Hi,
I currently own a Pebble Smartwatch along with a Galaxy Note 3 and I was considering buying a Gear 2. I have very little info about the apps of the Gear 2 and I would like to know if there are equivalents for the apps I use the most in my Pebble:
- Foursquare (a way to do checkin from the watch)
- Evernote (access to the list, very handy when shopping)
Also I would like to know if there is any Forex app for the Gear 2. Is there any limit for the number of apps to be installed (in the Pebble you can only install 8 and it is quite annoying)?
What are your favorite apps for the Gear 2?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers.
luismix007 said:
Hi,
I currently own a Pebble Smartwatch along with a Galaxy Note 3 and I was considering buying a Gear 2. I have very little info about the apps of the Gear 2 and I would like to know if there are equivalents for the apps I use the most in my Pebble:
- Foursquare (a way to do checkin from the watch)
- Evernote (access to the list, very handy when shopping)
Also I would like to know if there is any Forex app for the Gear 2. Is there any limit for the number of apps to be installed (in the Pebble you can only install 8 and it is quite annoying)?
What are your favorite apps for the Gear 2?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Cheers.
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Foursquare there is an app called fithsquare that works great on the gear.
Evernote was an app in the original gear. So should be ported over soon for the gear 2.
Not sure what forex is. No right bite I have 14 apps plus all the stock ones. Not sure if there is a limit but I haven't run into any.
Favorite apps: simple Calc, ebay, glypse, qr reader, instant settings, gear alarm, fithsquare, smart ir remote, gear2cam, atooma, car finder, talking Goggles, wearable widgets, flesky messenger.
They are the ones I have installed. I have 5 shortcuts on the main screens for the ones I use most.
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gear S3 can make a pin on a map and you can see where you are if you have an internet connection
but i want to use only the integrated gps an see the coordinate where i am
anyone known an app for doing it??
tia giano
no one knows?
or it is not possible?
Hi
Definitely possible, but will require someone to write an app. The default returned data is Lat/Lon, it would be necessary to convert to the grid system used in your country (eg OS-GB for UK). Never done any Tizen dev, but had planned on having a play with it over Xmas when I should have some free time. I want a 'GPS' app, and a mechanism to control my hive heating from the watch.
Nigel
i'll be happy if you can share the GPS app
my wife has a gear fit 2 and i bought a watchface (probably named gps...) that can do the above
i think that UTM/WGS84 would be great
tia
giano
GPS Coordinate standalone app for Gear S3
Search for the Gear S3 a GPS standalone coordinates app
Can be such an app programming, since roads maps
On the ship, in the mountains, during kite flying.
In an emergency, coordinates would be very helpful.
Would pay in the App Store any price for it, think there are many others
Also the so an app would need
Hope anyone can Help
Hmm can't find the answer. I have an iPhone and a Gear S3. Both works like a charm, but the store in the gear manager for ios is a bit empty. There are some apps but not as much as with android. Before i used a Android Wear watch, with had no apps at all in the app for ios, but had the option to side load it with a pc or mac. Is this possible for the Gear S3? And even more important, where can i download the apps to my pc? With Android Wear there was an option to extract it from the .apk, what was downloadable from web based Play Stores. Can anyone help me?
I know how to enable debugging and how to transfer files to the Gear S3, but the main issue is that i need an other method to get apps other than with the ios app.
I have been using the Gear S3 with my iPhone since I bought it. I must say it works great, albeit with a few small caveats.
For the past month, Samsung has been making constant changes to the Gear app for iPhone. Every time I open the app and tap to go to the Galaxy app store, I notice updates to it (the Galaxy app store is web based for the iPhone Gear app, so any updates they make to the Galaxy app store for iPhone do not require the Gear app to be updated). Until this week, I have noticed that we have had no access to the paid apps section, which might explain what you are saying about fewer apps being available. However, as of this morning, I can now access the paid apps. So I think Samsung is working hard towards an official release of the Gear app for iOS.
