When Samsung launched the Galaxy Gear smartwatch earlier this month, its status as a niche device was made even more apparent by its lack of compatibility with all but two of Samsung’s smartphones and tablets. As the month comes to a close, Samsung has finally shared its plans to expand Galaxy Gear compatibility to a …
When a Samsung exec reportedly admitted that the Galaxy Gear smartwatch “lacks something special,” he wasn’t kidding. Leaked sales documents obtained by Geek.com show that the return rate for the Galaxy Gear “is trending above 30%” in Best Buy stores, an alarmingly high rate for a device that Samsung had hoped would give it an …
Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch was a huge disappointment. In our review of the device, we called it a product that had quite obviously been rushed to market and we said envisioning a future where wearables proliferate is impossible if said wearables are anything like the Gear. Compounding matters was the fact that only a small …
Critics may have savaged Samsung’s first Galaxy Gear smartwatch but that hasn’t stopped the company’s crack marketing team from churning out a terrific ad that’s much cleverer than the device itself. The ad for the Gear shows the device very little and instead rolls a montage of smartwatches used in classic movies and television shows …
BGR reviewed Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear smartwatch earlier this week and to put it mildly, we were not impressed. The design of the watch wasn’t bad but some software issues, the lack of any kind of novel functionality or attempted innovation, and Samsung’s terrible S Voice voice control solution combined to create an awful user …
With all the new high-profile smartphone and tablet releases in recent weeks, we’ve been inundated with advertising and now Samsung is joining in with the first commercial for the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Gear. Unlike the more direct approach of Microsoft’s Surface 2 ad, Samsung has decided to take a more abstract look at the …
Top smartphone makers have a bit of a problem. They got so good at selling smartphones that there aren’t enough people left to buy them at the amazing pace the market has enjoyed over the past few years. The smartphone market is still monstrous, of course, but growth is key and growth is slowing. So …
Samsung’s debut smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, will debut later this week as the world prepares to watch the top smartphone vendor on the planet try its hand in the emerging wearable computing market. At launch, however, the Gear smartwatch will only be compatible with a single smartphone — and it happens to be a smartphone …
AT&T customers anxiously awaiting the next big Samsung devices can finally breathe easy — the Galaxy Note 3 phablet and Galaxy Gear smartwatch will be available online at att.com and in AT&T stores on Friday, October 4th. The major carriers have been taking preorders for the new Samsung Galaxy devices for several weeks now, but AT&T …
The last thing you want to do when entering a new product category for the first time is launch something that isn’t your best effort. According to a report from The Korea Times, however, a Samsung executive may have admitted that the company is doing just that with the Galaxy Gear smartwatch. “We’ve acknowledged that our Gear …
