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The Gear S3 is particularly well sculpted out of 316L stainless steel and the two-tone brushed/shiny finish really stands out. Size aside, the Gear S3 is built to fit in with the top-end smartwatches out there. No matter how much you like the looks, I encourage everyone to go try it on in a store before buying - you may find it to be unmanageably large. The Gear S3 Frontier's design is particularly masculine and tough, so I get that it's larger but then you realize that the Gear S3 Classic is the same size even though it has a more gender-neutral look. I'm a six-foot four-inch tall guy with large wrists that feel comfortable with watches up to about 50 mm, so I obviously don't have an issue with the Gear S3's size, but I just don't see how this watch will fit comfortably on most people - particularly women. With a 46 mm case (49 mm at the lugs) and perhaps more importantly 12.9 mm thickness, it's both wide and thick in a way that instantly reminds you this is a wrist-mounted computer and not a slick mechanical timepiece. Something that doesn't come across immediately in product renders online is the overall bulk of the Gear S3. Both are interoperable with standard 22 mm bands, but ship with different styles: the Classic with a basic leather band, and the Frontier with a heftier rubber band. To quickly point out the differences, you can see my initial hands-on with the watches the Classic comes with a shinier chrome-like finish, a more understated bezel and classic watch-style buttons, while the Frontier is black and monolithic, with a bulkier gnarled bezel and large rubber-textured buttons. For this reason, I'll interchangeably refer to both as 'Gear S3' unless there's something specific to point out about one model. I'm reviewing the Gear S3 'Frontier' model, but it isn't far removed from the 'Classic' model - they both have the same dimensions, specs, screen and capabilities (aside from the Frontier's optional LTE), but different external case designs. The Gear S2's offering of your choice of either a sleek sports-style design or classic timepiece look was a somewhat-differentiating factor for the watch, but that's all gone now with the Gear S3.

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The Gear S3 was provided to Android Central for review by Samsung.

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After an initial software update the day of receiving the watch, nothing else in the software changed. The watch was used primarily connected to a Google Pixel during the review period. I (Andrew Martonik) am writing this review after one week using the Gear S3 Frontier LTE, with service provided by AT&T. There's no doubt that Samsung is doing the most out of any company with a single wrist-bound wearable, but is it trying to do too much? We find out in our complete Samsung Gear S3 review.

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It still has its rotating bezel, standard watch band connection, tons of software features and optional cellular connectivity, but now it packs GPS, a bigger battery, full Samsung Pay support and new software features to make it even more useful even when your phone isn't around.īut in doing so, Samsung is walking the line of alienating a large portion of the population who just want a smaller, simpler smartwatch that gets the basics done, looks nice and fits on those with average-sized wrists. Going bigger enabled Samsung to take everything the Gear S2 did and add even more. So it was confusing to many of us when Samsung announced the Gear S3, coming in both a Classic and Frontier design, that was dramatically larger than the Gear S2.

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