Gear Fit 2 / Gear S2

[spinedoc77]

The gear s2 classic LTE has a metal body and let's you replace the bands. I would love to see the urban's LTE design only smaller with a metal band, I think that would look great.

That's why I'm going with the s2, it's a fair bit smaller than most of the other watches. It's also thinner, with the urbane and others being a bit comically thick. One thing I do wish for would be quick detach straps like the apple watch has, it would be nice to have multiple bands and change them out at will.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

My Gear 2 Neo finally broke a couple days ago. A huge chuck of the band holder on one side just chipped off. The watch itself still works but impossible to use with the bands. It's been through hell for the last 2 years and worth the $150 I paid for it. Still going to keep it for the IR blaster.

I caved in and ordered a S2 Classic(bluetooth only version). Should come tomorrow. It's just so nice looking and sleek. Looks like a regular watch. Finally, people will stop asking me "Is that the Apple Watch".

Both the hardware and software will be a huge upgrade for me. I will take a huge hit with battery life though, as the Gear Neo 2 lasted me close to a week, but as long as I get a full day with the S2 I'll be fine with charging it more often.

It was a very hard choice between the Gear S2 and the Huawei Watch.

 

[admob71]

Both the hardware and software will be a huge upgrade for me. I will take a huge hit with battery life though, as the Gear Neo 2 lasted me close to a week, but as long as I get a full day with the S2 I'll be fine with charging it more often.

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Turn off always on display and you can get up to 3 days battery life.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

So received the Gear S2 couple hours ago. Using it on with the Blu R1 HD, until my Note 7 arrives.

First time I seen it in person, and I love the design. The UI is excellent. And 90% of the time, using the rotating bezel is more productive than touching the screen. The bands are not bad at all, but I will be replacing them.

I installed Android Wear to the Gear 2 Neo just to see how Android wear is. Not bad, but the Google cards get annoying.

 

[co.ag.2005]

So received the Gear S2 couple hours ago. Using it on with the Blu R1 HD, until my Note 7 arrives.

First time I seen it in person, and I love the design. The UI is excellent. And 90% of the time, using the rotating bezel is more productive than touching the screen. The bands are not bad at all, but I will be replacing them.

I installed Android Wear to the Gear 2 Neo just to see how Android wear is. Not bad, but the Google cards get annoying.

good to hear. yeah, I'm not a fan of android wear and the google cards. the design is very cartoonish and I hate that I have to manage every card/notification when I go to mess with just one of them.

 

[admob71]

So received the Gear S2 couple hours ago. Using it on with the Blu R1 HD, until my Note 7 arrives.

First time I seen it in person, and I love the design. The UI is excellent. And 90% of the time, using the rotating bezel is more productive than touching the screen. The bands are not bad at all, but I will be replacing them.

I installed Android Wear to the Gear 2 Neo just to see how Android wear is. Not bad, but the Google cards get annoying.

Agreed, u almost never have to touch the screen, it's such an innovative way of navigating round a small screen..

 

[Shanghaichica]

For those that have the gear s2 can it do Android pay?

 

[Mxbzz]

For those that have the gear s2 can it do Android pay?

Gear S2 cannot do Android Pay, and Samsung Pay is in beta mode for it right now (NFC only). I personally have not had much success with the S2+Samsung Pay-- the watch vibrates and looks like it's transmitting the NFC signal but the terminal never registers. I will try resetting the application to see if it starts working, as others have reported success.

 

[The Game 161]

Gear S3 pretty much confirmed for IFA in a few weeks so price of the s2 will surely come down soon.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

S2 Classic has satisfactory battery life for me. Always On is off, Motion detection off, Brightness at 7, WiFi on, and S Health checking my Heart Rate every 10 minutes. Plus I been playing with it a lot since it's still new to me.

 

[admob71]

Turn off heart rate sensor, just use it when u need it, that's an easy boost...

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Turn off heart rate sensor, just use it when u need it, that's an easy boost...

I know, but I like the auto feature. Let's me export to .xls file. I'll probably turn it off after several weeks though.

 

[Fernandez21]

Any apps you recommend for the gear S2? Getting mine Thursday, hopefully along with my note 7.

 

[admob71]

Any apps you recommend for the gear S2? Getting mine Thursday, hopefully along with my note 7.

The time maker app off the play store, it's immense for watch faces. Bar that use it as a notification device and it's brilliant, try and use it as a small computer screen and it's not.

 

[Fernandez21]

The time maker app off the play store, it's immense for watch faces. Bar that use it as a notification device and it's brilliant, try and use it as a small computer screen and it's not.

The play store or the galaxy store? I thought you could only get the watch apps through the galaxy store.