As far as sideloading apps, this is not possible from the iPhone. I develop watch faces, and I know they can be installed directly onto my watch from my Mac over Wi-Fi.
I think it MIGHT be possible to sideload an app if you have the developer SDK on your computer, but I'm not sure about that. You could give that a try.
As a side note, the biggest caveats I have noticed to using the Gear S3 with iPhone are as follows:
1. No access to paid apps and watch faces (no longer an issue as of today)
2. The option to "Send Content to Gear" is not available on the iPhone Gear app. You can send an image, but nothing else. The only thing I care to send to the watch is music, and I have a workaround that I am happy with for now. I have an old Galaxy S4 laying around, so I sent the music I wanted to the watch from there. Then I reset the watch and reconnect to my iPhone (yes it erases the watch data, but it keeps the files I transferred over).
3. After I go for a run and open SHealth, the fitness data is available to view as normal, but I cannot view the map routing as you can on Android, if I want to go back and look where I ran on a map. But the distance, pace, etc is all there. Again, my workaround is my S4 because the iPhone Gear app DOES sync to SHealth and you can open and view all your SHealth from an android device.
That's more than you asked, but there you go.
thejdoe said:
I have been using the Gear S3 with my iPhone since I bought it. I must say it works great, albeit with a few small caveats.
For the past month, Samsung has been making constant changes to the Gear app for iPhone. Every time I open the app and tap to go to the Galaxy app store, I notice updates to it (the Galaxy app store is web based for the iPhone Gear app, so any updates they make to the Galaxy app store for iPhone do not require the Gear app to be updated). Until this week, I have noticed that we have had no access to the paid apps section, which might explain what you are saying about fewer apps being available. However, as of this morning, I can now access the paid apps. So I think Samsung is working hard towards an official release of the Gear app for iOS.
As far as sideloading apps, this is not possible from the iPhone. I develop watch faces, and I know they can be installed directly onto my watch from my Mac over Wi-Fi.
I think it MIGHT be possible to sideload an app if you have the developer SDK on your computer, but I'm not sure about that. You could give that a try.
As a side note, the biggest caveats I have noticed to using the Gear S3 with iPhone are as follows:
1. No access to paid apps and watch faces (no longer an issue as of today)
2. The option to "Send Content to Gear" is not available on the iPhone Gear app. You can send an image, but nothing else. The only thing I care to send to the watch is music, and I have a workaround that I am happy with for now. I have an old Galaxy S4 laying around, so I sent the music I wanted to the watch from there. Then I reset the watch and reconnect to my iPhone (yes it erases the watch data, but it keeps the files I transferred over).
3. After I go for a run and open SHealth, the fitness data is available to view as normal, but I cannot view the map routing as you can on Android, if I want to go back and look where I ran on a map. But the distance, pace, etc is all there. Again, my workaround is my S4 because the iPhone Gear app DOES sync to SHealth and you can open and view all your SHealth from an android device.
That's more than you asked, but there you go.
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Hi mate,
These were also my concern to using the Gear S3 with iPhone: not paid apps and no possibility to send files to the watch with the Gear iphone app.
The paid apps are still not available for me: is it linked to the country ? How did you make it work ?
thejdoe said:
I have been using the Gear S3 with my iPhone since I bought it. I must say it works great, albeit with a few small caveats.
For the past month, Samsung has been making constant changes to the Gear app for iPhone. Every time I open the app and tap to go to the Galaxy app store, I notice updates to it (the Galaxy app store is web based for the iPhone Gear app, so any updates they make to the Galaxy app store for iPhone do not require the Gear app to be updated). Until this week, I have noticed that we have had no access to the paid apps section, which might explain what you are saying about fewer apps being available. However, as of this morning, I can now access the paid apps. So I think Samsung is working hard towards an official release of the Gear app for iOS.
