But a casing that's taller, wider and thicker than last year's Gear S2 is an odd choice nonetheless – and one that won't likely be very appealing to many members of the fairer sex.įortunately it looks smart on my (manly?) wrist, and I'm a fan of the Frontier styling in the model you see pictured in this review. That isn't terribly surprising: Samsung likely looked at its buyer stats and saw that's mostly who was buying them anyway. This is a big watch that appears to be aimed squarely at adult males. The popular assumption was that smartwatches would continue in that trajectory towards inconspicuousness. One of the most unsightly features of the earliest smartwatches was a tendency towards gargantuan sizes that announced to anyone in sight: 'I'm a tech product.' After a year or two, those sizes – thankfully – started shrinking down to better blend in with their timekeeping watch ancestors. The Gear S3 is a solid smartwatch with an intuitive input system, but barely improves over its 2015 predecessor. When a company has spent the last three years aggressively churning out smartwatches on a yearly or twice-yearly basis, trying to kickstart the 'Next Big Thing,' what does it do when demand sputters? If you're Samsung, the answer is apparently: not much.

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