 

[Sensamic]

S2 Classic has satisfactory battery life for me. Always On is off, Motion detection off, Brightness at 7, WiFi on, and S Health checking my Heart Rate every 10 minutes. Plus I been playing with it a lot since it's still new to me.


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Are you using a Samsung smartphone? The interface looks like touchwiz, but with on screen buttons. How did you do that?

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Are you using a Samsung smartphone? The interface looks like touchwiz, but with on screen buttons. How did you do that?

No, I'm using it with the BLU R1 HD phone, until my Note 7 arrives.

That's within the Gear Manager app, that shows the S2 battery status, that's why it looks like TW.

 

[admob71]

The play store or the galaxy store? I thought you could only get the watch apps through the galaxy store.

Both, it's a bit unusual, u load the one from the galaxy store onto your watch, then select.the default time maker watch face. Then you install the one from the play store, open it up and it links to your watch, then you have a massive ammount of faces, loads of v v nice ones... sounds messy but once u have done it once it's easy..

 

[Fernandez21]

Anyone found a good Web browser to use on the S2? For some reason tiny Web isn't showing up in the app store when I search for it and I haven't been able to find anything else.

Really liking the watch, and what's cool is that I set up AT&T sync with my iPhone but the watch is paired with my S7, so now I get phone calls to both my numbers on the S2. Also just ordered this watch band, looks really nice in the video hoping it looks just as good in person.

 

[jamesrick80]

Anyone found a good Web browser to use on the S2? For some reason tiny Web isn't showing up in the app store when I search for it and I haven't been able to find anything else.

Really liking the watch, and what's cool is that I set up AT&T sync with my iPhone but the watch is paired with my S7, so now I get phone calls to both my numbers on the S2. Also just ordered this watch band, looks really nice in the video hoping it looks just as good in person.

Why would anyone browse the Internet on a watch......your smartphone has to be right near you no matter what.....

 

[admob71]

Anyone found a good Web browser to use on the S2? For some reason tiny Web isn't showing up in the app store when I search for it and I haven't been able to find anything else.

Really liking the watch, and what's cool is that I set up AT&T sync with my iPhone but the watch is paired with my S7, so now I get phone calls to both my numbers on the S2. Also just ordered this watch band, looks really nice in the video hoping it looks just as good in person.

Why? Far too small a screen...

 

[Fernandez21]

Why would anyone browse the Internet on a watch......your smartphone has to be right near you no matter what.....

Why? Far too small a screen...

Uh, I have the 3g version, so no my phone doesn't have to be near me.

And yeah, it would be useful to say log into public wifi Hotspots or to look something up really quick. Previous versions of the gear had Web browsers, as does android wear. Supposedly there is one available called tiny Web for the gear s2, but it must not be available in the US since it's not showing up in the app store for me.

Also, I found a way to get sync podcasts to the watch, though it isn't the best it's the only viable solution I have found.

Anyway, what I have done is moved my podcast folder to my music folder, this way it shows up in the Samsung music app. This folder is managed by my podcast app (Pocket Cast).

So then I went into my Samsung music app and created a new Playlist called "podcasts" and then went to folder view, went to my podcasts folder and then added all tracks to the Playlist.

Then I went to the gear app and selected the "send to gear" setting, then enabled auto sync, and selected my podcasts Playlist as one to sync.

Now all my podcasts are synced over to my watch, and they sound great, i really like being able to go for a walk and listen to my podcasts without having to take my phone.

A few caveats, even though pocketcasts is managing my podcasts folder, the Playlist doesn't update automatically, so before bed I have to go to my music app and select the new podcasts to download. The other is play count doesn't sync back, so if I listen to a podcast, I then have to go into pocketcasts and mark it as played so that it will delete from the phone.

Other than those few things, this is the best implementation of getting podcasts onto a watch I have used. To do it on my apple watch, I would have to sync with iTunes on my mac and convert the podcast to music and then load over and the delete them when done and stuff. Same thing on android wear.

 

[admob71]

On that screen mate you could never look something up really quickly, of all the things it's good at, a Web browser isn't one of them..

 

[Fernandez21]

On that screen mate you could never look something up really quickly, of all the things it's good at, a Web browser isn't one of them..

I guess I must have amazing eyesight because I used a browser when I had a Moto 360 and LG Urbane and had no problem viewing content on my watch, heck even read some threads on this website. My biggest gripe was performance, it was incredibly slow.

Also, don't see the difference in looking up something online and reading text messages or emails.

 

[navaira]

Fit 2 is amazing – except software. But it weighs nothing, the screen is amazing and my battery dropped 22% in 13 hours. I want a phone with battery like that!

Wish I could copy playlists to Fit 2... but I guess it can't do too much as people wouldn't look at S2/S3 twice