SAMSUNG Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch Pedometer (Bluetooth), SM-R760NDAAXAR

One week ago, I would have rated this with 5-stars. However, for some unknown reason, the battery life, which was 3+ days, has gone down to about 8 hours. I haven't downloaded any apps or changed the settings I have been using for the past month; the only change has been some sort of software update. I'm giving a temporary 3-stars in hopes that I can figure out a solution. If I can, I'll bring this up to 5-stars. If I can't, I'll lower this to 1-star and return it. Either way, once I figure out what I'm going to do, I'll provide better feedback with what I like and dislike, etc.... ==== Update: So, after the watch completely discharged its battery, and I let it fully charge again, I'm back to a full 3 days of use. The only setting I changed after it charged was turning the 'connections -> wifi' from 'auto' to 'off'. I figure I almost always have my phone, and if I don't, I'm probably not near an open access point WITHOUT a captive portal (requiring browser-based login). That doesn't necessarily explain the battery drain because this was how I had the setting previously. This is a great watch, based on what I was looking for. I previously had an LG G watch, one of those goofy-ass rectangular smartwatches, and other than the style, i really liked the functionality. I like the style of many new round smartwatches, but they were either prohibitively expensive (Tag Heuer), or the battery life was crap (most smartwatches), or, in the case of the LG Watch Sport and Style, you either got more than you wanted and paid for it, or not enough. My criteria: Looks (subjective, but essentially, a round smartwatch that wasn't too bulky, but with a screen big enough to use) Functionality (had to work with a non-Samsung Android smartwatch, show notifications from hangouts, SMS, calendar, etc) Battery Life (had to very easily make it through 24 hours) Non-LTE version I think the watch looks great. I'm a bigger dude, so the watch doesn't look out of place and huge on my wrist like some of the other photos I've seen. If you have svelte features, maybe the size would be problematic. I'm using the standard band that comes with the watch, which looks good, but I like that I can easily switch bands if I want to. Functionally, the watch is great. I get notifications from SMS and Hangouts, as well as from Google calendar, which I use at work for upcoming meetings. Initially, as I was researching the watch, I wasn't sure if a non-Samsung watch would pair well with this, since it doesn't run Android Wear (it runs Samsung's Tizen OS). The only issue with regard to Tizen is the lack of apps, but I don't really care about extending the capabilities beyond what it already does (wihch is what I need/want). The watch has decent sensors for 'exercise', though I suspect there are superior watches for that. I don't exercise that much and don't care about measuring my heart-rate anyway. I can feel my heart about to explode out of my chest when I play hockey, which is a good enough indicator that I'm getting some exercise. Battery life is awesome. I'm currently on my third day since its last charge, and other than the weird drain issue I first wrote about, the watch has been solid. I do currently have wifi off, as well as location, since I usually have my cell phone nearby; the watch gets that info from the phone. Knowing I can turn either of those on, if I needed to, is nice. I also have my watch face set to only turn on when I move my wrist or push a button. I've read that keeping the display always-on would reduce battery quite a bit. Good thing I'm not always looking at the watch face. Bonus features! Samsung Pay. I never used Android pay (NFC) for purchases. I was sort of waiting until it was more ubiquitous and expected, as opposed to everyone looking at you like 'one of those types'. That's just my own insecurity though. But with this watch, I just press a button, select a card, and then hold the watch near the card-paying-thingie (NFC terminal) at the store. That's great and all, but what's really super great is that it doesn't have to be an NFC terminal. As long as it's got the magnetic strip, this watch will work! I tried it at a local liquor store and the woman said, "this device is really old and doesn't have that fancy technology." I replied, "this watch is magic, check this out!". We were both pretty impressed. Another feature I really like is how you can reply to messages. There is an old phone style keyboard, with 2-3 letter per number, which is just terrible. There is the ability to speak into the watch, which I don't use because nothing comes close to Google's speech recognition, in my option. And the other option is to draw the letters on the screen. I wasn't sure how well that would work; it works great! Just draw each letter, quickly, if you want, with an underscore for a 'space', and then send. Love it. Finally, Dick Tracy, you can answer phone calls through your watch. Just speak into it. I haven't really used this, and figure I will never use it unless I'm tied to a shark, which is tied to a missile, or maybe if I'm driving (I don't have Bluetooth in my car). But it's cool. Anyway, this is a good watch.

