Name: Samsung Gear Sport Smartwatch (Bluetooth), Black, SM-R600NZKAXAR – US Version with Warranty
Brand: Samsung
SKU: B075X35D8M
Price: 249.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Deb

About 6 months into wearing this watch I had problems with the battery not keeping a charge. I had to send it to Samsung for repair. The watch was finicky since the repair and today--about 8 months later has virtually died. Of course the warranty has just recently expired and Samsung said it would cost $70 for repair. The last repair didn't hold, so I won't be sending it to Samsung and paying money when it will probably break again in a few months. I would not recommend buying this watch. I think watches that cost $250 should not break within the first year. Thinking back, I should of sent it straight back to Samsung when it continued to not hold a charge and not turn of/on properly within weeks of getting it back from the first repair. I held onto it until it virtually died. The watch literally was 1 year and 2 months old. I am a Samsung fan but will never buy another watch from them again.

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Joao Poneis

I have already used it for one and a half years. It's a great device. It has a good size, it feels like a non smart watch. I got a smartwatch for three reasons: sleep tracker, to increase physical activity and Spotify. It's a good sleep tracker, but it misses when you wake up but remain in bed. It's a great physical activity incentivizer. You have a constant reminder for getting up and moving. But what I think it makes stand out from the crowd is Spotify. At the time I bought it, it was the only smartwatch that allowed to download your playlists, so you can enjoy jogging while listening to your playlists without carrying your smartphone.

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Guy

Overall a great watch. Everything I want and easy interface. Head and shoulders over Fitbit. BUT. fyi. Mine didn't come with Samsung pay on it for some reason. Idk why but I had to send it back to the factory to get it installed. They paid shipping, but still. Kinda annoying.Update: Samsung repair center called me to tell me that my in warranty software upgrade turned into a full gutting of my watches hardware without my consent and isn't covered by my warranty. I fought them on it and called customer service. They were much more reasonable. They were able to find out that I WAS NOT SENT A U.S. VERSION of this device and therefore the U.S. repair team has no ability to modify anything without completely gutting the hardware and replacing it with compatible tech a th my expense. Had to call Amazon and get a replacement. If the next one I receive is also not a U.S. version I will update this review again and I have been assured that this item will be taken off the marketplace for false advertisement.Stay tuned.

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Clay

SAMSUNG WILL NOT Stand behind this product or HONOR THEIR WARANTY!!! The Gear Sport is advertised as perfectly fine for swimming, they lead with this feature in their advertising but upon the first swim, literally 5 minutes in the water, the watch stopped working.Samsung's customer service appears only capable of reading from their "canned script" of responses and are totally inept!Fortunatley, Amazon has promised to send me a new watch once Samsung returns the broken watch to me so I can send it back. I hope this is true and will update my review once more is known. I paid $194 for the watch from Amazon and Samsung wants $240 to REPAIR the defective watch!!Here's the thing, Samsung reps are programmed to say "liquid damage = voided warranty" even though this product is supposedly designed to be exposed to liquid.I have always been a Samsung fan but this experience has changed my mind. DON'T BUY THIS WATCH!!!Update 04.19.19: Amazon has agreed to replace the defective watch that Samsung would not stand behind. Amazon has been awesome, Samsung not so much. THANK YOU AMAZON!!Update 04.28.19:Amazon stood behind the Smartwatch that the manufacturer, Samsung, would not and replaced the defective watch. I appreciate Amazon's assistance with this. Thank you so much!

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Astro21

Love this watch and the capabilities. Wish the health app had a few more features, but I won't hold that against the watch. Looks clean and professional at work, easy to manipulate while warming up at the gym, and battery lasts for an entire weekend (with limited usage, but nice to leave the charger at home for an overnight trip). Love that I can play with my kiddo and get covered in yogurt, mud, sweat, bath time bubbles, etc. and simply wash in the sink without skipping a beat. Perfect for a mom on the go!

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Andrew D.

I did research into a handful of Smartwatches and the two things that caused me to go with this one is the water resistance and heart rate reading. I was more then impressed with the ability to read and reply to messages and notifications right from the watch, let alone control my song's playing and audio level on my phone from the watch.I have had no issues with battery life, generally ending the day with around 45-60% remaining. I charge it nightly.Water resistant indeed, i have swam and showered with this watch without any issues at all.

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Orrin

The build quality is amazing. The watch OS tizen is lame am not going to lie. It needs more app support! the voice assistance is garbage compared to siri, google assistant or alexa. Battery life could be a bit better but can last days if not really using the watch. Overall I do recommend it but only if your main focus for getting it is to check notifications, control/play music and track your workouts/heart rate. Don't expect to be downloading all different kinds of cool apps because there aren't any at-lease not yet. Customization of the watch faces is great you have a lot to chose from. Also ensure that you are receiving US version if your in the US because Samsung pay doesn't work (or I can't get it to work) on my international version which I received in Error! I didn't return it because I can't be bothered was offered 10% partial refund. However in any case ensure you are getting the product you buy.

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Jenn

I really like my smart watch - it syncs perfectly with my Samsung active phone. I wish it worked with other music streaming services other than Spotify - so I still bring my phone along when running for music. It's great to take to the gym and even swimming - which I've never been able to track beyond time and distance! I feel like the heart rate monitor tends to read a little high.I am disappointed that there aren't more options for colored bands that are made from Samsung - the off brands and "universal" bands just don't meet the mark. The other bands I tried gave me a rash after one day, must be made from a different material.

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Christopher

Hey I just got this today but I have to message the seller about this watch it's awesome and for such an affordable price!!! Ever since I lost my LG G watch 3 years ago during the start up of smart watches I have been dying to have something like that again but more advance for the times now. Not only does this watch have the protection of the band's with the holders on them in the event it pops it also came with a replacement band in the box. And for this being used I'd say it's in excellent condition and I don't say that lightly at all!!! The watch seems to work pretty well so far I have not taken it on expeditions yet or trios but I'm getting good vibes rite now. I've night Fitbit ultas for me and my girlfriend and those things were crap!!! The moment I had to update the software they bugged out and never turned on again so bad experience with Fitbit for sure. Ive tried cheap Walmart devices that just did not suit my needs it felt as though they were bottles of beer that just coated the wound of me not having what I really wanted in a wearable device. After much longing and waiting for the moment I'd buy another flagship smart watch I decided to purchase this a few days ago and I made the rite decision. This watch is awesome and everything that comes with it. Big SHOUT OUT to the seller for this watch yr awesome and thanx alot!!!!

