Yeah, but the LTE is awesome. It only activates when you're out of reach of your phone.
Are you guys finding LTE worth it?
I like it because it allows me to get phones calls from both my personal line and work line. My work phone is the Note 7 which is synced to the watch, but my iPhone number is synced through at&t sync. It also allows me to just leave my phones in the car and head out without them, I find this much more useful then always having to keep it connected to a phone.
Downside is battery life is much shorter whenever you use the cellular network, there really arent many apps to take advantage of it, and of course you end up paying more on your phone bill. If not for the fact i got it for $50, I wouldnt have done it. The watch new is $350, but i got it for $50 plus $10 a month for service for 2 years, which comes out to $290, so it came out cheaper than buying the WiFi model plus I get wireless service. But if I had to pay full price plus service, not sure if i would've done it, especially with the lack of apps to make cellular useful.
As for the interface, it works very well and is easy to understand. Really like the back button and the circular rim to navigate. Samsung did a good job in designing the interface for a round screen and it runs very smooth. Notifications for built in apps works well, but for third party apps they can be limiting and just give you what you would get in the pull down on your phone. It can also sometimes be difficult to act on them, some give you the options in the notification, but others you have to "open" the notification first to act.
Example is I use a third party email app "boxer", so when i get a new email, the notification on my watch gives me the first few lines, but to do any action I have to "open" the notification which gives me the whole email before I can delete or do something, rather then giving the option from the get go, which i get on my Apple watch.
Another is if I use Google maps on my phone and use turn by Turn, those don't get synced to the watch, unlike android wear or the Apple watch. I had to get a 3rd party standalone app on the watch and do my search there if I want those turn by turn notifications on my watch, but then I don't get them on my phone.
And again the lack of apps is discouraging. There are some really good ones and they work great, but there just arent many.
It kind of reminds me of webos, where it's a great interface but the support isn't there outside of Samsung. Hopefully it gets popular enough and Samsung builds out the platform so it gets the 3rd party support it needs. But at least the basics are covered by Samsung.