UPDATE: 8\12\19 I just wanted to come back and report that my original Gear S3 is still going strong and that I ended up giving it to my Mom who is still using it without any issue. I loved my bluetooth version so much that I purchased another one off of Ebay for a mere $100.00! This was probably 8 or 9 months ago and it is the AT and T version and it was used in like new condition. I do not use the LTE, I continue to use it as a bluetooth device only and it works flawlessly!! Samsung really hit it out of the park with the Gear S3 Frontier. I can still get 2 and a half days out of it and it is running the latest software. I can not no comment on the current versions of these watches but if The Gear S3 Frontier is any indication, I'd say get one if you want a smartwatch! First off, this is my review for my Bluetooth Only model Gear S3 Frontier running Tizen 3.0.0.1 that I purchased here on Amazon from the seller Ocean Reef Electronics.I am using a Nexus 6P running Nougat 7.1.2. Now, on with the review! UPDATE: Had a defect with the used 6P that I purchased so I returned it and am now using a Motorola X Pure Edition and I must say, battery life is even BETTER!! I guess it's the better radios in Motorola devices, so my watch isn't working as hard to maintain a connection maybe? I'm not sure but it has greatly improved my battery life. It used to be down to about 55% to 58% when I'd go to charge it the next day, now it's still at at a good solid 78% charge. *NOTE: Just a suggestion but after having issues with my Fitbit Blaze failing after a year and one month due to the thin layer of film on the back cracking from sweat and causing the battery to overheat and the tracker to die, I decided to put a tempered glass screen protector on the display AND the back panel of my Gear S3 Frontier. Some folks seem to be having the same issue with their S3's that I had with my Blaze and I'm hoping that the additional protective layer will keep my Gear S3 Frontier from suffering the same fate. You may also want to add one as well if you have not already. Just wanted to throw that in there. Now back to the review! I absolutely LOVE LOVE L-O-V-E LOVE this watch!!! First off, I am one of those people who thought smartwatches were just a gimmick to get people to spend money needlessly. The reason I purchased this watch is because I got mad at Fitbit LOL! Seriously. I bought a Fitbit Blaze a year and a month ago and one silly little flimsy piece wore out (because of poor quality material used) and instead of letting me use my offered 50% discount towards a new model tracker that has addressed the admitted material issue, they told me I could either get a free replacement Blaze Pebble (the tracker without the straps) pay them for a new Blaze or pay them for a model that was inferior to my Blaze. Instead, I went with a free Blaze Pebble, and while I was waiting for it to arrive I came here on Amazon to look at smartwatches. I ended up going with the Gear S3 Frontier and I am SO glad I did!! PROS: I live in the boonies and connection is spotty in my house so what can I do now? I can leave my phone in the living room where I get good signal and walk around the rest of my small house and still receive notifications, text messages, and make and receive phone calls over bluetooth ON MY WATCH!!! I know some folks say the fun of this wears off quickly but because of the poor reception on my phone, it has been an absolute Godsend to be able to leave my phone in a good reception location and still make and receive phone calls and get notifications on my watch. The sound quality is exactly that of my phone on speaker. I use this feature almost exclusively when I'm at home. I don't have bluetooth in my car so I use an output jack in my car and while I don't talk on my watch in the car very often, I do use the controls on my watch to answer calls that go to my phone so I do not have to reach down and get my phone to answer calls. It is so much easier to swipe to answer on my wrist while driving. MUSIC I easily figured out how to transfer music from my phone to my watch and I have had no trouble listening to the songs on my watch, both through the built in speaker and by way of bluetooth earbuds without any