Galaxy Watch 3 (45mm, GPS, Bluetooth) Smart Watch with Advanced Health Monitoring, Fitness Tracking, and Long lasting Battery - Mystic Black (US Version)

I have had several smatch watches. Casio smartwatch 6 years ago, 1 fitbit charge 4, 2 prior iterations of the Samsung Gear Watch, 1 prior was also the LTE version and this is the best so far. Mine is the 45mm LTE version. Pros: Very nice fit and finish, so glad they kept the rotating bezel, this is something that I could simply not live without in such a watch. It is so slick and smooth. I couldn't imagine having to swipe and tap constantly like on other phones. If you only want to use it for step counting, weather apps, etc, then no problem. However, scrolling through hundreds of spotify songs, playlists or other music files would be a real pain in the neck if it weren't for this handy feature. Also, being able to adjust your brightness, volume and other controls using the bezel is SO much easier rather than having to tap to change for every single feature. Trust me, try it, you won't go back! Battery life is surprising long given what this puppy can do. I can get nearly 2 days for everyday app use. HOWEVER, if you are wanting to stream music on 4G LTE or make tons of calls, it will eat the battery much quicker...just saying. However, it can fully charge from 20% battery life in about 45 to 50 minutes. I come in from being out all day, lay it on the wireless docking/charging station and do some stuff at the desk and in <1 hour it is ready to go. The fit, finish and overall quality is outstanding. It is a hefty and VERY solid piece of equipment. Honestly feels like a Rolex on your wrist with regards to its solidity. There is no hollow sound and I am amazed at how the engineers can cram so much tech into this house. It does not feel like a block of wood or lump of stone and is very comfortable. However, if you are used to a fitbit versa or charge 4, etc., that is a nearly "barely there" type of accessory on your wrist, well...there will be a different feeling, but it isn't cumbersome. The display is stunning. Even in full sun, it is EASILY readable and is simply a gorgeous display. There is no annoying pixelation. I can generally keep it at 1/2 brightness and it is very bright and clear and my eyesight isn't the best (auto bright works very well also). OK, I have to say, I have never used Spotify, I am a youtube music fan myself, but youtube music isn't an app for this watch. However, you can STREAM using wifi or the 4G LTE even when your phone is not around. I don't think you understand how freaking cool this feature is. Most fitbit or other smart watches have music apps where you tether to your phone via bluetooth and the watch is more of a remote control. Or, you can download so many files which is also a pain. Nope....I can wirelessly stream while I am on a walk or jog anything on spotify. The easiest thing is to go online via your phone or laptop and setup your playlists. You CAN also download these playlists if you don't want to stream. I mean, WOW, slap in 2 wireless BT earbuds, turn your main phone off and go for a job or walk, listen to what you want. If you didn't download the right playlist or haven't set one up, just scroll through the ones they already have for nearly every genre of music and go with it. The built-in speaker is surprisingly good, obvious if you are looking for Bang & Olufsen sound, good luck in ANY smart watch or phone. However, it is relatively loud and would be obnoxious if at max volume with people around. The Samsung Health app is actually pretty good. The step counter and distance measuring is MUCH more accurate than on my brand new fitbit charge 4. I sent the charge 4 back, it would count 1000+ steps while I was driving due to wrist movement, drove me nuts. The single lead ECG (EKG), SpO2, stress meter, etc. is really good for the most part. I personally think that Fitbit has the slickest app on the phone which gives you a clearer picture of your health. But, Samsung Health works well for the most part. The actual health monitors on the phone aren't buggy and I have had no difficulties getting it to take measurements consistently. On a side note...I was told this would take blood pressure. Well, apparently the firmware if you live in Korea has this function. I hope that it come soon, that would be honestly the bees knees to have this function. This would TRULY give the Gear 3 an advantage over every other smart watch out there. I mean good grief, ECG, O2 sats, blood pressure, heart rate. Who would have EVER though this was possible on a watch even 5-10 years ago. Cons: OK, I am sorry to say, but they may have 1000+ apps for the watch, most are mediocre at best. For such a dang good watch whose general type has been out for years (ie., frontier, gear, etc) you would think they could put out decent stuff. They are so freaking limited with the Tizen chipset. I wish they were more android based, I think samsung could sell a crap ton more of these puppies if they simply changed to android. They watch faces are cool and all but just a few google apps would be so dang handy. Good luck trying to find a good assistant (Bixby is garbage for the most part), google maps or ANY good GPS app or music services such as youtube music or similar isn't available. Samsung could literally destroy the smart watch market if they had an android system that gave OFFICIAL youtube music, youtube (modify it for smart watch compatibility, etc), google maps, along with their existing tech. Phew! OK, that is my take on it. The reason I am not giving it 5 stars is mainly due to the lack of good and honestly necessary apps. A longer battery life say 2 to 3 days would be fantastic, but its current configuration isn't frustrating. I don't feel battery anxiety like the apple watch (going off others' experiences, not my own, never had one, sure that they are great watches too). However, overall after wearing this out for the past several days streaming music (still probably one of my favorite features), making calls, sending texts and responding to emails, etc., it is just about as good as it gets for the $369 that it cost me. Spring for the 2 to 3 year replacement plan too. I mean good grief, it is only like 10% of your purchase price. These are expensive and complex things to fix and one good smack against the wrong type of surface and well...scratched up paper weight.

