Hopefully, Samsung will integrate the smart assistant it's rumored to be working on for the Galaxy S8, but I wouldn't buy the S3 hoping for this feature to appear in the future. It would be great if the Gear S3 could automatically display directions for getting home about the time I was ready to leave, or if it could be smart enough to send me alerts and directions based on my calendar appointments. While I have my issues with Android Wear, one feature I missed on the S3 was contextual awareness. I wouldn't want to compose a lengthy email like this, but it's good for messages of a few words. Even cooler was the ability to trace letters on the screen - much like you can do on the Apple Watch - to write out responses. For example, although there's no Facebook Messenger app - we'll get to that later- if I received a message while the S3 was tethered to my phone via Bluetooth, I could respond on the watch, either with a canned reply, or by typing or dictating a message. I also liked the myriad ways in which I could respond to notifications and messages on the S3 Frontier. (You can also swipe the screen to achieve the same result, but it's nice to have options.) Each turn of the bezel is met with a subtle click and just the right amount of resistance it reminded me of the dial on the Nest Learning Thermostat.
Like the Gear S2, the S3 has a rotating bezel that lets you scroll quickly and easily through menu items, apps and so forth.
Only eight apps are visible per page, but as you install apps, additional pages are included. When you press the bottom button on the side, the screen switches to Tizen's app menu here, circular app icons are arranged around the edge of the S3's display. From the home watch screen, you can swipe left or right to access notifications and recently used apps, create reminders, and check the weather and health stats, among other tasks. For the most part, I found it more useful than Android Wear, as it works equally well with Android and iPhones. In some ways, it looks like a hybrid of Google's and Apple's watch operating systems.
Instead of Android Wear, Samsung opted for its homegrown Tizen operating system for the S3. Fortunately, I found that the S3's screen turned on almost instantly when I raised my wrist. Setting the display to be always on chews up battery life. The same is true for many of the other watch faces while you lose little accents here and there, most of the colors and details remain. The Chronograph watch face, for example, looks nearly identical, with the exception that the second-hand subdial disappears and is replaced by a white tick mark that moves around the edge of the screen. You have the option of setting the S3's display to always on its "dimmed" setting doesn't differ all that much from when the screen is fully on. (Image credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's Guide)
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