This traditional look and feel is further enhanced by the laser-marked index around the circumference of the screen and the clicky buttons on the right edge that are designed to look like proper crowns. With its solid, chunky, shiny metal casing, the S3 Classic in particular looks like a real watch.
The Gear S3 Classic and Frontier are undoubtedly Samsung's best-looking and best-made wearables to date. See it now on Amazon US - See it now on Amazon UKįrom our point of view the S3 is the best smartwatch this side of Apple's Watch Series 2 offering, while serving a KO to its Android Wear competitors.In the Gear S3 Classic, Samsung has achieved something more refined and more restrained in this market. It's taken various iterations for Samsung to finally realise that a smartwatch can be a watch foremost. The original Gear attempts were plasticky and stuffed with so much tech that it was hard to know what to do with it all. From its original Galaxy Gear through to now with its latest Gear S3 - available in Classic and Frontier models - the progression shows the company's refined focus on its smartwatch proposition. (Pocket-lint) - Samsung has been in the wearable game longer most other tech companies.