{"id":924,"date":"2022-12-17T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=924"},"modified":"2022-12-17T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:20:05","slug":"samsung-gear-s-preview-whats-it-like-to-type-emails-on-a-2-inch-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Gear S preview: What&#8217;s it like to type emails on a 2-inch screen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Six. That&#8217;s how many smartwatches Samsung has unveiled in the past 12 months. If these devices were <em>Friends<\/em> episodes, there&#8217;d be the original Gear 2 (&#8220;The one with fewer bugs&#8221;), the Gear 2 Neo (&#8220;The one that didn&#8217;t cost as much&#8221;) and the Gear S: the one that can run without a smartphone. Thanks to its very own nano-SIM card, the Gear S can make calls, as well as show you emails in full, with the option to reply directly from the device using a tiny on-screen keyboard. To Samsung&#8217;s credit, it&#8217;s unlike any other device it&#8217;s made before. 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With a curved screen that measures two inches diagonally, it absolutely dwarfs my (admittedly dainty) wrist, as you can see in the above hands-on photos. Even so, some of my bigger-boned male colleagues also tried on the watch, and they too found it rather bulky. Not that style was a top priority here. The key selling points &#8212; making calls and responding to emails &#8212; require extra space, and frankly, even two inches is pushing it. The kind of 1.63-inch display used on the Gear 2 and Gear Live (a big, honking watch face in its own right) wouldn&#8217;t have cut it here.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the fact that it&#8217;s quite conspicuous, the design isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d call fancy. Certainly, it&#8217;s no Moto 360. True, it&#8217;s marked by metal accents around the clasp and edges, but my guess is that you&#8217;re more likely to notice the removable plastic band, available in white and black. It&#8217;s comfortable on the wrists, no doubt thanks to the curved screen shape, but ultimately, it feels more functional than it does stylish. When you&#8217;re ready to swap bands, for instance, you basically just pop out the watch face like a piece of Galaxy S5, Gear Fit and Gear 2 had similar capabilities, and none of them gave particularly accurate readouts. So I don&#8217;t have super-high hopes for the Gear S when we eventually try out a more polished unit, but I&#8217;m ever hopeful that Samsung has continued to tweak its algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there are all sorts of things we can&#8217;t fairly test until we take home a final unit, like the kind you&#8217;d buy in stores. That won&#8217;t happen until sometime in October, when the Gear S becomes available. No word on price yet, or whether any mobile carriers will be selling it, but all will be revealed eventually. For now, check out our video walk-through if you haven&#8217;t already &#8212; it might be the closest you get to the device for a couple months yet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Gilbert and Zach Honig contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six. That&#8217;s how many smartwatches Samsung has unveiled in the past 12 months. If these devices were Friends episodes, there&#8217;d be the original Gear 2 (&#8220;The one with fewer bugs&#8221;), the Gear 2 Neo (&#8220;The one that didn&#8217;t cost as much&#8221;) and the Gear S: the one that can run without a smartphone. 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