S3 Frontier — Sidharth Shekhar ith Gear S3 Frontier Samsung has proved that the range of wearables can be expanded beyond time and health Wcharts. Samsung Gear S3 Frontier allows you to attend your Price: `28,500/- call, reply to your emails, read the news and a lot more. The Gear S3’s stainless-steel case is attractive and looks like a high-end timepiece. However, the Gear S3 is much larger and heavier than SCORE the and the Gear S2. It is water and dust resistant, Price: 6/10 has GPS, tracks fitness and heart rate, has a speakerphone and is Performance: 8/10 powered by -based OS. You will also find a pre-loaded Monster Features: 6/10 Vampire game inside which actually is a good time killer. Design and Features: Samsung has packed some pretty awesome Overall: features in the Gear S3. The design feels like a massive sports watch 7/10 but it is meant for people with thick wrists. Built like a tank, Samsung S3 is dust and water resistant and it is rated IP68 so it’s able to withstand dust and dirt and being up to 1.5 meters or for up to 30 minutes underwater. You can also pick and choose from 15 preloaded Key Specs: 1.3-inch 360x360 Super AMOLED capacitive designs and more available at Gear App Store. Each one comes with a touchscreen display, Corning Gorilla Glass SR+, IP68 and MIL-STD- corresponding Always on Display version so you get a seamless look 810G (temperatures and shock resistant) certified, Tizen based wearable OS, Dual-core 1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM, 4GB internal through and through. memory, Bluetooth V4.2, Wi-Fi b/g/n, NFC, MST, GPS/Glonass, The right side of the watch has two buttons: The upper one is GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate sensor, barometer and a back button, and the bottom button allows you to return to the altimeter,Non-removable 380mAh Li-Ion battery. home screen or the app menu. Protected by Gorilla Glass it is MIL- Pros: Premium look, beautiful and durable design, good call quality SPEC-810G rated to withstand drops of about 5 feet. The watch can and good voice control withstand being submerged in up to 5 feet (about 1.5 meters) of water Cons: Lack of apps, heavy for up to 30 minutes. The Gear S3 has 1.3-inch Super AMOLED display that looks very realistic and is bright enough to view, day or night. With a resolution of 360 x 360 pixels, the images and texts were crisp and the colors were vivid. For looking up the time just raise your wrist and Battery: The S3’s 380-mAh battery can easily last for three days the watch instantly comes alive. on a single charge if you are not using any other features. However, Interface and performance: The S3 Frontier runs on Dual-core if you are going to use other features like GPS, checking notifications 1GHz CPU with 768MB RAM and 4GB internal memory. Samsung Gear and running fitness app then the battery will last for a single day. The S3 Frontier runs on Tizen OS instead of Android Wear and it works S3 comes with a wireless charger. Just set the watch on the charging equally well with Android and iPhones. iOS connection works, but dock and the dial turns 90 degrees so that you can easily see the time it’s very buggy. You can access the notifications, recently used apps, and charge status. create reminders, and check the weather and health stats by rotating Verdict: Currently, Samsung Gear S3 is the best smartwatch out the bezel left or right. When you press the bottom button on the side there in the market but it fails in some important areas. For android you can see the app menu where circular app icons are arranged users, it is certainly the best smartwatch and the design is attractive if around the edge of the S3’s display. However, the biggest issue with you compare it to an Apple smartwatch. Samsung S3 is the lack of apps. However, the lack of apps is the biggest drawback of this Tizen- S3 is packed with an altimeter and a barometer apart from a GPS based smartwatch. Gear S3 Frontier’s biggest downside is that there and a heart-rate monitor. You can rotate the bezel to switch between simply aren’t enough apps. Call quality is awesome and you can hear distance, calories, pace, speed, cadence, heart rate and even music everything clearly from the other side with any break. The Gear S3 controls. The call quality on S3 is superb and you can easily hear Frontier is absolutely attractive, looks catchy and is certainly way everything clearly but you’ll have to crank the volume on the speaker ahead of all the currently available in the market. if you are outside. In short, with Gear S3 Frontier Samsung has nailed the basics S Voice and S Health: The S3 can listen to your commands and there are certain features here that are unavailable on other and respond to them. Just say “Hi, Gear,” and you can speak to the smartwatches. watch to do things such as send an email, call someone or check the weather. The S3 can track a wide variety of activities and it has an Bottomline: The Gear S3 Frontier is absolutely attractive, altimeter and barometer to measure your elevation and the weather. looks catchy and is certainly way ahead of all the S Health records heart rate and can track your physical activity smartwatches currently available in the market. In short, accurately apart from logging water and coffee intake, and also with Gear S3 Frontier Samsung has nailed the basics and there are certain features here that are unavailable keeps a check on your sleeping pattern. It automatically recommends on other smartwatches. stretching exercises if you are inactive for a while. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] APRIL 2017 PCQuest 69