For me if I manage to get the free Gear, I will sell it off to save more budget. As of now, I still don't see how useful the Gear to function as a smartwatch. For me, I won't use it to do voice calling or capturing of still image. The most I will use it is for simple notification checking like SMS and short emails.

And if I'm not wrong, the screen will be off to save power and you have to turn it on when you need to check the time, which it defeat the core purpose of being a WATCH. But then it's just my opinion, some will really like it.

Yes. My first note 2 was white. Become yellowish after few months. Same goes to my iphone 4S. Now only go for black or dark color one