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Jacob S.

When I got this watch I absolutely loved it. It had pretty much all the features I wanted for a watch that it could and I got it more for me to be more active and use it for what its advertised for.3 months later i kind of want a refund. Mainly cause now after 3 months it does over night. Battery consumption is says its notifications and samsung health. Let me tell you during the 3 months it never had this issue. It would last 2 1/2 days with normal use and even when I exercised with it. Now just barely over a day and all the battery is being used up over night.Main point is this has been an issue for people for a little while and for me to get the full battery I have to turn off all notifications for my watch. That stinks in my opinion cause i liked a lot of features it had when it worked like advertised.

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Luis R

This is not Samsung's area of strength.I purchased a Samsung Gear Sports Watch six months ago, the watch stopped working on Sunday September 16 as I was playing Tennis. I sent the watch for repair and Samsung’s feedback was:“out of warranty due to liquid damage.” Please read the following quote from Samsung advertising materials for the Samsung Gear Sports watch:“If swimming is your sport or you get caught running in the rain, keep going. The Gear Sport has a water-resistant rating of 5ATM or 50 meters, so even in the deep end, your activity is recorded. It also has Speedo On—Speedo’s new Swim Tracking app—so you can dig into the details.”It turns out that my sport is Tennis, the watch stopped working over a month ago as I was playing tennis, I wasn’t even swimming and it wasn’t raining. I live in the state of Arizona, I would have to travel many miles before I could go deeper than 50 meters.I contacted Samsung and after a month they have not helped me. Instead, I have gotten the run-around bouncing from department to department; escalating the issue. I’ve sent the watch twice to them through UPS. Samsung representatives have promised to grant a “one-time courtesy repair” only to tell me again and again the watch is unrepairable. Next, they told me the watch was “Beyond Economical Repair (B.E.R).” They told me they needed approval to lift the BER label from my ticket. At that point they had my watch in their possession at the technical department. They told me they had to ship the watch back to my house, I needed to wait 3-5 business days, they had to approve the BER lift, then they will call me so that I could ship the watch back to them for repair.So, to paraphrase: Samsung rep: “we have your watch; it cannot be repaired; however, we will ship it back to you; you wait 3-5 business days; then call us back to see if we approved that you can ship it back to us; then we will repair it at no cost to you.”I have dealt with Samsung Customer Support for over a month; I’ve sent the watch twice to them; I’ve spent over 8 hours over the phone, and the issue is not resolved.I have 2 Samsung TV sets, washer and dryer, and an S8 phone. I really have always associated this brand with a reasonably good level of quality. After this experience I will never purchase Samsung product again unless I see evidence that Samsung has changed their culture significantly. I find their policies to be unfair and unethical. I suggest you as a customer think twice before you let this company take advantage of you. I feel I gave plenty of opportunities to Samsung representatives to do the right thing. I feel really powerless. I’m writing this complaint in the hope that someone at Samsung would like to change their companies’ practices for the better.

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jennifer finley

The watch came in a box with foreign writing all over it, definitely not the u.s.version. obviously the international version. The box had a tamper resistant seal that was broken. Upon opening it, I find out that I have the charger base, but the cord and the wall plug are missing. Watch box was opened at one point, the protective film was not on the watch glass. My excitement turned to disappointment when all of these things were discovered. I would be ok with everything else had there been the wall plug and cord.

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Tanner

I'm one month in with the watch and I really like it. It feels sturdy and high quality. I love the rotating bezel so I'm not constantly touching the screen.As for battery life I get about two day or so depending on the use which is fine by me I usualy take it off and charge it when I go to bed anyways.There are millions of free faces between the gear app and apps like facer so I am constantly downloading new ones. I would definitly recomend this if you are on the fence about it.Also I will update next month if my opinions change about the watch which I hope i never have to do.

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Clintre

Overall I really love this watch. Especially that I can forget that I have it on, and that when I do forget and wear it in the shower it can handle it like a champ. The apps and watch face choices are plentiful and I really like Samsung Health over fit bit and Google. The ONLY thing I do not like is the fact that alarms on my Google Pixel 2 phone will not show up or buzz on the watch. It is a known problem for many. If they fix that, it will be an easy 5 stars.

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R. Dale Rogers

I mainly got this watch as I wanted a smart watch that looked like a classic watch. With the settings I have on the watch I can go 2 days between charges. It does everything I need for a smartwatch to do... but my needs are simple. Wake me up when get a late night work text or phone call, nice clear text I can actually read, good heart monitor, and a fantastic swim app. I do like the fitness tracking and sleep tracking features as well. So if you have a iPhone, but want something other than a rectangular watch I would recommend the Samsung Sport. I've included pictures of a few of my favorite watch faces... first is my every day, 2nd is a watch face that allows you to set your own picture as the background, and the third one is when I'm feeling like a nerd.

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John

The watch looks good on paper, but if you're a swimmer, DO NOT PURCHASE. There is a monitor on the bottom of the watch, covered by a tiny plate. The plate is GLUED IN and apparently the glue is water-soluble. The plate fell off while swimming, killing the device. I discussed the issue with Samsung, who made a ticket and had me send the watch back. Three weeks later, they returned the broken watch with a note stating "we have determined that the watch is irreparable due to water damage." No kidding. I have contacted Samsung again, but they can't seem to figure this out. I even provided them with their own advertising, which has a lot of info about how great this watch is for swimming. So far they have "escalated" the ticket, and claim they now want me to send them a form, which they have yet to provide. Why this couldn't have been done in the first place is the question. It's been a month now. I imagine that backing can eventually fall off just due to sweat. Waste of money, and a bigger waste of time.

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OnTheRoad

Simple to use. I bought this because I was ready for a smart watch and do some trekking-like activity, rather than lots of the hardcore stuff that might have driven me to a Garmin. The screen and rotating bevel are great, and water resistance sold it. I like the magnetic charging. The only reason I am not scoring it a 5 is because I do like and use it through-out the day and battery life with that usage is only 1-1.5 days, comfortably. This is not a problem until traveling, though I could travel with a charging stand which I might try. It might be cooler if there was a compatible pad for travel which charged the watch and a modern phone while resisting the voltage spikes overseas.