As far as sideloading apps, this is not possible from the iPhone. I develop watch faces, and I know they can be installed directly onto my watch from my Mac over Wi-Fi.
I think it MIGHT be possible to sideload an app if you have the developer SDK on your computer, but I'm not sure about that. You could give that a try.
As a side note, the biggest caveats I have noticed to using the Gear S3 with iPhone are as follows:
1. No access to paid apps and watch faces (no longer an issue as of today)
2. The option to "Send Content to Gear" is not available on the iPhone Gear app. You can send an image, but nothing else. The only thing I care to send to the watch is music, and I have a workaround that I am happy with for now. I have an old Galaxy S4 laying around, so I sent the music I wanted to the watch from there. Then I reset the watch and reconnect to my iPhone (yes it erases the watch data, but it keeps the files I transferred over).
3. After I go for a run and open SHealth, the fitness data is available to view as normal, but I cannot view the map routing as you can on Android, if I want to go back and look where I ran on a map. But the distance, pace, etc is all there. Again, my workaround is my S4 because the iPhone Gear app DOES sync to SHealth and you can open and view all your SHealth from an android device.
That's more than you asked, but there you go.
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I use manage track to transfer music via wifi. Is this your method too? If not, may I know what is your method?
Thank.
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Now something positive: the APP for spotify "wammer" works great - ALSO with the iPhone Instructions see wammer.me
Hi - happy new year!
I also can't see any paid apps (UK) on S3 Gear manager (iPhone 6).
Also, does anyone know how to get around the very very slow* Bluetooth install process from the Gear Manager App. I can install directly from wifi using the watch, but that give you limited access to the apps that it displays on you watch screen.
* E.g., Takes 10 minutes to install a 1000kb watch face or 30 min to install an app.
Thanks
FH
FH1 said:
Hi - happy new year!
I also can't see any paid apps (UK) on S3 Gear manager (iPhone 6).
Also, does anyone know how to get around the very very slow* Bluetooth install process from the Gear Manager App. I can install directly from wifi using the watch, but that give you limited access to the apps that it displays on you watch screen.
* E.g., Takes 10 minutes to install a 1000kb watch face or 30 min to install an app.
Thanks
FH
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YES i also find it to be slow to complete these tasks - any info on this greatly appreciated. (iphone 7plus user)
Yans
+1
Paid apps
thejdoe said:
I have been using the Gear S3 with my iPhone since I bought it. I must say it works great, albeit with a few small caveats.
For the past month, Samsung has been making constant changes to the Gear app for iPhone. Every time I open the app and tap to go to the Galaxy app store, I notice updates to it (the Galaxy app store is web based for the iPhone Gear app, so any updates they make to the Galaxy app store for iPhone do not require the Gear app to be updated). Until this week, I have noticed that we have had no access to the paid apps section, which might explain what you are saying about fewer apps being available. However, as of this morning, I can now access the paid apps. So I think Samsung is working hard towards an official release of the Gear app for iOS.
As far as sideloading apps, this is not possible from the iPhone. I develop watch faces, and I know they can be installed directly onto my watch from my Mac over Wi-Fi.
I think it MIGHT be possible to sideload an app if you have the developer SDK on your computer, but I'm not sure about that. You could give that a try.
As a side note, the biggest caveats I have noticed to using the Gear S3 with iPhone are as follows:
1. No access to paid apps and watch faces (no longer an issue as of today)
2. The option to "Send Content to Gear" is not available on the iPhone Gear app. You can send an image, but nothing else. The only thing I care to send to the watch is music, and I have a workaround that I am happy with for now. I have an old Galaxy S4 laying around, so I sent the music I wanted to the watch from there. Then I reset the watch and reconnect to my iPhone (yes it erases the watch data, but it keeps the files I transferred over).
