20 Best Samsung Watch For Women (2023 Updated)

I don’t buy refurbished that often as when I do I’ll sometimes receive products that are filthy, clearly scratched, and may not be in the best condition/working order. This purchase however was 110% worth the buy! Not only did I get an insane deal on the Galaxy Watch 3 (whose MSRP is $100s of dollars more), but the item is practically brand new.

I observed not a single scuff nor scratch, and aside from the original box missing, all the required items were present and brand new. I recommend this seller to anyone and this is a great watch if you’re on the fence about a Smartwatch.

Only thing I don’t love is the battery life but make a couple adjustments to your settings and it will last you a day or slightly more. You may have to lower brightness, turn on power saving, etc but it will last with some tweaks.

Usually, I use my watch mostly to control my music, read/type texts, make/receive calls, track my steps, occasionally search the internet, and check time of course. If you’re bored, you can even play a few games on it.

My favorites are probably Pin Rotary and Tetris-style games. I’m just waiting now for someone to make a Pac-man game that utilizes the rotating bezel. Also in the picture I attached, I have a protective case over my watch face; essentially the watch is verycustomizable and within a few days I will be doing a strap change and new watch face cover change.

This is my 4th smart watch I have owned and things are starting to finally mature. One of the first things I want to say is the battery life on this watch is far far superior to any other watch I have used which was one of my biggest problems when using a smart watch its hard to get through one evening.

That is not the case with this watch, you can actually go multiple days with normal use without the battery dying, a major improvement Samsung has a very talented and creative design team. The ideas they create are some of the best in the world.

PROS Smooth Fast UI Samsung Pay paying with your watch is pretty cool Love the rotating dial which, so smooth Build Quality of the watch Seamless integration with GS7 edge Amazing battery life Charging dock micro usb w LED indicator which is great Samsung very innovative such as the rotating ring on the watch, excellentCONS Runs Tizen Certain features only work on Galaxy Phones Samsung pay has two version, you have to redownload and setup all cards again, terrible Stock band feels cheap SVoice No always on display Cant use anything in the standard app store including all faces in the market Separate special Tizen versions must be developed and maintained separately Mandatory pin code or you cant use Samsung PayI dont think Tizen is a bad OS, but why do we need yet another platform Im not saying competition is a bad thing but an effort needs to be made to work together vs against each other.

I dont want 4 places to download apps, I want one. Now app developers have to custom make versions just for Tizen which is a separate download which Im not a fan of. I also do not like svoice and while the speech recognization might work well on the watch, its not on par with a nonTizen watch.

Stop putting RD into something we dont need. Why not just use what is already in place No separate app downloads. While you do have to enter a pin once until you take the watch off again its super annoying.

Its my watch, let me decide what I want my security settings to be. If you disable a pin, it wipes pay. Yes its a great smart watch but running Tizen just makes it a proprietary thing to Samsung which I dont like proprietary things.

The overlapping app downloads on the Samsung store is just a yucky experience. Its a great watch, great battery life, great design, the speaker sounds great and the rotating ring is great so if you are ok with Tizen and have a Galaxy phone already absolutely you should buy this, its a great watch.

Even know this watch blows my other smart watches out of the water for battery life, I dislike very much that everything must go through the Samsung app store vs the regular one meaning everything made for wear platform is not going to work.

I have recently had the pleasure to test drive the new Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. This review is being done by someone who has never owned a smartwatch, so I may not get into a lot of the internals as I think at least some of us who buy this are just going to buy it because its really cool and not because we have any understanding as to whats under the hood.

First off the packaging is very nice as you would expect from any high end device you may purchase. The bottom half even becomes a charging base stand if you have a lot of room where you want to charge your S3.

The Gear S3 comes with a charging base, cable and block to plug it all in. It also comes with two different sized bands. The Large comes preinstalled and there is also a Small provided. The bands are very easy to change thanks to the Quick Release.

This is a little nub that is in a recess of the band and you just push it over with a fingernail. I have pretty small wrists and am female. My wrists measure 6. 5 inches. While large, the Gear S3 does not actually seem as big once you are wearing it.

I do highly recommend buying a new band. For my wrist size I found the one provided to be too stiff and made the S3 a lot more uncomfortable than it is now. The provided band is Silicone and is easy to clean, but I found the black metal mesh one I bought to fit me better.

Thanks to the Gear S3s water rating you are supposed to be able to really put this sucker to the test White water rafting anyone I have yet to try any water tests but I would be willing to wear the Gear S3 to the beach The Samsung Gear S3 is rated to 5 feet of water for 30 minutes so I guess Swimming is out but you could leave it on in the shower Just make sure the band and your wrist is dried off after because you can cause some real funk to your wrist if water is trapped under the band Washing the S3 is simple with a little water and some non sudsing soap.

Guys, you are going to have to make a trip down the facial cleansing isle. Or you could just buy it online, I bought Auquaphor. I also use it on the families fitbits and other household watches. The first thing I noticed about the Samsung Gear S3, the screen is amazing Viewing photos, playing games, and.

WATCH FACES There are hundreds of free watch faces to choose from I absolutely love the live saltwater aquarium I shut off the Always On watch face to save battery. I also disabled Quick View this turns on the screen when you lift your arm or turn your wrist as if you want to check the time.

All I have to do is tap a button or turn the bezel and I can see my fishes swim Oh and I guess see the time, date, day of the week, BPM and steps. You did read right earlier, I did say GAMES So far I have only played fruit ninja but wow, not having to take out my phone like everyone else at the doctors office made me feel specialI have no other way to measure my heart rate but the average that the Gear S3 seems to record sounds about right from what I know of myself.

I used to have a fitbit HR and it seems on track with that. If you are really concerned with tracking accurate heart rate though you should buy one that has a strap. I do currently own other Fitbits and there really seems to be a discrepancy between their data and what the Gear S3 records.

The Gear 3 recording about 500 less steps a day. The floor counting is kind of a joke and takes forever to sync. I had climbed 6 flights of stairs and sat down for at least 5 minutes before my watch buzzed and congratulated me on climbing one flight.

Then the Gear S3 only recorded me doing 2 flights of stairs. So if you are looking for a device to accurately track your fitness this is not for you. It will keep you motivated by constantly telling you you have been sitting too long though I watched a movie at the theater with my son yesterday, our theater has an app that rewards you and silences your phone during the movie.

My Gear S3 however did not get this memo because towards the end of the movie it buzzed, lit up and told me I had been sitting too long Yikes I downloaded the theater widget for future useThe widgets are quite useful.

I have Weather, Calculator, Samsung Pay. I can even turn the screen into a flashlightSamsung Pay works independent of your phone, I believe this is because you do not have to have a Samsung phone to use the Samsung Gear S3.

You can even use an Apple phone This means even if you have Samsung pay on your phone you are going to have to readd all of your cards to the watch. Once you do this it will add a pin you pick out to lock your watch anytime it loses contact with your skin Kinda neat but also a pain especially if you like to wear your watch loose.

I did try last night to use Samsung Pay for the first time and got an error. I have never used it before so may have been my fault I had no idea how long I had to keep my wrist next to the car reader.

Answering calls is a breeze I dont even think my callers know they are talking to me through a watch You can add individual contacts to the Bezel rotation or grab the multi contact widget so you dont use as many spots.

I have my husbands cell separate because he is the one I use most. I wear my watch on my right hand, which makes using Samsung Pay easier, but texting is a lot slower when you are using your off hand I use the feature where you draw the letter with your finger.

It will not correct if you use a mixture of upper and lower case in a word however. So I had to actually think to make SUrE it DIDnT CoMe OUt LiKe ThiS Get to fixing that Samsung Lol. The Samsung Gear S3 is also capable of tracking your sleep.

This worked pretty good when I took a nap on the couch but sleeping at night is a whole other thing I really dont know how well it would track actual sleep, I have to take it off. Even with the always display off, and quick view off, the screen lights up all the time Every time you move and accidentally touch the bezel you will be bombarded with light This may not happen with some of the darker watch faces but with my aquarium it is quite distracting at night and will wake you up.

I would love a night lock, but until then I use night to just set the Gear S3 on the charger, which is not necessary because after a day of use the Samsung Gear S3 is still at 80 BatteryOverall I am extremely pleased with the Samsung Gear S3 and I am sure there are many things I have yet to discover I would also be interested in trying to make my own watch face someday to share with others.

First and foremost, if you’re an existing Watch 4 owner, there’s probably not enough here to make it worth laying down the money for the Watch 5. There are a couple of “nice” features, but nothing that is going to make it completely worth your while.

