You were beta testers...and so was I. A product that get changed less than 6 months into its inception and admittedly, from Samsung is being changed ,..." Ms. Lee told Bloomberg. "When we release our S5 device, you can also expect a Gear successor with more advanced functions, and the bulky design will also be improved." I'm OK with the price...300 means nothing to me for a watch of Gear's capabilities, and I'm more than willing to pay it again for the Gear 2, my argument is why stick with the Gear 1 when I am still in my return window, with news of a better Gear is literally weeks away. I own my own company and have brought several products to market and I know beta testing when I see it. It's not easy to design, manufacture, input a working bug free software package and then market a new product, least of all do it again in 6 months. That's scrambling....
Now the watch does work as advertised, it just does none of its advertised features well. Gear is capable of so much more...thats why so many people have rooted it. There hasn't been one single app added to the store in God knows how long, no updates since the last that opened up more notifications, Why is that? Probably because Samsung has stopped all further development to concentrate on Gear 2. I never said any of you did anything wrong or should be unhappy with the watch, just that you were early adopters to a new technology that hasn't found itself yet. I'm going to be the one of the first people to buy the gear 2, no matter what the cost, knowing full well it will be obsolete the day after I buy it. But keeping my Gear 1 while I was still in my return widow would have been just foolish.