An unofficial app previously let you control your home from the wrist, but now Nest has unveiled its own app for you to enjoy. This allows users who own the Nest Learning Thermostat to monitor temperature, set the device status to 'home' or 'away' and even control the heat through the watch's rotating bezel. You've taken the kids out to a theme park for the day. You left the car in car lot K, zone 4… you think. But it's dark now, the kids are cranky from their sugar comedown and you could spend days in this concrete hell.
That is, unless you've used the Find my Car app, which marked the location when you arrived. You can also leave yourself a voice memo to remind yourself "Car is parked by red bollard" or "Never let the kids eat ice cream again". One of our recommended Gear S2 apps makes a return as a pre-installed app on the S3, and again, it's a bit of a surprise hit. You might not think watches were made for reading news, but Flipboard makes it work well, distilling stories down to the need-to-know facts.
You can then tap a button to open the full story on your phone should you want to dig into the meat of it. Twist the Gear's bezel to navigate through a series of increasingly challenging labyrinths. The levels are vibrant, the gameplay will keep you hooked, and it's a great showcase of what the Gear S3 can do which rivals cannot. Glympse's function is simple: let people know where you are.
Say you're meeting friends in an unknown part of town, simply send them your GPS location through the app and they'll be able to get to you. The Gear app simply lets you do it faster. You can also request a friend's location by tapping a different icon.
We likey. Not the official version, but this replica is a surprisingly good fit on Samsung's watch, letting you command with a lot of precision. It can get a bit juddery now and then, but nothing that will spoil the endless fun of carving airborne watermelons.
And it's free - fruity bonus. To make matters worse, the selection of other running apps to choose from is woeful. Samsung Health isn't terrible, and is getting better, but if you want another option, Pear is free and works without your phone, offering audio coaching and tracking heart rate, distance and calories. The simplest app on our list, but quite a useful one. White Light turns your S3 into a mini torch by turning the display white and upping the brightness to max.
Useful in a moment where you need some light and don't want to fish out your phone. Unless you're someone who sensibly carries a torch with them. Yasin shihab 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Joel Joel 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Thanks but can you please clarify if I am able to access the historical health data if I make a watch app and a phone app that does NOT use internet?
I want to download the data without allowing Samsung Health to talk on the internet with Samsung Servers. I want to do everything with only Bluetooth working, no internet.
Currently the data is on the watch only so basically I just want to extract the health data from the watch in any way that avoids using internet access. You can't. If you want to access historical data you will need to use the phone SDK. Historical data is saved in a Knox container on the phone.
Thanks for confirming that, now if I didn't want "historical" data and just real-time pedometer and heart rate data, can I access those numbers from the existing Samsung health stuff running on the watch or must I write my own redundant watch app that also runs its own separate heart-rate readings and pedometer calculations?
You can use the Human Activity Monitor tizen. There is a heart rate sample at developer. Like if internet is "blocked" completely and just direct communication between the two devices without using S-Health as intermediary. Show 1 more comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. One potential advantage the S3 has over other smartwatches is that you can install apps directly on the S3, rather than downloading them through a smartphone first.
However, good luck finding any; in the Get More Apps screen, only 15 were shown, and it was a random assortment, from Korean Air to Fruit Ninja Plus to one that turns the S3's face white.
While the S3 is packed with sensors — it has an altimeter and a barometer, in addition to GPS and a heart-rate monitor — the lack of major fitness apps for the Gear S3 is a bummer. You can sign up for the excellent Pear app, which provides training, but other than that, you're stuck with the Gear Fit app.
To be sure, the S3 can track a wide variety of activities — including elliptical, rowing machines, squats, lunges and cycling — and it has an altimeter and barometer to measure your elevation and the weather.
Although the S3 has two physical buttons, you'll still need to touch its display to start and stop workouts. This was problematic when my fingers were sweaty, as the screen didn't accurately recognize my touches.
Fortunately, the S3 limits these interactions to taps, and not swipes. Cleverly, you can rotate the bezel to switch between distance, calories, pace, speed, cadence, heart rate and even music controls. This is a big miss, and one that Samsung needs to rectify. Every running watch I've tested — as well as the Moto Sport smartwatch — will wait until it has a steady signal before sending you on your way.
As a result, the S3 undercounted my runs by about a tenth of a mile or so. For what it's worth, the Apple Watch Series 2 overestimated my runs by about a tenth of a mile. Fortunately, the S3's heart-rate monitor proved more accurate, though I had to cinch the watch tighter on my wrist to ensure it read my pulse correctly.
After my runs, I loosened the strap to a more comfortable setting. As with the Gear IconX, you can transfer music you downloaded to your Samsung phone to the Gear S3 it has 4GB of storage , so you can go for a run and listen to your favorite tunes without needing to carry your phone with you.
This is a great feature, and one I'm happy to see spreading to more devices. Returning to the S3 after being omitted in the S2 is a built-in speaker that was surprisingly loud, which means the S3 not only listens to your commands but responds to them. Simply say, "Hi, Gear," and you can speak to the watch to do things such as send an email, call someone or check the weather.
For instance, it can't answer questions such as "Are the Knicks playing tonight? The S3 Frontier was largely accurate when translating my voice to text; in very few instances did it mess up, and that was usually with words that had homonyms. Leave your smartphone at home, and you can still make calls, read and respond to emails and texts, get news and weather updates, and even download apps.
However, as mentioned, if there's no app for the watch itself such as Facebook or Twitter , you won't get those notifications, and thus won't be able to respond. The S3 Frontier handled voice calls well. I easily heard a voice on the other end of the line when I made a phone call, and the person heard me equally well, even when I extended my arm. SOS is a good safety feature that lets you send a distress message from the watch to preselected contacts and let them track your location for up to 1 hour.
After activating the feature in the Gear Manager and choosing a contact, all I had to do was press the Home button on the S3 three times, and a text message was sent to the contact, along with a link showing my location on Glympse.
You can leave your wallet at home, too. After registering your card s in the Gear app on your smartphone, all you have to do is press and hold the Back button, tap the Pay button on the S3, and then hold the watch near the terminal. If you choose this option, you'll also have to add it to your wireless plan. According to Samsung, the S3's mAh battery can last up to three days on a charge. If you want to use it just as a watch, I'm sure that's possible. However, even with the display set to turn on only when I raised my wrist, no GPS tracking enable and just a few notifications coming through, I was able to get about 24 hours out of the S3 before needing to charge it back up.
Using GPS will drain the watch a lot faster, though; a minute run used up a little over 10 percent of the S3's battery.
MORE: Best fitness trackers. The S3 charges wirelessly on a small stand; the dial turns 90 degrees so that you can easily see the time while it's docked.
If the ideal smartwatch is one that lets you leave your phone in your pocket — or at home — and still be just as connected, then the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier succeeds more than any other smartwatch, and yet still falls short in some critical areas.
For those who have Android phones, the Gear S3 is probably the best smartwatch yet, as it's generally more functional as a stand-alone device than any Android Wear watch. Plus, the design, though big, is more attractive than the Apple Watch, and you get an always-on display and built-in 4G. Plus, the inability to check even sports scores or Facebook messages without your phone makes the S3 Frontier more frustrating than it should be. This is the best Android smartwatch, and yet it's still disappointing.
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