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Pamela

I recently switched from an iPhone to a Galaxy S9 and I've been so incredibly happy with it, I expected the best from this watch. I was gifted a Garmin Vivoactive 3 for Mother's Day, but I decided to return it and try out this Gear Sport. Given the "Sport" name, you would think that it would function as a decent activity tracker. However, after 2 days, I'm returning it.First of all, it only checks your heart rate every 10 minutes when your not working out unless you choose always (but that kills the battery). The watch does not use this heart rate information to calculate your calorie burn while you are working OR during daily activity. Instead, your calorie burn is calculated based on your BMR. So if I don't workout at all, it is my BMR plus however many calories they estimate I might burn by the number of steps that I take. If I do workout, they calculate the calorie burn of the workout based on the activity, my age, and weight. So if you get on the elliptical and workout for 30 minutes, you will have the same calorie burn as if you tell it you are on the elliptical but instead go sit on the couch.Now, one solution that I found was the Under Armour App. Yes, it does include the heart rate data when it calculates your calorie expenditure. It also has more choices for activities and it syncs with Samsung Health. However, the watch lost ALL CREDIBILITY when I tried this test:Today, I chose the option for "Basic Workout," just like I did yesterday during my 1 hour long circuit workout. During my workout yesterday, I was breathing heavy and drenched in sweat. It said I burned 430 calories. Today, I used the same option, but I didn't workout. I got in my car and drove for exactly 1 hour. During the drive, I often glanced down at the watch to check my heart rate. EVERY TIME it was 150-170. Apparently it estimates heart rate too. Now, I was in no hurry, just listening to music. No road rage. Just relaxed and driving. It said I burned 430 calories. So even with the Under Armor app, who knows if the heart rate data is anywhere close??? Returned to Amazon.Apple Watch, Fitbit, Polar, and Garmin all added heart rate monitors to increase the accuracy of the calorie burn. They include the heart rate data in their calculations. I have used trackers from all of these brands, and while they use different calculations, they have all been reasonable.EDIT: After returning this watch, I found it at the bulls-eye store on sale for 229, making it about $40 cheaper than the Garmin Vivoactive 3. I decided to give it another chance. This time, I wore my Polar H7 chest strap at the same time as the Gear Sport for a workout. I used the Under Armour app on the watch. Surprisingly, the heart rate was spot on; it was a pure cardio workout. During strength training, the heart rate didn't always keep up, but that was the same experience I had with the Vivoactive 3. When the workout involves a lot of arm movement, like push-ups, bench press, etc, the optical monitors don't do a great job. With both watches, I found that the screen takes a second to refresh. So when I initially looked at the watch, the hr was wrong, but within a second it caught up. Neither watch is great for a Hiit workout. I can pair a chest strap directly with the Garmin Vivoactive 3 OR I can use the Under Armour App on my phone with my chest strap, which syncs with S-Health.While I wish that this watch used HR in calorie burn calculations, the truth it that I don't use those calorie estimates for anything anyway. The Gear Sport has more features, an amazing display, and a higher quality feel than the Vivoactive 3. I like that the watch casing is all stainless steel, so any 20 mm band would look great with it. The Vivoactive 3 was lighter weight and had a longer battery life, but it was severely lacking in features at that price. (With the new hands-free laws, I'm loving the Here We Go app!) Given that the heart rate monitors were so similar in terms of accuracy, I'm going to stick with the Gear Sport.

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Erin

I like this watch a lot. I use it daily and it helps me track my fitness and keep my life organized. Only two cons though:1. There is no way the battery last 4 days straight. Every night I have had to put it on the charger because there would be no way it would last me the second day. And thing is I am not constantly on it to wear the battery out that fast and I always close all my apps. It's a bit disappointing but honestly I don't know if I could ever sleep with it on anyways so I don't mind putting on the charger.2. The text feature is something I really loved but they really need to work on the speak your text thing. It's awful! I will be in a completely quiet area and it still won't pick up all my speech and it's very inaccurate when it finally does.Overall I still do like this watch. I bought it for mostly fitness so it's perfect for that but it would be nice to use the features it also promises. And I can't say I can do everything it claims.

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MarcE

The good: heart rate monitor. Accurate and good for exercise.Connects to phone, and headfones good for exercise to music. Helps minimize interruptions from spam calls. Various free watch faces, including a Movado look alike . And some that give you exercise results.The bezel lets you flip between screens much faster than swiping, that made my decision over all other smart watches.The bad: Watch times out, and annoying when checking the time. You have to flick your wrist a certain way, which I have still not got right, after months of practice. You can't even set it to stay on full time, it still times out and goes dark.

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TheresaS

This watch does reasonably well in displaying all the notifications I want while connected to my galaxy phone, including my preferred email account, telegram, texts, and incoming call alerts. It can be a bit difficult to see past the most recent message in a string. I don't have many issues responding to any of these with the voice recognition or preset replies if its just a few words. You wouldn't reply with a whole sentence on the watch, you would pull out the phone. The battery lasts 2-3 days so it's OK for sleep tracking from that perspective. It seems to track steps and sleep accurately but it tends to separate my nightly sleep into about 3 phases with waking periods in the middle so the watch only displays the last couple hours. I find it a bit too big to be comfortable for sleeping in any case. It's as or more comfortable than the competition I tried for daytime use. The rotating bevel is convenient to go through menus and provides plenty of quick information on steps, floors, weather, calories, etc.As an exercise tracker it usually basically works but has some issues. The connection to my Yurbuds Liberty headphones is sketchy so the music skips often, especially out in the open. It might work better with headphones that have the receiver on the left ear to better see the left wrist. The GPS tracking works well when it works, but it has failed to track at all sometimes. It only GPS tracks if I set it to start the exercise, not if it has to recognize what I'm doing. If I set it to run, it usually tracks location accurately, plays music somewhat sketchily, and announces mileage, pace, and heart-rate every mile through the headphones. The heart-rate sensing works ok sitting but is worthless on a run and not much use on a bike. It won't utilize my heart rate strap. If I just start walking or running it recognizes the activity in a couple minutes, measures steps, and estimates mileage and calories. It hasn't accurately recognized cycling on it's own.Strava integration is sketchy at best. It only attempts to upload to Strava if I manually start an activity, which is probably a plus so it's not uploading every dog walk. If I manually start an activity, maybe 10% of the time it will quickly upload to Strava, 80% it uploads within a day or so, 10% it won't share at all. I can manually share a simplified map or pace chart to Strava but the only way to upload full data for a workout is to set Samsung health to automatically share and be happy those times when it works. Confusingly, Strava will show a slightly different time and pace than Samsung did using the data from Samsung. These workouts will always show immediately on the Samsung health app on the phone so I suspect it's an issue with Samsung Health in general and not this watch specifically.I'm sure a Garmin or Suunto would be a better exercise tracker, a Fitbit a better step and calorie tracker, and there's better smartwatches depending on what phone they are working with. I'm keeping and continuing to use this watch because, though it doesn't work perfectly, it works about the best all-around of any I've found, especially if you want just one, and especially for the price.