Pros: Slightly larger battery Wear OS instead of Android Not as heavily tied to the Samsung apps ecosystem Super fast charging with USB-C charger Cons: Biggest new feature (skin temp for sleep analysis) isn’t even turned on No wall charger for new USB-C cable That said, the Watch 5 is Samsung’s newest release, but features little in the way of “new features” over the previous release.

Same size, form factor, though a bit heavier thanks to a slightly larger battery. Perhaps the biggest new feature (long overdue) is that the watch now runs on Google Wear OS 3 instead of Android, opening the watch to be able to download apps from the Google Play store with a lot more ease than its predecessors.

You can also more easily replace all the Samsung-added apps, including the voice assistant no one likes but won’t go away, Bixby. Wear OS allows you to change this out for the much more widely used Google Assistant, allowing you to seamlessly issue voice commands and access home automation.

The watch also boasts a bigger battery, but your results will vary. The Watch 5 gives me about 2 days of battery use, but that’s if I turn it off overnight between day 1 & 2. I generally don’t like wearing it overnight for sleep tracking so I don’t have the charge the device during the day when I want it tracking my actual activity.

Note also my 2 days of use is without the “always on display” feature turned on, which will eat substantially more battery over the day. In fact, with the display on during setup, it used 10% total in less than 30 minutes doing the initial setup and updates to the watch.

The LTE version, if not connected with Bluetooth to your phone, will deplete the battery rapidly, as well. Samsung also changed the shape of the back of the watch, with it now being convex where it sticks out more, instead of sitting flat, giving the watch better contact between the watch and your arm, which improves sensor accuracy.

I though it might make the watch uncomfortable, but found it’s not even noticeable, and I do find that my heartrate is tracked much better during heavy exercise than the previous version of the watch.

Samsung also touts better sleep tracking with this, but that’s predicated on the new skin temperature sensor on the back of the watch that, at the time of this review, had yet to be enabled by Samsung.

So perhaps the one actual new feature included on this over the Watch 4 doesn’t even work, with no timeframe estimate on when it will be. They have also added much more durable glass, using sapphire crystal, which so far has proven scratch-resistant for me.

Here’s to hoping it stays that way. As noted, you can now easily add Google Assistant, Google Wallet, and other non-Samsung apps directly from the Google Play Store. But you can only customize 1 of the 2 buttons to launch apps (I made mine launch Google Assistant).

The bottom button remains tied to Samsung Pay, whether you’re using it or not. Of course, this watch works best when paired with a Samsung phone. The sensors will work with any fitness app you wish to use (Strava, Nike, etc.

), though you’ll get the most out of it with the Samsung Health app, which people have a love-hate relationship with. Overall, the watch is fast, and battery life is better than previous models, and I love my Samsung watches going back to the first one they released.

but barring anything major in the future with watches, I’ll probably go back to my “skip every other model” plan for watch ownership. It’s a great watch, but not enough “new” for me as compared to the Watch 4.

This isn’t my first smartwatch, and it isn’t even my first galaxy watch. It holds its own against the competition and is a decent improvement on earlier models. The case is reasonably sized, and there isn’t a whole lot of dead space between the edge of the display and the edge of the screen.

The case of the watch is barely noticeable beyond the screen, and the black color makes it disappear even more. The band that comes with the watch is lacking, though. I do like the way it integrates with the lugs and matches the case shape, but it sticks out too far from the sides of the watch for people with normal-sized wrists (mine is 6.

75″ for you watch nerds). It does stick out less as the band gets broken in, but there’s still too much of a gap between the strap and my wrist near the lugs. The strap material is comfortable enough, and I appreciate the way the tail of the strap tucks under itself after the buckle.

But it could and should fit better. The lugs are a standard 20mm, so aftermarket straps should fit fine, but I didn’t try any on this particular model. I was using this watch with a MS Surface Duo 2, and it paired fine, though I did have to download a plugin for the Samsung Wear app for it to work with this model.

The watch faces that come pre-downloaded worked fine, though I could never get it to download additional faces. It always had problems “making the network connection. ” I did try the Facer app to load additional faces onto the watch, and that worked okay, but it seemed to have problems loading data other than the time and date onto the watch faces (like weather, heart rate, etc.

). It may have been an issue with app permissions. Battery life was excellent. I wore it for 28 hours, including two (automatically detected) workouts, overnight (in sleep mode), and with the always-on display active, and there was still 30% of the battery left.

You can easily get a full day out of this watch, and if you were using it less actively during that time, you might squeeze two days out between charges. It did a good job of importing previous settings from my Samsung profile, including Samsung Health settings.

One new thing I tried out was the body composition detection. It came out fairly close to what my fancy floor scale tells me. Overall, a nice improvement on the previous generation, but not without a couple of minor flaws.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 carries over the simplified yet attractive appearance of the Watch 4 (non-Classic), while making incremental yet valuable improvements where it counts Externally, the lightweight aluminum body features a simple design with a flat, round face, just 2 buttons on the right side, and a common lug design giving you access to a plethora of bands.

The included band, made of fluoroelastomer, has a soft touch and is quite comfortable. The 44mm display features the same 450×450 resolution as the Watch 4 and has plenty of brightness, making it easily visible in broad daylight.

However, this year the screen is protected by Sapphire glass which should bring a significant improvement in protection. On the back of the watch, the sensor array includes the familiar heart rate, ECG, and blood-oxygen sensors but has been expanded this year to include a new IR temperature sensor.

In the future, this new sensor could be used to help with things like sickness tracking. Internally, the watch continues to rely on the same Exynos W920 processor as the Watch 4 as well as carrying over the same 1.

5GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The battery, however, has been upgraded to a new, larger 410mAh unit with an advertised 50hr of usage. Charging is also improved with 10W WPC (Wireless Power Consortium) charging that can give you enough juice to get through a work day with only 8 minutes on the magnetic USB-C puck.

Software wise, the watch is running Wear OS 3. 5 with Samsung’s One UI Watch 4. 5 sitting on top. The merger of Samsung and Android Wear continues to be a match made in heaven. Gone are the days where, if you paired a Samsung watch with a non-Samsung phone, you were unable to use things like NFC payments.

Now, with access to the whole Google Play ecosystem, you have a much broader pool of apps available. Specs and numbers aside, the watch performs beautifully. Setup is easy to step through both with Samsung phones (tested with a Galaxy S21) as well as non-Samsung phones (tested with a Pixel 6).

Flipping through tiles is smooth and stutter free. Notifications appear instantly and offer a lot of customizability for what does and doesn’t appear. Battery life has more than easily gotten through a day, which is all I honestly need as I charge every night.

Health features like step counting and heart rate are comparable to that of the Fossil Gen 6 I was using beforehand. If I have any complaint here at all, its that the bulge of the sensor array on the back of the watch is…awkward.

The phone really ends up sitting high on my wrist and can collect dust and dirt between my arm and the watch when doing things like working outside. At the end of the day, if you’re currently sporting a Watch 4, the incremental improvements to the Watch 5 mean you can probably skip this update.

But if you’re looking for your first smartwatch or upgrading something older, you really can’t go wrong with this watch. With almost exclusive (currently) access to Wear OS 3, the larger battery, faster charging, and the stronger Sapphire glass display, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is not just the best Galaxy Watch to date but probably the best Android Wear OS watch ever.

Good not great tracker. Looks nice. Intuitive and easy to navigate using the bezel. Unfortunately, the bezel is a weak spot in the water-proofing; when the seal wears out, no more water activity and there’s nobody to fix it.

Step tracking is pretty accurate. Activity sensing feature very convenient but not perfect – when i drove my jeep the watch thought I was riding my bike. Easy to edit bogus tracking using the app. Detection of swim stroke types not perfect but very impressive.

Lap counting, oddly, always off by a few laps. Had to fix in the app for every swim. Still a very good tracker – until samsung “fixed” it. One day the software was different and native swim tracking didn’t work.

At all. The watch worked fine with a 3d party swim tracking app but when the bezel seal wore out that was the end of it.

I bought this as an upgrade to a replace a gear fit. After using it for the better part of a year here is what I have learned. If you want accuracy from these sensors go elsewhere. The floor tracker barely registers my changes in elevation, I go up and down steps all day and I barely even get 2 floors.

The step tracking is also wildly unpredictable. One day I will walk for a solid hour on the trail and get 5000 steps and the next time I walk the same hour on the same trail I’ll 6500. Occasionally it will fail to realize that I’ve stopped sleeping and have begun my day.

I will notice that even though I’ve gone up and down stairs, have amassed steps and maybe even worked out, it has me as sleeping thru all of that. In addition I’ve also noticed that while I am outside exercising (hiking or biking) if a notification comes in while I am “working out” the GPS drops and I only get whatever has been recorded up to that point and nothing more.

