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CES 2016: Samsung Gear S2 could add iPhone compatibility 'within weeks'

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SAMSUNG has confirmed it is on the verge of adding iPhone compatibility to its impressive Tizen OS smartwatch, the Gear S2.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samsung is expected to add iOS compatibility to the impressive new smartwatch 'within weeks'</td></tr>
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Samsung announced its stylish new smartwatch – the Gear S2 – <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/samsung-gear-s2-review-brilliant-design.html">back at the IFA consumer technology show in Berlin, last year</a>.</div>
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The wearable runs on the <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-samsung-gear-s2-is-samsungs-best.html">South Korean firm's own Tizen OS</a> and is controlled by spinning the bezel around the watch face.</div>
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<em>NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com</em> was impressed with the hardware and software design <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/samsung-gear-s2-review-brilliant-design.html">– but worried about the lack of killer apps, in our review</a>. </div>
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Tizen OS is currently compatible with smartphones running Android 4.4 and higher with over 1.5GB RAM, but iPhone compatibility in on the horizon.</div>
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And according to <a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/136375-samsung-gear-s2-iphone-compatibility-release-date-revealed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">technology webpage <em>Pocket-Lint</em></a> – the functionality is coming much sooner than everyone thought.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samsung has packed a lot of technology and functionality into a relatively compact device</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The circular display, Samsung’s first of the kind, can hamper the experience at times</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The watch faces are restrained and stylish, like those on its rival, Apple Watch</td></tr>
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Head of Samsung product launch programmes in the UK, Kyle Brown told Pocket-Lint that while most people are speculating the feature will take a few months to hit iPhone – that's not true.</div>
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iOS compatibility is actually headed to the Gear S2 in mid-January – just a couple of weeks away, Pocket-Lint has reported.</div>
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Samsung has yet to clarify how the iOS functionality will work, presumably via a dedicated standalone app for your iPhone to manage watch faces, settings and notification settings.</div>
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The technology firm also introduced two new Gear S2 models during its press conference at the CES consumer electronics show, in Las Vegas.</div>
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Both are attempting to appeal to the more wealthy tech fans with one design encased in 18K Rose Gold and another in Platinum.</div>
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“In 2015, we set a new standard with the Gear S2 in smart wearable category,"s aid Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics.</div>
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"We broke barriers to introduce one of Samsung’s most progressive wearable devices to date. In 2016, we will continue to raise the bar, so that we can deliver products that our customers want most."</div>
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Samsung has yet to confirm the UK price tag for these luxurious new variations on its seventh smartwatch.</div>
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CES 2016: Samsung Gear S2 could add iPhone compatibility 'within weeks'

SAMSUNG has confirmed it is on the verge of adding iPhone compatibility to its impressive Tizen OS smartwatch, the Gear S2. Samsu...

Top 5 Wearables and Smartwatches of 2015: Should YOU buy a Fitbit, Apple Watch or Gear S2?

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Top 5 Smartwatches and Wearables of the last year</td></tr>
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SMARTWATCHES have come into their own within the last 12 months – from the roll-out of the first Apple wearable, to the growth of Fitbit and Jawbone-style fitness trackers and entirely new designs from Huawei and Samsung. But which deserves pride of place on your wrist?</div>
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The last year was a pivotal one for wearables.</div>
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The device category has become increasingly popular within the last 12 months, with more and more people using fitness trackers, smartwatches and other wrist-worn gadgets on a daily basis.</div>
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<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/find-out-how-many-iphones-apple-have.html">Apple Watch hit shelves across the world within the last year </a>and although the Cupertino company has yet to reveal how many units it has sold, the ever-increasing presence of the Watch is undeniable. From prime-time adverts to fashion catwalks, <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/find-out-how-many-iphones-apple-have.html">the Watch has already attracted thousands and thousands of apps and accessories</a>.</div>
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Huawei also dipped its <em>proverbial</em> toes into the smartwatch water in 2015, with <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/this-is-huaweis-answer-to-apple-watch.html">the release of the Huawei Watch at the IFA consumer technology show, in Berlin</a>.</div>
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Motorola updated its show-stealing circular design <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/moto-360-motorola-offers-endless-choice.html">Moto 360 watch with a new range aimed squarely at female wrists</a>, and<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/606854/Jawbone-UP-3-UP3-Review"> Jawbone updated its entire product line</a>.</div>
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<strong>But which one of these wearables is best suited to YOUR needs?</strong></div>
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<em>NewsNewsBlog.blogspot.com</em> has spend the last twelve months <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-best-apple-watch-apps.html">answering calls, tracking runs, ordering taxis and monitoring our heart rate with these clever wearable</a>, and these are our picks – </div>
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<strong>Best Wearable and Smartwatch for Data Crunchers – Microsoft Band 2</strong></h2>