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sandpiper

Don't buy this watch for tracking activity. The features ..do not work. It does not count flights of stairs at all, the pedometer seems to miss a lot, and the lack of accuracy defeats the purpose. You'd be better off with a $5 pedometer. It is well constructed, does a nice job with notifications and is nice looking. Being labeled SPORT is certainly a misnomer though. I'm not the only one who thinks this... go check out Samsung's message boards.. the issues have been reported by plenty of people and Samsung doesn't seem to care that it doesn't work. I've loved my Samsung products for years, but this watch experience is making me rethink my loyalty.

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Charles Moore, Jr.

PROs:grabs GPS VERY quickly and GPS seems quite accurate when runninglooks more watch-like than an apple watchlots of custom watch faces are availablebattery life quite goodCONs:vast majority of custom watch faces are BUTT ugly and un-usableinaccurate (thus unusable) as lap-counter while swimmingVERY few apps available (only non-samsung running app, for example, is 'mapmyrun' which is buggy and annoying)in short, LOTS of small painful software annoyances (in case you hadn't heard, samsung sucks at software) that, when added up, make me wish i had just bought a cheap dedicated GPS watch since that's pretty much all i use this for now anyway.

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Kelly

I wanted to love the Samsung Gear Sport. It's a good smartwatch, but when it broke, Samsung won't fix it. They've been terrible about the warranty.A couple of months after we bought the watch, a small window fell out of the back of the watch. I think it's the glass over the pulse sensor, and it's embedded in the watch back (or at least it was).We sent the watch to Samsung for repair, but the fix only held for a few weeks before the window fell out again. We sent it to them for another attempt. This time they returned the watch unrepaired, saying it was out of warranty because we'd damaged it, somehow.It's on the back of the watch. You know, the side next to your skin? So I looked. The watch is still brand new: there are no marks, no scratches, no dents, no bends, nothing. The Samsung rep insisted it must be broken since the repair shop listed it as 'damaged.' There was nothing they could do.I insisted. They suggested I sent it to a 'Triage center,' although that seemed like a euphemism for the repair shop. I demurred and insisted. They transferred me to the second tier support, who also insisted that we'd damaged our new watch beyond any reasonable warranty. I suggested that any severe damage was either a pre-existing defect or the result of the first repair.(Honestly, the watch is pristine. I haven't a clue what damage they believe we inflicted. There's a little glue left from Samsung's first repair attempt, but that's it. Moreover, a watch is a rugged package. Think for a second how difficult it might be to dent or bend the back of a watch.)They wouldn't change or budge, insisting (sight unseen) that the watch was too damaged. I insisted that this was a simple warranty issue. I wasn't angry at them -- they're just reps following Samsung's script -- but this is an obvious warranty issue.Eventually, they allowed me to ship the watch back to their repair shop. The ticket still said we may have damaged the watch, but they comped the repair. They also changed the problem to "Cradle will not hold phone," for some reason, but they insisted that I won't have to pay for the repair.I probably should have held out longer. This will be Samsung's excuse later if there are any more issues. "Ah," they'll say, "nothing we can do. You voided your warranty." I know I'm buying myself more trouble.Anyway, this was terrible service. Yes, the Samsung watch is a robust and well-integrated smartwatch. When it works, it's great. Just remember that it comes with an added risk: if it breaks, Samsung may deny the warranty.

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Georgette

I love this watch I had an old gear and the band broke so it was time for a new one. I looked around for a while before deciding on this one. I really picked this one because it's water-resistant, with my old one I was always worried about it getting wet and not working. I can shower in this one and it still works great! The battery life is good also I can usually go about 2 days before having to charge it.

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Andrew Woodyear, author of The Really Big Book Of Sudoku and other fun puzzle books

I must say I love this watch, it has a sleek and simple design that makes it look like a traditional watch.I initially got it for GPS tracking while going on trail runs, however, I've found myself wearing it pretty much all the time.These are my thoughts on it....Initial Setup-This was a breeze, I installed the Galaxy Gear App on my Galaxy S8 and followed the directions. The watch was up and running within a few minutes. The bluetooth connection between the watch and phone has been solid with no issues staying connected. I noticed that even when I am out of range the watch switches to wifi and I still can receive notifications from my phone over the internet. Cool stuff indeed.Comfort -The included band fits well and is big enough to fit my large wrist. It tends to get a bit dirty after running, I usually wash it off right after to prevent it from getting too dirty. Have not had any skin irritation using the watch so far.Sleep tracking -If you wear the watch at night it will automatically detect when you fall asleep using a combination of motion sensing and your heart rate. I really like the sleep report it shows each morning with a simple graph showing your sleeping pattern along with your sleep efficiency.Battery Life -I can usually get 3 days or so between charges. Battery life is significantly lower when I use Endomondo with GPS to track my runs though, with charge levels reaching 50% at night. I usually just put the watch to charge while showering to keep the battery topped up so it hasn't been an issue.Software -The Tizen OS is very smooth and gives quick access to various apps using the rotating bezel. I've never had any apps crash on the device, stability so far is great. I knew before purchasing that the app selection is limited but the main fitness apps that I use perform well.Overall I love this watch there's just one thing I wish was included, the ability to review older messages along with creating new messages in apps such as Whatsapp and Telegram.When I receive messages it will only show the most recent message from apps like Whatsapp, currently there is no way to see older messages. You can respond to messages but it would be nice to be able to create a new message from scratch to send to a contact. Only new SMS messages can be sent from your contact list on your watch, however, it would be nice if this capability was expanded to include other apps like Whatsapp, Telegram etc.Those are some of my thoughts, definitely would recommend this watch to anyone looking for an attractive watch that just works.