3. After I go for a run and open SHealth, the fitness data is available to view as normal, but I cannot view the map routing as you can on Android, if I want to go back and look where I ran on a map. But the distance, pace, etc is all there. Again, my workaround is my S4 because the iPhone Gear app DOES sync to SHealth and you can open and view all your SHealth from an android device.
That's more than you asked, but there you go.
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Are you sure you could access paid Apps, I logged in to Samsung with a USA account but couldn't find any of the paid apps, even some of the free apps are also not available.
I had access for one day, but I no longer can access the paid apps. I wish I had taken a screenshot, or better, I wish I had bought the apps I was after. The black icon that typically says "install" for free apps had the price, eg $1.99, for the paid apps. I really think Samsung is working on this becoming available, otherwise I don't know why I was able to browse the paid apps.
Today I could see and load on my iPhone in GalaxyAPPs my earlier purchased APPs and WFs. To buy new APPs but not yet.
Something happens in Samsung Store!
And:
To transfer music you can take the "Gear Music Manager" and your Mac/PC - it is described in the iOS-beta ... (see my pictures)
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In app store there is the official GearManager for iOS - the old beta. UNFORTUNATELY the app has the same error that the last beta had (I have reported 3 weeks ago to the developers): when you call in S Health a training with recorded route the app hangs/crashes.
The same thing happens with other users or only with my iPhone SE?
So I initially bought this watch on release and unfortunately had to return it due to massively overspending that month. I only had time to have a quick play with it but I loved the screen and the look (Classic) and am now really tempted to repurchase.
One thing I did note at launch was that the selection of apps was pretty woeful, basically everything was a watchface and there wasn't even Spotify, Uber etc. at least not in the UK app store. Has this situation changed at all? Is there any way of seeing a list of current available apps?
Secondly, one of my main reasons for buying would be tracking distance, pace and calories for runs using the watch as a standalone - can anyone tell me how reliable this is and if it works well?
I will post here what I have already said elsewhere on the Gear S forums, because it's relevant to your question,
People complain about there being more watch faces and not enough apps on the Galaxy Store...
well firstly there are hundreds of apps on the store! but just how much do you expect to be doing on your watch? I mean essentially it's for time and date function, relaying of notifications, messaging, call taking/making, health tracking, weather, news and navigation. All these functions are covered out of the box.
So what are you expecting? Microsoft Office? Minecraft? Photoshop? Hello... it's a watch!! and considering that you will be looking at the time more than anything else on the watch, having a huge choice of watch faces is not only a GOOD thing, it's essential!
Now I have downloaded various apps:
Voice Memo
Guardian News
Speedometer
Gear Navigator
Calculator
Cooking Timer
Xenozu (YouTube videos)
Spotify
Gear Browser
Flashlight Premium
Brrr (disconnect warning)
Yelp
Stopwatch
Timer
Hangman
And you know what? I hardly use any of them! So I wouldn't worry about the app situation.
Also, Spotify is available in the UK
and S-Health will track your performance and upload to your Samsung account, so it will sync with your phone(s) when reconnected.
Is there a way to look at the App Store for the Gear S3? I read variously about '10000 of faces and apps' but also about limited apps. So I'd like to see what apps are available.
You can browse the App Store through the Samsung Gear app.
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sejtam said:
Is there a way to look at the App Store for the Gear S3? I read variously about '10000 of faces and apps' but also about limited apps. So I'd like to see what apps are available.
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it is more like "10000 of faces and some apps", there are really too many watchfaces since there is a easy to use designer (http://developer.samsung.com/gear/design/watch-designer) but app section is indeed limited.
Don't be fooled by the numbers, there are probably less than two dozen apps by major developers. The vast majority of apps are watchfaces. Tizen has relatively small library and that is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future.
If you're concerned about app selection, the S3 isn't for you. The key to not being disappointed is to think in terms of what tasks you want the smartwatch to perform, and making sure the watch can do it.