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Granted, the Microsoft Band is not the best looking device on the market. And it’s also not the most comfortable to wear, thanks to the myriad of sensors and trackers packed into the Band 2.</div>
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But when it comes to quantifying your sleep, workouts and commute – you’ll struggle to find better.</div>
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Microsoft has fitted a total of 11 different types of sensor including an optical heart-rate monitor, three-axis accelerometer, GPS, gyrometer, a microphone, ambient light sensor, skin temperature sensor, UV sensor, capacitive sensor, galvanic skin response detector and barometer.</div>
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Data from these sensors can be viewed on the companion smartphone app, which is available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, as well as the powerful online dashboard.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There are an impressive slew of sensors and trackers packed into the Band 2</td></tr>
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The latter provides some stellar insights into your data, including statistics around your sleep, workouts and calories burned in your day-to-day life and a new Observations tab, which presents trends from the patterns in your data, like statistically when is the best time for you to go to bed, and which activities let you burn the most calories.</div>
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Microsoft also lets you export your data and statistics into a traditional Excel spreadsheet, if you want to do the number-crunching on your own computer, rather than let Microsoft’s cloud servers do it for you.</div>
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Oh, and as well as the number crunching and data sets, the Band 2 also brings caller ID, Breaking News alerts, WhatsApp notifications and Travel updates from all major mobile platforms to the vibrant touchscreen.</div>
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<strong>Best Wearable and Smartwatch for Android users – Samsung Gear S2</strong></h2>
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Samsung was one of the first major technology companies to bring a smartwatch to market. But it is the South Korean firm’s seventh attempt, the Gear S2, that is a truly innovative and compelling wearable.</div>
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The Samsung Gear S2 is a stylish smartwatch with a unique spinning bezel and great notification support for Android smartphones.</div>
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Turning the bezel around the bright AMOLED display gives a satisfying solid click, which adds to the enjoyment of flying through menus, news articles and text conversations. It's also much better than the touchscreen-focused solution currently used by the majority of Android Wear devices, including the disappointing LG Watch Urbane.</div>
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Sadly, it's not all positive as the wearable is let down by the lack of compelling and big-name apps available on its custom Tizen OS and the absence of tap-to-pay contactless Samsung Pay in the UK, for now.</div>
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Samsung has also been clever by finally making the Gear S2 available to any Android handset running KitKat 4.4 and with at least 1.5GB of RAM, which certainly broadens its appeal. But there’s no iPhone support yet.</div>
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All of these issues will almost certainly be fixed in the coming months, but it's certainly something you need to consider before splashing the cash on a Gear S2 now.</div>
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Granted, this device certainly isn't perfect but with Samsung hard at work on bringing its tap-to-pay solution to the UK and pushing developers to embrace its Tizen operating system – the Gear S2 is only going to get better and better.</div>
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For now, the Gear S2 is a stylish smartwatch with a unique and fun spinning bezel and great notification support for Android smartphones. But with iPhone support, contactless payments and more must-have smartwatch apps on the way – this wearable is only going to become more appealing over the coming months.</div>
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Best Budget Wearable and Smartwatch of 2015 – Jawbone UP Move</div>
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This nifty little fitness tracker brings the might of the Jawbone app and ecosystem to your wrist for a bargain price.</div>
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Clip the coin-sized UP move to your jeans or wear it on your wrist and the smart, circular fitness tracker will start keeping an eye on your sleep quality, steps, exercise and calories burned.</div>
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You can also log your latest meals to double-check that you are on track for your fitness goal.</div>
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But the star of the show is Jawbone’s iOS and Android apps, which analyses the constant stream of data to make intelligent – and personalised – recommendations.</div>
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And it’s these personalised tips that helps the Jawbone ecosystem stand-out from competitors like FitBit.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Jawbone UP app is colourful, intuitive – and links with a slew of other popular fitness apps</td></tr>
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Dubbed Smart Coach, the feature tries to add some insight to the slew of numbers your fitness tracker throws up everyday. And it works really well. For example, after analysing the time you go to bed and your sleep quality, the Jawbone app will suggest an ideal bed-time for the best possible night’s rest. </div>
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It will also analyse your heart-rate throughout the day and night, to offer insights into this sometimes confusing metric. You can also compare yourself against other Jawbone users to see what you can expect of yourself.</div>
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The smartphone app also displays your activity in a beautiful timeline, as well as a series of graphs.</div>
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Jawbone also has the best social features of any fitness tracking app.</div>
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The firm recently introduced Duels – which allows those running the app to kickstart a head-to-head step battle lasting 24 hours, three days or 1 week with a friend. It’s an intuitive, well designed and shows why the Jawbone app ecosystem is the best on the market.</div>
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<strong>Best Overall Wearable and Smartwatch of 2015 – Apple Watch Sport</strong></h2>
