Anyone getting a watch to go with their Note 8

[suitebliss]

I might pick up a Gear S2.

I just picked up a refurbished S2 from eBay for $110. Thinking about getting my cousin one for his bday

 

[B Hoste]

My S2 still works great and I don't have the extra funds to drop on a new smartwatch.

 

[reinbeau]

I love my Gear S2. The new ones are hugely clunky and definitely too masculine. I'll keep my S2, I hope they last a bit, I've had mine about a year.

 

[krishnansasikumar]

Sticking to my gear S2. The newer ones are huge and not to my taste. It's also yet another expense to an already expensive phone. As long as nothing radical comes out on watches, I'll stick to my gear S2

 

[Forgewizard]

I had already moved up from Gear S2 Classic to the Gear Frontier prior to getting my Note8

 

[Note8uzer]

I bought the LG Sport and it is a tad bulky, but works well for the most part

 

[o4liberty]

I looked at several and after seeing the cost vs benefits it was not worth it to me. If my phone is always with me no need for the watch.

 

[Thomasrope]

I have both the Gear S3 Frontier which I use at work (outdoors) and the Classic which I wear the rest of the time. Love them both and the battery life is phenomenal!

 

[Cherries01]

So I pulled the trigger and got myself the S3 Frontier. Very slick watch! I'm just quite disappointing of the apps available for the watch and I'm still having a hard time trying to get all the notification to work with the watch (third-party apps). Anyone have this issue as well?

Coming from an Apple Watch Ser. 1, most of the apps that's available on the phone, is also available on the watch. Hopefully Tizen improves & Samsung does something about this... The apps available with the watch is mostly not useful.

 

[Jrome.brooks]

Already did it

 

[convergent]

So I pulled the trigger and got myself the S3 Frontier. Very slick watch! I'm just quite disappointing of the apps available for the watch and I'm still having a hard time trying to get all the notification to work with the watch (third-party apps). Anyone have this issue as well?

Coming from an Apple Watch Ser. 1, most of the apps that's available on the phone, is also available on the watch. Hopefully Tizen improves & Samsung does something about this... The apps available with the watch is mostly not useful.

I too am coming from the original Apple Watch (pre Series 1). I actually like the Gear S3 a lot better in many ways. The only things that are negatives are way fewer apps, and the lack of complications on faces. These two are kind of related since apps can feed complications. That said, after the first few months of having the Apple Watch and "playing", I would estimate that 90% of my watch usage was the native apps. The things that were 3rd party were as much novelty as anything else, so not a huge loss .... really.

On the plus side though, there is a whole list of things I like better on the Gear S3, not the least of which is the rotating dial and UI... find it so much better, particularly when in the gym and my hands are sweaty. And the thousands of faces are really nice too... not sure why Apple stubbornly refuses to open up faces.

Notifications have just flowed in for me... so not had any issues there.

 

[jsk0703]

I actually get annoyed with all of the S3 faces. Way too many and really not much benefit to owning multiple unless you are into color coordination with different bands and outfits. I find the official faces, particularly the outdoor face to be sufficient. But to each is own.

There are more apps coming, it's just slow going because it's not currently easy to port apps across the Samsung ecosystem. Once tizen 3.0 rolls out, combined with the new tizen development platform, we should see an influx of apps.

 

[suitebliss]

Any women on here who has the Frontier. I want one I'm just afraid of the bulkiness.

 

[Jrome.brooks]

I have both but I'm not using the apple watch because I don't have an iPhone anymore I have the note 8 and Let me tell you guys that it's a learning curve when you use android devices a lot of research but once you get use to it and find apps that are useful the frontier is miles ahead of any series apple watch !!! I have the LTE version of the frontier and I can go on the internet without pairing with the phone and can watch YouTube with pairing the GPS is better with turn by turn it's a bunch of stuff you have to go on YouTube and watch videos but in all I love my frontier

 

[Mike328]

are watches really worth it I always wanted to get one but never really felt like I need it like how are Samsung watches compared to other smart watches like the Moto 360 and like that one zte watch

 

[Jrome.brooks]

are watches really worth it I always wanted to get one but never really felt like I need it like how are Samsung watches compared to other smart watches like the Moto 360 and like that one zte watch

It's worth it for me because sometimes i can't use my note at work with meetings and such so everything is foward to my watch so I won't mess a beat and I can leave my phone at home or in the car and use my watch as a smartphone which the watch is capable of doing it's also great for working out running and all types of fitness

 

[Mike328]

It's worth it for me because sometimes i can't use my note at work with meetings and such so everything is foward to my watch so I won't mess a beat and I can leave my phone at home or in the car and use my watch as a smartphone which the watch is capable of doing it's also great for working out running and all types of fitness

Does it drain your battery alot ?

 

[Jrome.brooks]

It's worth it for me because sometimes i can't use my note at work with meetings and such so everything is foward to my watch so I won't mess a beat and I can leave my phone at home or in the car and use my watch as a smartphone which the watch is capable of doing it's also great for working out running and all types of fitness

And the frontier compared to other android wear devices is miles head of them looks and functionality it's just needs to be updated and have more apps

 

[Brew Swayne]

are watches really worth it I always wanted to get one but never really felt like I need it like how are Samsung watches compared to other smart watches like the Moto 360 and like that one zte watch

Given the cost, probably not. I've had a gear s3 for about 4 months now and probably 95% of my use for it is checking the time. The rest is mostly health/exercise/sleep monitoring.

I've got most of the other functions disabled like text and email notifications. They got annoying after a month or so.

 

[Cherries01]

I too am coming from the original Apple Watch (pre Series 1). I actually like the Gear S3 a lot better in many ways. The only things that are negatives are way fewer apps, and the lack of complications on faces. These two are kind of related since apps can feed complications. That said, after the first few months of having the Apple Watch and "playing", I would estimate that 90% of my watch usage was the native apps. The things that were 3rd party were as much novelty as anything else, so not a huge loss .... really.

On the plus side though, there is a whole list of things I like better on the Gear S3, not the least of which is the rotating dial and UI... find it so much better, particularly when in the gym and my hands are sweaty. And the thousands of faces are really nice too... not sure why Apple stubbornly refuses to open up faces.

Notifications have just flowed in for me... so not had any issues there.

After having my watch for a couples days & being able to play with it and adjust the setting and stuff. I notice that that when the Watch is standalone, the native apps that associate with the phone (messenging, email, etc.) works very well. But once the watch and the phone are linked together, the notification for third-party apps (social media, etc) works very well. Just that we can't access the FB, IG etc, apps on the watch, but it will open the app on the phone if you desire to do that.

Overall, I totally agree with you and my experience with the apple watch and s3 gear frontier is similiar to you. I grow to like my watch more now, and felt that the S3 gear is more productive and useful than the apple watch. Again, totally loved the look of the watch. Its a bit big, but loving it!