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Brianna

After days of researching smartwatches, I landed on this one and it had everything I wanted in a smartwatch except an Android OS. I was very nervous about trying Tizen but after owning this watch for a few days, I'm in absolute love. A few of the things I really researched were:Apps. They are limited but there are apps for almost anything you need. Not everything but close. I have yet to use the GPS apps (yes apps -plural- because there's more than just one GPS app unlike what most of the reviews I read caused me to believe) but I will be trying that app out in the next week.Faces. There are so many watch faces that I'm not sure where to begin. I've used Mario, Zelda, and Goldeneye (I love my video games). Any watch face I've searched for, I've also found. Some may cost $0.99 and up but there are a ton of free ones to choose from. I haven't paid for any faces yet. I'm very happy with the free ones available.Watch Bands. I wanted the Android OS so bad that I almost bought the Moto 360 Sport. This would have been an incredible mistake. You can't change the band on the Motorola but you can on the Samsung. I've already got a new watch band on the way.Battery Life. I've had this watch for 3 days. I received it, synced it, played around with it, then I fully charged it (I received it with 67% battery life). I just had to charge it for my first time. It lasted me maybe an hour short of 3 days with average use. I'm thoroughly happy with this considering I was used to the Fitbit Blaze which didn't last more than 1 day. The difference is that the Fitbit's heart rate sensor stays on all the time. The Samsung Gear Sport has 3 settings for this. Off, frequent, and always on. I left mine on frequent so it checked my heart rate every 10 minutes instead of constantly.Water resistance. I'm not a sporty individual. I work in the medical field though so I wash my hands a lot. I also give the occasional shower to help my patients. So this was important. It's lasted through at least 4 showers in 3 days and my continuous hand washing. So far, no issues whatsoever.Steps. I love seeing how many steps I can get in a shift. A lot of my friends like to see who can get the most. This makes the day fly by so the step accuracy is nice. After using this a few days, I noticed my step count dropped a bit compared to the Fitbit. Then I learned why. I can shake my Fitbit and get steps (almost like an old school pedometer) but the Gear Sport isn't fooled. It knows when you're getting steps verses painted a wall or just shaking your watch. I LOVE that it knows the difference.A few bonuses I've noticed: it tracks my sleep and how well I rest at night. My fitbit did this and it was a feature that wasn't easy to give up so having this on my new Gear Sport too was a huge bonus. I also love that I can keep up with my water/coffee intake straight from my watch instead of having to use my phone. Healthcare management doesn't care for Nurses pulling their phones out at the desk or the hallways. I can also reply to texts and emails straight from my watch. The handwriting thing is pretty nice but it needs a bit of work to be perfect (it's constantly changing my words into all caps). Although you can't make a call from the watch, you can accept and ignore calls straight from your wrist, as well as, send the caller a quick text saying that you're at work or busy, etc.There's so much more that I haven't discovered on this watch yet and I can definitely tell this is my first real smartwatch but I've already had a ton of compliments on it.And just for the record, the bezel makes navigating the Gear Sport so easy!So yes, I give this watch 5 stars. But I also know that things can change so my review may change but as of right now, I'm in love!

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The smartphone aspect of this watch is great. 5/5Screen resolution: 5/5Premium feel/worth the money looks: 5/5Activity tracking: 4/5 inaccurate stairs counter. Steps is lower than fit bit, Garmin. Not a huge deal to me as long as it is consistent with itself which I thought it was.Battery life is less than fitbit and Garmin but expected because you can do so much more with it and I'm sure the display demands more.Run/swim/bike 3.5/5and this is where my overall 3/5 rating is mostly influenced. Laps swam is inconsistent. Once i swam 20 minutes and garmin amd fitbit counted 5 more laps than this watch did. Usually it was off 2 laps. Also why not customized pool length? My pool is 15 yards. If youre just figuring distance on laps counted why so limited in pool length choices?? (Only 25/50 yrds/meters)GPS is inconsistent. Pace you're running VERY unreliable. Ran multiple times with Garmin and fitbit and this watch, distance tracking is 50/50 and has a lag after it is paused to pick back up. Usually lose .03+ miles per pause when compared to Garmin. Sometimes it has been .1 off when my Garmin is at 1 mile. So either .9/1.1.My pace was so pointless to look at it ruined using it for running for me. Jumps around a lot. Im running a 8min pace but it tells me I'm at 12 min pace. Or 10 min pace. **I want an average pace setting** Garmin does this and it is my expect mile time. Not current pace or whatever pace algorithm Samsung has which is total crap.Also please, with all the customizing you can do, please! Allow us to change how many stats we want displayed when running/biking/etc with adjustable font size! 50% of the screen is wasted and the font size is half that of fitbit and Garmin who do it better. I have to focus too much when I look at this watch which is the last thing I want to do when I check my running stats while running.

