Huawei watch your ultimate choice.
View chat conversations,  stickers, photos, reply with voice 30seconds for wechat.. It's the best

Get from gemfive.  Retails are selling 1799 gemfive selling 15xx. 
As for ios.. I am not ios guy. Hehe.. Check out YouTube maybe. There's are some functions varies..

Got a frontier today, didn't realize that outside US no LTE lol would have gone for classic.

How to check if 1st batch or 2nd batch of gear s3s?

LTE version not compatible outside of its country. It uses eSim. Malaysia don't have eSim technology. Singapore is selling the LTE version in Singtel and another telco.

Frontier now want to buy also need to hunt for it, it seems. As many places are only having the classic in stock.

too big for my wrist and it was an impulse buy
frontier

I think the best value for money still ZenWatch 2.

From Executive watch to semi rugged watch to full rugged watch....


Any one interested in Moto360 or Gear S3 can PM me.... i plan to let go both of those watches 

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.

is LTE really necessary?
and if just for receiving notifications, why not a garmin instead?

of cos garmin has...either the S20 or S6.
http://www.aeco.com.my/shop/category/Sport...eation/Golfing/

only thing obviously is u cannot reply to notifications...but garmin needless to say works better with GPS...plus the watch has pre-loaded maps etc...and way way way better battery life.

For those interested in Zeblaze THOR Review. You can read mine. Thanks. 

Ahh...was looking for a Ticwatch S & E Owner's Thread v1. Found this one instead.

I recently wrote an article on my early thoughts on the Ticwatch S&E. I included a table of hardware specs comparison between Ticwatch S&E with the top smartwatches in the market. Go check it out!

My Early Thoughts on Ticwatch S & E

Thanks bro. This article was intended to compare with smartwatches of higher-end segment to show that Ticwatches are comparable. Haha. I wasn't aware of other smartwatches of the same caliber. Lemfo looks packed with features as well. Other than Lemfo what else do you recommend comparing to?