Best Samsung Gear S3 Apps and Games are below including latest best apps for Gear S3 by Under Armour:
-Endomondo App
-Map My Run app
-MyFitnessPal App
-Uber App
-Fruit Ninja Games
-Sleep As Android App
-Glympse Location tracker Apps
-White Light and Here WeGo App
-Find My Car App
-Flipboard News Briefing App
-Gear for Nest App
-Pear App
-Camera Gear App
-Samsung S Health App
-Rolling Hams Game
-AwayYouGo App
I have one of these and it really is a beautiful watch and feels like a quality product. It also works really well. HOWEVER, just as evryone else is saying, the APP Store is VERY limited ... which is a shame given that Samsung have done such an excellent job on the watch. Why they didn't include a Compass; I have no idea. Also, why they (or someone else - "Here Maps" ???) have not brought out a REAL standalone Mapping App I feel is a HUGE mistake. Even if you could only download a 50sq mile area and keep that updated (or change it when you travel) it would make a huge difference to the watch. Anyway, great watch ....
Main problem is Tizen Eco System with only Samsung in position of playing "God"...
Blabla only trusted blabla "Authority" bla blabla...
Dear user, According to Tizen security policy all the apps should be from signed trusted authority. Tizen does not allow any side loaded app and any other format installation as a policy. All app installations supported via Tizen Store only. Stay tuned on Tizen community for further updates. Thanks, Tizen team
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On the other hand...
Users are scared to sideload apps...
I mean we have this funny situation with Mobiles more then 4 years...
Examples.
Video Calling apps are generally blocked...
Funny contracts with 'Operators in my opinion... to get more money...
imo, Skype, etc. are working fine with help of ACL...
Cool apps known from Android world... like TCP IP stuff...
not allowed...
Shell not allowed...
They are scared users can do tooooo much...
Btw...
I have just for fun edited my old S8530... bada handset... to enter Gear S3 or S2 store...
I am able to download TPKs... because they use same mechanism since years...
And I have no Gear watch.
NO idea why they force users to use Gear Manager... to explore the big "big" world of Tizen...
Tizen Store and also Gear store is simple Server... "HTTP crap"...
No idea why they not allow to use Computer and visit Website to check whats new.. or amazing...
Best Regards
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Added 2 Screenshots...
Taken with my good old Wave II (GT-S8530)... with old Kona Version...
No idea, 3 years minimum or older...
Only added Model SM-R760 to .ini :angel:
I can not see all, but few...
Samsung do some minor changs to their Shop site... but in main it is ever the same SH.T...
qaxx said:
You can browse the App Store through the Samsung Gear app.
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I think that reply, and the others in this thread, miss the point. In order to use the "Gear App" you have to have a Samsung Gear watch to pair the phone to. Otherwise the app will not run.
I believe what the OP was asking, and certainly what I want to know, is.... is there a way to browse the "many" downloadable watch faces BEFORE you buy the watch? That would require some sort of online access to the download site WITHOUT using the app..
Can anyone answer this? I'm considering buying one of these, but I don't like ANY of the faces that come with the watch, so I'd like to see what's available for download before buying the watch.
Thanks in advance.
I have the Frontier, and I love it. Just remember...it is a WATCH....not a tablet of computer. The available apps are more than enough for my needs, and the watch looks like a watch, which is more than i can say about Apples kiddy/candy looking effort IMHO. Battery life is now excellent, and it feels like a quality product.
Robin M said:
I think that reply, and the others in this thread, miss the point. In order to use the "Gear App" you have to have a Samsung Gear watch to pair the phone to. Otherwise the app will not run.
I believe what the OP was asking, and certainly what I want to know, is.... is there a way to browse the "many" downloadable watch faces BEFORE you buy the watch? That would require some sort of online access to the download site WITHOUT using the app..
Can anyone answer this? I'm considering buying one of these, but I don't like ANY of the faces that come with the watch, so I'd like to see what's available for download before buying the watch.
Thanks in advance.
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alot of the devs post their watchfaces on google plus