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J. Boutilier

Prior to purchasing this Samsung Gear Sport, I've owned/used several other smart watches over a number of years, including a Pebble, Moto 360 V2, Samsung Gear S2 and iWatch. While I think smart watches still have a way to go to meet their full potential, they do get better each year, and can be well worth their price depending on one's needs.Sadly interoperability is the most significant limitation with smart watches. If you have an Apple phone, only an Apple watch makes sense (and vice versa). If you have a Samsung phone, a Samsung watch usually makes the most sense. And if you have a non-Samsung Android phone, likely an Android Wear watch makes the most sense. Crossing those boundaries limit/change the functionality to varying degrees and except for Apple, manufacturers are not clear on what changes and what you lose across a boundary. Just about every model has a proprietary charging system. And most have a proprietary strap system.If you are still reading this, you likely have or are considering a Samsung phone, or you really, really, value a particular feature of this watch over other features. So here is the review…The Good • The combination of rotating bezel, touch screen, and two buttons give this the best user interface that exists in any smart watch • The 1.2" AMOLED display has best in class efficiency, brightness and clarity • The watch can have best in class battery life. This can dramatically vary with use and configuration but with a similar use an configuration it's significantly better than most of the competition. Figure several weeks in watch only mode, 2-3 days typical, and 1-2 days under worst conditions. • 50 M Water resistance so you don't have to worry about water damage swimming, showering, washing your hands, being out in the rain, or exercising • Great fitness and health features combined with Samsung's Fitness application. I don't think this is much different than you would get with Google Fit on an Android Wear watch though. • Great build quality and fit and finish with a stainless steel case, relatively small size, and relatively light weight. • This watch uses a standard 20mm watch bands so there are a huge number of styles and types of replacement bands offered at relatively low cost • How notifications are handled are quite different than Android wear and I much prefer this system under the Tizen operating system (not everyone will though). In Android Wear every notification goes into the same list and you spend a lot more time looking through the list to get to what you want or get rid of many notifications. In Tizen each category of notifications have a separate list and you can go to each list and look or clear individually or clear a whole list or all lists. I find this much more efficient but not everyone will like it. Some other reviews mistakenly say you only see the latest notification but that is not true, all notifications since you last cleared them will be available (at the bottom of the first notification in a category there will be a number and you tap on that number to see the rest)The Bad • This is very much personal taste, but I find almost all of the built in watch faces hideous. Limited configurability, and not very readable (either bizarre format/colors or too much detail making reading at a glance difficult) • The setting menu can be confusing with respect to navigation, selection, organization and visibility. Settings where you would not expect them, same settings in multiple places, not obvious when clicking on a setting would result in changing that setting or open up a list of more settings, a setting in one place causing a setting in another to be greyed out or invisible). Thankfully once you get it set up to your liking, you might not have to go there much and there are some quick settings for the stuff you change most often, but overall it's about as friendly as on a Samsung Phone which is to say NOT. • No speaker so no taking phone calls as I could on an iWatch or Gear S3The Ugly • S Voice / Bixby - at the moment only S Voice is available on the watch (not Bixby) and it (either actually) are nowhere near as speedy, accurate, or usable as the Google equivalents • The watch requires a number of proprietary Samsung applications and processes to be running on the phone for full functionality. These tend to be power and resource intensive with low/slow performance in many cases. Not all of them may run on every phone and where they will not run you will lose watch functionality to varying degrees • The watch store application you need to obtain any watch face or application not built into your watch leaves a lot to be desired. Its poorly organized, very slow, and the search feature is abysmal (often not finding something that IS in the store). If this application does not run on your particular phone you are limited to the watches build in faces and applications. • The quantity and quality of watch faces and applications are not anywhere near that of the Android wear. Many are very buggy and can significantly degrade your watch and or phone battery life. Most remain unreviewed so there is no way to know how good a particular item may be. Most are more expensive than their Android Wear counterparts.ConclusionI find the "Good" compelling enough to purchase and keep the product (for a while at least). The "Bad" things are not a huge problem for me. And as long as I have a Samsung phone, I can live with the ugly. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone without a Samsung phone, but other than that, folks will have to decide if its particular blend of functionality and flaw are worth the price to make a purchase. I'll most an update in a few months.** UPDATE after about 3 months **On the great side, when the always on display featured is turned off, and your activity does not trigger an automated workout, and you use a power efficient watch face, you can get up to FIVE DAYS on a single charge. Or possibly even better, you can wear the watch 23.5x7 and can top up the charge in less than half an hour a day. This allows for pretty full tracking of both exercise/activity and sleep.Unfortunately there are many watch faces that are not power efficient, and rather than draining 15%-20% in a full 24 hour period, some can fully deplete the battery in less than 16 hours. Workout mode, either manually selected or auto detected also produces high battery drain that can eat 30% of your battery in less than an hour. Unfortunately many of the weather watch faces (that I find most useful) frequently stop updating, and sometimes only uninstalling and re-installing the app and or service can restore correct weather reading and updates.And also unfortunately, the accuracy of activity and sleep tracking is highly variable. It's pretty good at step counting, but often misses actual workouts or detects them in error or detects the wrong type of workout, and stair climbing (height change) activity is absolutely abysmal. Sleep tracking is often pretty good, but in a significant minority of cases misses tracking it, or hours of it, and often if you get up in the middle of the night is somehow splits your sleep and the mornings statistics report half a nights sleep (although you can often scroll back to the previous day and see the first half of your sleep).New conclusion:So, this is still not where it needs to be for activity tracking. And my favorite watch faces are often unreliable. I subtracted one star, and yet another failed smart watch goes in a drawer. Maybe next year!

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IM

Samsung Gear Sport Smartwatch, Black (SM-R600NZKAXAR). Otherwise it has all the same fitness and other features; it's WATER PROOF UP TO 50M. The only "cons" are (as far as I know) smaller batter life (2-3 days instead of 4 for S3 - obviously due to smaller size/weight), and possible less effective Samsung PAY (because of one band instead of two) - but that last one has yet to affect me.All the negative comments I'm seeing here seem to be coming from folks who have not previously owned a smart watch, and do not know if it's limitations.The quality of this product is great, it's base operating system and functionality is WAY better then Androids (granted, Android has way more apps, but having owned one, trust me - they are mostly useless).I am absolutely certaine this is a great watch and for the current price it's a steal.