My 11 mile trail bike ride is listed as 5 or 6 even though the amount of time it took is still correct. It tells time and I appreciate the notifications, which keep me from missing calls and meetings.

It is a convenient way to keep track of exercise if you aren’t to fanatical about tracking your improvements and of course onboard GPS is nice (I’ve learned to put my phone in airplane mode, or turn off notifications to help with the GPS drop issue).

After the last update one of the most useful widgets is now gone, which is the 24 hour pie chart that shows your day’s activity in once slick little graphic. I am not sure why Samsung decided to get ride of that handy little feature.

This is my 3rd Samsung watch. My first was a Gear S3, second was a Watch 3 and now a Watch5 Pro. I can honestly say that the watch has gotten better with each iteration. I was initially worried about this purchase as it contained the removal of the front face dial that served as a functional slider essentially, but I now feel that my worry wasn’t warranted.

I believe if the watch was equal or less responsive than the Watch 3 then the removal of the dial would be an issue, but I am proud to say that the Watch5 Pro is much more responsive, especially when receiving a notification.

I used the dial mostly to initiate the viewing of notifications that delayed in displaying. Notifications are much faster to load and the viewing of those notifications are much easier for someone with aging eyes (I am far sighted and do wear medium strength reading glasses).

I think most of the software benefits has come from the move from Tizen to Wear OS. One thing that stands out to me is the texting capability on the watch itself. It was about impossible on my older Watch 3 but on the Watch5 Pro it has the swipe texting which works very well so it is a huge step forward in this area.

The battery is another big improvement although I will say the Samsung line of watches have always had much better battery life than other watches, but with the Watch5 Pro the battery life is not in days a required everyday charge.

Obviously if you use the always on display you will have a couple of days life vs not using always on display will allow double that (depending on notifications and workouts also. ) The last major upgrade I will mention is the D-Buckle band (this is one of the band options when purchasing.

) If you are like me and very particular about the amount of pressure and location of your watch, then this band is the one for you. I think of it like a belt that uses holes to achieve the proper tightness, but one hole is too tight and one hole over is too loose.

This band eliminates that issue and is by far the best band I have ever had on a watch. I have been using the Watch5 Pro for a couple of months and I have no buyer’s remorse at all.

A little background. I’ve had smartwatches, many with LTE, since they first arrived years ago. The Galaxy Watch was my favorite go-to watch from the beginning, and I always upgraded as new models were released.

My annoyance flared when advertised capabilities were either missing or poorly implemented. In some cases, promised features never came to fruition, while other times they showed up but more than a year later.

Because of this, a few years ago I decided to move to a Fossil Watch with LTE. One of the biggest draws for me was Fossil’s integration with Google Assistant. As someone heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, this one specific feature was a game changer for me.

Even though I still like the Fossil, I decided to reverse course and give Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 5 Pro a chance. At this writing, I am now using the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro Black LTE version. This is a top-notch flagship model that offers a ton of nice features, many in the health and fitness arena, and keeping in mind that my last Galaxy Watch was a model 3.

In my opinion, this watch is aesthetically much nicer looking than previous versions of the Galaxy watch; it has a premium look and feel about it. As expected, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is also noticeably more expensive than the standard version, and by a wide margin.

A big draw for me moving to the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is its 80-hour battery. While I haven’t had this watch very long, thus far the battery has been pretty good. I gave it a full charge last night ending at 10:30pm, then kept it on my wrist throughout the night in bedtime(?) mode.

I got out of bed around 6:30am and turned bedtime mode off. Overnight, the battery had dropped from 100% to 87%. Even though it wasn’t connected to my phone during that time period, it was connected to cellular.

I used the watch throughout the day, including four 2-mile walks (which the watch considers exercise periods). I used the timer a bunch and checked the weather a good number of times. And don’t forget Google Assistant.

At about 9pm that evening, remaining battery was 49%. Now, the watch face does support a good number of Complications, so I have to imagine that that impacts battery over time. There is something about the Watch 5 Pro’s watch band that I find very comfortable.

It doesn’t pinch my wrist or grab my arm hair. And the band’s design makes it very easy to make minor size adjustments, unlike more traditional bands. On the downside, the band’s clasp which sits in the center of my wrist, started losing color immediately.

There were scratch marks all over it, so much so that the underlying material was clearly visible. Fortunately, a black sharpie came to the rescue. I am pleased to say that the thickness of the watch turned out to be a non-issue.

It doesn’t feel heavy to me, although I’m guessing that the light-weight titanium material is why. So, kudos to Samsung on a good choice of materials. Setting up the watch couldn’t have been easier – it was completed in just 40 minutes.

This was followed by setting up the LTE portion. I was initially concerned that having my Fossil LTE already configured with my cellular provider would be a problem, but it only turned out to be a minor bump.

I did have to rerun the LTE portion three times to remove the Fossil, but it eventually was removed from my phone company’s database and replaced with the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Easy-peasy! Here are some general observations about the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro: ——————————————————————————————————————————- The Watch is very attractive: People I’m chatting with will interrupt me and ask about the watch.

They all seem to like the color, and the titanium look and feel. ——————————————————————————————————————————- The watch’s thickness: Yep, noticeably thicker but acceptably light.

——————————————————————————————————————————- Watch Band: Very comfortable to wear. I immensely like how adjustable it is.

——————————————————————————————————————————- Black Color: Very much to my liking. ——————————————————————————————————————————- ONE UI: It uses Samsung’s ONE UI Watch 4.

5 atop Wear 3. 5. (This is a big change from my Galaxy Watch 3 and my current Fossil, and I like it) ——————————————————————————————————————————- Watch Face: It’s a 1.

4-inch super AMOLED with Sapphire crystal for protection ——————————————————————————————————————————- Battery: Li-Ion 590 mAh.

Per the specs good for 80 hours of use ——————————————————————————————————————————- Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, heart rate, barometer, thermometer for your body temp ——————————————————————————————————————————- Wi-Fi: 802.

11 a/b/g/n, dual-band ——————————————————————————————————————————- Bluetooth : Version 5. 2, A2DP, LE ——————————————————————————————————————————- GPS: Yes ——————————————————————————————————————————- Internal Ram: 16GB ——————————————————————————————————————————- Rotating Bezel : Sadly, no more rotating bezel.

Still, it hasn’t taken long to get used to sliding my fingertip around the screen’s edge ——————————————————————————————————————————- Charger: It comes with a USB Type-C magnet charging puck, but lacks an actual charger ——————————————————————————————————————————– The face of the Watch 5 Pro is lower than the bezel by a fraction of an inch, differing from other watches where the watch’s face is flush to the top of the bezel.

This recessed placement is pretty shrewd. With as many times as I’ve accidently scratched/banged my watch going through a doorway, being recessed should protect the watch face from, well, me. In the beginning of this review, I alluded to how important Google Assistant is to me.

I figured with Samsung and Google’s close relationship that Google Assistant integration was a given. Well, I couldn’t get G. A to work. Plus, one of my favorite features from the Galaxy Watch 3 was its SOS ability.

That too didn’t seem to work. I was very unhappy. Yet, someone at Google or Samsung must have heard my grumbling and decided to sprinkle pixie-dust on the watch while I slept. Because in trying them again the next morning, both worked perfectly.

Full disclosure on the SOS feature: to activate SOS to send out an alert message, it is necessary to press the home button super quick, like 3 or 4 times within a second. I admit part of the reason I couldn’t get it to activate earlier was because I was slow pressing the home button.

With all the smartwatches I’ve used over the years, this is my all-time favorite. The screen is bright and very readable, and the watch is easy to set up and thus far to maintain. It handshakes transparently with my Samsung Fold 3 smartphone, and the Wear app sitting on the phone is well thought out.

Hmm, I wonder if it supports the Audible app!.

I’ve been using the Galaxy Watch 4 since its release and I have been quite happy with it as an overall smartwatch. It does some things very well, like notifications for texts, emails, phone calls, and NFC payments.

It has some great aesthetics too, like numerous watch faces to choose from and band styles that are easily interchangeable. Now for what its terrible at: Heart rate monitoring The heart rate is used to approximate calories burned along with other factors.

This is a feature active individuals, like myself, rely on when exercising, or simply staying on top of daily heart health. In no uncertain terms, the watch simply sucks at monitoring the heart rate.

The watch is totally terrible at providing a constant update to the heart rate. For example, as I’m doing a set of weighted chest presses, the watch shows my heart rate is elevated, which is expected.

The rate displayed is approximately close to what I feel and calculate in my pulse. As I sit and relax and my heart rate lowers, the watch completely fails to reevaluate this change in heart rhythm fast enough.

