The new wearable Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Review

Over the past few years, the concept of smart watches has gone through several transformations. From a companion for your smartphone, these devices have become a separate application platform, and now gradually sorted out the functions multisport hours. Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review – this is just a new generation of smart watches, in which the functionality is complemented by traditional sports. Let’s see how it gets in a compact device.

DESIGN

The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review has continued to develop design ideas contained in the Gear S2. New watches also have a round body but look more aggressive against the backdrop of smooth lines of the previous model.

This is achieved due to the larger size, black body and navigation gear ring, which is located around the screen. This style – the prerogative of the Frontier version, designed for people who lead an active way of life.

But in general, watch case design turned versatile, it is suitable, for both men and women, and a different style of clothing – the main thing to find the right strap and dial.

The standard sales package Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review comes with a black rubber strap, however, the clock can use a standard 22 mm straps.

After the start of sales of the Samsung promises to begin the deliveries of additional straps, including models from the renowned designer Arik Levy (Arik Levy).

DISPLAY, CONTROL, INTERFACE

The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review uses 1.3-inch Super AMOLED display, covered with a protective glass Corning Gorilla Glass SR +. The screen resolution is 360h360 points, taking into account the diagonal, it is possible to achieve a density of 278 pixels per inch. The picture on the screen looks clear and colorful, which is typical for matrix Super AMOLED. If you enable the option in the settings that will constantly display the image of the dial, the Gear S3 Frontier easily confused with normal hours.

The device management is implemented in the same manner as in Gear S2. With this model, Samsung is the first time introduced a new interface for their smart watches and navigation ring. The solution is so simple and easy that even a surprise as it has not yet reached other manufacturers of smart watches. Ring Around Gear S3 Frontier screen scrolls to the right or left side and allows you to scroll through the screens, lists or icons in the interface.

In addition, there are two mechanical buttons, one is responsible for a step back, and the other on the right side of the watch case – for access to the main screen, call the main menu, as well as switching on and off the device. Manage the clock and can be via touch display, but the ring of navigation in many cases simply more comfortable to use.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review interface built around a circular screen, its elements are arranged so as to use the available space as much as possible. Deal with the interface logic is not complicated. The main screen – it’s always a clock face if you turn to the left navigation ring, then opens Notification Center if the right – screens with widgets, you can delete or add new ones.

With a gesture from the top edge of the display panel opens down, which shows battery level, connection status, as well as a number of buttons with the options.

One of the advantages of conventional wearable – it is an opportunity to change the dials to your taste and style.

The Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review has 15 pre-dial, in addition, in the Galaxy Apps store you can buy or download additional ones. The dials can be as simply showing the time and other information, such as weather forecasts or the number of steps.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review of the Main menu is made in the form of a circle of round icons that once again emphasizes the shape of the display.

Selected applications can be displayed in a separate menu in the form of widgets, so they immediately show additional information, allowing, for example, to quickly see the weather forecast or start a workout.

CONNECTING TO YOUR PHONE, PERFORMANCE, ALERTS, AND PROGRAM

By Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review smartphone connected via Bluetooth by Samsung Gear app. For this purpose, any suitable model with Android 4.4 or later version and amount of RAM is not less than 1.5 GB. Despite promises in the past, adding iOS support while this did not happen. Given Apple’s closed ecosystem, possibly full compatibility never will.

Compared with Gear S2, markedly updated not only the design but also the new platform hours. They use an Exynos 7270 processor with 1 GHz, 768 MB RAM and 4 GB of internal memory. Increased productivity considerably, even a cursory use hours, menu, scroll, change deals, launch applications, everything happens without lags and freezes.

Working with alerts in Gear S3 Frontier implemented at the same level as in the S2 Gear, Gear in the program, you can configure which messages, updates and other information from the applications you need to broadcast on the clock.

At the same time with Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review, in some cases, you can not only read the contents of the notification but also answer some of them. This can be done in advance harvested phrase, voice, smiley or type text on the virtual keyboard.

