- Samsung just launched the new Gear Sport,
and I got a little hands on time with it,
and I think I've figured it out at this point.
So, here's my complete walk through of the device
for anyone curious.
The watch is aimed at fitness, hence the sport in the name.
And it looks the part, fitting somewhere
between the bulkier smart watches I've seen
but not quite as slim and sleek as the analog watches
that I would normally wear out.
It comes in two colors, black and blue,
which are the color of the metal casing
but also the band that comes with the device.
You can change these easily, though,
with any number of bands from Samsung and others
that have them available for purchase
so long as they are 20 millimeter bands.
Also as a fitness device,
it has all of the sensors you could ever need.
We have a heart rate sensor
that can measure heart rate continuously if you want it to,
accelerometer, gyro, barometer, ambient light sensor,
and it also is rated to be used in water down to 50 meters
so you can swim with it no problem.
One of the benefits it has
over the more expensive Gear S3, by the way,
the OS that is running on the watch is Tizen as usual,
and as someone who usually goes for Android Wear watches,
I have to say that this newest version of Tizen
has me not really missing Android Wear,
so that was at least a welcome surprise.
To use the watch,
you need to download and install the Galaxy Gear app
from the Play or App store.
Yes, the watch works with iOS as well,
sans being able to reply to iMessages
and a few other things that Apple
just won't let third parties touch ever.
Once installed, you can turn on Bluetooth
and connect to the watch,
or Android, it'll make you download
a few other helper Samsung apps,
allow notification access
so it can show your notifications from your phone,
et cetera.
After that, the interface is comprised of your watch face
as your home screen, we'll call it.
Then you have widgets to the right of that
and notifications to the left.
You can swipe through these,
or you can navigate them
by turning the oddly satisfying mechanical dial
around the face of the watch.
The widgets on the watch show things like calories burned,
steps, floors, heart rate, a shortcut to an exercise,
weather, music controls, calendar events, et cetera.
You can tap them to get more info
about that particular data set.
You can add new widgets
by tapping the icon all the way to the right
and delete them by tapping and holding on any of them
and then tapping the minus symbol to remove them.
To go back on any screen,
you tap the right button of only two buttons on the watch,
and the left button is basically a home button,
but it can also be tapped on the home screen
to open the app drawer.
Now in here, you'll find pages
of all of your installed apps on the watch in a circle,
with the last icon bringing you to the next page
and tapping any of the icons
bringing you into that app, of course.
You can also hold down on the home button
to turn off the watch,
hold down on the back button to get Samsung Pay to launch,
and double tap the home button to get S Voice to launch.
The last main part of the UI is the notification center,
which you can access
by swiping down from the top of the screen,
and it can be used to control various settings,
like brightness, power saver, et cetera,
as well as get a quick look
at connectivity and battery life.
And you have all of your normal Tizen apps on here,
but there are a few additions that the watch Sport has.
Firstly, and something I've been waiting for
on a watch for a long time,
Spotify and Samsung worked together
to make this the first ever smart watch
that can download your Spotify playlist
directly to the device, just like you would on your phone.
You simply install the Spotify app,
log in with your Spotify Premium account,
and go to any of your playlists and toggle Download,
again, just like you would on your phone.
Otherwise, so long as the device is connected to WiFi,
you can stream Spotify as normal.
You can also transfer music
to the four gigs of internal storage on the watch
through the Samsung Gear app on your phone
if it's installed on your device
or through their desktop app, as well.
The second unique software on here
is from a partnership with Under Armour.
You get a free 12 months
of premium access to UA Record, Map My Run,
Endomondo, and an app I use a lot called My Fitness Pal,
all of which are great apps
and have watch specific counterparts
to help you track calories, runs, et cetera.
And lastly, Samsung also partnered with Speedo
to add the pretty detailed Speedo On app
for tracking your swimming, as well.
There, you guys, what I'd like to think
is a detailed walk through of all the features
on the Gear Sport.
This is a type of video that I used to do a long time ago,
where I just went through all of the features
like we just did.
And you guys seemed to like it,
but I haven't done one in a long time,
so I figured I would try it out.
So let me know in the comments below
what you thought of the Gear Sport,
what you think of this type of video,
these walk throughs, I guess,
complete walk throughs I call them.
Let me know if you wanted to see me do more of those.
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