Nearly 2 minutes after my exercise set and the watch still shows the same elevated heart rate, but I can feel my pulse and simply calculate that my heart rate has dropped significantly, but the watch has no clue and hasn’t adjusted the rate.

The watch almost needs 3-5 minutes to accurately recalcuate, and by that point you’ve moved on. You need to remove the watch from your wrist, so that it doesn’t detect your pulse anymore, and reattach it for the sensors to take a new evaluation, and this won’t happen for several more minutes.

All of this means that the approximate calories burned during your exercise are WAY off. Until this is fixed, I cannot recommend this watch to anyone looking for a fitness tracker. As a simple smartwatch, it’s great.

For a fitness tracker, it’s simply terrible.

As noted in other reviews, a significant downgrade IMO from the Galaxy Watch 3. I agree with all the other reviewers on the most important points. Horrible battery life (46mm Classic) – someone said you can literally see the battery drain, and I agree.

You’ll be lucky to get through a day. If you want to monitor your sleep cycle with this, you’ll need to charge it a couple of hours sometime before you go to bed, and then again when you wake up. Best get a couple of chargers, for charging at work and at home.

I can only imagine the battery life in the 40mm. Very poorly organized interface as well, beginning with the mish-mash of apps you need to scroll through to get anywhere. And speaking of apps, very sparse selection – Samsung may think they’ve partnered with Google, but it’s abundantly apparent that Google does not agree.

And literally NOTHING is explained about how to do anything setting up this watch – coupled with the fact that nothing will import from any other Samsung watch you have. You’ll need to set up Samsung Pay all over again, you will have no watch faces (other than the elsewhere mentioned bloated list of included “cute” faces that are un-deletable, that only a 14 year old girl would wear), and downloading other watch faces (if you can find any) involves an arcane, multi-step process of paying vendors “croissants” and “wine,” and many of the faces linked through Samsung’s own Wearable app are incompatible.

The Google Play store has literally thousands of apps – only a few of which are compatible with this watch – and you will have only very basic apps, most of which duplicate what’s already (minimally) installed.

I could continue, but having spent the better part of a day trying to get this hot mess of hardware and software working, I’m frankly too tired. Rant off, there are some improvements in the health measurement components, and it may or may not be marginally faster (if it is, it’s barely detectable, but benefit of a doubt).

It’s also lighter than my Titanium 3. So I’ll be keeping it and hoping for some huge updates, but this effort is almost an embarrassment to call an “improvement. ” It does tell time, so there’s that.

I wanted to like this watch (especially since Samsung’s promotions department did such a good job of harassing me to upgrade!!) I ordered the UNLOCKED LTE version a month before it came out on pre-order.

Once i received the watch however, my carrier (T-mobile) at the time could not activate the watch. They kept getting a message that the watch was not compatible with their network. I returned that watch and waited almost 4 weeks for the replacement.

The replacement watch did the same thing. I switched to Verizon, who was able to activate the watch. However, the UNLOCKED LTE version gets NO notifications or alerts to it. No calls, no texts, no important stuff.

(it does tell me the weather 5 minutes though). ive gone through every conceivable tech support from T-mobile, Samsung, AND Verizon and NONE of them can figure out why this watch isnt getting notifications.

It also apparently is marked as an LTE watch but did doesn’t function alone outside of the phone (even with the phone powered off) UNLESS you call or text the number SPECIFICALLY attached to the watch line (and still no notifications).

I humored myself and did a google search of the issue and apparently this is a major issue with this watch. COMPLETE waste of money and time! It’s basically an expensive, pretty BRICK!! I should have kept my Galaxy Watch 3.

maybe they’ll do better with the 5, but this 4 is trash!.

I previously had the Original Galaxy Watch which was nothing but a glorified notification device and very slow, buggy, and cumbersome to use. I waited to upgrade for 3 more iterations (2, 3, 4) hoping a lot of the bugs would be worked it.

And honestly this watch is still more or less a glorified notification device and is basically worthless if you’re a Verizon customer and use Verizon proprietary apps because you cannot download them on your watch.

For example, if you use the Verizon Messages App and go to start a new message from your watch it requires you to set a different message app as default in order to start a message. What’s the point? Why would Verizon sell something that is incompatible with it’s native proprietary apps? For some reason if you receive a message on your watch, it shows up as being from the Verizon Messages app and you can respond to it, however if you swipe it away there’s no way to get back to it and again no way to start a new one.

So it’s only 1 way compatible or what does this mean??? What’s even worse, I initiated a chat with Tech support who had absolutely no idea whether the Verizon Messages app was compatible with the Galaxy Watch.

The person on the chat promised me a resolution in the beginning and then could not deliver and kept wasting my time asking me to check the app store which I already informed them I had done and was the reason I initiated the chat (i.

e to see if the app was compatible or not). Also, the standalone feature is garbage, if you do try to respond to a message and you aren’t near your watch, it either will not be able to send the message or it will say, cannot send from phone, use watch number instead? What’s the point??? Additionally, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve answered a call on my watch as I’m headed back to my phone only to get back to my phone and find out I can’t transfer the call to my phone (S22 Ultra).

The workout/fitness stuff seems ok I guess but if you want to separately measure your heartbeat you better not move a muscle or it will give you a sensor error, however if you have activated a workout on the watch, somehow it shows as being able to read your heartbeat the whole time no matter how much you are moving, how does this make any sense at all? The individual heartbeat app makes you hold still but the heartbeat monitor built into the workout isn’t the same? So if you haven’t activated a workout and you are doing cardio for example, how the heck can you get a reading without stopping and holding absolutely still? I absolutely love my Galaxy S22 Ultra, I’ve been a Samsung Galaxy Phone user since the Note 3 but Samsung’s Watches seem to be Garbage, and moreso on on Verizon.

My wife has an Apple watch and iPhone 13 (both on Verizon as well) and I am SUPER impressed at how well the Apple Watch works and what it can do (I would get one if it were possible to use it with my phone).

She never has problems and can literally leave her phone at home and have basically the same functionality on her watch from miles away and it uses her phone number (not a watch number). Samsung is INFINITELY far behind on the watch side and needs to step it up BIG TIME and so is Verizon on their Proprietary apps.

After owning this watch for 3 months, this watch has been able to supplement my life’s activities in some way. The main reason I bought it for the purpose of being able to track my exercise and to be used as a golf watch for pin distance.

Upon pairing with my Samsung S9+, all notifications such as text and WhatApp messages, calendar events and call were all actionable from the watch, and mitigated me having to pull out my phone to check these notification.

Things such as email to my gmail account and other application notifications were not available, however as these aren’t really urgent it didn’t really impact me. It has support for many third party applications and native Samsung applications; my Golfshot application allowed for me to check the pin distance from my phone, my F45 workouts were tracked in the Samsung Health with my heart rate and calorie counts for the session available to be viewed on both my watch and my phone, plus the ability (after a bit of fiddling) being able to control my phone’s Spotify whilst connected to my bluetooth headphones (the watch also uses bluetooth).

There’s so many apps you can use such as a compass, stopwatch, Google maps and Samsung Pay, The Samsung Health integration has a wealth of functions, even being able to measure body composition by sending electrodes around your body, providing data on BMI, water mass, bone density.

It also has a sleep monitor which will track your sleeping patterns if you wear the watch while you sleep, I haven’t tried it for the reason below. My only complaint is the battery life. Depending on usage, you’ll find yourself having to charge your watch at weird intervals if you choose to wear it to bed every night.

Given the functions of the watch somewhat demand it to be worn for 24 hours, you’ll just have to pick and choose when you want to go without, which means placing it on a USB charger the size of a 20 cent piece.

Overall it’s a great life assistant. It looks smart, you can choose for virtually an unlimited number of watch faces, there’s an app for everything you want and you can set it up to help you with anything you wish.

I received the Bluetooth version of this watch, and have been using it for a few weeks. There is also a 4G version of it. The watch comes nicely presented in a white box, and includes a proprietary magnetic USB charging pad, so you’ll need a charging block to plug this into in order to charge the watch.

Charging takes 90 minutes with my charger, and a full charge lasts ~2 days (though I’ve not used it for intensive fitness tracking). Battery life is the only downside of this watch for me, though this may be normal for smart watches.

I’ve been using this watch with a Samsung Galaxy S10 – It is not compatible with iPhone. There are certain features that only work with Samsung phones – such as full health tracking (heart rate monitor, blood oxygen level, sleep quality, stress, and body composition).