trouble. I also have no trouble with using the music controls on my watch to control the music player on my phone and I love how quick and easy it is to switch sources right there on the watch screen. Now, I've only tested this in the house. The true test will be when I'm outside mowing grass and I have my phone wrapped in a bandana in my pocket. I imagine it will work just fine but I've not been out to mow since I've gotten my watch. It's so nice, I'm not even sure I'm going to use it while mowing. UPDATE 10/2/18 I have had many opportunities to use the music controls in and outside the house and they work brilliantly! I am able to use the watch to control the music that I have stored on my watch AND I can also use my watch to control my playlist if I am listening to music that is stored on my phone. Infact you can go back and forth between the two immediately, right there on the watch. I had RF ablations done on the right and left side of my back and both times I went for the procedure, the surgeon and his staff had my play the music on my watch! The first time internet was down and they couldn't access Pandora and I had left my phone out in the waiting room with family so I volunteered to play music out loud that I have stored on my watch. They were all blown away lol! So much so that when I went back a few weeks later for the procedure to be done on the other side of my back, the surgeon said, where's that awesome watch, I want you to use it again to play music! I thought that was funny. :-D SOS: I have not had a chance to actually try this out but I do have emergency contacts plugged in and I am happy to know I can use my watch to ring for help if my phone is out of reach. CUSTOMIZATION: I love just how customizable this watch is. Everything is so easy to replace or customize. The bands are easy to replace, the watch faces are easy to change and customize. I use the Gear store as well as the Facer app and while you can pay for your watchfaces, there are so MANY free ones that I can't see myself ever needing to shell out money for new watchfaces. I even purchased some Awinner brand rubber body guards to not only add a layer of protection to my watch, but also allow me to change up the colors of my watch. I like how I can use one of my songs as a ringtone or notification tone and how it give me an option to start the song from the beginning, or where the song becomes enthusiastic, if that is where I would prefer my ringtone to start. UPDATE 10/2/18 This is an update about the Awinner colored protectors, not the watch watch itself. I mentioned above that I use the Awinner frame covers not only to change the look of my watch, but to protect my watch during periods of high activity but I stopped using them for that purpose because sweat was collecting under the rubber. After 3 or 4 hours of pushmowing the yard, I'd come in and take the frame off and there would be alot of sweat pooled on the inside of the rubber, so much so that I became worried it would cause sweat damage to my watch so now I use the colored frame covers for asthetics only. Right now I'm wearing a gray and black stripped nylon band with the white colored Awinner rubber frame protector and it's kind of looks like I'm wearing Jack Skellington on my wrist! I get a chuckle everytime I get a glimpse of my watch on my wrist, besides it is October right now as I type this lol. FITNESS FEATURES: Ok let me first start off by saying I am not a super fitnessy person. With that said, I think this watch blows my Fitbit Blaze out of the water with it's fitness capabilities. While I have had a chance to wear both my Blaze and my Gear S3 Frontier at the same time to try and do a comparison, the comparison could not be perfectly accurate because I had my watch on my right wrist and my fitbit on my left. The first time I tested it, of course the watch logged about 600 more steps than my fitbit blaze did, but I think that's because I had the watch on my dominant hand and so far as I can tell, there is no way to adjust that setting like you can on a Fitbit. So what I ended up doing is the next day, I wore the watch on my less dominant hand and the fitbit on my more dominant hand and this time the Fitbit was logging more steps, so I