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If you want the best smartwatch of the year, buy an Apple Watch Sport.</div>
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The aluminium wearable subtly keeps you abreast of the most important notifications from your smartphone, tracks your workouts and day-to-day fitness, and quickly respond to your friends’ texts and calls.</div>
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And thanks to the immense response from the developer community, Apple Watch owners can now order an Uber without pulling the iPhone from their pocket, track your Domino’s pizza order as it wings its way to your door, follow turn-by-turn directions and quickly glance at the latest train times.</div>
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You can also tap your wearable on any contactless payment point to pay for your weekly shop, or get the London Underground.</div>
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The subtle haptic feedback built into the Watch – which provides a gentle tapping sensation on your wrist, instead of the aggressive vibrations favoured by rival smartwatch manufacturers – works really well.</div>
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Apple Watch looks great and feels comfortable on the wrist, thanks to the colourful, flexible and soft fluoroelastomer strap that ships with the smartwatch.</div>
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Unfortunately the Apple Watch can still be a little sluggish at times, with loading animations endlessly chugging away as you try to load your favourite third-party app. Apple improved its load times with the roll-out of watchOS 2.0, which allows third-party apps to run natively. </div>
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However since not every Watch app has been updated to take advantage of the tweaked speeds, you will still see more than a few loading animations while using the wearable.</div>
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You’ll also need an iPhone 5 or newer to use the Apple Watch, and there’s no Android support.</div>
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But if you are interested in smartwatches and have the required hardware – the Apple Watch is a solid investment and once you get used to glancing at your text messages, changing music tracks, following directions, scanning plane tickets, paying at the check-out and checking your upcoming appointment from your wrist, you’ll struggle to see how to lived without it. </div>
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<strong>Best Wearable and Smartwatch for Style Gurus – Withings Activité </strong></h2>
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While the majority of smartwatch manufacturers favour functionality over a svelte, stylish design, Withings has taken the opposite approach with its Activité range of fitness trackers.</div>
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The stylish fitness trackers have been stripped back to a simple, Swatch-like watch design. In fact, the only clue that there is any smarts to this simple, elegant watch is the small second hand on the watch face.</div>
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But do not be fooled by the traditional looks, the Acitvité range are able to automatically detect and track steps, runs, swims and calories throughout your day. Data is then beamed to the companion iOS or Android app.</div>
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Aside from the fitness side of the device, it also includes in-built sleep analysis and a silent vibrating alarm.</div>
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It’s water resistant to 50 meters and has an eight-month battery life. It’s the fitness tracker for people who would prefer to wear a traditional watch than a fitness tracker.</div>
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Between Activité, Activité Pop, Activité Steel – there are a range of styles available for different tastes.</div>
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THE Samsung Gear S2 is the best smartwatch available for Android smartphone owners right now. But it is in desperate need of some killer Tizen apps.</div>
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Samsung has released seven smartwatches to date. So, it was about time the South Korean firm produced the perfect smartwatch.</div>
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And the Samsung Gear S2 could be the hardware that finally has a shot at kickstarting the much talked-about wearable revolution.</div>
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Enter the Gear S2 – a device that breaks all of Samsung's previous rules.</div>
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Unlike previous attempts, Samsung has decided to style their latest wearable computer like a watch. And it looks great.</div>
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Secondly, the Gear S2 can be linked with a number of rival smartphones including devices from LG, Sony and HTC.</div>
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But don't get too excited in your an iPhone user, since the Apple handset can't be linked to the Gear S2 just yet. Although, Samsung is reportedly hard at work fixing that.</div>
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Finally – the biggest change of all – Samsung has dropped Google's open-source Android Wear OS and replaced it with their own software, Tizen OS.</div>
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So … do all of these changes make sure a must-have smartwatch?</div>
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Yes. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">And no</span>.</div>
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<em>Express.co.uk</em> has had the Samsung Gear S2 strapped to our wrist for the last couple of weeks – and there are a lot of exciting features packed into this nifty little timepiece.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Straps can be swapped at the touch of button. Samsung sells a slew of different styles</td></tr>
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Samsung's wearable will count your steps, check your heart rate and tell you if you've achieved your daily fitness goals.</div>
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There's also a handy Nike+ running app bundled with the Gear S2 which tracks your runs alongside Samsung's own fitness offering.</div>
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That wealth of information can be sorted by spinning the bezel on the front of the watch.</div>
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Using the Gear S2 feels very natural, like idly clicking around the bezel on a divers watch.</div>
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The spinning bezel gives a satisfying click every time it's turned, which adds to the enjoyment of flying through menus, news articles and text conversations.</div>