Unless you’re really into monitoring your fitness, this is unlikely to be an issue – I find basic fitness tracking (steps etc) is perfect for my needs. The watch is comfortable to wear, though I find the rubber strap can get a little bit sweaty (which may be partly due to the UK 2022 Jul/Aug heatwave).

This may not be an issue if you are a regular smart watch wearer already. Before starting the watch for the first time, I’d recommend installing Samsung’s ‘Galaxy Wearable’ app and ensuring that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone.

On starting the watch, it walks you though the Bluetooth pairing process, and then gives a brief interactive demo of how to use the watch (Mostly swiping left/right/up/down to access different feature areas, and is definitely worth paying attention to).

The app allows you to configure your watch – lots of different faces etc. , as well as specifying the apps you wish to use. Other than phone and Messages, I regularly use Spotify and Samsung Pay (as it’s more convenient than using the phone).

I find this watch a very user-friendly piece of tech. If you’re happy to charge it every day or two, I’d definitely recommend it.

After using my active 2 for almost 2 years, it is the only watch (smart or otherwise) that I have worn consistently. I opted for the larger size purely to read the screen size easier; however, the small size would have fit my small wrist just fine.

I love how easy it is to swap out the bands on the watch. I’ve purchased a handful of bands from Amazon just to accessorize my outfits and mood. The band that comes with the watch originally is so easy to clean and maintain.

Personally, I never tested the watch’s underwater ability, but I never had any issues when I would get it wet. For me though it is habit to take it off whenever I shower. I do not have an LTE plan on just my watch, so using smart pay via my watch does require that I have my phone on/near me.

As a person with health issues, I love the sleep monitor and heart rate monitor functions. Those are my most used apps on the watch. I docked a star because the ECG ability has stopped working for me.

It no longer properly recognizes my finger on the button. That is disappointing since that was a factor in purchasing the watch. Also, I added and then removed the period cycle app on the watch because on the watch it would glitch, but in the Samsung health app on my phone it works just fine.

Overall, I highly recommend for any Samsung phone owner looking to have a smart watch. I influenced my husband to get one for himself, and now either of us can’t imagine not having a Samsung smart watch.

Disclaimer – I think this was an open box purchase, but it came with it’s original box and band ,with zero tarnishes or any immediately noticable problems. This was not my first smart watch. I had used Fitbit and Garmin.

something I really appreciated about my Fitbit was that not only did it read my pulse and sleep, but also my Spo2, which I follow closely because of medical reasons. I was rather disappointed to learn that the ability to detect Spo2 was not available.

Another problem I encountered was nearly constant disconnecting from Bluetooth and Wireless. I had set notifications to inform me whenever this happened, and it was so frequent that I turned notifications off in annoyance.

Updates would either resolve the issue, but then bring it back later, or just make it worse in general. Next would be battery life. When I first began using this watch, it could last two days before needing to charge.

But after about six months of use, it began to require more frequent charges. Mind, I didn’t use any excessive watch faces , and didn’t add music onto the device. Storage and Ram were mostly free. But after almost a year, this watch will lost almost 60% battery life from full after maybe 90 minutes.

This renders the watch unusable for me. This became exceptionally worse after each watch update. Resetting the device multiple times did nothing. I am convinced that Samsung has no idea what they’re doing in regards to updates.

They’re far and few between, and they seem to cause more problems than they fix. I still wanted to have a Smartwatch, as the convenience is necessary for my busy life. So hopefully most of these issues will be resolved with the Galaxy Watch 4, which does come with SP02 reader!.

I’ve always been a fan of the samsung line of watches. Not being biased to other watches, since i’ve used and still own quite a few other brand smart watches. This item was purchased for my girl as a replacement to an aging TicWatch.

She needed something that would hold up against spills, dirt and other bodily *stuff* that would maybe hit it in the process of her job. With her being an ER nurse, she very frquently comes into contact with very gross situations that would be very difficult to clean from ordinary watches or even smartches with external moving or rotating faces or knobs.

That being said, it’s worked wonderfully against all situations she’s ran into. The features have come in very handy for her job. From little things that we normally take for granted or on a regular basis we don’t ever use, she’s found them to make her job very easy.

The sleep monitor has been a very solid staple with her since it’s helped her find some issues with her sleep habits. The heart-rate monitor has come in very handy with her workouts and day-to-day activities.

She’s honestly used more features and options on that watch than I ever have. The clean aesthetic look of the watch makes it a joy for any outfit or srubs combination she chooses. It’s not bulky or uncomfortable.

The options for bands is great, because she tends to go through a few of them. Overall a great option for a smart watch.

As a smartwatch, this is an outstanding choice. The watch is well made, it has a lot of useful features and settings. As a activity tracker, quite frankly is sucks. Here are the features I like: built-in microphone so you can answer a phone call, speech-to-text text message replies, music controls and alarms.

Now for what I don’t like. I used before this and I feel like it was far more accurate in tracking sleep and activity. The Active 2 tracks my sleep properly about half the time. Some days it says it couldn’t get a good reading even though I wear it close to the skin as I should.

If it does track, I don’t always feel like it’s accurate. Sometimes when I’m doing nothing out of the ordinary it goes into workout mode. And then finally, the battery life. With a FitBit I got spoiled on charging it every other day or every 2 days.

Because of the features of this watch, it has to be charged everyday. It does have a helpful battery saver mode but that takes away 99% of the features you’re going to buy it for. No voice texting or replying of any kind and no use of the apps or watch faces.

I bought this used at a deep discount. I’m very thankful I didn’t buy this new because it’s not really worth the price tag to me.

but when I do, they are usually harshly critical. Not this time. I ordered a Samsung Galaxy Frontier smartwatch for one purpose only – MST – the ability to pay from my (portable device) regardless of whether the merchant supported contactless.

It used to be a feature of Samsung Pay and Galaxy phones (prior to the S21/Note 20) and watches (prior to Gear 4). I loved being able to walk up to almost any credit card machine and use my Note 10+, but traded it in for the S22 Ultra (kind of a bad move, except for the camera).

But. seing this Galaxy Frontier with LTE in better than “Used” condition. I jumped on it. The watch is flawless, I can barely detect any scratches. And. strangely enough. it works BETTER with Google Voice than my Fossil Carlyle running Wear OS 2.

I would highly recommend this watch and this seller.

I bought this watch to replace a Fitbit a few years back. I had been keeping my eyes open for something that worked well with my Samsung Galaxy phone and this was the perfect fit. It has easy access buttons, lots of free watch faces, you can answer use is to talk on the phone (with in bluetooth range) and the steps, heart rate and other options are pretty high quality.

When I first bought the watch, I’d get almost 3 full days on a full charge. Now a couple years later, I get about 1. 5 days. The battery has fluctuated up and down over the years from updates that drain battery, then updates that fix it.

Right now I’m happy and hopefully it doesn’t change. My only complaint is that it isn’t safe to wear under water for longer than 30 minutes. This watch is good for a splash an oopsy in the water, and apparently light swimming, but not to be worn under water over 1.

5 meters for more than 30 minutes. I honestly don’t want to risk it. The more current samsung watches have better water proofing. I’ll wear this thing until it dies.

this is my 2nd gear s3, both have lacked basic wristwatch functions right out of the box. i shouldn’t have to download a separate app to add stopwatch functionality. additionally, at about 2 years of ownership of each, they both seem to slow down and not do various things.

they both stopped giving text notifications. my 2nd one will not charge fully because the screen does not turn off if it is on the charger. it will constantly display that it is charging but once it reaches 100% it will stop charging and then use whatever charge it has to keep the display on despite me verifying the correct screen/display settings.

The Samsung Gear S3 is by far one of the most advanced and classy looking smart watches out there. This smart watch pretty much has everything and with an option for 4G LTE I cant imagine much more being offered.

I have had the Samsung Gear S2 Classic and the Samsung Gear Fit2. I really like the normal watch style of the S line, but both watches just didnt meet my expectations. Now that I have the Gear S3 Frontier, I can say that they have finally hit everything I was looking for.

Just starting off as a watch, it is a bit big and may be for some, but looks like a typical rugged style watch. The watch faces on it are amazing and some go as far as to mimic the light reflection as if they had a real reflective background.

The clarity and finite details even give some of them a 3D appearance. From analog to digital with individual stylizations, there are so many watch face styles that you could have a different one every day if you choose to.

There is also an always on feature that prevents you from having to flick your wrist to see the time, a complaint I had with the S2, however, it reduces time between charges significantly. With the band being interchangeable with any 22mm band, the design choices are limitless.

As a fitness tracker, the Gear S3 has everything you expect, plus more. It tracks steps, floors climbed and automatic heart rate tracking with decent accuracy. It will pick up exercise events automatically if continued for at least 10 minutes, however, if you want full GPS tracking you will need to manually start the exercise event.

