KekuranganSamsung Galaxy M62. Setelah bicara kelebihan, sekarang kita bicara kekurangan Samsung Galaxy M62. Jika diperhatikan, ada beberapa aspek yang jadi kelemahan perangkat ini. Salah satu minor di perangkat adalah sistem fast charging 25W. Jika melihat baterainya yang punya kapasitas jumbo, 7000mAh, maka tenaga pengecasannya relatif lemah. Itulahseikit yang bisa kami sampaikan mengenai Kelebihan dan Kekurangan Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini semoga dapat bremanfaat bagi Anda. Kelebihan dan Kekurangan Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini 2014-03-09T:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown SamsungWatches - Cari & beli watches dengan harga terbaik di Indonesia. Lihat harga, spesifikasi dan fitur Galaxy Watch Gear Fit 2 Pro Perkembanganindustri moden mempunyai keperluan yang lebih tinggi dan lebih tinggi untuk transmisi gear gear reducer. Struktur dan kebaikan dan keburukan gear dan peralatan heliks dalam pengurangan gear adalah sejenis pengetahuan profesional. Walau bagaimanapun, gear reducer gear pengurangan kepunyaan pemacu yang kukuh. Meningkatkan prestasi transmisi gear gear reducers, secara amnya Kelebihandan kekurangan Samsung galaxy s3 saya akan mencoba mengulas mengenai kelebihan dan kekurangan yang dimiliki oleh perangkat samsung yang merupakan versi mini dari Samsung Galaxy S3. Kembali mengingat beberapa spesifikasi yang diusung oleh Samsung Galaxy S3 mini ini seperti layar 4 inci, OS Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Prosesor Caritahu kekurangan dan kelebihan jam pintar Samsung Gear S2 dalam review Okezone - Ulik Review - okezone techno Samsung memperkenalkan jam tangan pintar terbarunya, Galaxy Watch. Galaxy Watch sendiri menjadi perangkat wearable terbaru Samsung sebagai penerus Galaxy Gear S3. Product Marketing Manager Samsung Mobile, Samsung Electronics Indonesia, Annisa Maulina mengatakan, Samsung Galaxy Watch dapat membantu aktivitas pengguna dari pagi hingga malam hari. Kelebihandan Kekurangan Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S5300 Samsung Galaxy Pocket ini dirilis pada bulan April 2012 yang lalu. Harganya saat ini adalah Rp. 1.050.0000,- WW4HA. Samsung Gear S3 Frontier LTESamsung Gear S3 Frontier LTE ulasan, spesifikasi dan hargaSamsung Gear S3 Frontier LTEMengapa Samsung Gear S3 Frontier LTE lebih baik daripada rata-rata?Daya baterai? x mikrofon? penggunaPeringkat keseluruhanSamsung Gear S3 Frontier LTE2 Ulasan penggunaSamsung Gear S3 Frontier LTEFiturDesainSemakin besar ukuran layar, semakin baik pengalaman teknologi yang digunakan pada ini tahan debu dan tahan air. Perangkat tahan air dapat menahan penetrasi air, seperti jet air kuat, tetapi tidak jika ditenggelamkan ke dalam ATM menunjukkan berapa banyak tekanan air yang dapat ditahan oleh perangkat. 3 ATM adalah salah satu peringkat terendah dan berarti perangkat hanya dapat menahan percikan air. Sementara 20 ATM adalah salah satu peringkat tertinggi dan berarti perangkat dapat digunakan untuk snorkeling dan olahraga pertama dari rating IP mengacu pada perlindungan terhadap debu, sedangkan angka kedua mengacu pada perlindungan terhadap cairan. Misalnya. angka pertama 6 menunjukkan bahwa perangkat ini benar-benar tahan debu, dan angka kedua 7 menunjukkan bahwa perangkat ini mampu bertahan meski terendam sepenuhnya dalam antipecah seperti Corning Gorilla Glass atau Asahi Dragontrail Glass tipis dan ringan, dan dapat menahan tekanan tingkat Glass adalah salah satu merek terpopuler yang secara kimiawi memperkuat kaca, dibuat oleh Corning. Beberapa versi telah dikembangkan, yang terbaru semakin tahan lama dan memberikan kemampuan anti pecah yang lebih piksel adalah ukuran resolusi layar, dinyatakan sebagai jumlah piksel per inci PPI pada layar. Kerapatan piksel lebih tinggi berarti gambar yang ditampilkan di layar nampak lebih tajam dan lebih terhadap keringat sehingga sangat ideal digunakan saat oksigen dalam darah adalah ukuran seberapa banyak oksigen yang mencapai otot. Mengetahui ini penting karena kadar oksigen rendah berarti kamu menjadi mudah lelah