Notice: I am a software tech and understand how computer equipment works. Not everyone will have the same experience as me! I had read a lot of reviews about how they couldn't get it to work or connect to ATT. Yes, the Watch3 is fairly new and not everyone at ATT probably knows everything about it. But I hope that my review will help those people because I found that with ATT, a Samsung watch is different than any other smart watch. I like to try and do things myself rather than call someone to set up things like this watch. So I went to the ATT website and logged into my account. The first thing I was told by ATT when I was investigating the watch was that the watch DOES have it's own phone number. So I knew that I need to click on the link to Add A New Phone Number to my account. The next question was if I was going to purchase the equipment from ATT or bring my own. I selected to Bring My Own. Now here is where you have to be careful and fully read the instructions. Natural thinking would be to fill in the form that asks for the IMEI number of the watch and the SIM number. Problem is, you don't have a SIM number. If you read the instructions, for a Samsung watch, you need to purchase an eSIM activation number so you have to tell it that you are adding a Wearable and the click the link to get an eSIM Card and add it to your cart. Depending on the specials on that day, you could get it free or pay fees. Once you purchase this card, you will have to wait for it to arrive. Or you can be like me and call customer service and ask for the eSIM number right away. When I called ATT they saw that I had ordered and paid for the card and so they got the card number and with my IMEI number, they set up their system for the new cell phone number. You will not get an actual phone number because the watch will clone the cell phone number when you connect the two. The agent then texted a photo of the QR code for me to scan into the app when it asked for it. I printed the photo or you can email it to your desktop email to use it from the screen. Now you should have downloaded the Wearable app from the Samsung Store and started it. The app will turn on the Bluetooth and see the watch and connect it. It will then will ask you to scan the QR code or enter the activation code number. After doing that, I had to go to the menu option Mobile Plans and run the function to NumberSync your watch to the phone. Once you do this, your watch should be connected to the cellular network ONLY when it can not connect to your cell phone via bluetooth or via the same wifi network that they are both on at the same time. After that, everything worked right away. I had to answer permissions for every app that I started on the watch for the first time and sometime in the phone. It can be annoying but is a necessary evil. Understand that text will work when connect to the phone or not but email you can only read when it is connected to the phone. Same with a few of the health apps and other things. But overall, it has been great. If you have Samsung Pay on your phone, it will sync with the one on your watch. There are practically a thousand different watchfaces that your can get or purchase in the store for cheap. I found that the ones that you purchase work better and have more configuration than the free ones. There are Navigation apps and even Radar maps for the weather that work great. I even downloaded an app called Nearby Places that will tell me what businesses or government offices are near me. Just tap, select the category you are looking for and then search. Once you find what you want, double-tap and a map with the route will show up with options to get directions as well. For the most part, I can leave my phone at home for most of what I need to do if I don't need to worry about getting emails. But the biggest reason for purchasing this watch was because it has an SOS option where if I fall or if I click three times on the home button, it will text my neighbors and family as well as call 911 so that I can ask for emergency services. I have tested it with my son and hope to test it with 911 soon... once I know that the odds are accidentally triggering a false alarm is minimal.