When manually started and using SHealth you get added results, such as highest and lowest elevation for total ascentdescent using the included altimeter, and averagemax heart rate. You also get a Google map display of your event which can be exported to a GPX file.

The Gear S3 can keep track of all of this information without the phone being present during the workout. As an added bonus, the watch has internal storage so you can play music directly from the watch, through the built in speaker or Bluetooth headphones, or control the music on your phone.

For smart watch capability you get the typical notifications and alerts from your phone, which you can change in the Samsung Gear app. You can reply and send text messages by using standard preset short replies, emoticons, by writing text by hand, using an old style alphanumeric keypad, or use the microphone to record a message or use speechtotext.

Dont want to text You can answer and place calls directly from the watch, with surprising clarity. You can use your contacts or a keypad to enter a fresh number without ever pulling out your phone. As for controlling the watch, I still love the rotating bezel compared to some other smart watches using the small crown.

My fingers feel like Im trying to use two sausages to pick up a pin when messing with small dials and such. Sometimes even using the screen is cumbersome as my finger can cover half the screen or a slight bump leads to clicking on a wrong reply.

My favorite feature with the watch has been the amazement that I get from people when I use my watch with Samsung Pay to make a payment. It typically starts out with their hand out awaiting a credit card.

Then I tell them Im going to pay using my watch and their response is usually Oh our system is old, we dont do that yet as they hear the beep of the transaction being completed. That is when the questions start to kick in, even from people behind me in line.

Besides ATM machines and gas pumps, it has worked on pretty much everything else. If at first it does not succeed, have them change the transaction from credit to debit or vice versa. You can even make up to four transactions without your phone being nearby, making this even better when out on a workout.

To wrap up with a few odds and ends, I like how the bezel is above the glass. I have only had mine a few weeks and already bumped it against several hard objects. There are marks on the bezel, but nothing with the glass.

I just bought some lens covers to be sure that this will not be an issue. The default watch band is rubber, therefore it stretches and at times feels like it is pinching my arm, as a rubber band would.

If I loosen it too much, because I use Samsung Pay, the screen will lock and requires a 4 digit pin to be entered. A feature I am grateful for, but a bit of an annoyance when I find it locked when a notification comes in, so I keep the watch tight.

The battery life has lasted on average 3 days, with the Always On feature turned off. I like to wear mine at night as well, to provide sleep tracking, so I charge it during times of inactivity, like at my work desk or in the evening while watching TV, and it is fully charged in about 2 and a half hours.

The altimeter and barometer are an interesting feature, and I am sure for some it will prove useful, but so far all I have noticed is that I have to recalibrate the altimeter every few days as it has been over 600ft off after a few days and the weather has not been severe enough to really change the barometer reading.

In conclusion, I have thoroughly enjoyed my Samsung Gear S3 Frontier and look forward to using it more as the season of outdoor activities starts to roll in. With so much to offer in a typical elegant looking watch, it is hard to believe what they will improve on it anytime soon.

If you are looking to take the step into the world of using a smart watch, but dont want a device that looks like a small phone on your wrist, and provides more features than any other watch, this is the one for you.

If you are looking for an upgrade from any other smart watch, you dont have to look any further.

When I decided to move to Motorola phones from the Galaxy S5, I hated the idea of losing the Samsung Health app which I find excellent to track all the things that I need to track. When I realized it was time to get a more modern smartwatch, I did my research and discovered that the Samsung watches would automate many of the things I had been entering manually into SHealth.

But I worried that the Z2 Play wasnt on the Samsung list of supported watches would it work even if it otherwise met all the tech requirements I agonized over this. I ordered the watch, half expecting to have to return it But I was delighted to discover that the watch was EASY to pair with my phone, and did all the things I neededexpected it to do.

Its well built and well designed. I feel it is very rugged. Many of the reviews I read said it was heavy, but I dont think it is. It IS heavier than most mechanical watches but no smartwatch is that light.

The only real negative I have is that I cant really figure out a way to control Pandora streaming service through the phone. When Im at the gym, I have to unpair the watch from my phone and pair the BT Headphones to the phone.

Fortunately, the watch works just fine in a disconnected manner, and when I do reconnect the phone to the watch, the SHealth data auto syncs to the android phone version of SHealth. Works good, but I DO wish the watch had the same level of 3rd party music software control that an Android watch has.

Battery life has been excellent. Its been a day and a half since I last charged the battery and I am only at 50 charge. That includes using the phone for 2 hours at the gym I suspect If I could have connected the headphones to the watch via bluetooth, the battery would be a bit more drained than it is.

But Ive had another watch that required charging twice a day with very minor useI think a Samsung Phone user would consider the S3 the best phone value in the market. But Non Samsung phone users need to remember not ALL functionality will be available to them.

It is still a good value, but evaluate your needs before you decide on which phone to buy. Each person will value different things. For me, Im VERY satisfied because it lets me use Samsung Health to its full potential.

But a person interested in other functionality might not be as happy. I like it, and for a more than casual fitness person, but not all THAT intense when it comes to fitness, it is pretty close to Ideal.

Okay, Ive had the Gear S3 Frontier Bluetooth version for about a month now and feel like I need to share my opinion on the latest generation wearable from Samsung. Let me start by saying I have had three other smart watches.

One android wearable, a Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear S. I guess you could say that Im a bit of a watch fanatic since I have many other nonsmart watches I enjoy wearing too, but I digress. My first impression is that Samsung spent some time to make a quality timepiece.

It looks elegant, as an expensive watch should, and feels solid. Im sure this will take a beating and keep going however beating a watch is not in my nature, so this is just an assumption based on the impression it get from handling this watch.

The Frontier has a nice outdoor rugged look which is why I chose it but that is personal taste. I really went back and forth since I wear a suit most days of the week and I think the Classic would have worked well too.

Ive owned 2 squarerectangular faced watches and 2 round face watches and I normally would say that you should buy for your own taste, but with the addition of the outside bezel that assists in navigating through options, widgets and menus Im forced to say the round face on the S3 is the only way to go.

Its amazing how one simple design change could make such a great difference in your experience with a smart watch but Samsung hit it out of the park with the addition of the bezel control. I still use the touch screen quite a bit but its nice when you have potato chip fingers, to be able to navigate your way around without messing up the display.

Again you can see Im a fanatic about caring for my watchesThe display on this watch is phenomenal Its actually a pleasure to stare at this watch which makes it a lot of fun to try and find a watch face you like.

By the way, there may not be a ton of apps available but there are plenty of watch faces to choose from. The colors are vibrant and the display is bright, making photos look really nice, although as I get older, I would rather look at much larger pictures, but for those with younger eyes, I promise youll be impressed.

The Gear S3 has worked well for my fitness needs Its a little heavier than a fitness tracker but for me it provides all the same stats. Ive never had a problem with it registering my heart rate and the numbers provided for BPM, steps, miles and floors seem quite accurate but Im not a professional runner and if it were off a few yards over 5 miles I wouldnt know it nor would I care.

To me, all this information provides incentive to work out and motivation to push myself from the last workout. I should mention here that I do have the watch remind me to move if Ive been sitting at work too long Now if you want the most accuracy and youre running outside rather than on a treadmill youll be pleased to know it comes with GPS.

The only downside is that it takes a few minutes to acquire the satellite signal but that gives you a chance to stretch first. Theres also room to store music on this watch if you dont want to carry your phone when you run.

It will sync with Bluetooth headset so you can carry your favorite tunes, listen to them without wires while you run and leave your phone at home. The speaker on this thing is remarkable too. Every sound is crystal clear and can be loud if you want.

I played some music though the speaker on the watch and it blew me away for such a tiny speaker, however I would recommend a headset for your runs. The sleep tracking feature worried me a little when I read reviews.

What scared me was that people would say the watch would run out of battery by 3 or 4 in the morning. My experience has been completely different, of course I do make some adjustments that may be helping.

First Ive found a watch face that sucks very little battery and in the always on display mode its just two red hands Mickey Face Red. Then I turn on Do Not Disturb, turn the display all the way down and shut off sound and vibrate.

Ive used the sleep tracking app that comes with the watch and Ive used the Sleep as Andriod app. In fact, Ive used them both at the same time and never used more than 15 battery on my most wrestles night.

I prefer using the Sleep as Android app because it allows the alarm to wake me up with vibration to the watch. Yes, even though Ive turned off the sound including vibration on the watch when I go to bed, it still allows the alarm from the Sleep as Android to vibrate and wake me up.

The vibration of the watch doesnt wake up my wife on those early morningsThe battery could last me easy two days with as much as I use it. I know Samsung says 4 days but if youve got such a beautiful display and tool on your wrist youll want to show it off, so use it.

