Samsung - Gear Sport Smartwatch 43mm - Black

This Samsung Gear smartwatch purchase followed the purchase of a Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro. Make no mistake, I loved the gear fit 2 pro!!... I love this one better. The Fit 2 Pro's smaller rectangular thin screen was the reason to switch to the Gear Sport 42mm. Beautiful display on both and even though the Pro 2 fit perfectly under my boxing gloves, the screen was just a bit too small for all I wanted to use it for so I waited until the Gear Sport was on sale for $279(normally $300 which is about a $100 difference between the two) and upgraded! Boy, was I pleasantly surprised! First of all, in the pictures, the Gear Sport seems like it has a cheaper looking material for the bezel... It does not! It moves beautifully and the screen and apps responds with ease...The only minor issue with the actual build for me is that there's a tiny little gap in the bezel and small pieces of lint and dust from clothes and towels and what not get trapped into. Still trying to find a way to safely(without scrathcing anything!) get something thin enough to clear those pieces out. Again, not a big deal... Especially if you don't have OCD like me. It's just, If your paying close to $300 for this thing that's going to display on your body, I'd like it to be lint ball free! The features here, compared to other non-apple smartwatches or fitbits I've been able to get my hands on is surprising! Still learning everything this bad boy can do. While this does NOT have a speaker(you'll have to pair with wireless headphones), this watch does have the ability to hold and play songs straight from the gear. The watch also has a built in microphone for features we'll get into later! Of course, the Gear Sport comes with your basic fitness watch features that you'd expect at a price point like this; steps, stairs/floors, heart rate, daily and weekly summaries, and various syncable apps like myfitnesspal, a map my run, and many more/etc. The gear does have a built in GPS and having owened both older model samsung watches, other branded android based watches, and various fitbits(Loved my fitbit Charge HR!) in the past, I'm going to go ahead and say The Gear Sport is accurate in these departments, even the heart rate sensor. A good trick to know(which they explain in the manual... Your manual is your best friend people!) for the MOST accurate heart rate reading, place the watch with one finger's gap between the wrist and the hand, and THEN take the reading. Even without doing this, it is still more reliable than most smartwatches at this price point. As far as steps and floors, unless you're actually wearing the strap sensors around your chest, these watches will never be 100% perfect, but you can tell the Gear Sport definitely is strong here. The amoled display is stunning for a smartwatch, what you should expect from a Samsung product. You can recieve notifications for calls and can initiate a call on the watch, but will have to switch over to your phone as again, this device has no speaker. Now, here's where some of that extra money spent comes into play. Not only do you have preset texts sentences ready to fly upon recieving a text, but you can ACTUALLY reply back manually! A couple different ways in fact. You can use a drawing tool to wright out letters to form your sentences, you can use the old style cell phone ABC reply method, or remember that build in microphone? ...You can speak your reply! The gear has S voice so it is a basic assistant. Setting alarms, initiating a call, asking about the weather, etc., but also replying to a text message. Now, on the other hand, here's my second issue with the watch, S voice can be tricky and stubborn. Sometimes it doesn't hear you and sometimes it just plain outright doesn't understand. Always check the spoken text message replies before confirming to send because S voice can have some discrepancies, but as you use it more often, you start to get a rythem with it and figure out what works. Overall, it's pretty neat. The gear does come with Samsung Pay, which I believe only the apple watch and the higher end Fitbits have they're own form of transaction method built in, so that's a huge convenience when a store accepts it(look for the samsung pay symbol at the register and card reader). This watch is also water resistant up to like a hundred something feet which is wonderful to not have to worry about swimming, shower, rain, etc. Just make sure to set the water lock accordingly and properly dry the watch and band afterward. This is something Samsung's higher end model the gear3 is missing. No water resistance, but it does have it's own built in speaker. For me, with it being a fitness watch(and so much more) the water resistance is a no brainer. The thing with any of these watches is that they're ALL expensive, some more than others, so it's just a matter of what features are most important to you that matter. Samsung makes great quality products and that's not different when it comes to their watches. The band is smooth feeling and comfortable... The box comes with two. I use the smaller one because I have a smaller wrist and no hair pulling. For as big as this watch is, you don't really feel it's weight either. Another really cool feature that is purely aesthetic, is the ability to download about 200 pictures onto the watch itself, and then from there you can actually choose a handful of your own downloaded pictures to become your watch display. I have a collage of about 8 different Star Wars pictures that cycle through whenever I pick my hand up to look at the watch, or anytime the screen turns on, it becomes a different picture in my collage. Of course, you can choose from hundreds of beautiful downloadable watch displays for free or for a small fee for with the gear app on your phone. Overall this watch has everything one can hope for regarding the price. Sporty and geared toward fitness/on-the-go, and more fashionable then most(especially with the many customizable faces and the purchase of different style bands) which means you can wear it in a business and professional setting too. Excellent purchase so far!

I really didn't want to give up my Gear S, as I loved it! But I was on its 4th charger and I didn't know how much longer it would last. I didn't want the normal S3 as it seemed to big and bulky. I decided to try the Gear S3 sport as it is slightly smaller. I also wanted it to charge by just setting it on the charger, not attaching like the Gear S. My next requirement was that I could pay using just the watch and this one does that and more. It does everything I loved about the Gear S and more. Still learning more about what it can do. I am very happy I purhcased the S3 sport! I changed out the band (which was really easy). I got a more feminine band off of Amazon, which makes it definately more of a ladies watch!

I could have gone with a Wear OS watch since I in the Pixel 1. But Wear OS is FAAAAAR from ready. So, I went with this one spring Gear OS. It's problems are minimal and recoverable. Like the phone app deciding not to continue with uploads to the watch. And that's rare enough that it doesn't bother me. My biggest gripe is that it refuses to track floors climbed. But Samsung Health has that issue, too. Again, I have the Google Pixel 1. That might have something to do with it. Really not sure. Besides that, I am super happy with it.

I love my watch... the best birthday gift to myself! It does exactly what I need.

I've had this watch over a year and it's seen plenty of rain as I work outdoors. Still operates like new and lots of options! Would buy again!

I originally bought a Fit bit Versa as it was a little more girly. I literally packed it up for return the same day I received it. My other half had this watch and he really loved it so he gave me this one and got the next one up from this. They really are great watches. I would highly recommend these over any fitbit any day.

Originally bought the FitBit Versa, but I'm just not that into fitness so I really wanted something that could do much more but at a price I could afford. It's wonderful!

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