saat berolahraga. Semakin banyak olahraga, maka kadar oksigen dalam darah akan semakin detak jantung membantu menampilkan tingkat kebugaran, sehingga kamu bisa menghitung intensitas olahraga yang bisa menentukan lokasi secara global, berguna untuk peta, penandaan geografis maupun aplikasi adalah sensor yang digunakan untuk mengukur percepatan linear perangkat. Sebuah aplikasi umum mendeteksi ketika perangkat berubah antara posisi vertikal ke sensor suhu, kamu bisa memantau perubahan suhu untuk mengukur tingkat tenagamu dan menghindari berguna untuk software game, peta dan ini mengukur barometer tekanan udara. Dapat memprediksi perubahan cuaca, misalnya penurunan tekanan udara secara tiba-tiba berarti akan ada badai. Jika dikalibrasi dengan benar alat ini dapat digunakan untuk mengukur ketinggian, yang membantu perangkat GPS untuk mengunci lebih cepat dan dengan akurasi lebih adalah sensor yang dapat digunakan untuk melacak orientasi perangkat, terutama dengan mengukur kecepatan rotasi sudut. Awalnya sensor ini dibuat menggunakan rotor yang berputar untuk mendeteksi perubahan orientasi, misalnya putaran atau irama mengukur jumlah putaran pedal per menit saat kamu bersepeda. Kamu bisa memantau seberapa cepat mengayuh aktivitasDapat melacak tidurmu, seperti berapa lama kamu tidur dan kualitas sejauh apa kamu berapa banyak langkahmu sepanjang hari, sehingga terlihat seberapa aktif kamu hari kecepatan menunjukan berapa waktu perjalanan dalam satu kilometer atau satu mil. Contoh dalam berlari, 4 kilometer adalah kecepatan yang sangat tidurmu dianalisis dan hasilnya diberikan dalam bentuk laporan, bisa dilihat melalui aplikasi atau situs web. Dari laporan ini, bisa terlihat kualitas tidurmu dan juga bisa membantumu memperbaiki pola mendeteksi secara otomatis ketika kamu memulai aktivitas seperti jogging, sehingga tidak perlu mengatur secara pelacak rute, kamu bisa menambahkan rute di peta. Terutama sangat membantu bila kamu berencana untuk melewati rute yang sama lagi, atau ingin membagikan rute pada orang mendeteksi perubahan elevasi, seperti ketika naik mode multi-sport kamu bisa dengan mudah melacak olahraga yang berbeda seperti lari, bersepeda, dan berenang. Fitur ini ideal bagi mereka yang perlu beralih dengan cepat di antara berbagai aktivitas misalnya atlet triathlon.KonektivitasHal ini kompatibel dengan berbagai perangkat iOS seperti iPhone, iPads dan iPod ini kompatibel dengan berbagai perangkat Android seperti smartphone dan adalah standar teknologi wireless yang memungkinkan transfer data antar perangkat yang ditempatkan dalam jarak dekat, menggunakan gelombang radio frekuensi ultra-tinggi dengan panjang gelombang pendek. Versi yang lebih baru menyediakan transfer data yang lebih dapat tersambung ke Wi-Fi yang didukung oleh adalah protokol wireless yang mirip dengan Bluetooth Smart, dan sangat hemat daya. Terutama digunakan untuk perangkat pemantau kebugaran seperti monitor detak jantung dan sensor irama untuk terhubung ke perangkat lain misalnya jam tangan olahraga, smartphone, dan komputer bersepeda.Jumlah dan jenis kartu SIM yang near-field communication memungkinkan perangkat melakukan transaksi wireless sederhana, seperti pembayaran seluler. Catatan fitur ini mungkin tidak tersedia di semua yang menggunakan teknologi selular dapat terhubung ke jaringan mobile. Jaringan seluler memiliki cakupan sinyal yang jauh lebih luas daripada daya tahan baterai lebih panjang, tidak perlu sering-sering mengisi daya baterai menunjukkan jumlah energi listrik yang tersimpan dalam baterai. Kapasitas lebih besar bisa jadi menandakan daya tahan baterai yang lebih daya tahan baterai yang panjang, kamu bisa berkendara untuk beberapa jam seminggu dan hanya perlu mengisi ulang perangkat ini setiap beberapa waktu yang diperlukan untuk mengisi daya baterai mode hemat daya kamu masih bisa memeriksa jam berapa saat ini dan fungsi dasar lainnya. Daya tahan baterai yang panjang sangat berguna bila kamu memakainya setiap kemungkinan kamu akan kehabisan baterai selama standar pengisian wireless seperti Qi. Untuk mengisi daya perangkat, cukup