Samsung Electronics to Launch Sequel of Its Smart Watch ‘Gear S3’ in Next Month

Samsung Electronics is going to launch sequel of its Smart Watch ‘Gear S3’ in next month and is planning not to avoid head-to-head battle with ‘Apple Watch 2’ that is expected to be released on the 7th of next month.

Samsung Electronics is going to hold ‘2016 Second-Half Wearable Launching Event’ in Berlin on the 31st (Berlin time) and introduce Gear S3 that is the sequel of Gear S2.

Samsung Electronics sent out invitations for its wearable launching event to global medias, partners, and developers on the 16th.

This event is going to be held two days before the opening of 2016IFA. Tempodrom, where this event is going to take place, was a place where Galaxy Note 1 through 4 and Gear S2 were introduced.

Invitation that was sent by Samsung Electronics has an image of a clock with blue edge and a message called ‘TALK ABOUT 3’ that hint Gear S3. Samsung Electronics also symbolized 6 o’ clock, which is the time when Gear S3 is going to be introduced, by using a hour hand a minute hand.

Blue button that is located at the bottom left is also another thing that draws attention. There is a high chance that this will be a special function just for Gear S3 considering the fact that Samsung Electronics gave shape to iris recognition function and S-Pen on invitations for ‘Galaxy Note 7’.

It is predicted that special UX will be installed in Gear S3 as Gear S2 had major functions installed in a small circle that is placed inside a screen and performed them by spinning a bezel.

Gear S3 will be released as ‘Gear Classic’, ‘Frontier’, and ‘Explorer’. It is expected that it will have MST Samsung Pay and Samsung Electronics’ OS called Tizen 3.0.

Samsung Electronics, which has declared war against Apple’s iPhone 7 that is expected to be released in the middle of next month by introducing Galaxy Note 7 at the beginning of this month, has once again declared war in wearable markets with ‘Gear S3’.

Staff Reporter Ham, Jihyeon | [email protected]