Hi.
I'm looking for a smartwatch that can track my activity, allow me to see notifications easier and listen to music.
Don't really need any Top of the Tops in terms of smartwatches.
I found the Gear 2 Neo a very interesting piece of equipment, but since it has it's own Tizen S.O., I don't know if it will be compatible with the LG G4.
Can anyone tell me if it will be?
I've read some topics regarding the relation between the Gear 2 Neo and the LG G3....and some say it works flawlessly...other don't.
Thanks in advance for your regards
As a person who recently got into the Smartwatch world, I can tell you NO it will not work.
When I say "NO" I mean it will pair and do VERY VERY limited things. But you will lose 90% of the functionality of the watch.
I recently picked up the LG G Watch for $45 refurbished from cowboom.com and couldn't be happier.
The LG G Watch is:
Waterproof
Android Wear (lots of apps)
Rootable, Bootloader Unlocked, Flashable, Custom Roms, etc.
Magnetic Charger is AWESOME
My uses are mostly for work and pool time. Because it is waterproof (up to 3 meters) and I only paid $45, I use it while I sit on my floating raft in the pool (beer in hand). I can see work emails come in, chat with my friends on Messanger, and skip music tracks.
The heart rate monitor crap is stupid. It does have Google Fit on it and does track your activity but it lacks a heart rate monitor.
The ONLY thing I wish the LG G Watch had was a speaker for taking quick calls. I can make and receive calls on the watch and activate speakerphone on the phone, but you still have to be pretty close for the phone to pick up your voice. Android Wear watches do not support speakers yet. It is RUMORED that the next wave of watches coming out in September will have speaker support.
I haven't played with the TizenOS but it is specific to Samsung phones. I like the Android Wear because it is android and has a closer relationship with the android phones. The screen is always on. And has motion sensors for scrolling through notifications and turning on the display. I am highly impressed with my LG G Watch. If I had a Samsung Phone, I would probably go with the Samsung Gear S (although the Gear S 2 was just announced but has a round display).
I think I like the square screens myself. The round ones have a lot of wasted space. They look neat but I dunno. Hope this helps you make a decision.
I know the Galaxy Gear and Galaxy Gear 2 have android ports (but not android wear ports; full blown android ports) that are supposedly really cool. Not sure how well it works but just reporting my findings.
I'm wondering how many of you have a smartwatch with your Pixel 2 (XL) and what kind it is? I'm shopping for a smartwatch now. I LOVE the look and feel of the Nixon Mission and it's waterproof for up to 300 feet I believe( I'm not a diver but I hate taking my watch off to swim), but the price sucks, I also love the look and feel of the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. I really want one that is waterproof as can be. I don't really care for taking calls on my watch. But I do love the notifications I can get on the watch. I really want good battery life. Just want to know what you all think of your watches if you have them....
Would love some feedback!
I've got a Gear S2 Classic - if I use the always on display, then I get about a day and a half of battery life. That extends to 4 days if I turn off the AOD.
Here are the pros:
Getting notifications on my wrist is perfect when I'm in a meeting. It allows me to discretely check to make sure it's not important without pulling out a bright 5" phone screen.
I wake up at a different time than my wife every morning. I can use the watch's vibration as a silent alarm while it's on my wrist.
I can change the watch face and bands to match my outfit. Dress it up with a metal band when I wear a suit or keep it casual with a black leather band when I'm wearing jeans.
Here are the cons:
Price - I got mine from an eBay user who never wore it and just wanted to sell it for cheap, so I only paid $150. I could never imagine paying full retail prices for these things.
If you try to use anything other than the smart reply features to incoming text messages, you'll hate typing on it.
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I'm wondering how many of you have a smartwatch with your Pixel 2 (XL) and what kind it is? I'm shopping for a smartwatch now. I LOVE the look and feel of the Nixon Mission and it's waterproof for up to 300 feet I believe( I'm not a diver but I hate taking my watch off to swim), but the price sucks, I also love the look and feel of the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. I really want one that is waterproof as can be. I don't really care for taking calls on my watch. But I do love the notifications I can get on the watch. I really want good battery life. Just want to know what you all think of your watches if you have them....
Would love some feedback!
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Speaking of battery life in a smart watch, never go for a watch with android wear! The OS sucks. Tizen OS is just better in every way. So Samsung Gear S3 is the best when it comes to battery life & user experience, Not to mention that rotating dial for navigation which is very very convenient. As for as the looks Huawei watch 2 is awesome.
P.S: i dont use a smart watch.
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I'm wondering how many of you have a smartwatch with your Pixel 2 (XL) and what kind it is? I'm shopping for a smartwatch now. I LOVE the look and feel of the Nixon Mission and it's waterproof for up to 300 feet I believe( I'm not a diver but I hate taking my watch off to swim), but the price sucks, I also love the look and feel of the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. I really want one that is waterproof as can be. I don't really care for taking calls on my watch. But I do love the notifications I can get on the watch. I really want good battery life. Just want to know what you all think of your watches if you have them....
Would love some feedback!