dengan meletakkannya di charging pad yang dapat diisi ulang daya dan digunakan tenaga surya menggunakan energi dari cahaya, dan menyimpannya di baterai isi ulang sendiri yang tidak penah perlu ini memiliki speaker dan mikrofon untuk menjawab panggilan di ini memiliki fitur untuk menemukan ponsel saat kamu lupa di mana menampilkan notifikasi saat ada panggilan masuk di ponselmu, dengan kontrol tambahan seperti mendiamkan atau menolak kamu mendapat notifikasi seperti panggilan atau pesan, perangkat akan bergetar di pergelangan tangan atau mengeluarkan suara untuk terus-menerusmemantau detak jantung, perangkat dapat mendeteksi detak jantung yang tidak teratur dan memperingatkan adalah singkatan dari elektrokardiogram dan berfungsi mengukur aktivitas listrik detak jantung, yang merupakan pembacaan kesehatan jantung yang lebih mendalam daripada tekanan darah membangunkan menggunakan getaran, sehingga tidak mengganggu orang lain yang sedang tidur di getar mempunyai banyak kegunaan, seperti pelatihan jatuh adalah fitur yang mengandalkan akselerometer dan sensor lain untuk membedakan antara gerakan biasa dan gerakan terjatuh. Jika pemakainya jatuh, perangkat bisa membunyikan alarm atau menampilkan & AplikasiData aktivitasmu dianalisis dan hasilnya diberikan dalam bentuk laporan, bisa dilihat melalui aplikasi atau situs web. Dari laporan ini, bisa terlihat seberapa aktif kamu selama ini dan juga bisa membantumu melakukan peningkatan akan mendeteksi bila kamu diam terlalu lama dan mengingatkan untuk aktif ketika kamu menjalani diet latihan ketat atau mencoba menurunkan berat badan. Juga dapat membantu meningkatkan bisa menetapkan target sendiri, misalnya langkah dalam satu akan mendapat penghargaan bila berhasil mencapai target, sehingga bisa lebih bersemangat dan menambah bisa mengunduh aplikasi secara gratis di Google Play atau App memiliki diary olahraga, kamu bisa melacak olahraga dapat mengganggu dan merusak pemandangan. Aplikasi dan blog tanpa iklan lebih menyenangkan, lebih enak digunakan, dan menjadikan konten ini bisa menentukan cara terbaik agar kamu berhasil olahraga dan juga menawarkan saran indikator memperlihatkan ketika baterai adalah codec yang digunakan untuk mentransmisikan audio secara wireless dengan Bluetooth. aptX dikembangkan oleh Qualcomm dan mendukung audio 16-bit pada bit rate menentukan kapan kamu telah berhenti berolahraga dan menjeda pelacakan latihan saat ini hingga kamu mulai bergerak bisa mengatur kata sandi untuk menyimpan data dengan timbangan pintar seperti Fitbit Aria dan Withings. Timbangan ini mengirimkan informasi seperti berat badan dan BMI ke layanan terhubung melalui monitor detak jantung pihak ketiga untuk memasukkan data denyut ini kompatibel dengan PC dan laptop yang menjalankan sistem operasi ini memiliki slot memori standar seperti SD atau slot kartu micro SD sehingga kapasitas penyimpanan bawaan bisa diperbesar dengan modul memori yang terjangkau. Kamu juga bisa memindahkan data, seperti foto, dengan mudah dari kartu ini kompatibel dengan Mac OS X perangkat seperti MacBook dan Epix Pro Gen 2 Sapphire 51mmGarmin Epix Pro Gen 2 Sapphire 47mmGarmin Epix Pro Gen 2 Sapphire 42mmGarmin Epix Pro Gen 2 42mmGarmin Epix Pro Gen 2 51mmGarmin Epix Pro Gen 2 47mmGarmin Fenix 7S Pro Sapphire SolarGarmin Fenix 7X Pro Sapphire SolarGarmin Fenix 7 Pro Sapphire SolarGarmin Tactix Delta Solar EditionTunjukkan semua The OS isn't as mature as Wear OS, but the Gear S3 offers sumptuous design and great health-tracking capabilitiesPros Fantastic five-day battery lifeGreat fitness-tracking capabilitiesClassy design with a neat interface The good thing about new hardware is that it makes the older generations more appealingly priced. This counts double for wearables because the hardware moves slower than with phones. So while the new Samsung Galaxy Watch is excellent, it doesn't offer a great deal over the Gear S3 reviewed that, it's taken an axe to its high price. Originally retailing for £350, you can now get the Gear S3 Frontier for just £150 from John Lewis by applying the code "SAMSUNG50" at using