A set of preinstalled programs Gear S3 Frontier includes a calendar, memo, alarm clock, weather, address book, email, messages, gallery, world clock, bar-altimeter, S Voice, S Health, a music player and a phone. Last application allows you to use the clock as a wireless headset and handsfree calls or receive calls. Quality external speaker for this below average, but it is enough to answer the phone while driving or at home when the smartphone is in another room. By the microphone at the same time have no complaints on the quality of the source of transmission is not complaining

Third-party applications for the Tizen platform, on which work Gear S3 Frontier, became much larger in the past year. Particularly pleased with the activity of Ukrainian developers.

The store Samsung Apps appear Privat24 program, Portmore, UK loan, Tickets.up, WOG, «New mail», Eda.ua and others. Besides, you can install an application from Uber to call a taxi, as well as “Yandex” and “Yanks.Transport”. However, mainly in the Samsung Apps store for discount watches dials, and Google has not yet decided to go to Tizen. Although their own platform for wearable Android Wear is going through hard times, the release of the new version of a new watch, moved in 2017. However, the lack of a large number of really useful applications – it is a problem on all platforms for wearable.

SPORTS AND FITNESS FUNCTION

Tracking of physical activity and sports – one more direction that will actively develop intelligent clock. This is evident both in Apple Watch Series 2 and on Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review. The Samsung focus on the development of its S Health Service, which is under new hours became noticeably more functional.

You should start with the fact that the possibility of S Health in Gear S3 Frontier can be divided into fitness and sports. The former include such basic tracking of physical activity, as steps, the number of floors traveled and sleep. Added to this is the periodic measurement of heart rate and the amount of water you drink and coffee.

On the basis of this information, the clock draws a pie chart that shows the number of calories consumed by the body, as well as time spent in a dream, inactivity and rest mode.

Sleep is tracked automatically, this need not be removed simply watches with hands, while they determine its effectiveness, depending on how deeply you sleep at night. Therefore, the user should try to get enough sleep, and in less than a day to sit in one place and take walk at least 6,000 steps and 10 floors, painting over the diagram S Helth green. If an hour to sit in one place, the clock will start to vibrate and warning that it’s time to go.

Sports S Health features allow you to track running, cycling, elliptical, bicycle, step simulators, lunges, twisting, squatting, press, jumping, pilates, yoga, rowing and other exercises.

During sports watch heart rate monitor, you will need to note that the accuracy is almost at the level of the breast sensors.

While running in the street is also possible to include a built-in GPS clock to monitor the distance. For cycling in Gear S3 Frontier even has a speedometer. In general, during training hours track distance, time, pace and heart rate, keeping them in S Health. In addition, for each exercise, you can select a target, such as a tempo, time, distance or calories while running, and Gear S3 Frontier will perform the basic function of a coach telling when to speed up and when to slow down.

In order to better understand the height to which the user climbs in Gear S3 Frontier has an altimeter, barometer works based (detects a pressure difference at different heights), which in turn also measures the atmospheric pressure, and trying to predict it will rain or not.

Altimeter takes sea-level data from the database AccuWeather service, depending on the user’s location, which determines through the GPS.

Housing Gear S3 Frontier is protected against water and dust according to the standard IP68, that, unfortunately, does not allow to use the watch for water sports. Immerse them in water at the recommended depth of not more than 1 meter and for up to 30 minutes.

AUTONOMY

Built-in Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review battery has a capacity of 380 mAh. Hours at this very much depends on how actively use them. If the user is watching the time, check notifications, and works with applications, you can count on 3-4 days of battery life.

If we add to this exercise, such as running 40 minutes with active GPS, the clock will need to be recharged in 2-3 days.

Overall, this is a normal result for smart hours.

Charges Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review through the docking station with inductive charging. To recharge from 0% to 100% battery takes about 2 hours.

PROS: PROTECTION AGAINST WATER AND DUST, DESIGN, DISPLAY, SPEED, GPS MODULE, S HEALTH, SLEEP TRACKING AND SMART ALARM CLOCK, HEART RATE MONITOR, BAROMETER, ALTIMETER, CAN BE USED AS A HEADSET, STANDARD 22MM STRAPS
CONS: NOT SUITABLE FOR SWIMMING, ONLY WORK WITH ANDROID

CONCLUSION

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier review – is, for the moment, the best smart watch for the Android platform. They have a nice design, high-quality display and the perfect complement to a smartphone capability. This bias in the sports function allows Gear S3 Frontier, and as a substitute for fitness bracelet and watch as basic multisport

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