have come to the conclusion, that atleast when it comes to the Blaze and the Gear S3 Frontier, the step count is roughly the same and definitely more accurate if you wear it on your non-dominant hand. Another fitness feature I love is the "get up and move" nudges! These are AWESOME because they aren't just nudges to get up and take some steps, it actually gives you an option to perform one of three preloaded exercises. "Twist", which is locking your fingers together, pushing your arms straight out in front of you and twisting from left to right. There is "Reach Up" where you do your arms the same but you go up and down instead of side to side. Then there are "squats" where you cross your arms across your chest and push your elbows out and squat down. Or if you don't want to do those options and you'd rather just get up and walk around you can do that too. The only thing I do wish, is that it would keep counting after I do the initial 5 reps. It is neat how it counts them down four you but it only counts 5 and then the screen goes back to the homescreen even if you keep doing the reps. It would be nice to have a bit of continued on screen encouragement from the watch. UPDATE 10/2/18: I still love the watch for fitness BUT Fitbit really is on to something with their 250 steps an hour goal reminders per hour because while the move reminders are nice what with having onscreen choices for other activities besides walking, I REALLY wish it were more like the 250 steps an hour that Fitbit has going on their trackers. I wish I could customize and hourly goal or even have the same set hourly goal like Fitbit and get reminders and incouragement that keeps you going for more than 5 counts. I NEED that motivation lol! Unfortunately the fitness aspects of the watch are not quite as motivating as I would like for them to be. I still prefer it for the build quality, over anything Fitbit has to offer though but I really do wish they would update their fitness software to better compete with Fitbit's. I don't even need the SHealth app to be like the Fitbit community, I just want the tracker software to be more like that of Fitbit's tracking software with the hourly nudges and onscreen encouragement. HEART RATE SENSOR: The heart rate sensor on my watch performs about as accurate as the one on my Blaze did and both where in a few beats of the heart rate sensor I use on the nursing unit where I work. FIND MY PHONE/GEAR: YEAH!!! It is so nice to finally have a way to find my phone when I've set it down somewhere and I can not remember where lol! UPDATE 10/2/18 I use the find my phone/ gear feature ALL THE TIME!! I mean, the frustration I have saved (alone) has made this watch worth it to me lol! BATTERY LIFE: I work at night so I charge my watch before I go to bed during the day so that it can be fully charged by the time I go to bed. This allows me to leave my phone in my living room and still go to bed being able to make and received calls. My battery could probably last me a good two and 1/2 days with the way I have mine set up but I chose to charge it everyday an hour or so before I go to bed. I usually get down to 48 to 53% after a 24 hour period which is quite acceptable to me considering all my watch does. UPDATE: as I stated at the top, I switched to a motorola device and now my battery is at a solid 78% battery life after a 24 hour period the way I have it set up. CONS: I only really have one and if they fixed it this watch would be 100% perfect to me and that is the notifications. If you receive a series of notifications from the same source, messaging, facebook messenger, etc, you only see the latest one that was sent to you so if you are asleep or somehow don't notice you've received a message, when you open your notifications on your watch, it will only show you the last response sent to you and none of the previous ones which is probably the silliest think ever. It's not a huge deal for me because I really do not have contact with very many people but if you use your phone for business or you are very social, this is going to bug the heck out of you. All in all this watch is AMAZING!!!! Easily the best electronical purchase I have ever made and I have absolutely zero regrets so far.