the code, you do promise that you'll show up and recycle an old smartwatch at some point in the future, though how this would be policed is anybody's guess. To be honest, even £ is a bit of a bargain for such a fully-featured now from John LewisDarien's original review continues belowWe were big fans of Samsung’s Gear S2 smartwatch. Its twistable bezel was an ingenious and effective way to control the built-in apps and the watch itself was just the right size – elegant, but big enough to be clear and easily year’s update – the Samsung Gear S3 retains the rotating bezel – but the watch itself is a bit bulkier than last year’s model. Whether you go for the smooth lines of the "Classic" model or the more rugged "Frontier" styling, the housing measures 46 x 49mm and it’s a protuberant thick. It looks rather absurd on more delicate wrists, and it’s liable to catch on shirt cuffs and the NEXT The best smartwatchesTo be fair, the size increase is partly because Samsung has added standard 22mm strap fittings, so you can now attach any standard band. It’s also beefed up the battery to a 380mAh unit, up from the 300mAh cell used in the old has a dramatic effect on stamina. We got nearly four days of regular operation between charges – with the screen in auto-timeout mode and GPS disabled – and then a further 24 hours of use in power saving mode before the battery finally conked out and we had to pop the thing back onto its wireless charging stand. For an OLED smartwatch like this, five days of continuous use is unheard of it’s miles ahead of other premium wearables, and more than double the two-day lifespan of the Apple Watch Series the Samsung Gear S3 now from SamsungSamsung Gear S3 review DesignAs mentioned above, the Gear S3 comes in two flavours, dubbed "Classic" and "Frontier". They’re both fundamentally the same design, but the Classic goes for a clean look, while the Frontier aims more for the feel of a sports watch. I tried the Frontier, and I have to say it looks the part. It’s wrought in dark gunmetal grey, with a thick but comfortable rubber strap both large and small options are included in the box. The buttons are knurled for easy grip, and the bezel turns with a light clicking action, just like on a diving this is no cosmetic feature. The bezel is key to the Gear S3’s user interface spin it and the Gear S3 cycles through its various notifications and widget screens. Once you’re into a menu or app, you can use it to scroll through options and features. There’s a touchscreen too, but we found ourselves only when absolutely necessary – the bezel is much more intuitive, offering tactile navigation while keeping the screen that note, I should mention what a great screen it is. The AMOLED display has a resolution of 360 x 360, yielding a sharp 278ppi. It’s bright, too I had no problem reading it outdoors at the default brightness setting though you can turn it up if you wish, and the screen automatically dims in darker environments, so it won’t blind you in bed or annoy your fellow theatregoers. The exterior is coated with Corning Gorilla Glass SR+, a material designed to be scratch- and shatter-resistant, so you don’t need to worry too much about inadvertently smashing the Gear S3 against a the Samsung Gear S3 now from SamsungSamsung Gear S3 review FeaturesIf you were paying attention above, you’ll have noticed that the Gear S3 features a built-in GPS receiver, something its predecessor lacked. That means that, like the Apple Watch Series 2, it can track your location even if you don’t have your phone with you – handy for runners who like to travel found this worked pretty well. From turning the feature on, it took around a minute and a half to get a fix on our position, and as we circuited our local park it did a good job of tracking our path, accurately showing little detours and coming up with a very believable estimate of distance covered. It struggled more in built-up areas, though, where GPS satellites are a bit harder to keep in view. As we walked around central London, the Gear S3 seemed to think we were in the