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Alex

The Gear Sport is the perfect combination of Smart and Sporty. Samsung has made improvements over the Gear S3. The most important thing for me is that the heart rate sensor is protruding out of the watch instead of flat. The Gear S3 had very inaccurate readings during high intensity workouts and the protruding heart rate sensor fixes that because it's the closest thing to your wrist at all times.As far as looks, it is the perfect size for a watch in my opinion. I am 5'10 with average sized wrists for a man and it fits great. The size matters to me because, while running, I don't want the watch slipping everywhere because it is too heavy. This actually happened with the Gear S3 because of how big it was. The display is as beautiful as you would expect, and the default watch faces are great.Battery life seems great so far. I charged it to 100 at 2AM last night and it is 8AM so it's been 6 hours. It has gone done 5%. Most of that time, I was sleeping. However, I set the heart rate sensor to always be reading, so it seems to be lasting pretty well. I will update this review after some workouts and GPS use.Connectivity is as you would expect from a 2017 Samsung watch with an Android phone, and even better with a Samsung phone. I use Textra for SMS and I can read my texts and answer them via the Gear Sport by typing or speaking to my watch, which is a great feature. I can take make/take calls from it as well. It is a wonderful thing not to have to pick up your phone to do certain things that your watch can now do.This watch is extremely easy to use thanks to it's practical functionality. Everything is so easy to get to thanks to the rotating bezels. The wake up gesture (moving your wrist like you are looking at your watch) works very quickly and has not failed for me once.I love Samsung pay. Ever since I've used it on my Galaxy S8, I've been saving my points that I can use for gift cards. Although this watch doesn't have MST, most of the places I go have the NFC capability so I will be able to use the Gear Sport to pay for things. It's actually faster for me to use the Gear Sport because I just have to hold one button and there it is. I pick my credit card and hold it up to the reader and I'm done.I am a premium Spotify user and the offline listening is a very convenient feature. I can load songs onto the Gear to listen to while I'm on a run without my phone. I just bring my Bluetooth headphones and take off.Another upgrade from the Gear S3 is the water resistance. I can safely go 50m underwater with this watch and that means I don't have to take it off while swimming. This was an issue with the S3 because it was only IP68, so it was not safe to go swimming with.There are many options for working out and customizing the watch screen while working out. There is even heart rate functionality while swimming. There are, however, many more options on my phone than on the watch, so I need to see if I can get those on my watch. On the S3, there was not a way to do so.Overall, the Gear Sport is an all around wonderful smart watch. The improvements in fitness tracking have brought it closer to the perfect balance of Smart and Sporty. I would highly recommend this.Update 10/30/17:After the first charge to full, this lasted exactly 40 hours so not a full 2 days, but my heart rate was on always, so I'm not surprised. I am a little surprised though that I charged it fully at 9PM last night and it is now 10AM (13 hours later) and it's already at 56%... This is after turning heart rate to every 10 minutes which should have improved it. I will continue to test.Now Samsung Pay. I read that some people had problems with their cards disappearing from the Gear Plug-In for Samsung Pay. I added my cards twice and activated them. They were already there because I have a Galaxy S8+ but needed to be activated. They have disappeared twice now. I have a call into their tech support but it will be useless if they disappear every 24 hours and I will just use my phone instead.Update 11/2/17:I updated this two days ago and for some reason it didn't go through...Battery: I was able to get over 48 hours of battery and still had 25% left. This is with heart rate every 10 minutes and a bunch of notifications. I will attribute this to turning Spotify to "remote" only and not "stream over wifi", unless you want to actually use your watch to stream over wifi. I'm not sure of the point of that if you already have a phone to do so. If you're around wifi, you probably have a phone.Workout: I worked out to test heart rate accuracy. Did 30 minutes of squats and bench press and HR went up to 140 which is normal for me. I then went to the elliptical and chose "elliptical trainer" on my watch. For some reason, the HR would not go above 110 when I know it was around 160 since I tested it on the elliptical and I was going pretty fast. I tightened the watch on my wrist and waited a minute and it seemed to have fixed it. I went another 20 minutes and the watch was within 1BPM of the elliptical most of the time which is much better than my Gear S3 was. After tightening it, it was on par with my Vivoactive HR. To compare, I went a full 30 minutes with my Gear S3 showing 80 BPM when it was about 160-170...Samsung Pay: I have not tried this again since I am sure my cards will be deleted and I haven't had time to add them. I will try to add them today but there is bound to be an issue with the Gear Plug In for Samsung Pay and hopefully it will be addressed soon.Update 11/7/17:BatteryStill going strong. I got 60+ hours and still had 15% left. This is with my settings mentioned above. 10 minute heart rates. Includes a workout (more on that below) and lots of notifications.Heart Rate and Wok OutThe heart rate sensor did the same thing on the Elliptical workout; however, instead of changing to a different workout as I did before, I just left it and saw if it caught up. It took about 3 minutes but it caught up and was very close to what the elliptical was showing. Verdict: High Intensity workouts will show a lower heart rate at first until it catches up and it takes about 3 minutes. The rest of the workout (20 minutes) was perfect.I did notice on "Other Workout" that the calories are counted much slower for the same heart rate range. For example, 60 calories every 5 minutes was my average for the "Elliptical Trainer" going about 165BPM for 20 minutes. Choosing "Other Workout" gave me about 30 calories per 5 minutes using the same amount of effort. Also, I use "Other Workout" when I'm lifting weights and it seems to be on par with my Vivoactive HR. Not sure what this means but it's info for you.Samsung PayHere is where I deducted 1 star.If you read above, you would know I called Samsung about my cards disappearing from the Gear Sport and they have not got back to me. The available cards to "activate", which are cards that the system knows you have but you have to verify again, completely disappeared. I added them all manually, which was the first time for manual but the 3rd time altogether. They actually stayed on for about 3 days I think. I even tested it and it didn't work at one NFC reader but did at another. Both were grocery stores. Basically, I have my Galaxy S8+ on me anyway and it's not worth trying the watch when it's hit or miss. On top of all that, I tried it today at a Trader Joe's and all my cards were gone again. For a main feature, it is really pathetic that this kind of thing is happening. I did some reading and it looks like this happens to Gear S3 watches as well.Side Note: I am taking my watch back to BB today since the price came down to 269 and doing a price match after the fact. I suggest you do the same if possible. Cheers.Updated 8/16/18After almost a year, battery life is not reaching 2 days. The heart rate monitoring is still giving me issues. I was on the elliptical today for 15 minutes and my HR was at 160 pretty constantly and the Gear Sport couldn't get above 90. I have been working out more and more and that is when I notice how bad the HR is. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I am retiring this and going back to my vivoactive HR.

