Jack
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- Joined
- Nov 11, 2007
Yeah, you all know I'm a Samsung slag! So it was only a matter of time before I acquired this smart watch.
It looks like a watch and tells the time.
The screen is big enough and small enough; the colours, like on all Samsung devices with their amoled screen, is fantastic. The watch style and wallpapers can all be personalised. I even found a design your own watch face app! My own elderly fat fingers work it all easily enough.
I can easily make and receive phone calls with it, albeit in a slightly James Bond sort of way, pretty much hands free using S Voice; a voice recognition system that in my opinion is better than a similar system Ford use in their cars. Sound quality is fair in a quiet environment.
I can do texts; replying with templates or using S Voice, S Voice can also read texts.
While I'm on about S Voice I can do voice memos. They are copied to my phone were voice and text versions of the memo are created.
I also get notifications of emails to my yahoo account, although it could be any provider and Facebook notifications. In fact any app on my phone that does notifications can bounce to the watch almost instantly.
Its big on health monitoring with a pedometer, fitness tracker and heart rate and sleep monitors. I've not really tested how accurate these are but I generally I take these types of things with a pinch of salt realising the proper kit for them could individually run into hunners of pounds.
The number of apps available is small, in comparison with phone apps, but growing. Jings I've even noticed that in the last week!
There's also an infra red doofer so I can use my watch as a remote control for my telly and Virgin cable box, most makes of telly and stuff can also be set up.
A days running, fairly heavy usage at the moment as I play a lot with it, is about 40%.
I wanted the one with the camera, drop Neo from the name to get that add on. In retrospect I'm quite pleased as;
1. Its only a two megapixel job with fairly poor gubbins behind it,
2. With a much better camera on my phone, why?
3. I'd be a bit uncomfortable with what is essentially a covert camera.
In summary I love it its a great wee toy but lets not pretend its anything else. At 170ish its quite an expensive wee toy too.
Written on my Samsung Gear 2 Neo*
*No it wiznae, I'm just kidding. I'm on my Samsung Tab 3, I'm a Samsung slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag :-)
It looks like a watch and tells the time.
The screen is big enough and small enough; the colours, like on all Samsung devices with their amoled screen, is fantastic. The watch style and wallpapers can all be personalised. I even found a design your own watch face app! My own elderly fat fingers work it all easily enough.
I can easily make and receive phone calls with it, albeit in a slightly James Bond sort of way, pretty much hands free using S Voice; a voice recognition system that in my opinion is better than a similar system Ford use in their cars. Sound quality is fair in a quiet environment.
I can do texts; replying with templates or using S Voice, S Voice can also read texts.
While I'm on about S Voice I can do voice memos. They are copied to my phone were voice and text versions of the memo are created.
I also get notifications of emails to my yahoo account, although it could be any provider and Facebook notifications. In fact any app on my phone that does notifications can bounce to the watch almost instantly.
Its big on health monitoring with a pedometer, fitness tracker and heart rate and sleep monitors. I've not really tested how accurate these are but I generally I take these types of things with a pinch of salt realising the proper kit for them could individually run into hunners of pounds.
The number of apps available is small, in comparison with phone apps, but growing. Jings I've even noticed that in the last week!
There's also an infra red doofer so I can use my watch as a remote control for my telly and Virgin cable box, most makes of telly and stuff can also be set up.
A days running, fairly heavy usage at the moment as I play a lot with it, is about 40%.
I wanted the one with the camera, drop Neo from the name to get that add on. In retrospect I'm quite pleased as;
1. Its only a two megapixel job with fairly poor gubbins behind it,
2. With a much better camera on my phone, why?
3. I'd be a bit uncomfortable with what is essentially a covert camera.
In summary I love it its a great wee toy but lets not pretend its anything else. At 170ish its quite an expensive wee toy too.
Written on my Samsung Gear 2 Neo*
*No it wiznae, I'm just kidding. I'm on my Samsung Tab 3, I'm a Samsung slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag :-)