habit of taking shortcuts through the corners of new addition is a built-in loudspeaker. In partnership with the microphone that’s been kept from the Gear S2, this means you can now make and answer phone calls from your wrist. This isn’t something you’ll probably want to do much while you’re out and about, unless you want to pretend to be a spy. But at home it can be genuinely useful, saving you the bother of rummaging for your phone when an incoming call starts to ring. Since the Gear S3 is able to connect to your phone over Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth, you don’t even need to be particularly near to your handset to take a call on your speaker also lets the watch give you audio notifications, and even encouragement when you’re exercising it can dispense timely information as you run, and urge you on when you start to slow down. It’s not very loud though, and we found it hard to make out what it was saying over the sound of our own movements and breathing; you’re probably better off with a pair of Bluetooth these new capabilities, all the Gear S2’s key features have been kept. The optical heart-rate monitor keeps tabs on your resting heart rate throughout the day and delivers continuous tracking during exercise sessions. The altimeter/barometer lets you track your altitude and atmospheric pressure, should such things be of interest to you. There’s NFC, 4GB of local storage for music – again, great for those who like to go running without their phone – and wireless charging via the WPC is all good stuff, and it’s powered by a dual-core 1GHz Samsung Exynos 7270 chip with 768MB of RAM which keeps everything ticking along as smoothly as you could ask for. It might stutter a little with demanding games, but when it comes to navigating the interface, checking notifications and using the watch’s fitness features it’s impeccably Gear S3 review AppsAs a smartwatch, the Gear S3 handles the basics well. And the good news is that it’s not limited to working only with Samsung phones, as previous Gear watches were. You can pair it with any modern Android smartphone via the Samsung Gear app, and this is a very good still doesn’t run Android itself, though. Like the S2 before it, it runs Samsung’s Tizen OS, so if you’re familiar with the Android Wear way of doing things you’ll find a few differences to get the hang of. Incoming notifications stack up at the left of the watch face – you can swipe or twist the bezel to view them. You can even respond to some messages using an onscreen T3 keyboard – or dictate a response using Samsung’s S Voice technology, which works well. Overall it’s a slick however, there doesn’t seem to be any logic to which messages you can and can’t respond to. You can have entire conversations via SMS and WhatsApp without taking your phone out of your pocket, but when a Gmail message arrives the S3 will only let you read it if you want to reply, you’ll have to tap to open it on your phone. Similarly, access to Google Calendar is a bit rudimentary you can view appointments and reminders, but there’s no way to select and switch between multiple it’s still conspicuous that this is a proprietary platform, offering limited integration with services you take for granted on your phone. There’s also only a small library of third-party apps yes, there’s a remote control app for Spotify, and an app for downloading and creating your own watch faces, and even a few games. But there’s nothing like the selection available for Android Wear or Apple’s watchOS. It’s telling that the “Editor’s Picks” in the Gear store include a calculator and a the Samsung Gear S3 now from SamsungSamsung Gear S3 review S HealthWhere the Gear S3 does impress is in its fitness features. It offers excellent automatic tracking you only have to walk briskly for a few minutes for the watch to detect the activity and log it. It’ll also quickly catch in if you forget to tell it you’re going for a run. It can even automatically pause its logging for brief stops, such as waiting to cross a road. The details it records range from