Smart watch Samsung Gear S2. Overview and positioning

The company "Samsung", as well as any other brand, has its admirers, and such fans every year becomes more and more. They are completely loyal to all the products of the manufacturer, look at the novelties with a positive attitude and are always ready to try out some chips and innovations.

Judging by the model Samsung Gear S2, the review of the first generation of S1 watches revealed their extensive functionality and has come to taste to many admirers of the product. The next generation of S2 is a completely different clock, where the company was guided by a different ideology and experience. The difference is not even that the S1 series is an ergonomic rectangle on the hand, and S2 has a familiar dial, the differences are hidden much deeper.

The hero of today's article - Samsung Gear S2: an overview of the main characteristics, design, ergonomics and performance models read on.

Design

Samsung did not have round watches for a long time, and although the rest of the manufacturers sell them in tons, the company for some reason excluded this type from its turnover.

For the Samsung Gear S2 Classic lineup, the survey should start not with patterns and the measure of modern electronics (the company is not very interested in it), but with the watch manufacturers, on which the engineers and designers of the brand are based.

The material of the case is stainless steel type 316L, and the entire filling of the clock is conveniently placed inside. The user does not have access to the interior of the model, and therefore the company first applied eSIM (Nano) technology - a kind of one of the format of the electronic sim card.

Adaptation

In this case, smart watches Samsung Gear S2 may experience some problems in the territory of the Russian Federation, since the main cellular operators can not always provide their customers with special eSIM-cards. But in the near future, Samsung promised to provide its models with pre-installed SIM cards.

As an alternative, the brand began to produce variant models Samsung Gear S2. The review in the first case showed that S2 is more suitable as a companion for your phone or tablet, in the second version it's a full clock with an eSIM card. The difference between them is especially noticeable in terms of the duration of the work, and if the "companion" can work for up to three days without recharging, the option with the SIM card will not last longer than a day and a half, and this despite a solid battery of 300 mAh.

Ergonomic Samsung Gear S2

Overview of the ergonomics of the watch can be reduced to two types: classical and conventional S2. In the first case, the watch has a leather belt with an easily recognizable and habitually sitting arm on the body. The key element of the usual version was the rim around the screen, with which you can control the menu items and lists.

You can scale the data with the same rim, and when you click on it, sections and additional menu branches are opened. As an alternative control node, the Samsung Gear S2 clock has two keys on the right side, the main function of which are the "home" and "back" labels.

The watch is equipped with an already traditional for its segment absolute protection against dust and water - the IP68 module. They can safely swim and engage in any sport, without fear of damage and pollution.

Convenient straps for the model can be found on sale a huge amount, and some watches have exclusive designs from famous designers like Alessandro Mendini. In addition to leather jewelry, Alessandro put his hand to the dial of Gear S2, as a result of which the light saw the models with a light and somewhere even cheerful character, which can be noted as the strong side of these watches.

Display

The latest models Samsung Gear S2 (release date - October 2015) have an exceptionally round screen, without any rectangular inserts, as in the previous MOTO360 series. The company's engineers preferred to equip the new watch with a proven type of screen and a matrix in the face of SuperAMOLED with a diagonal of 1.2 inches at a resolution of 360 by 360 pixels.

The display has a clear picture, excellent brightness and visibility. The display goes into standby after a few seconds of inactivity, so in order to see the time, you need to tap on the dial or throw up your hand in a certain gesture.

The clock settings allow you to set the necessary brightness factor within 10 gradations and set the screen shutdown modes. At 30% of the saturation of the display, the clock lasts an average of a day or so, but everything here is purely individual, depending on the number of notifications and how you use the gadget.

You can set up profiles already ready, as it happens in mobile phones: "Houses", "On the street", "Night", etc.

Performance

The clock has on its board 512 MB of RAM, a built-in chip for 4 GB for music and other data, as well as an NFC module. The processor in the dual-core model with a clock speed of 1 GHz, larger for the clock, in principle, and not necessary.

The speed of the built-in operating system deserves all sorts of praise, but the fact that you can not connect conventional Bluetooth-sensors to the clock is a significant disadvantage, although this is typical for such products.

Summarizing

Price list for Samsung Gear S2 ranges from 25 000 rubles, for the version with 3G-interface will have to give even more. If we compare with the closest analogues from Apple, then the amount is more or less acceptable, but is such a clock necessary for the average Russian?

Yes, in everyday vanity this model excludes criticism: they sit well on the hand, serve as a good help for working with notices, but as such the indicator of the image is not due to the lack of filling all what we are used to think of expensive watches.

Ruler S2 has to compete with the clock, which is needed in order to simply show time, and here they can lose. There are plenty of smart functions in the model, but there is no such demand as in standard players or cameras, so another hit from Samsung can be called a toy where the brand tries to find interesting places for positioning new "chips".

If you want and you have the opportunity to purchase this watch, please: they are worth their money and will serve you faithfully. If you need a tool that correctly shows the time, and only, it is better to watch the watch more modestly.