recharge. You get to feel free with the Gear S3.
Can i use the GPS without having it on a phone plan of any sort? Also, if the batter dies will the watch still be able to tell me the time (hope that part made sense).
The GPS is standalone and doesn't need to be connected to a wireless network in order to work. Also, if the battery dies the time won't show up. If your battery gets low, the watch will warn you and then you can put it in power saving mode which will limit all functions and turn the screen to a grey scale which will prolong your battery use to several hours on even 5% battery. It's amazing. The first picture shows that I have 69% battery and on power saving mode it will last 4 days 8 hours. The second picture shows you what the power saving mode looks like. While enabled it will still give you notifications.
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