your average speed, distance and heart-rate data to some more unusual statistics such as average and maximum thing we particularly like about the Gear S3 is that you don’t necessarily have to hop onto your phone to browse all this data. There’s a good range of health-based widgets on the watch itself that can be dropped onto the right-hand side of the watch face, showing information such as calories burned, steps taken and your recent sleep record. A few cute extras include the number of floors you’ve climbed and how much coffee and water you’ve consumed. You do have to manually log the latter, you want to drill into your fitness history then it’s time to switch to the S Health app on your smartphone, which collects all this data and presents it in a digestible format. Your fitness goals are set out at the top of the main app screen, with a few graphs beneath by default these show your steps and sleep. A set of boxes below show other measurements, including your stress levels, SpO₂ levels and so forth tap on any one of them for more pretty impressive, and it makes the Gear S3 a front-runner in the field of fitness smartwatches. It does have one limitation though while the watch is IP68 rated, which means it can be submerged to a depth of in freshwater for up to 30 minutes, it’s not properly swim proof like the Apple Watch Series 2. Obviously, if you’re a keen swimmer, that’s a big Gear S3 review VerdictIt’s brave of Samsung to keep ploughing its own furrow with Tizen. Compared with the Apple Watch or rival smartwatches running Android Wear, you do miss out on app support and integration with third-party services can be the Gear S3 does a good job of basic smartwatch duties. Notifications are handled elegantly, and the twisty interface is a delight to use. The fitness side of things is particularly impressive too. Unless you’re a hardcore swimmer, you’ll find everything here you need to keep motivated and track your in superb battery life and luxurious high-end design and you’re left with a highly desirable smartwatch that feels like a proper premium timepiece. It would be great if it were a little more compact and at £349 the price is steep. But quality doesn't come cheap, and if you’re looking for a smartwatch to partner your Android phone, the Samsung Gear S3 belongs at the very top of your list. Smartwatches are experiments. For a taste of the future, you've got to live with compromise on your wrist. But for a lot of people, connected watches are best kept simple. Battery life wins out over tons of features, and ease of use over feature bloat. After all, that's what phones are for. Watches are where we check things Good Well-constructed; attractive design; clever spinning bezel interface. GPS, speakerphone, optional stand-alone LTE phone service and work-anywhere Samsung Pay. Spotify app streams music on the go. Works with most Android phones, and even iPhones to a degree. The Bad It's big. Tizen-based software has less app support than Apple Watch or Android Wear. iOS connection works, but it's very buggy. Few killer apps take advantage of stand-alone LTE services. The Bottom Line Samsung's watch survives, for now, as one of the better options for Android phone users. The problem is that the Gear S3 still feels like an experiment, when, in its second iteration the S2 was the first major redesign, it should really start feeling like a more mature, polished product. If you're looking to see where watches will go next, Samsung's exploring the ideas now. Stand-alone cellular LTE connection without a phone? Check. Spotify on-wrist? Check. Use-anywhere wrist payments that are even more versatile than Apple Pay? Gear S3 is an insanely feature-rich smartwatch with a big, bold design. But unlike the latest Apple Watch and Android's upcoming software update, Samsung's Tizen-based Gear S3 doesn't do enough to improve the experience or support more apps. And few of those apps actually use the Gear S3's standalone LTE. In terms of hardware, it's a better watch than last year's bold, clever Gear S2. And yet, it fails to take enough