Lol yea. I know. But i prefer the ability to reply with keyboard / finger writing on tizen rather than voice on AW. As it is now, either way i still have to pick up my phone. To read or reply messages.

Yup. I bought it but it's better if we can have native app ability to read all messages. That app doesn't have the option to read sent messages though & I found that some replies didn't go through when i replied through it. But it's a nice alternative for now.

Waiting for AW 2.0 to see how much better it is. My ZW2 is currently staying put in the watch case as I'm wearing GS3 much much more. That rotating bezel is a pleasure to use. Sometimes i just rotate it for no reason. Another thing that i wish we can have is the ability to pre-program one of the buttons so that we can click it to select, instead of rotate, then touch to select. Seems like a disconnect there. But that's nitpicking. Lol.

As far as I know both Android Wear and Tizen are compatible with iphones but the features are pretty limited. I know people who pair Pebble with iphone and they have nothing but praises, at least until before the latest software update. But then again pebble is as good as dead now.

As for my experience, I'm using Gear S3 and Zenwatch 2, paired with galaxy S6 and from your list I can only comment on items 1, 2, 3 and 6. I dont use wechat or play golf and I believe LTE is not yet supported here and I have no interest in it anyway.

Calls
- Both can make & answer calls. They have speaker which are decent enough if you are using them in quiet environments or while driving. Or you can use bluetooth headphones. Calls can be initiated by going through Contact list in the watch itself, or by voice command. From my experience, ZW2 and Google are better in picking up voice commands and they sync or learn my own contact list so that I have no problem making a call even if the names in my contact list are local names. GS3 and Tizen are kind of useless in this aspect. S-voice is slow in picking up commands and unless the names in my contact list are 'mat salleh' sounding or 'mom' or 'dad', making a call with voice command can be frustrating.

Messages
- I rarely use messages but it is pretty straight forward in both of them. Notifications are received almost immediately, and you can start a message using the watch. Just like making call, you scroll through contact list or initiate by voice command. The difference here is the messages input. AW is strictly by voice command with just a few preset common sentences or words and some smileys, while Tizen can be by voice or finger typing on the watch which is really not that bad. At least on the GS3 screen size. I pretty much prefer the options with GS3 as it is more discreet with typing. I won't be able to reply with voice command in a meeting. Lol. AW 2.0 will have the option to type on the watch though.

Whatsapp
- ZW2 & AW - Can read all the chats that come in, and some earlier chats. Reply, initiate and messages input are just like messages. Can't view photos or listen to voice notes.
- GS3 & Tizen - I dont know if its intentional or because there's no official support from whatsapp, most of the times only the last line of the chats can be read from notifications. So if a chat ends with smileys or 'hahaha' I have to pick up my phone to check the earlier messages. There's an app that allow us to read all the chats that come in but it's a paid app. It's ok for an alternative. Can use voice command or finger typing to reply to messages that come in, but I haven't find a way to start a whatsapp message. I dont know if other users know how to. Can't view photos or listen to voice notes too though there are some 3rd party paid apps that can make them possible.

GPS
- ZW2 - I believe there's no built-in GPS but if it is paired to your phone with location switched on, it will transmit the location to the watch.
- GS3 - it is ok for the few times that I tried it but it did warn me to avoid trees and go to unobstructed path to get signals. Lol. Not a problem to track a run or jog. But if u want to navigate, I haven't find a good app for that yet. The ones that I tried are lousy.

That's all I can help. Other users with different watches or phones might have different experience as within AW itself there are plenty of watches with different specs or features. While in the case of GS3, as I'm using it with samsung phone I can utilise the watch to its full capabilities. Pairing it with other android phones might result in different experience.

Wow. Can by a decent phone already.


Btw, new straps added to collection. Total damage = less than 60 ringgit. Lol

Is it really that good? I can't seem to find a good watch face for it. Don't know if I'm looking at the wrong G+ group. Or is it good because we can design our own watch face?

Nothing yet. I tweeted samsung malaysia asking about it but no reply from them. Lol. But currently most of the banks only support credit card. I prefer debit and maybank is the only one supporting it now and too bad I don't have a maybank account.

I see. I guess I'm late. I tried it around March last year with ZW2 and can't find any nice watch face and forget about it until recently when people got excited it's coming to Tizen. Tried again and still can't find anything that I like. Haha

I'm really not that surprised. In fact I kind of expected it for ZW2 since we have to wait for quite some time to get the speaker & gestures supports last year compared to other watches. But it's surprising that ZW3 has to wait that long too. I thought it's almost ready for AW2.0.

Got an update for my ZW2. I thought for sure AW 2.0. But looks like it's still 1.5

It was about 130mb. Change log was quite long.

Keep on tapping my zenwatch 2 everyday but to no avail. Hahaha. Lose interest d but dont know why I keep on checking.

Quite similar to mine. With all notifications pushed, I can get 2 full days with AOD. Without AOD it can last up to 3 days.

There's a page in Google+ Watch Face Pros which have great quality watch faces but need to apply using samsung gear watch designer. Require some learning but very easy once you've got the hang of it. The updates are very scarce now though, especially since people rip their works and sell them in galaxy store. And AOD wise not that great either but can be tweaked using the watch designer app. Nothing beats samsung's stock watch faces AOD.

ETA some watch faces that i got from them





This post has been edited by singgung: May 15 2017, 12:11 PM

I haven't received any. Last i got was about a month ago. I just want samsung pay on my gear s3. Lol.
Android wear i lost interest already. My zenwatch 2 still nothing almost end of may.

I read somewhere they have abandoned wearable/smart watch. I wonder if they are still going to support the released watches, but yeah, it's very annoying. No update well into June.

Let us know if you received the update. I dont know want to believe Asus or not anymore. But there are a lot of complains about AW2.0 where people even say we are better off without it. Lol.

How about notifications? Is it better or worse? I read it no longer has peek notification while the watch is in dim mode?

Thanks. I always like the peek cause sometimes I miss the vibration so peek can come in handy sometimes.

Btw, I've been tapping my Zenwatch 2 for the past few days for nothing but suddenly tonight I got the download thing. Not sure for what update cause it's very slow. Lol

Edit : it is. 2.0 for Zenwatch 2. But too late to explore now.

This post has been edited by singgung: Jul 20 2017, 02:40 AM

You guys using gear s3. U know the issue where we can only read the last message from whatsapp? I found out something out of luck and I'm very sure this is the case. I've been connecting my zenwatch 2 to my phone again after it got aw 2.0. I noticed everytime both gear s3 and zw2 are connected to my phone, i got the option to 'read more' when i got whatsapp notifications on gear s3 and i can read the whole thread of chat. Problem is i rarely carry both watches at the same time so it's not really usable all the time.

Finally!!! Can't wait to try. I thought CIMB debit can be used but looks like it's still not supported. Lucky got RHB to try.

Still need to learn to find sweet spot on the terminal. Lol. Used at McDonald's at 2 different locations, no problem at all. Tried at Guardian, error / fail on both 1st and 2nd tries. At Cold Storage, 1st try error, 2nd try successful. Hoping SME will have promotions or competitions for gear Samsungpay like they used to with mobile Samsungpay. Haha