Root achieved on the Samsung Gear S3, Android Wear theoretically possible
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- PLAYER SLAYER
- r2j
- 08 Apr 2017
Joselius, 08 Apr 2017Rooting a gear S3 is stupid. No Samsung Pay. Rotating bezel... moreBut then you do get actual app support, and Google services, a much better AI bot, and standalone apps, which, if you've ever used a Samsung watch, you'd know how there is literally none of. Not to mention how it looks much cleaner.
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- Joselius
- HjB
- 08 Apr 2017
Rooting a gear S3 is stupid. No Samsung Pay. Rotating bezel no longer useful. Less battery life. Loses all Samsung features. In turn you get an ugly android wear ui. Never!!!!
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- AnonD-85574
- B}9
- 08 Apr 2017
I've used both Moto 360 (1st gen) and Gear S2
The rotatable bezel on the latter, is really amazing.
I like what google is offering with Android wear 2 (haven't tested it yet), but considering smartwatches are mostly used for Fitness and notifications, I think I'd prefer to use S health's deep integrations and tizen's fast and amazing experience (rotating bezel).
Once I used the watch for about an hour (checking out features and stuff), when I switched back to my phone, I was looking for the bezel to turn ! It felt so natural, and easy to use
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- Swede
- d%a
- 08 Apr 2017
Definitely. Choice Diversity - yes
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- Genza
- tht
- 08 Apr 2017
Ikhsan, 08 Apr 2017Android wear watches barely get a day of battery life, whil... more14nm FinFET process and several battery saving mode is the biggest reason why Gear S3 has great battery life.
Android Wear is far from perfect but i will not get any device with Tizen OS
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-operating-system-bugs-vulnerabilities
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- Zenodroid
- nQj
- 08 Apr 2017
Does Android wear have more apps ? And are they optimized for gear s3 ? If not, then it's not worth anything. And does the watch last 5 days on battery with Android wear ?
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- AnonD-509173
- 6v}
- 08 Apr 2017
i'd love to try it with my Nexus :)
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- Sahil
- fCF
- 08 Apr 2017
Yes, definitely i would love to see android wear 2.0 on gear S3
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- AnonD-39937
- nDA
- 08 Apr 2017
Ikhsan, 08 Apr 2017Android wear watches barely get a day of battery life, whil... moreIt may have better battery life because the SOC on Gear S3 is made on 14nm(in comparison with 28nm in Android Wear territory) and that translates in 40% less battery used by SOC.
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- AnonD-39937
- nDA
- 08 Apr 2017
Android wear for the win! It's not perfect, but as all the software from Google it gets better over time.
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- Ikhsan
- tDC
- 08 Apr 2017
AnonD-651704, 08 Apr 2017yes i would do android wear 2.0 on Samsung Gear S3 lte mode... moreAndroid wear watches barely get a day of battery life, while tizen on S3 get close to 3 days. Would love to be able to get wear 2.0 on S3 as it is currently the best watch hardware wise, but if battery life is downgraded, then I'll stick to tizen
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- Anonymous
- 4mL
- 08 Apr 2017
Hell yea just give me Samsung pay I hate you don't have access to Google now
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- AnonD-270570
- rKW
- 08 Apr 2017
No I love it as it is, it's smoother than Android wear and have greater implementation.
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- AnonD-651704
- f{}
- 08 Apr 2017
yes i would do android wear 2.0 on Samsung Gear S3 lte model
As if lte is not yet lauched in my country too sad awaiting on for change.