leaps forward in its software. Last year's S2 was innovative, but it needed polishing. And it really, really needed more used the Gear S3 for over a month paired to a Samsung Galaxy S7 read my initial impressions here and then recently via the iPhone 7, using Samsung's new iOS smartwatch-pairing app. Read on for everything that Gear S3 does right, and where it know this For $300 the basic cost of the Classic or Frontier models of the watch, which both look sleek and classy, you're getting a solid and complex watch. But it's really not any better, in terms of software, than last year. Meanwhile, the LTE-equipped Frontier model I reviewed has full cellular and phone functions, but probably isn't worth the cost. It's roughly $350, £350 or AU$589, but US carriers are offering a discount of $100 on a two-year data contract, which I probably wouldn't do. It also requires adding an extra monthly data charge to your phone Wear is just around the corner, and new Android watches could be everywhere. Samsung's concept makes some successful executions, and some notable hardware improvements, but not enough of them to be the ultimate watch for everyone. And it hasn't gotten any easier to use. It looks good. Sarah Tew/CNETWhat's interestingSamsung Pay Adding Samsung Pay to the Gear S3 doesn't just enable tap-to-pay at the same places that usually accept Apple Pay or Android Pay. It has MST, a magnetic technology that's also on Samsung's Galaxy phones since the Note 5 and S6, and it works at any credit card terminal. It's essentially a use-anywhere virtual credit card, accessible with a double-click of a button. It works by sending a timed ping that works at vending machines, terminals or anywhere close to the credit card reader. The Gear S2 added Samsung Pay, but only the NFC kind.Spotify Samsung finally made good on offering a Spotify app on the Gear S3 and S2, and it works. There are caveats It can stream over Wi-Fi or LTE if you bought a Gear S3 that has LTE, like my review model, but it can't download tracks. And its interface is bad. And, streaming for an hour and a half nearly depleted my entire watch battery. But... it works! It also requires a paid Spotify subscription. I connected AirPods and listened on the go, and it was pretty fun. But I'd rather download tracks and save data. Spotify works for stand-alone streaming, but it'll chew up battery. Sarah Tew/CNETThe design The Gear S3 comes in two designs, both far more "regular watch" than the futuristic but excellent-looking Gear S2. It's a step forward and a step back. The big and I mean big design feels like a massive sports watch on my thick, hairy wrist. But that design isn't for a lot of people, and loses universal appeal as a result. But at least it feels really well built and looks high-end. The LTE-equipped model is like a tank. But damn, if you like large watches, this is an eye-catching a full stand-alone phone with LTE If you buy the LTE model, it can take calls and even connect apps on the go via AT&T or T-Mobile in the US. If you want a phone on your wrist, here it is. And it's probably the best phone-on-wrist watch that exists. With AT&T, for instance, the watch can share a number with your Android/Samsung phone. Add Bluetooth headphones, and discreet calls can be taken. Would I need that? No. Some might, though. But to use this as an LTE phone, you'll need to pay a monthly fee to add it to your phone plan. Samsung's S Health fitness features are surprisingly good S Health is the required baked-in way to track fitness on the Gear S, but it does heart rate and automatic activity tracking, can log water and coffee intake, and reminds me when I've stayed still too long. It even recommends stretching exercises when I stand again. I like that the S Health encourages activity streaks - walk for a while, and it shows me how long I've been walking for - and sometimes it borders on fitness iOS you can connect and even install apps Samsung's iOS app is not good, but it's more versatile than a basic Android Wear conduit. Samsung S Health connects for fitness tracking, and