So, I’m a little biased, coming from a first generation Apple Watch to the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. It’s like jumping from the stone age to the modern age with as fast as technology improves these days. Not only is it a beautiful piece of tech as you can see in the photo I took above last weekend, it’s sturdy as much as it is functional. I work construction, so that this watch still looks as good as it does after a couple of months on job sites and in the rain, is a testament to how durable it is. The battery life is phenomenal to me, I can usually get two days out of it, including wearing it while sleeping, before I have to take it off and let it charge. It charges fast, honestly, and it’s nice to have a small break from wearing it after a bit, so that’s a win in my book. Sleep tracking is something I’m new to, and it is incredibly accurate, I’m just not completely sold on it because I don’t see the use for the information unless I’m doing a sleep study. It was neat to see at first, but the novelty has worn off. All of the active trackers are pretty accurate, the stair flights tracker is the least accurate, I climb stairs multiple times a day, and sometimes it just doesn’t register up to a third of the flights I’ve climbed. The new blood-oxygen tracker should absolutely be taken with a grain of salt, since the tip of the finger ones work so well because the laser is able to shine through the fingertip, whereas the wrist is much thicker. A word of warning, do your research, if you’re buying this to use on an iPhone, you are going to be moderately limited in available functionality with this watch; no text message app, Spotify only acts as a Play/Pause/FW/RW app. No real deal breakers for me, but read up on it just to see if it is for you. Overall, Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is a solid smart watch and gorgeous to boot, that dial is so buttery smooth, and using it for calls makes me feel like Dick Tracy. No real complaints, but I knew its limitations ahead of time, so consider that when letting me influence you.

I've had the Galaxy 3 for a few weeks now and recommend it highly. I've had eight Fitbits in the past ten years and when my latest started having charging issues - again - I decided to switch brands. The Galaxy was recommended by family and after exhaustive research and reading hundreds of reviews, I chose the 3. While the 4 is now on the market and the 5 is being designed, I didn't want to spend a lot to just track my steps, heart rate and sleep. The 3 from Amazon was priced right. It arrived in two days - as usual with Prime. After about 90 minutes of initial charging, the watch has been everything I need and more. A word of caution if you live in a cold climate - take the watch out, set it under a desk lamp and let it warm to room temperature before charging. I'm 67, retired and walk two to three miles twice a day for fitness. The bells and whistles of today's smart watches are all there, though I chose a cool watch face (thousands to choose from) that tracks steps, heart and battery life - with a large traditional analog dial that is easy to see. I was especially pleased with the automatic start, pause and stop feature when I start walking. The Samsung Health App is especially useful, informative and very easy to navigate. I really like the sleep tracking - better than Fitbit and with much more information that makes sense. As to the battery - many reviews of this watch and nearly all smart watches complain about the battery needing charged often. I charge mine for about 30 minutes each night before bed - while watching a ball game. It starts at about 75% and is 100% when I go to sleep. If you choose "always on" and activate every notification and every sound - you'll need to charge ANY watch twice a day. This Samsung Galaxy 3 is more than expected. You won't be sorry.

Included with the watch are the basic instructions and a charging pad with USB cable For the last couple years, I have lived in a split household. No, I am not talking about politics, I mean I have a Samsung Gear 3 and my significant other has been using a Fitbit of various models. I say various Fitbit models, because in those 2 years, she has been through 8 Fitbits, with none lasting past the initial warranty period, with most going about six months before the display failed or it comes apart at the seams around the display. While at the same time, my S3 has hummed along with no issues. It took those 8 Fitbits breaking and Fitbit ultimately refusing to replace another one, because now they only warranty their replacements for 30 days, before deciding that we would no longer buy another shoddy Fitbit product. I am sure some will argue that Fitbits are better and maybe their fitness software is a bit better than the Samsung Health at the moment, but the Samsung app is constantly improving and getting better and I can say after going through eight of them, including the versa and HR, that Fitbits hardware doesn’t last and has serious defects in quality. Although the differences between the older Gear S3 and Watch 3 are minor, the watch does have some improvements in design as it is sleeker and in this particular model, slimmer to fit smaller wrists. My one main issue with my Gear and the same with this watch is the battery life. You will get somewhere between one to two days of life in most cases. I understand that this watch does a lot and way more than Fitbit, but this really needs to be dramatically improved. I also think that the watch is a bit overpriced as well, even on sale at 339 like we got it for is a bit much in my opinion. The bezel control is one of my favorite features in my old watch and this one as well. It is responsive and makes it an easy click to go from screen to screen. The leather band is better than the old silicone one I got on my Gear but at the same time will not hold up if you are a frequent exerciser. A silicone one should be included as part of the package, so you can switch out if you want. The leather band for nicer occasions. The sleep tracking is ok, not quite as good as what the Fitbit seems to do, but this could be more because of the bigger watch on a smaller wrist moving around during sleep than the smaller Fitbit or the Fitbit being more accurate. The steps and exercise feature works pretty well, but like all fitness watches depends on various factors including how tightly it is on your wrist. The speaker is ok, but nothing fantastic, but it does allow you to answer the phone through your watch like Detective Tracy in the comics. One good thing is that Samsung is working on making the watch software better on a regular basis as well as updating their apps regularly as well. One of the first things we did, was make sure the watch was updated as well as all of the apps, before using. Not sure why Samsung doesn’t have these apps in the google play store as you do have to deal with the Samsung Store which isn’t as easy, good or as problem free as the google store. The stress app is pretty cool, whether it is accurate or not, but it does give some feedback to help you relax. The customizable watch faces are pretty cool, although some you have to pay for and those are a bit overpriced in my opinion. The auto detect workout is something the Fitbits lack and although it isn’t always 100 percent foolproof it is a nice feature. It would be nice if it had a heart rate variability added to the list of measurements. Overall, it is a way better quality hardware wise over the Fitbits. It does need some work battery-wise and the health app needs some work, but they at least are working on making it better over time. The health app needs a better look especially. 4 stars

