Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

[Mr.Bill]

[eric]

Watches won't be going anywhere. Big waste of time. I also think it's funny that all this speculation that Apple was making one made Samsung go out and actually make one.

[Stratego]

Di di didi di di.
It's morphing time.

[Spider]

I really hope this thing flops horribly.

[Spider]

And yes, its rude to do anything at all with any backlit screen in a movie theater.

[ShilanAzem1136]

i recommend you this one either you are using s3 and s4 Galaxy phone working so fine with them

[Professor]

Don't understand the point of them at all. They function as a:

phone - do you really want your conversations on speaker phone? Are you gonna hold your wrist up to your ear (try it - you'll look like a buffoon)?

apps - screen is too small to see anything more than a dozen words, so e-mails and other apps are useless

tell time - yeah, this is about all it's good for

[Southern Dad]

Anyone who has used a Smart Watch understands the function and won't give it up. I love my Pebble and can't wait to get my Apple Watch. I'd have bought the Samsung Gear but it doesn't work well with iPhone. It's easy to say that they are useless if you have never used one.

[The Comrade]

what is their functionality then? what do you do with one on a daily basis that can't be done by your phone.

[John Galt]

i had years ago a motoactv, which could be fashioned as a watch (or an armband, or clipped onto clothing...). what i liked about it was that it had GPS, music, and some running apps, with bluetooth. i was able to change my music or look at distance on the run and not have to take my phone out of the pocket on my arm. it also could route text messages from the phone to it, as well as calls

was it that useful? no. it was okay. with gps and music it only lasted about 4 hours. and it had more problems than that -- letting the battery drain all the way bricked the device for me, twice. second time, they gave me a full refund, after close to a year of use. thanks motorola, was good times

a watch with long battery life (few weeks) that could provide you with a number of things same as a phone but useful when going on long trips in the wilderness or something could come in handy. so what i'm trying to say is that you're right comrade: they have marginal uses at this time. in fact, the only thing i really think they are useful for is fitness tracking, of which there are others that are less expensive and more focused instead of the jack-of-all-trades smartwatches like the samsung or the apple watch