a handful of apps and watch faces can be downloaded. Just not all of them - Spotify and Uber don't make the cut, for S-Voice works... pretty well Google's upcoming Assistant improvements to Android Wear, and Siri on Apple Watch, offer more connections to phone functions. S-Voice still works OK, though, and can do more than you'd expect setting alarms, calling a contact, getting weather, asking what an aardvark is. It can retrieve brief entries from sources such as Wikipedia. It connects with iOS to some degree. Sarah Tew/CNETWhat's not so hotTizen and its app deficit Samsung's watch makes yet another bet on Tizen, its own software and app ecosystem. And no one else has. The amount of apps for Gear watches has trickled to a near standstill. And while there are some clever games and watch faces, and a few brand-name apps like a CNN or Bloomberg or ESPN watch face, or Uber or Spotify, these apps are so few and far between that you'll hunger for any new one just to justify your Gear purchase. There are technically thousands of Gear S3-compatible apps... but few of them are anything recognizable, or anything most people would want to interface Last year, the Gear S2's novel spinning wheel design for navigation was eye-popping and fun. But it's also time-consuming, and I can't get to what I need as fast as I can on an Apple Watch. Too much dial-spinning, and two buttons to push instead of one, add up to a lot of wasted time fiddling around. At-a-glance info isn't always easy because most Samsung Gear watch faces are light on customization. I can't pack on shortcuts or quick readout info like on the Apple Watch - say, to music or weather or calendar. A more efficient design is needed. It's definitely better than Android Wear right now, but it's not another leap forward. And getting some apps to work requires a mix of Samsung apps, conduit apps and maybe even double log-ins. Spotify required another log-in once my phone was out of reach.LTE model can drain the battery fast I did get two days of battery life on average using the S3 Frontier LTE model when paired to the phone, but if I used LTE to connect to the watch away from the phone, battery life slipped away fast. Depending on what I did, my watch could drain before I got home for dinner and my watch charger. A day on LTE standby was typical - but not guaranteed. What's the use of a smartwatch that has such a wide range of battery endurance depending on performance?It's water resistant, but not swim proof IP68 means dust and dunk-friendly, but unlike the Apple Watch Series 2, you're not meant to go swimming. If only there were more good apps. Sarah Tew/CNETWould I buy one? Would I recommend the Samsung Gear S3 to an iPhone owner? Absolutely not. But with Android phone owners, the decision is harder. There is no perfect watch right now, just a field of inferior products. Android Wear isn't a good answer now, although Android Wear could provide some promise starting in the next few months. Pebble has been absorbed by Fitbit. Samsung offers some interesting options with the Gear S3, and its ability to be a full phone if you spring for the LTE model could appeal to some more than a year since the Gear S2, the S3 amounts to a lateral move. Improved hardware, but not improved software. And no matter how clever the S3's design is, it needs to be better at delivering information fast. That being said, right now, I'd prefer the S3 over any current Android Wear watch... or any other Android-connected watch. That statement will probably change sooner rather than later. But the older Gear S2 is still available, and at around $230 it's far more of an impulse purchase. It lacks a speakerphone, though. And if you care about adding phone service, the Gear S3 LTE is far better than the S2 watch is absolutely attractive. Its looks catch the eye of people I show it to, and while it's big, it's definitely good-looking. But it's not the best info-on-my-wrist remote way to quickly check in on my life. Maybe that's a problem with all smartwatches. But it's definitely a problem with this one.