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Samsung's has unveiled their latest iteration of the Galaxy Gear line of smartwatches today , the new watch , named the Galaxy Gear S2 ,brings a end to the squarish designs of the past .The new smartwatch or let's say "watches" as Samsung has a more premium model called the Galaxy Gear S2 classic are both based on Samsung's own in house OS - Tizen . The S2 and S2 classic are both set to be available with bluetooth+wifi and Bluetooth+wifi and cellular 3G connectivity so you can use the watch as a independent unit without getting a tethered android device (tethering requires a Android device running Android 4.4 and a device with atleast 1.5GB of RAM) design wise both models have a 1.2" circular AMOLED display, a 1 GHz processor and a rotatable bezel to select through menus. NFC is available on all models for mobile payments Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 and S2 Classic This is basically Samsung's more affordable sports option. The watch is almost iden...

Most of us who bought or hope to buy a smartwatch consider the wrist wearables to be accessories to our smartphones which cancel the need for us to  pull our smartphones everytime someone sends a text or notification while on the go .Although smartwatches are "smart" considering that they can control the tethered smartphone via bluetooth , none of the current crop of smartwatches are smart enough to beat Samsungs phone-on-a-wrist smartwatch - aka Samsung Gear S .The gear s has all the basic "phone" features and it even has its own appstore a-la Tizen . With basic features such as phone , messaging and now even a 3rd party browser via Opera Mini makes the watch a all in one micro-smartphone . The Opera Mini browser - or should we call it "Opera Micro"   is said to be optimized to finger presses on the 2" display . The Opera browser has some features such as speed dial that can save most visited pages , the app is available on the Gear App Store which...

Samsung has a long tradition of making crazy ideas happen, the Gear S is no exception as it is probably the first consumer smartwatch to offer 3G  and GPS capabilities without being linked to another device . The stand-alone 3G smartwatch , which looks a bit like a stretched out Samsung Gear fit , will basically handle almost all the basic tasks of your phone as this is powered not by Android wear , but Samsung's very own Tizen . The Tizen OS , which already runs on almost all the Gear smartwatches has a good selection of apps so you won't feel bad .The display , which is a curved AMOLED , has a resolution of 480x360 and is 2" in size . The watch comes with 512MB of RAM ,4GB of local storage and a 1.2 Ghz Dual core processor . The watch features 2G /3G quadBand ,Wifi 802.11a/b/g/n ,Bluetooth  4.1 ,USB 2.0 for data , GPS and GLONASS .The Gear S will come with a kind of awkward 300mAh battery , and considering that this is a 3G "phone" that might possibly turnou...