![]() ![]() While the watchOS is now more polished than the previous generations, there are some shortcomings still present: even if the internal hardware is more powerful, I still did notice that if I open multiple apps, the entire system sometimes gets slower there is no dedicated Spotify app, so you’ll have to rely on the Apple Music application changing any core functionalities on the Apple Watch will still require you to go to the iPhone and make the adjustments to that specific app.Įven so, the watchOS is still the most supported smartwatch interface, more than the Android Wear or Tizen from Samsung. The activity tracker remains an integrated part of the Apple Watch experience, allowing the user to view its heart beats (as said before, it will also keep daily heart rate data and it will alert the user in case of irregularities), Workout app still is great at monitoring your running sessions (it is a worthy competitor to the dedicated fitness trackers), it’s also a great swimming tracker (I know this is an expensive device, but you can safely use it under water) and it has also gathered a number of new gym-related exercises such as the HIIT workouts (High-Intensity Interval Training). Besides Siri, there’s still the very useful Taptic Engine that will vibrate in a different pattern depending on the type of notification (it’s subtle, but you will quickly learn the difference between the patterns and whether it’s worth checking the screen for an important message). Because the smartwatch is equipped with a microphone and speaker, Siri will be able to directly respond to your commands, something very useful if you are in your home but can become very awkward when you’re outdoors. Siri is still one of the cornerstones of the Apple Watch and this time it comes with a dedicated watch face and it shows some useful info. There are some changes in the dock, as it now shows icons vertically instead of horizontally, there are more watch faces, you can now stream music from the radio or from the Apple Music app, there’s now a flashlight option, the Apple Pay seems to have also been made a bit faster and there are also some other minor adjustments. Software The third generation of Apple Watch now comes with the watchOS 4 operating system (upgradeable to the latest 4.2 version) that has gone through multiple changes from the functionality point of view, but it has retained a similar look to the original instalment. Verdict: Both the Apple Watch 3 and the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier have similar internal hardware and come equipped with the same technologies for a better connectivity with the cell phone towers and with other devices (via Bluetooth or WiFi), so this round is a tie. The Apple Watch 3 (GPS+LTE variant) and the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier come with a LTE antenna to allow the user to make and receive calls directly from the smartwatch even if the phone is left at home (add a pair of Bluetooth headphones to the equation and you can easily answer any calls while jogging). As can be seen, neither of these smartwatches supports additional microSD cards for extra storage memory and, for the connectivity, both Apple and Samsung went with the Bluetooth 4.2 LE technology and the 802.11 b/g/n WiFi (only the 2.4GHz radio band is available). The Apple Watch 3 is similarly equipped, so it also features 768 MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage memory, while the chipset is a dual-core Apple S3 and the GPU is the PowerVR graphics processor. Hardware Inside the case, the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier is equipped with a dual-core 1GHz Exynos 7270 chipset, along with a Mali T720 GPU, 768 MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage memory. ![]()
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