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nathan

*UPDATE* Lowering rating from 5 to 3 stars. Receiving notifications is a big part for me. The problem is, even though I'm using a Samsung S8+, that the watch only shows you the most recent notification per app. For example, let's say your friend messages you on WhatsApp and says text1 "Hey", text2 "Let's go eat", text3 "Where should we go?". The Gear Sport will vibrate 3 times for each notification, but when you look at the watch you will only see the latest text, which is "Where should we go?".The only app that supports text history is the messages app, which defaults to the SMS app on your phone and cannot be changed. This is also the case with emails, where you will only be able to see the latest email you received. Same with Google Hangouts, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The watch does NOT keep a history of the notifications received per app even if you didn't look at them. That's such a huge oversight in my opinion. Even my Pebble Time had this feature.*Original Review*In short: this is a really great smartwatch and fitness tracker for those who thought the Samsung Gear S3 was too bulky and find all the other options in the market (Asus, Motorola, Garmin, Fitbit, and Huawei) lacking.My needs: Receive notifications, track steps, track jogging and cycling workouts, sync calendar, send texts, control music, good battery life and be comfortable.Warning, long review ahead.NotificationsThe Samsung Gear Sport can receive any push notification your phone receives. You can choose which ones you want to turn off and only focus on certain ones. Just because you receive the notification for a certain app on your phone doesn’t mean you need the same app on the watch. NOTE - the watch only shows you the most recent notifications per app.Step TrackingTracking of steps seems to be fairly accurate. It will be accurate if I’m walking with my arms to the side or if my hands are in my pocket. It is not accurate if I'm pushing a stroller or shopping cartIn theory, this should be able to count the number of floors for every 10ft in elevation it senses but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. From the Gear S3 reviews, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be the most accurate feature here.Track Jogging and CyclingUsing the built in GPS, tracking my runs and bike rides is pretty accurate. I like how I can leave my phone at home, start a workout and the GPS kicks in and starts tracking me. Given that I’m a very data centric person, I really appreciate being able to go back on my phone and see all the data points from my workout, including a map of what I’ve done. Obviously initiating the workout will drain the battery quicker but if I keep it under two hours then the Gear Sport will still last me an entire day. Music without my phone, I connect my JayBird bluetooth earphones to the watch and play from my Spotify offline playlist.Unfortunately, this doesn’t track how many times I pick up my baby who gets heavier by the day, but that’s kind of wishful thinking.Heart RateThe heart rate can be triggered on-demand so you can check your pulse whenever you feel like it. During a workout, it is triggered automatically throughout the workout so you know where you stand. I can’t speak to how accurate it is, but rather than focusing on the accuracy of the number itself, I like to use it in relation to where it was when I started, middle and end. For example, if the watch says my initial BPM is 70 and in the middle of the workout it’s 140, then my workout is being effective. I don’t care if it’s actually 151 instead of 140, but rather my BPM has doubled since my workout started.By default, it is configured to take your heart rate every 10 minutes when you're idle. I turned this off since I don't really care for it.Sync CalendarLiving the corporate life, I’m constantly bombarded with meetings followed by additional meetings. To some degree, these meetings are the vain of my working existence but a necessary evil at times. So I need a way, at any given moment, to very quickly check the meetings coming up in the next few hours. Since I’m this watch with my Samsung S8+ (and by extension the Samsung Calendar App that connects to my Google Calendar), then I can look at all my meetings immediately on the watch. I’ll also get the reminder alerts 15 minutes before my meeting starts which is a life saver.Send Texts (SMS, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp, KakaoTalk)Here’s the deal, if I’m getting a text from a friend and I want to respond really quickly with “OK Thanks” or a more lengthy response, I don’t want to take out my phone every single time. It’s much easier to configure a canned response that I can choose from or speak to the watch to respond, have it transcribed and once approved, send the text. This makes it really convenient in so many levels. By the way, this works with all of my messaging apps. NOTE – there is no speaker on this watch so you will not 1. Be able to get audible notifications and 2. Make phone calls.Control MusicI’m a Spotify Premium customer, have been for quite some time. So when I heard that this watch was going to let me sync my playlists (up to 4GB) for offline play, that got me excited. But honestly, most of the time I use the Spotify app on the watch to control the music that is playing on my phone, which is being sent to Alexa that is connected to my studio monitors. Even if I’m not listening to music on Spotify and got a podcast instead, no problem, the regular music app works just fine with that. When I'm working out without my phone, I connect my JayBird bluetooth earbuds to the watch and continue listening in offline mode. NOTE – there is no speaker on this watch!Battery and ComfortThere’s no sense in having all the features in the world if 1. The watch doesn’t last me a day and 2. It’s not comfortable to wear. This is why I’ve kept my Pebble Time for 2.5 years and no other smartwatch in the market could replace it. I’m glad Samsung has figured out that customers want to have our cake and eat it too, meaning we want all the functionality in a form factor that’s very light, thin with a battery that lasts days.Battery wise, I can go 1-2 days on a single charge with medium use. I check notifications when they arrive (about 4-10/hr during the working hours), check for meetings (1-2/hr), control music from time to time and have one (maybe two) 1 hour workout . I do leave the watch face off until I bring it up to look at it, so it’s not always on and saves some battery.Comfort wise, it’s light, slim and the watch face is just the right diameter. I’m 5’10” 175lb and my wrists aren’t particarly small or large. My medium sized hands (whatever that means) can wrap around my wrist so that my middle finger and thumb are touching. If that gives you an idea, at all, of how big my wrists are, I can tell you that this watch is really comfortable and most of the time you don’t notice it. I’ll post pictures compared to my Pebble Time, but they’re equally comfortable even though the Pebble is significantly smaller.So this can do a lot more than what I’ve written about, such as auto tracking workouts, swimming, have tons of other apps installed, change watchfaces, etc. I don’t really use those that often so I can’t comment on it but I’m glad it’s there.Build qualityYou’re paying $300 for a watch it better be well built, especially if it’s going to be waterproof up to 50M and used for workouts and swimming. Good news, it is.DesignThat rotating bezel? Pure genius. I'm glad they kept it for this design as it works really well. Half the time I'm playing with the watch, I'm just rotating the bezel just for fun. The two buttons on the right side have a nice click to it. It looks nice and functions admirably.PerformanceWhile this has the same processor as the Samsung Gear S2 (from October 2015), this version has more RAM and the OS has been optimized a bit more. I do notice some lag from time to time, but only when the watch is doing something a bit more processor intensive, such as clearing out my notifications. But 98% of the time, it's very speedy and responsive.OK that’s a long enough review. There’s plenty of value for me to highly recommend this to anyone looking for a smartwatch. If all you want is track workouts, perhaps consider a Fitbit or something similar. If you want an inspector gadget mini computer from the future on your wrist, this is it.

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