I have waited a couple of weeks since receiving the watch in order to fully get to grips with it before writing my review. I am also an owner of the s2 classic smartwatch. First impressions – packaging and contents: The packaging is very stylish with a high quality cylindrical box encased in shiny acetate film. Inside the box, the watch is presented neatly and all its shiny bits were protected with film – which I always enjoy removing from new gadgets! Enclosed in the box with the watch is a magnetic wireless charging base and micro-usb hard wired mains plug which is nice and compact. Also enclosed is a smaller wrist band. The larger band is already fitted to the watch. A flick of the quick release stud on the back of the strap and it comes off easily. Fitting the strap is done the same way. The straps on the Frontier are made of a very soft, flexible black silicone material which is very comfortable. I find the only downside over a traditional leather strap is that it can make your wrist a bit hot after prolonged use. Charging: The watch battery came pre-charged to 77% out of the box. While charging the watch sits snugly and securely on the magnetic charging base and charges wirelessly. From nearly empty the watch charges in about an hour. When charging beside the bed at night the red/green charging light on the base unit is a little bright for my liking so I have to turn it away. Switching on and first use: The watch is powered on by holding in the bottom button on the right side of the watch. After a short startup sequence you are ready to go. The watch quickly connected to my phone’s Bluetooth connection and on opening the gear manager app which I downloaded in advance, the time, date and regional settings were transferred to the watch. First impressions – wearing the watch: It is BIG. A lot bigger than the s2. I have fairly small wrists and needed to use the small strap. Coming from the s2 I initially thought that I wouldn’t get on with this watch. How wrong I was! Once I got used to the bigger screen I would not go back. Seriously. The screen is stunningly clear and bright with vibrant colours and the watch really stands out. I get the impression that Samsung has gone big and bold and firmly targeted the male market with this watch. It is not feminine in any way. The one downside of the size of the watch is that it gets caught on close-fitting shirt cuffs and this can be a bit annoying. Features: Health. The watch integrates fully with s-health on the phone and syncs steps, heart rate, a range of activities (walking, running, working out) and floors climbed. Apps – are a bit limited but the store has a lot more choice than when the s2 first came out. The watch integrates with Facebook notifications and WhatsApp messages without a dedicated app, and has apps for texts, emails, calls, calendar, fitness, weather, news, alarm and more. Make sure you download the calculator, speedometer, stopwatch, timer, alti-barometer – all made by Samsung. Text input - is achieved with a range of pre-programmed responses, typing on a small t9 keyboard or, if you select US language, on screen hand-writing recognition – which is pretty cool. S-voice is also available for various functions but I have really tested this out as I never have much luck with my accent. Hardware – the bezel. Its best feature. Rotate to move around menus, accept calls, accept calendar notifications, dismiss alarms – really intuitive. Two buttons on the side with a knurled texture are useful – the top button goes back, the bottom button opens the app drawer and doubles as the power button when long pressed. The touch screen – works just like your phone. A useful gesture is swiping down quickly to go back. Speaker and mic - allows you to make and receive calls via the watch, you can also set ringtones and notification tones. Watch Faces - compared to the s2 the fitness themed watch faces are better and more varied, but I feel the traditional watch faces lack the range of customisation options available in comparison to the s2. That said, the faces look good but for me, do not have the customisation options I wanted. However, watch faces is one thing the gear store has a great choice of – both free and paid. Battery Life: With the Always On Display set, a 1 minute screen timeout, occasional exercise and regular checking throughout the day I get a solid two days with some room to spare. With AOD off but everything else the same I get 3 days – which is pretty good. In summary: Pros: It is big – and the screen is stunning The build quality is superb The hardware / software interaction is intuitive and responsive The battery lasts 2-3 days with heavy use The strap is comfy, easy to change and the watch is compatible with any standard 22mm strap. Great choice of watch faces in the Gear store Cons: It is big - it gets caught on clothing occasionally Silicone strap makes your wrist hot Apps are limited in the Gear store, but choice is improving

Me gusto esperaba alguna mala experiencia pero al final me fusto mucho súper original con todo y su estuche nada más que si el cargador es tipo europeo pero con un adaptador se arregla,no duden es buen producto!!!

E l a r t i c u l o c o r r e s p o n d e con lo anunciado y es de una calidad aceptable pero el alimentador que trae es de enchufe americano y no sirve para enchufarlo a los enchufes de españa

Die Smartwatch gefällt mir sehr sehr gut... bietet eine Vielzahl verschiedenen Ziffernblättern im Store (zb. Pip-Boy aus Fallout 4... ;)...) Versand war ebenfalls schnell... Das einzigste was Negativ ist und ich bei der Bestellung nicht wusste, das es KEIN Eurostecker im Lieferumfang ist... daher lieber woanders bestellen... Mir persönlich stört es nicht da ich genug solche "Eurostecker/Ladegeräte" hier rumliegen habe...

Das Gerät ist nicht gut das kaputt gegangen.