I bought this watch for my husband, and he absolutely loves it. We use Samsung phones, so there are no compatibility issues. The battery life is great, lasting a long time between charges. I also purchased additional bands, which makes the watch versatile enough to suit any occasion. Overall, it’s a great choice for anyone looking for a stylish and great smartwatch!

After years of useful/practical daily service from my Gear Fit2 Pro Smartwatch, I upgraded to the Galaxy Watch3 Bluetooth (not LTE enabled) and have been pleased with it thus far. I reorganized some app locations after a day of figuring out the most efficient access layout. I opted for the 45mm version as I happen to like being able to more easily "read" the text of typed correspondence in contrast to the aforementioned previous smartwatch. I set the responsiveness for sensitive with no sense of lagging as I will also use with gloves while cycling (pending gloved usage update). I've activated Samsung Pay and have returned on 28MAR2021 to document same watch physical placement(s) as phone using installed app resulted in equivalent success rate. All installed apps (calendar, timer, weather, Samsung Health, etc.) are clear and detailed. I successfully dictated/sent a text message message (was provided option to send dictated message audio snippet) from the watch, so text-to-speech appears to function properly. I also installed the ECG app and immediately "took an ECG reading" which is saved to the linked account & transferred to the phone. Surprisingly, I discovered I can answer calls and talk to the watch while simultaneously hearing the call via the watch (watch is connected to phone via Bluetooth). I was able to get 1.5 days on a single charge using the timer for breaks/lunch which drains the battery a little faster (weekend usage may lengthen time between charges if no additional functions are required). Although the included leather band was fine, I replaced with a "Titanium-inspired" walnut/metal band designed to fit the 22mm width requirement to compliment my zebra-wood frames and is better suited to a more active lifestyle. I also opted to install a Tempered Glass Screen Protector w/1-pc black Bumper Case for increased peace of mind a/k/a "Murphy's Law" insurance. To avoid 3 more USB charger cables, I deployed a case-friendly 3-in-1 **Fast Wireless Charging Station capable of charging my Galaxy Series phone(s) (i.e. Galaxy S20 Ultra {Galaxy S4 mini pictured}), Galaxy Watch3 & Galaxy Buds+. I opted for a "certified renewed" version and it turned out to be a practical/prudent move avoiding "watch-lot depreciation". The daily functionality combined w/fit & finish 2nd to none with enough complimentary available accessories makes this a smooth transition if you already use Samsung products (i.e TV, Phone, Tablet, Smartwatch, etc.). **NOTE: I did observe the watch & phone back got warmer to the touch and although the tech is supposed to stop charging, I remove both items after observing fully charged to be safe.

I have always worn a wrist watch for over 50 years. This watch is fantastic. - It works perfect with Samsung Health but even better when I walk it out auto records the exercise session. - I use a CPAP witch records my sleep, but this baby breaks down my sleep data for better analysis. - I have AFIB so the single lead ECG is great a gives me confidence that my heart is beating fine. - I like to answer my calls, messages and emails without fumbling for my phone. - The remote camera feature is fun. - I love the timer function and use it often especially when cooking. - Being able to check the weather from my wrist is a real nice feature. I have could go on and on about how great this watch has made my life easier and more fun! I would like the battery to last longer even though I am getting about 2 days on a full charge. It charges fast and in a pinch I can charge it off my Samsung S21 ultra.