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Samsung’s new navigation tool is also a surprisingly fast way to move around the operating system and it keeps the AMOLED display fingerprint-<em>free</em>.</div>
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It's also much better than the touchscreen-focused solution currently used by the majority of Android Wear devices, including the disappointing LG Watch Urbane.</div>
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There are also two physical buttons, a Back and Home button, which sit on the right hand-side of the device, when it's worn on your left wrist.</div>
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But navigating the Gear S2 isn't perfect. </div>
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Granted, the spinning bezel is a great solution but since it scrolls at a consistent speed – quickly twisting it does not allow you to fly through a draw-out email conversation – chugging through a lengthy email or text message chain soon becomes frustrating.</div>
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Overall, navigating around the Samsung Gear S2 is fun. And that’s not something we have been able to say about South Korean firm’s previous smartwatches.</div>
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The Gear S2 can also make calls via your smartphone although, unlike some of its rivals, there’s no speaker for hands-free chatting on-the-go, which is a little disappointing.</div>
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S Voice commands are also supported in Samsung's seventh smartwatch, but these are pretty basic and nowhere near as comprehensive as rival voice assistants.</div>
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Like every other full-featured smartwatch on the market, the battery life in the Gear S2 doesn't last more than a day.</div>
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But it will comfortably last as long as you do – and takes no time at all to charge on the handy night-stand charger cradle.</div>
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Be aware, battery life also takes a hit if you decide to opt for the always-on watch face setting.</div>
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It's a really nice feature, since it means you can always glance and double-check the time <em>– which is the point of wearing a watch, right?</em></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samsung's battery will get you through the day, but don't expect any more</td></tr>
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Stylish, compact and powered by a novel and genuinely useful navigation mechanic, the Gear S2 has plenty going for it.</div>
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Unfortunately the biggest problem with the smartwatch is Samsung's Tizen OS.</div>
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Unlike rival Apple Watch, there are only a very limited supply of apps for the Gear S2 – and it is missing a number of key players.</div>
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Many third-party app developers haven’t shipped software for Tizen OS and smartwatch owners are likely to be very disappointed by what's currently on offer.</div>
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The standalone Tizen App Store is brimming with downloadable watch faces, but very few powerful apps that add to the experience of wearing the Samsung timepiece. </div>
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It's a big problem, and it's something Samsung needs to sort out soon.</div>
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Another disappointment is the lack of support for Samsung contactless payments in the UK.</div>
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Samsung Pay – which will allow users to pay at the checkout with a quick tap of the Gear S2 smartwatch – is coming to the UK at some point in the near future, but if you grab a Gear S2 before Christmas you're still going to need to carry around a wallet.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strangely, the £299 Classic edition feels flimsier than its budget counterpart</td></tr>
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The Gear S2 is also pretty pricey with the basic model costing £249, whilst the Classic model will set you back £299.</div>
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Unfortunately the Classic does not feel as premium as the publicity shots on Samsung’s website would have you believe.</div>
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The spinning bezel felt flimsier than its fitness-focused counterpart and the metal body did not have the premium heft of Apple's pricer offering.</div>
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But the sport model feels durable and will look good on smaller and larger wrists. It also comes in both 3G and Bluetooth variations, unlike the Classic.</div>
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After years of trying, Samsung has finally produced a smartwatch worth buying.</div>
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The Gear S2 is well made, looks great and has some neat features tucked inside its lightweight frame.</div>
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The rotating bezel is intuitive and a lot of fun to use.</div>
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Samsung has also been clever by finally making the Gear S2 available to any Android handset running KitKat 4.4 and with at least 1.5GB of RAM, which certainly broadens its appeal.</div>
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Sadly, it's not all positive as the wearable is let down by the lack of compelling and big-name apps available on Tizen and the absence of contactless payment in the UK (for now).</div>
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Hopefully both of these issues will be fixed in the coming months, but it's certainly something you need to consider before splashing the cash on a Gear S2.</div>
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Battery life is still annoying and the lack of GPS means you'll have to strap a smartphone to your body every time you go for a run.</div>
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This device certainly isn't perfect but with Samsung hard at work on bringing its tap-to-pay solution to the UK and pushing developers to embrace its Tizen operating system – the Gear S2 is only going to get better and better.</div>
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For now, the Gear S2 is a stylish smartwatch with a unique and fun spinning bezel and great notification support for Android smartphones.</div>
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It's easily the best smartwatch Samsung has ever released.</div>
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But with iPhone support, contactless payments and more must-have smartwatch apps on the way – this wearable is only going to become more appealing over the coming months.</div>
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