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I had a LG G watch but the battery life on android wear is just too ****ty. I want a Samsung gear s3 frontier
I use a Polar M600, which suits me very well, but I don't think it's for you. It has all the attractiveness (or lack thereof) of a running watch, which it is, but it also does everything I want a general-purpose smart watch to do.
As has already been pointed out, no Android Wear watch offers truly great battery life. Getting through the day is the best you can hope for with AW.
My own personal oddity is that I prefer watches with a light background, so I avoid OLED displays, which need to be kept as dark as possible to minimize battery drain. That's one of the things I like about the Polar: its transmissive display. I'd prefer transflective, though
You might consider an activity tracker, instead of a smartwatch. The Huawei Fit, for one, looks more watch-like than most, supports notifications, and is said to be waterproof and have long battery life. I have no direct knowledge of it, so I can't endorse it, but it looks like it might meet your specs.
True, android wear sucks. (Sony smartwatch 3, Motorola moto 360 in past)
For sport Garmin and Suunto. I had Garmin Vivoactive HR, great like sporttester, weaker like smartwatch.
And now I bought Fitbit Ionic on January. Good smartwatch and sporttester in one.
I've been using an LG watch Urbane with my non XL Pixel 2. It works ok, but sometimes looses connection. I can get about a day and a half out of it but normally charge it every night.
For the past couple of weeks I've tried not using it again and leaving my Bluetooth off, and it seems to have granted me around an extra 5-6% battery compared to using the watch.
It is fun to get notifications on your wrist and reply with the Swype keyboard, but I think it's not useful enough to warrant losing the phone battery.
I haven't found any suitable replacement for my Sony SmartWatch 3. Newer smartwatch's might have a HR-censor that I don't use anyway. Even when running three times a week the watch has at least two days of battery life. If not running it will be three to four days. With my new Google Pixel 2 XL I have smartphone that match the the battery life of my smartwatch.
I use the original Huawei Watch (still the best looking smartwatch out there) and love it. The only bug I have is since I bought the Pixel 2 I can't pick up phone calls directly on the smartwatch because if that setting is on the person calling me dosent ear me for like 10 seconds when I pick up a call on the phone. Google is aware of this and says it will release a fix.
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I'm wondering how many of you have a smartwatch with your Pixel 2 (XL) and what kind it is? I'm shopping for a smartwatch now. I LOVE the look and feel of the Nixon Mission and it's waterproof for up to 300 feet I believe( I'm not a diver but I hate taking my watch off to swim), but the price sucks, I also love the look and feel of the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. I really want one that is waterproof as can be. I don't really care for taking calls on my watch. But I do love the notifications I can get on the watch. I really want good battery life. Just want to know what you all think of your watches if you have them....
Would love some feedback!
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I've had the Samsung Gear S3 and while it was nice, if it's not a Samsung phone it does not work correctly. I switch to the Huawei Watch 2 and it's perfect. Don't listen to someone who doesn't wear one. I got about 2 days a battery on Samsung in about a day and a half on the Huawei Watch 2. Both with normal use. Battery saver can get you a lot more time with it if needed. I never use it though. Android wear is getting refresh as Wear OS soon so let's see what that does.
I have a FitBit Ionic. I'm a former Garmin VivoActive and Apple Watch user.
I don't get much into the applications because I almost always have my phone with me anyway. So far, it's been great. Battery is 5+ days easy unless you're using GPS a lot, and even then it only drains at about 8% per hour. The display is pretty nice and there's a decent amount of watch faces available with more trickling out once in a while.
It has arguably the best app for the smart sport watch segment and the HR, movement, and sleep analytics make it a pretty good fit for me overall.
Is there any androidwear or tizen nwm watch that can be trigger for a photo on google camera? I'd like to place a phone on a tripod and make photos from distance
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Everyone else is having huge issues with "Play phone voice call on watch" on my Pixel 2 XL their android wear smartwatches where apps (Phone, Duo, WhatsApp - anything that uses a BT headset) freeze for 10-15s after making or receiving a call on the phone with the watch connected?
There's many many people complaining about this since December. Here's the Google bug report where you can report it https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/71010564
Proday said:
Is there any androidwear or tizen nwm watch that can be trigger for a photo on google camera? I'd like to place a phone on a tripod and make photos from distance
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Probably one in the Samsung watch store
PuffDaddy_d said:
Probably one in the Samsung watch store
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Every Android wear smartwatches can do that, there's several apps that have that ability
PuffDaddy_d said:
Probably one in the Samsung watch store
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Nope...there is only one apk, and that one install aditionall photo software as I could see
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I grabbed a Ticwatch S, my one issues is when I get in the car Android auto starts going crazy on my phone(constantly restarting). Must be a bluetooth conflict between car/phone/watch
Garmin watches will last weeks in smartwatch mode until you start actively tracking activities that enable the GPS.
Right now I'm wearing a fenix 5X that works well with the Pixel 2 (did NOT pay full price for it). I think some of the cooler devices out there now are the vivoactive 3 and the vivomove HR. I know people with both and they really enjoy them.
