Best Watch Face For Galaxy Watch 3 (2024 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.

Upgraded from the 4. I exercise pretty much daily. Bike, Run, Weight Lifting, HIIT, etcetera. Battery Life: Auto bright, Raise to Wake, Continuous HR, is around 50 hours which is about 10hrs more. I don’t have social media, but get a fair number of emails, texts daily.

Charging Speed: The charger is significantly faster from 0 to 80%. Around 50 minutes. It will take around 30min to charge the last 20%. The charging speed is my favorite new item and makes it worth the upgrade to me! Heartrate: When I got the 4 it had some HR challenges, especially on bike, which is not good for many, even the garmin, at times.

The 4 had improved with updates. The 5 is getting lost, at times, but it’s recording data and finding the HR again quickly and overall, I am not frustrated with it. I have been using constantly for 3 weeks and had one run where the run app failed to record the HR, but the daily HR was recorded during the exercise(bug I suspect).

I had one “other workout” where it just wouldn’t get HR connected to start a workout for several minutes, reboot, etcetera. Otherwise, wrist based HR is somewhat inaccurate for all watches, at times.

Check it manually, occasionally, by pulse and record nuances in the notes if you really love working out. Pretty much everything else about the watch is identical to the 4. No complaints. It would be nice to see some updates to the OS that incorporate new features.

“Tiles” are kind of a dated and only having one complex on a tile could easily be changed to allow a quick scroll (like a webpage) through many health complexes or email, text, social media posts, summary like a webpage.

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!!!.

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.

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.

I’ve purchased over 10 of these watches, and these last three from this company at Walmart have been the absolute best. These watches are updated and include the Standalone phone option which is huge.

They cleared out all the bugs and added updates and upgrades. I purchased three from this company and all but one have worked Superior. The one I returned something was wrong with the charger and I’m getting it replaced I purchased the same watch last year from Amazon it was almost $500.

I returned it oh, because it didn’t have a standalone phone option. This year I purchased another from Samsung that did have the Standalone phone option oh, but it kept overheating and wouldn’t allow me to speak on the phone except for 5 minutes or less.

I sent it back to get a replacement and it did the same thing. That’s when I ran across these on Walmart. com. I purchased two because they were just over $100 and I thought I had nothing to lose by purchasing them with a 90-day guarantee from the manufacturer and then purchasing for only $18 the Walmart extended warranty for 3 years.

I am super excited and pleased with my purchase. Not only that save money but the watch is souped up and has all the bugs cleared and I can literally talk from the phone on the watch with no problems.

It only cost me about $10 extra a month to have the Standalone phone option added Verizon Wireless account. I’ll actually operating the phone from the vr30 and I can imagine that it would work even better with a Samsung Galaxy phone.

I’m not really really interested in purchasing the phone right now but for right now I’m loving these watches. My friends have also ordered them and they work very well. If you have an issue, the manufacturer is very very responsive and Walmart also backs its warranty that they sell for $18.

You have an awesome watch the gain and absolutely nothing to lose.

I’ve had my watch for almost a month now. Here are some early impressions: Battery life is definitely not 48 hours, more like 27. I haven’t yet tried to adjust display brightness and other obvious things to improve this, but this is what get right now.

It takes a bit more than 2 hours to charge, which is a fair proportion of time for a product you probably want to wear to bed. Sleep tracking: something is up here. It barely detects deep sleep, only ever at the start of the night, and although it’s supposed to rely on heart rate to distinguish between deep and REM sleep, disabling heart rate detection doesn’t make any difference.

I contacted tech support. Not helpful. There are many forum posts about this. If sleep tracking is a key feature for you, consider a Fitbit instead. Activity tracking: it does a good job of auto detecting when I’m walking, although it usually waits 10 minutes before it kicks in (it includes those first 10 minutes in the walk).

I always explicitly start other kinds of workouts. Its GPS and heart rate tracking work great, so it does a great job with things like running, cycling, and yoga. I haven’t tried swim tracking yet, all the pools are closed due to covid.

Google Fit: I use a third party app to sync with Google Fit, where I’ve stored all fitness data until now. This is fine, but it annoys me that Samsung Health doesn’t include this. Use with a non-Samsung phone: mostly fine.

I installed an alternative sleep tracker that has some add-on features that required setting up Samsung Pay, which isn’t available on my phone (Pixel 3). This is the only quirk I’ve run into so far, and it annoyed me, but I can live with it.

Media: falls very short on podcasts. Spotify integration is ok, particularly if you like to make playlists. General impression: this watch is definitely motivating me to be more active and drink more water.

Overall I think I’m happy with this purchase, but disappointed given the price point: I’m very pleased with activity tracking and frustrated by sleep tracking. I think if I could go back in time I’d probably buy a higher end Fitbit.

Do not buy this watch if you are planning on using it in water. Even though it is marketed as waterproof and has swim tracking my active 2 kept showing a rebooting message and eventually died after swimming with it the second time.

