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From specs to pricing to real-world use, here's what you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3.

Update: August 17, 2020 at 6 AM ET: We have added the India price for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 in our original post below. We’ve also added AT&T pricing for the watch. Read on for all the details.

Meanwhile, be sure to check out our Galaxy Watch 3 review here.

Original article: August 5, 2020 at 10:00 AM ET: It’s been a couple years since Samsung released its first Galaxy Watch. In that time, the smartwatch landscape has drastically changed. Companies are adding ECGs and oxygen saturation sensors to their wearables, and features we once thought were a far-off future are now commonplace.

Today, alongside the Galaxy Note 20 lineup, the company is finally launching the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. It’s lighter and much more powerful than the original, and has additional health and safety features that will even give the Apple Watch more competition than before.

Editor’s note: We’ll regularly update this Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 guide with more tips, resources, and details, so stay tuned.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 at a glance

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 The latest and greatest smartwatch from Samsung

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is one of the more versatile smartwatches you can buy. It's stylish, sporty, comes with plenty of smartwatch features, and has new health sensors that will make the watch better over time.

$399.99 at Amazon
$399.99 at Samsung
Rs29990 at Samsung
$399.99 at Best Buy
$399.99 at B&H
$449.99 at Verizon
$449.99 at AT&T

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is Samsung’s flagship smartwatch for 2020 and the successor to 2017’s Galaxy Watch. While 2019’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 is geared toward, well, active people, the Galaxy Watch 3 is more suited for those who want a smartwatch first and a fitness companion second.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is for those who want:

a versatile smartwatch
an alternative to Apple Watch or Wear OS smartwatch
a smartwatch that doesn’t skimp on fitness or smart features
a wearable to work alongside your Galaxy smartphone

And it may not be a great pick if you need:

an inexpensive smartwatch
decent third-party app support
the most accurate fitness and health sensors

Is the Galaxy Watch 3 worth buying?

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Yes, absolutely. If you’re looking for the best smartwatch you can buy that isn’t made by Apple, the Galaxy Watch 3 is it.

It’s one of the most fully featured smartwatches you can get in mid-2020. It has a breadth of fitness tracking features, a good health app, fantastic hardware, equally good software, and onboard music storage with support for popular music apps.

Wear OS is a popular choice for people looking for Android-compatible smartwatches, but Google’s lack of updates leaves us not wanting to recommend any Wear OS smartwatches — at least for the time being. Regardless, the Galaxy Watch 3 has most Wear OS watches beat in many ways, except for lacking third-party app selection.

It’s pricey, though. It starts at $400, with top-end LTE models going up to $479. That’s a high price to pay for any smartwatch. Also, while the Galaxy Watch 3 has many fitness features baked in, it doesn’t track all that accurately. Its GPS and heart rate sensors are still

Be sure to read our full Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review for all the details.

What reviewers are saying about the Pixel 4a

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I’ve already let you know what I think about the Galaxy Watch 3. You should probably buy one, but only if you’re okay with spending hundreds of dollars on a wearable. Here’s what other reviewers around the web are saying about the Galaxy Watch 3.

The Verge’s Dan Seifert also praised the Galaxy Watch 3’s rotating bezel and crisp display, as well as its easy-to-use software interface. Overall, though, Seifert drove home the point that the Galaxy Watch 3 isn’t the biggest upgrade compared to previous Samsung watches. He noted that the app selection is still bad, and that fitness features are hit or miss.
Engadget’s Cherlynn Low had good things to say about the Galaxy Watch 3, claiming that it’s the best non-Apple smartwatch. She said the watch is chunkier compared to the Active 2, which means it’ll be a bit more annoying to use while working out. She mentioned that fitness tracking has improved over previous watches, and that people on Android looking for non-niche devices like Garmin and Polar watches should probably check out the Galaxy Watch 3.
TechCrunch’s Brian Heater said “not many can compete” with the Galaxy Watch 3 when it comes to smartwatches on Android. He also called the rotating bezel satisfying, which many other reviewers seem to agree with. Again, Heater noted the lack of third-party apps in the app store, as well as the Galaxy Watch 3’s bulky design.

What people like you think of the Galaxy Watch 3

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We like to hear from you, our readers, when big product launches roll around. It’s clear people are opinionated about Samsung’s Galaxy Watch devices, so we issued a few polls to see how hyped (or how un-hyped) you were before and after the launch of the new Samsung watch.

Back when the Galaxy Watch 3 was just a rumor, we asked you how hyped you were for the watch. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of AA readers said they were hyped to see Samsung’s next smartwatch. Out of 1,405 total votes, 83.6% said they were excited for the watch, while just 16.44% said they weren’t.

When the Galaxy Watch 3 was just a rumor: How hyped are you for the Galaxy Watch 3?

Things got more interesting after the watch was announced. The $400 price tag was certainly one of the biggest talking points surrounding the Galaxy Watch 3’s unveiling, with many people saying the watch isn’t worth the premium price.

In reality, though, it seems like most people are pretty mixed on whether or not the Galaxy Watch 3 is a good deal. Check out the poll below; just about every option we posed received a nearly equal amount of votes. Many people think the Galaxy Watch 3 is worth the price tag, while others think it’s highway robbery.

Is the Galaxy Watch 3 a good deal?

Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 buyer’s guide - Everything you need to know - Android