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I've had the Samsung Gear S3 and while it was nice, if it's not a Samsung phone it does not work correctly. I switch to the Huawei Watch 2 and it's perfect. Don't listen to someone who doesn't wear one. I got about 2 days a battery on Samsung in about a day and a half on the Huawei Watch 2. Both with normal use. Battery saver can get you a lot more time with it if needed. I never use it though. Android wear is getting refresh as Wear OS soon so let's see what that does.
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I also wear a Samsung gear S3 with my pixel2.
I used the same watch on the OnePlus 6 and now I'm wondering what exactly isn't working right for you. I used to own a s8 and don't see any features missing on the watch. So please elaborate [emoji4]
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sis3970 said:
I also wear a Samsung gear S3 with my pixel2.
I used the same watch on the OnePlus 6 and now I'm wondering what exactly isn't working right for you. I used to own a s8 and don't see any features missing on the watch. So please elaborate [emoji4]
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The messaging app would give me problems. Didn't show mms pics and had trouble with threaded conversation. Couldn't use Samsung voice and ok Google wasn't an option so no voice dictation. That was along time ago and I now have a Sony xz2. My Huawei Watch 2 is still going strong with that one.
Does any of you know any good ones. I was leaning towards the s3 frontier and the gear sport. I want it to handle a little rough day to day use. Water resistance is good. I will mostly use it while working and attending classes. Thank you
@SlowNicoFish
I have the Gear S3 Frontier, i use it basically everyday to keep stats on the distance, heart rate, notifications. It works perfectly i have to say i am charging it everyday for 2 hours so when i come to home put it on the charger make dinner eat watch some tv and when finished it's already fully charged go to the gym and sleep with it. ( on stand alone it can stay on for 2/3 days depends on brightness which watch face you use etc.
But i do recommend it, do to its design it looks like a watch instead of the iWatch or the gear sport but its all personal taste. i love collecting watches like from every brand but since i have the gear s3 frontier i stopped collecting and only used this one and occasional change the watch face if i get bored
Don't buy gear sport
I was using the AMazfit Cor for 299 RMB, but just a band. I was using it and I liked it because I could swim with it and it . would count my strokes as steps. However, I absolutely smashed it, while playing cricket (like baseball) when I dived for a ball.
I really want to get the Amazfit智能运动手表2
However, it costs 999 RMB.
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Why not?
I have this and absolutely love it...I had the Gear S3 Frontier before but it let water in and now I can swim with the new Gear Sport and am absolutely living it. Plus it comes with Tizen 3.0 which is an amazing Watch OS compared to Wear OS...
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Why not?
I have this and absolutely love it...I had the Gear S3 Frontier before but it let water in and now I can swim with the new Gear Sport and am absolutely living it. Plus it comes with Tizen 3.0 which is an amazing Watch OS compared to Wear OS...
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wear os is far more compatible with android than tizen os
and samsung is also going to use wear os for their watches as they said so
Sure sounds that way on the surface...theoretically, but in real life settings I still wanna know what in your opinion WearOS does that TizenOS can't do in terms or "more compatibility"...I have a WearOS device (LG) and a TizenOS device (Gear Sport) and I can tell you now both are compatible with all my apps without a hitch at all....In fact I find that Samsung Health (even has dedicated Swim feature) beats Google Fit hands down...
I also use an app called Watchmaker on both and for TizenOS it requires a companion app to be installed on the device...still works without a cinch...
Anyone who owned gear sport and the 42mm watch, which one of them more comfortable, wearing it always, also sleeping with it.
The galaxy watch is less bulky. Should be better to wear in bed. however, wearing it during sleep is still uncomfortable (for me), since i often have my left wrist under my body. I use a Fit2 band mainly for sleep tracking and doing "dirty" tasks such as yard work and car repairs and the sleep data I get out of the Fit2 is the same as on the Galaxy watch. I don't know what Samsung improved in their sleep tracking algorithms since the Fit2 also determines sleep stages and is far more comfortable to wear.
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Some of the Watch Faces introduced in Galaxy Watch 3 are available for Galaxy Watch Active 2 and the rest of the family to download in Galaxy Store. Sadly, they are not supported for Gear S3 and Galaxy Watch 46mm.
Analog Dashboard
https://galaxy.store/bpaaqeflg
Classic Adventurer
https://galaxy.store/classicad
Modern Minimalist
https://galaxy.store/qkwuudgyl
Acentric
https://galaxy.store/acen
Source:
https://t.me/galaxywatchfaces
By "Galaxy Watch 2", do you actually mean "Galaxy Watch Active 2"? AFAIK, there is no Galaxy Watch 2.
Yes, Indeed. I even didn't notice. However, my opinion is that they are nothing special though, but it's nice to have more official watch faces. Very clean and minimalistic.
IMHO, it's avaliable the coolest one
Digital dashboard
https://galaxystore.samsung.com/geardetail/com.samsung.watchface-digitaldashboard
DavidDants said:
IMHO, it's avaliable the coolest one
Digital dashboard
https://galaxystore.samsung.com/geardetail/com.samsung.watchface-digitaldashboard
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Totally lol Installing it asap
Analog Dashboard is cool!