It is outside of warranty and I stupidly decided not to remove it and trust the waterproofing. Will never make the same mistake again. I took the watch in to get a quote from them and the amount was more than I paid two years ago.

Absolutely ridiculous considering they would have to replace basically every single component of the watch. I wonder if they even opened the watch and tested the motherboard for a short circuit. I am now required to pay costs for the quotation to receive back my watch.

I believe they do this to have customers just leave the product and buy a new one.

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’ve used Samsung devices for 20 years. The Gear 3 Frontier watch has been an excellent watch for me for 3+ years but all of the sudden, after recent updates, it’s charge only lasted hours instead of days.

I like how many watch faces were available. How quickly it responded. How it helped me keep track of my blood sugar (with a lot of help from other apps) and helped control my music. Well maybe it was time to update.

I bought a Galaxy 4 watch. I’ve had it 4 working days. The charge will last almost 2 days. It only has a handful of useful faces that are stylish. Getting new faces through the play store really is tedious.

One face I liked needs 3 other apps to work as shown and the creator of the face wants donations. I’m not happy about the new direction Samsung went. It is not as user friendly as the Gears were. If I knew why the recent updates discharged the watch so quickly and it could be fixed I’d go back to wearing my Frontier.

All that being said the Galaxy 4, 40mm is lighter and has some neat features but it’s not as nimble as the 3 was. Also it’s not completely compatible with my year and a half old Note 20 Ultra. A phone more expensive then my last 3 computers.

Here’s hoping Samsung figures out how to be as good as they were a couple years ago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My Samsung active phone was purchased in September 2021, and this is the second time I’ve sent it back to Samsung for repair since the battery life never exceeds six hours. At 6:00 a. m. , I obtain a fully charged watch; nevertheless, at 12:00 p.

m. , I am without a watch. By then, the battery is invariably dead. When I sent it in for repair in April for the same issue, I was informed that it had been repaired and returned to me. Since then, though, the same problems have persisted.

I never had the watch wet, it never fell out of my wrist, or it never bumped with anything, yet I’ve had this issue since. I purchased this through T-Mobile, I don’t listen to music, turned wifi and bluetooth off permanently, yet no luck.

Between T-Mobile and Samsung, I’m trying to either a refund or a replacement watch. The issue is that I am paying for a T-Mobile line every month for an inoperable device. Because the line is worthless when the watch is malfunctioning.

I’m so tired, and I simply need someone to tell me how to terminate this contract.

i bought this to keep track of my steps. recently, it stopped counting them and i couldn’t figure out why. so, samsung told me it was still under warranty until the end of may. i sent it in, i was told it had water damage, and to repair, it would be $108.

interesting though, because i’ve never gotten it wet. ??? i could either pay that to fix, or upgrade to a 4, which has bad reviews for the battery. i declined both and had it sent back to me. i proceeded to uninstall the app for the watch and somehow get the watch back to factory settings.

it was not connecting to the watch at first, but kept trying and i ultimately succeeded. my watch works perfectly, and i have myself to thank. hope this helps someone else with the same issue.

I got this watch because it WAS attractive. I liked that it was round and had pretty choices for watch faces. BUT It died within 18months. Warranty is 12month – but likely they would have said it was water damage due to me because I swam in it.

It has both indoor and outdoor swim tracing functions but it is only considered water resistant for 10 minutes. Cool. (I say with heavy sarcasm) Also – step count is very innaccurate, the last update it has been unable to complete for months, and my strava running app on the watch would frequently fail to begin tracking until about 1km into my run.

Also I thought I’d be able to save spotify tracks onto the watch and then run without my phone but you can only save your own music onto the watch. Oooo also I was unable to remain consistently connected to my phone (get texts, phone calls etc on watch).

I didn’t want that anyway, but for many people this is half the reason of a smart watch. (oh, and sleep tracking is completely not a useful function as you have to charge it every night).

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.

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!.

The Watch5 isn’t much different from Watch4, so there’s little incentive to upgrade if you are happy with the previous watch. Only substantial upgrade, if it can be called that, is the Sapphire glass on the watch face and incremental increase in battery capacity.

The rest is the same. One problem I have with the Watch5 is the sensor ‘mound’ that protrudes from the back. It is raised but there is a seam where it meets the watch body and all manners of sweat and skin debris collect in it, making it gross and hard to clean.

Another issue is that the heart rate monitor on mine is at least bugged or at most straight up broken. The 10 minute interval monitor refuses to work if any other function involving the sensor is engaged.

The watch has to be reset in order to restore function. There has been a similar problem with the Watch4, and makes a return to Watch5. Overall, I do not recommend this piece of half baked technology and money grab to be on anyone’s wrist.

You are just paying to be an unwitting tester and have to wait and wait until update that may or may not fix the issue is released. By then Watch6 will be ‘coming soon’ and lure another group of suckers like me.