The really cool thing about this watch is the fantastic charging unit that comes with it. Theres no need to plug it in or clamp on a battery. You just set it in the charging stand and it charges up for you fast.

I generally take it off for 3060 minutes in the morning when Im getting ready for work and 3060 minutes as Im getting ready for bed and the thing rarely goes below 75 charge. Another review I read said that their banking institution wasnt setup to allow the use of Samsung Pay, so I had to try that first thing.

Im sure this will vary based on everyones individual institution however I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only was I able to use the credit card from my bank but also from my credit union.

It took just minutes to set up and was really slick when I checked out at the register. Just two pushes on the back button, tap on which card you want to use, put your watch next to the terminal and youre done Im sure I will be using this feature a lotLastly let me say that I dont miss having the LTE capability I have with my Gear S.

I rarely took advantage of the standalone phone capabilities and defiantly not enough to justify the extra cost including the monthly fee the service provider charged for the phone number. In summary, Im head over hills with the quality, looks and function of the Gear S3.

It was easy to set it up, but Ive had other smart watches so Ive had a little practice and for the month Ive owned had it, it has performed well in every aspect. So if youve got some dollars burning a hole in your pocket this might be an enjoyable place to spend them I highly recommend checking this out.

Switched from the watch active 2 to this, and it was a painful step backwards. I originally assumed that the poor reviews were from people with unrealistic expectations from a reasonably priced watch, but I was very wrong.

The battery life is actually genuinely incredibly poor (I thought people were exaggerating) it will not make a day with reasonable settings. Fortunately this aspect doesn’t bother me too much (it can make a day if you turn off all smart features, but makes the device somewhat redundant) as I only use the watch for listening to music while running.

Here are the issues I have with it. – [Most frustrating] It cannot be turned on and used for music, you need to budget about 20 minutes each time to use the offline music function. The watch needs to be left for about 15 minuets after turning on before it stops lagging painfully slowly.

And you often have to turn it on and off multiple times before it allows you to play music without an internet connection. (In an ideal world you’d just put it on, leave the house and downloaded playlist would continue – this does not happen – if you don’t turn on aeroplane mode before leaving, disconnecting from you phone and wifi, prior to leaving you’ll have to spend about 10 minuets fiddling around with it outside, which is more annoying than doing it before.

– Heart rate and gps sensors are terrible; doesn’t bother me, but I find it perverse having come from the cheaper (at time of release) active watch 2. – The software experience is horrible, the watch freezes constantly, it has less options and apps just continuously close, forcing you to turn off and on the watch multiple times if you want to use it properly (i.

e. change the music playing). Apps are generally terrible, i. e. spotify has no offline playlist (it does on the WA2) youtube music has offline (which is painful to use as previously stated), but you cannot pick songs that you want played (on or offline) it has a shuffle option that only plays them in one order (i.

e. if you run for 30 mins everytime you have to listen to the exact same 8 songs in the exact same order even if your watch has downloaded a 500 song playlist). I’m sat typing this as I once again reset the watch and attempt to get it to work so I can go on a run, normally the 10 min on/off process is annoying, but not enough to actually write a review, but it’s pushing 20 minutes now, and I realize that I have to put the watch away in my draw and buy another either garmin or just the Samsung watch active 2.

The product is painfully bad, an incredibly frustrating experience and if you read this and buy it (as I did after reading negative reviews) you ultimately have yourself to blame when you shallow the loss and buy a second smart watch to replace it.

Here’s what Samsung do not want you to know…. I had high hopes when buying a top brand watch but found that even the best of the biggest Mobile (cell) phone makers can make mistakes. I rarely write reviews but I am so disappointed that I wanted to share this with everyone so they do not make the same mistake that I did when buying this watch.

I bought the Samsung Watch4 LTE 4G with the intention of using it to talk to people while running or just when you don’t want the bulk of carrying your mobile (Cell) phone. You have everything on your arm including google pay etc.

How wrong could I be. The problem with all this fancy tech in a little watch is inevitably the battery, it is this that is the big issue. Now I like to talk, but if you think you may get more than 60 mins talk time from your watch spread over 10 hours you won’t.

You will be lucky if the watch will last more than 12 hours without making any calls at all while connected to LTE (4G) The battery drains while connected to a mobile network is just too much for this watch to handle.

Also, this is what Samsung do not want you to know. If you live in an area with low mobile (cell) signal then your watch will overheat trying to amplify the signal. This means you will get at best 2 mins worth of conversation before the watch shuts down due to overheating.

Samsung are aware of this situation but is powerless to do anything about it and in truth does not want you to know! So, if you want a watch that’s smart and are happy to charge it up twice a day so you can use all the features then this would be OK.

If you want to use it instead of a mobile (cell) phone then look elsewhere as this watch is useless with the battery life it offers. Seriously useless! You also only find out how bad this watch is after starting a phone esim plan so you can make calls and then you are tied to a network for 12 months that you’ll never use due to how incompetent the watch is at making calls.

Also note it’s an esim. ie digital – no physical sim to add or remove. I even tried to use the watch on the charger to talk longer and even the charger could not cope with the drain on the battery and inevitably after some long telephone calls the watch died after 2 hours of use.

I honestly do not think there is anything wrong with the watch as other people have had the same experience, its obviously a design fault and an oversite by Samsung to make the watch perform longer on the very small battery that it squeezes into this watch.

I hope this review helps people to make a choice when looking at this watch as an option of a standalone mobile (cell) phone. Watch maybe, cell phone definitely not!.

I bought the Watch 4 for my wife as a birthday gift, she has been wanting a smart watch for sometime now. I spent weeks researching different brands and options and settled on the Watch 4 because we have S10 phones and they advertise that they are great fitness trackers.

My wife loves to run so I purchased the LTE model so she would always have a way to call or text someone if she needed while tracking her miles and pace. She used the Watch for a couple of months before it started doing weird things.

It started to randomly answer calls on the Watch instead of the phone even when you picked up the phone and not the Watch. Battery life was terrible it wouldn’t last more than 12 hours, apps would randomly turn on.

Finally the screen went white and there was no way to reboot the Watch. I sent it in for repair as it was still under warranty and they emailed me back to say it wasn’t under warranty due to water damage.

I explained to them that the only “water” it could have been in contact with was sweat. They told me there was nothing that they could do it wasn’t under warranty. I have found several other people that have had the same problem.

The watch 4 is falsely advertised as water resistant and you can use it for swimming laps with it. Samsung will not allow me post this review on their website! DO NOT BUY this watch, save yourself the headaches and money!!!.

I have the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (44mm) in silver. Overall, I like the watch. I like sending and receiving texts on my watch (I can respond to Signal messages but cannot initiate them from the watch).

The sleep monitoring is helpful and seems accurate. I also like the detection of physical activity, like when I’m walking or running. The battery life is ok. Two days is a big stretch, so I usually just charge it every day (a bit of a pain since I want to sleep with it on, so I need to remember to charge it before bed).

One small complaint is that the watch has no left hand setting. So I wear it on my right wrist, like most left-handed people do, but the buttons are in the wrong side. So I’m constantly reaching over the watch face to tap a button.

Annoying and unnecessary because the watch is physically symmetric (top to bottom) and the watch face rotates while charging but not while wearing it. So the software and hardware could handle it, if it were made by a company that cared about its customers.

The bigger complaint I have is accessories. If you don’t love the stock silicon watch band, you are out of luck. I started looking for a metal band as soon as it was released. A Milanese band was advertised on their site for months as “coming soon.

” I signed up to receive a notification of its availability but none ever came. By accident, I saw it available in early December and ordered it (silver, 44mm). They sent me the wrong size (40mm) which I returned.

They sent me the wrong size (40mm) again, which I returned again. The third order has been placed since mid-December with no end in sight. Customer service is apologetic and confident it’ll be sent soon.

I receive periodic emails about my order, saying it’s delayed and will ship in the next three weeks. Customer service is confident it’ll arrive by that date. I’ve played this game since mid-December and it’s wearing thin.

No one knows where the watchband is but everyone knows it’ll be sent soon. Last few times I checked, the wireless charging trio platform is MIA too. Good luck getting accessories for this watch; they don’t seem to exist and Samsung doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to make them available.

After upgrading from a Galaxy S7 to the Moto Z Force I was sad to find that my old Samsung Gear Watch would not pair with my new phone. I looked long and hard for a suitable replacement because I became very accustomed to my wearable technology watch.

After multiple attempts to download apps and pair my old watch with my new phone I was rightfully concerned that the new Samsung Gear S3 Frontier would be very timeconsuming and tedious to pair with a Moto Z, but I was completely mistaken.

