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Samsung Unveils Gear S2, Gear S2 Classic Smartwatches Running Tizen

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-won't-run-crysis dept.

MojoKid writes: Samsung announced their latest smartwatches the other day, the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic. At a hands-on press event in New York this week, Samsung had the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic up and running. Both of these smartwatches feature 11.4mm-thick casings and 1.2-inch, 360x360 displays that are completely circular, unlike the "flat tire" displays used on the Moto360. At the heart of the Gear S2 is an undisclosed Samsung-sourced 1GHz dual-core processor paired with 512MB of RAM. NFC technology is incorporated into the watches as well, which will support Samsung Pay in the near future. The Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic are IP68 certified for dust and water resistance and there will be versions with and without integrated 3G connectivity. Both watches feature a rotating ring around the display, in addition to two buttons at the side, intelligently located at 2 and 4 o'clock to minimize accidental actuation, for navigating the various menus and apps. Samsung allows user customization of some watch-faces to show personalized info, and offers dynamic watch-faces with notifications presented on-screen at all times, along with the time.

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  1. So... by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are these running Android Wear or Samsung's shitty tizen os?

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    1. Re:So... by davester666 · · Score: 2

      Right in the fucking title: "Samsung Unveils Gear S2, Gear S2 Classic Smartwatches Running Tizen"

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    2. Re:So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Obligatory DailyWTF regarding Samsung's Tizen: https://what.thedailywtf.com/t...

      Shiver me timbers.

    3. Re: So... by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Informative

      Isn't Tizen, I've never used it - obviously, considered to be pretty much the absolute worst programming target/language in common use and has zero redeeming qualities? I seem to recall that they had lousy help documents, a crappy SDK, and required esoteric knowledge for zero gain. I was reading about this a few months ago as I recall. I seem to recall some of the rants led me to the daily WTF site. I don't recall a single person defending it.

      Well, you remember E? That is, Enlightenment? One of the hit popular window managers way back when?

      That's the foundation of Tizen. Well, Tizen isn't E, but both use the same libraries - the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, or EFL. And EFL... well...

      FYI - Samsung is a major sponsor of E. As for defenders, I suspect they already work for Samsung and were the ones that convinced management to use EFL for their new smartphone OS.

    4. Re: So... by Zoxed · · Score: 2

      My RSS feed (over NewsBlur) shows the title first without then with the OS reference, so you look correct.

    5. Re:So... by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

      Yeah, it does, but it's from MojoKid. If he told me the sky was blue I'd look up to check.

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  2. Battery life by LazyBoot · · Score: 2

    And battery life should fall somewhere in the 1 – 2 day range, depending on how heavily the watches are used.

    I think I'll pass...

  3. Get a real watch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a Casio calculator watch, chicks dig it.

  4. Re:Beautiful by lord_mike · · Score: 2

    A year is a little extreme. The pebble watched get a week, and if you turn it off at night, you can go longer than that. I seem charge mine so infrequently, I'm not sure how long I go between charges, but it's more than 7 days that's for sure (I turn it off at night to save power).

    The new models have color and a microphone if you are interested, and I believe it has at least partial android wear software compatibility.

    The black and white screen models are dirt cheap now if you want to give it a try...

  5. Re:Minus 4,/ Tkroll) by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2

    Every time I see posts like this I wonder if somebody has an AI they're trying to raise on the internet.

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