Samsung and Google have a lot of work to do. I expect better of a $600 smartwatch. You don’t have standalone navigation on Google maps on the Samsung Galaxy watch. It’s an LTE enabled watch, kind of defeats the purpose of getting a cellular watch if standalone navigation does not work.

Additionally, the running app needs to be better so that we can set targets like calories or time and it should have haptic feedback. If we are outside our target heart rate zone or target pace. Additionally, like Garmin watches, they should automatically detect exercise is strength training exercises like squats, deadlifts, shoulder presses and automatically count the rep and put it in a nice graph format.

Also the GPX track importation is really problematic. It doesn’t work with running only with hiking and biking. And if any trail has a loop, the app shows the hike of the bike ride completed even before it started.

You have a lot of work to do to refine a $600 $700 product.

Purchased a galaxy watch 4 classic on the weekend. My 1st impression was very good, was a nice fit and navigating around the UI felt very smooth and responsive. I’ve had a few problems already with Samsung though that are making me think about returning the products I use.

As a truck drive putting in 7-9 hours driving a day I wanted to accurately keep track of my health and my steps. Was very disappointed to see my watch clocking up around 1000 steps an hour while driving.

This completely defeats the point of the health app for my self and doesn’t seem very smart watch to me at all. I’ve seen very basic and cheep pedometers be smart enough to realise when your driving.

At the very least have a setting to put it into driving mode and stop step counting. On top of that I’ve also had to factory reset my watch twice now as scrolling through the tiles they would just disappear and the screen would go black for no reason.

The final straw for me was the awful experience I’ve had trying to get my s21 repaired by Samsung for a screen repair with it nearly being a month without my device being returned and costing me £280 odd pounds.

Overall feeling very let down by Samsung.

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.

Getting this watch at first made me nervous. I became paranoid trying to cover it with my hand everytime I got into a situation I think it would scratch or bang into something. As a volunteer firefighter, I would always take off my watch before responding to an incedent.

But one day as I responded to a call, I forgot to take it off. A house caught fire and our crew went in to save a few animals. We had to shove and throw furniture to reach our destination which was on the second floor.

We reached the animal room and smashed the window to let the heat escape and eventually the fire was put out. Anyway, we returned to to the fire house and I took my gear off. I noticed my watch on my wrist and freaked out.

But as I saw that it was completely intact with no scratches or smoke stains, I became less protective about it. This watch is not only water proof but heat proof. Best purchase ever!.

Absolutely terrible after 6+ months of use. In the beginning it was okay tracking workouts, but after 4 months or so the Under Armour APP is the worst part of this watch, and it is the main reason I got it.

I’ve been using mapmyfitness for 11 years to keep track of all of my workouts and I got this watch specifically for this purpose. I’ve been through the whole deal with support and they have no answer for me.

The best they could do is tell me to uninstall it from the watch. WHEN I CAN’T because it’s native to the watch (greyed out, no option to uninstall). Whenever I try to use the workout (MMF-UA) app, it stalls at least 10 times before it miiiiiight load all the way.

It keeps loading, whenever I get to a page I want to use, the screen turns off, and I have to start from scratch, somewhere between 10 and 50 times. This happens for up to a half hour when I give up or it starts working.

Then when it starts, there is a definite delay in everything that happens, then EEEEEVEN if you finally get the app to START and record your run, for the last month it will tell me it recorded it, give me stats, let me hit the check mark to save the workout, and after it’s all done, apparently the last months worth of workouts were NEVER RECORDED ON THE WEBSITE/APP.

SO FRUSTRATING. I’m so done with this watch. It is so slow overall that I just can’t take it anymore. It works decently well for most other things that it is supposed to, but for someone who bought a workout watch specifically for a specific workout app that comes pre-installed on the watch because he workouts out every day.

way too much frustration. Buyer Beware.

Purchased in March 2020 – worked perfectly for the first year or so. Did everything I wanted a smartwatch to do, except take an ECG like the Apple Watch. Rumor on the Internet at the time was that Samsung was within months of getting it approved (hardware was already in the watch) – but that never happened.

The 2-star rating is due to an issue with phantom touches on the face of the watch. Simply, the watch goes nuts randomly (and often) and switches screens, changes settings, and generally become inoperable.

The side buttons usually get it back to the home screen, but not always. I have conducted a decent amount of research on the Internet and there are many forums (especially the Samsung forum) where others complain of the exact same issue.

Many of those users, however, state their watch starts that issue after only a month or two — mine went the first year and a few months. Many of those users have also filed official warranty complaints with Samsung, only to be denied, with Samsung inexplicably claiming it was the user’s fault.

In one instance, Samsung denied the claim and stated the user must have gone swimming with the watch, as there was water damage. The watch, however, is advertised by Samsung to be “swim-proof. ” Since I am past the 1 year warranty, I am out of luck anyway and will be purchasing a different brand smartwatch.