Once the watch was powered up it prompted me to download the appropriate Samsung Gear app, enter my email address and a memorable password and after a few short very simple to follow steps the watch and my new phone are paired and theyre working perfectly.

I am extremely pleased with the fit and finish of my new S3 Frontier and how simple it was to mate it to a non Samsung phone. I had watched several YouTube videos of how to pair previous model Samsung SmartWatches to non Samsung or Galaxy phones and had anticipated a number of downloading and application steps two make the two communicate with each other but as I said before it was completely unnecessary and extremely simple.

The watch is fairly expensive but well worth the money if you have become accustomed two wearable technology to stay uptodate with whats going on with your phone. I look forward to getting more accustomed to using it and I know it will be a very enjoyable experience.

The one sacrifice of not having a camera on the watch as I did with the previous one is a feature that I will miss but it is by no means a dealbreaker as I am completely satisfied with my purchase. I highly recommend this watch for anyone having a non Samsung phone as an alternative to purchasing one made by Motorola if you purchased a Moto Z as I did.

It Is by no means a watch to wear well swimming or diving and maybe one day manufacturers will step up and make something that is truly waterresistant enough for that kind of use but the water and dust repellency is more than adequate for daily life and besides I have plenty of other watches for scuba diving and swimming so there again definitely no dealbreaker and this will be my watch a choice for daily wear and all outdoor activities.

At almost three bones it is a very pricey investment but as I said before if you are a fan of wearable technology Im sure you will enjoy it as much as Im sure I will.

I am a big fan of smartwatches, Google Wear OS ones in particular. Quick and easy access to text and email notifications is a must for me (oh, and I guess showing the time as well). I have owned two smart watches over the past 5 years, and while their features have improved with each new watch, the biggest problem I have run into is declining battery life.

My first one, which was one of the first Android Wear 2. 0 (precursor to Wear OS) watches, barely made it to a year before had to charge it mid-day to make it to the end of the day. Eventually, I got tired of charging twice a day, and upgraded to one from big fashion watch brand name.

That one has been great, very stylish (with a metal band), and had brought to me new features I was wanting (heart rate monitor, NFC payments, etc. ). Alas, after 3 years, the battery life started degrading as well, to the point during the past I wouldn’t really wear it unless I was about to leave the house since it would barely last 10, maybe 12 hours (even as much as I really wanted to wear it all the time).

I was planning to upgrade to the latest version of that brand, but I unintentionally waited long enough that and new version of smartwatch from a different brand came out. Luckily, that brand was one of my favorite brands (Samsung), and that was the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.

With the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, instead of using the Wear OS app on my phone to connect and control, it uses the Samsung Wearable app, which after connecting to the watch, it prompts to install Galaxy Watch5 plugin.

While it is slightly different from the Wear OS App, it is evident that the Wearable/Galaxy Watch5 plugin is based on it (evident if you’ve had previous experience with the Wear OS App). One nice thing about the Wearables/Galaxy Watch5 plugin is that pretty much every setting on the watch is exposed in the app on the phone.

And some settings/features are only available on the app, such as rearranging the right-swipe tiles or rearranging the watch app list. Updating the watch faces and their settings are simple in the app as well.

Honestly, I had stayed away from Samsung smartwatches as I preferred Wear OS, and up until the Galaxy Watch 4, they didn’t use it. With the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, they introduce Watch OS 3. 5, with their One UI 4.

5 interface. I will say this a big change (mostly improvements) over the Wear OS 2. 8 my previous watch was using. The 2. 8 version and the previous watch itself had been fine for me but pairing up 3.

5 with some additional sensors and other available functionality, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has really distanced itself. While I didn’t have a chance to try out the newest watch of my old brand to see all the improvements with it, I don’t care about that anymore.

Some of the gestures are different, so it took a little while to get used to it (I was used to swiping from the bottom to view notifications, but now need to swipe from the right. Access to the apps is much improved, with a condensed icon-only display (basically 3 columns), swiping up to view (and get to) more quickly.

My old watch had a rotating post to turn to go through the list, that was listed one at a time (but with titles), it took a little longer to get to the apps. As a note, most notifications from apps are turned off initially on the watch.

To turn notifications on, will need to go through the app list in the Wearables app and turn on desired notifications. If desired, there is a setting to turn on notifications for newly installed apps.

I was pleased that I could set Google Wallet (formerly Google Pay) as the default tap to pay app (I’ve never used Samsung Pay and really didn’t want to). And I was able set up Google Fit for use (same thing there, never used Samsung Health, only Google Fit, although there are some features that are only in Samsung Health I use, such as the Body composition).

One thing I have an issue with so far with the OS side is that when I perform an action on a notification (such delete, confirmation, etc. ), it buzzes my phone (even with “silence notifications on my phone” selected, which I always use as well as Do Not Disturb always active on my phone).

Also, if you don’t have a Samsung Galaxy phone, you will not be able to use the ECG watch app as it required the Samsung Health Monitor app, which is only available from the Samsung Galaxy store, which itself is only available on Galaxy phones.

I do have a Galaxy tablet, but the watch can only connect to one device at a time. One other thing I ran into, the watch prompted to do a watch software Update. I proceeded with it but seem to be stuck on the Copying Update (after the Downloading Update was completed).

I went into Settings > Software update to initiate the process again. The first time it still had issues in the Copying update portion. I tried again, but this time, I tapped on the Galaxy Watch5 Manager notification on my phone, and this time it was able to complete the copy process.

Then, had to tap Install Now on the watch to complete. The overall design is very nice! It is lightweight (especially compared to my previous watch), with a titanium case with Sapphire crystal glass so it will last (I haven’t been worried enough to buy a screen protector yet).

The watch is a little bit thicker than what I was used to with my previous watch (3-4mm thicker), but part of that is the raised rim (that, when the setting is turned on, can be used to scroll through the content being displayed buy running a finger along the curved inside edge).

The width, which some may find quite large, is about the same as my previous watch, so I am used to it. The silicone band is nice and comfortable, and completely adjustable to the perfect fit (unlike being limited on the fit based on how the metal links came out on my previous).

I really like the magnetic titanium closure, although it is a little thicker than the closure on my previous metal band but have gotten used to it. It does have two buttons, the Home Key and Back Key (top and bottom buttons respectively when worn on the left wrist).

Both can have their function changed. The Home Key actually has two activations – Press and hold and Double press. The Press and hold can be set to open Bixby, Google Assistant, or the Power off menu.

Double press can be to go to the most recent app, as specific app, or Accessibility shortcuts. For the Back Button, it is a single-press that can go to the previous screen (same as a swipe from left) or Sho recent apps.

It also will silence the vibration (and assumingly the watch ringtone) on an incoming call (without “dismissing” the call). And like most mobile devices (watches, phones, wireless earbuds), it is water-resistant up to 5 feet for up to 30 minutes.

I don’t plan on swimming in it, but at least I don’t have to take it off when doing the dishes. OK, you’ve probably been wondering about the battery life since I mentioned quite a bit about that at the beginning.

With a 590mAh battery (which is the main reason why I went with the Pro), I no longer have to worry about it lasting through the day. Typically, from 7:30am to about 11:30pm, it will get down to 75% on the first day.

That is mainly with quite a few notifications throughout the day, no sounds, and with the blood pressure check every 10 minutes. I don’t wear it to sleep (so haven’t attempted to use any of the sleep-related functions in Samsung Health), but I have been leaving it off the charger overnight after the first day.

After the second day of similar use, it has been getting down to about 30% still left. Now, I normally don’t do a whole lot with any apps on the watch for the most part, so I’m not using it to be the source of music or tracking a physical activity (walk or jog with GPS), but it is nice to know I can and still last as long as I need it to.

I have tried a few things out that I normally wouldn’t do to see what the battery performance was like. A couple of times, I played music from the watch (mp3’s one time and then using Spotify) with my Galaxy Buds 2 connected.

As expected, it did use a little more, but only around 1% every 9-10 minutes. The only time it used quite a bit of battery was when I did the software update, but at least it didn’t completely wipe out the battery.

As you can see, so far, the battery life has been excellent, but only time will tell how long that will keep up. Also, be aware that the charging cable plugs into a USB-C port, so you may have to buy something if you don’t have an extra USB-C charging adapter lying around (we only have four, and those are all used around the house for other purposes).

I ended up having to buy a replacement 6-outlet, Surge protector that had a USB-C port since my other one only had 2 USB-A. So far, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has definitely changed my thoughts about what my favorite watch brand is, moving into the top spot.

Now, they just need to put some polish on the App to make everything just about perfect.