tldr; 7-year-old watch still functional but app store closing Sept 2025. Battery life varies widely by user.
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Best praise vs top criticism for Samsung Gear S3
“I am a big fan of the Samsung Gear S3. The app store for that watch is shutting down (fully by Sept 2025) but the watch is a really good one. It usually lasts me a couple days off the charger (though I'm not listening to music with it which would drain the battery faster). Goes for cheap ($60-80) on eBay and swappa.com. You can easily load it up with music from your phone and it'll be saved on the watch - though it only has like 4 GB of storage I think so you won't be able to put as many songs as say an iPod. For a larger offline collection of songs you may want more space, but only you will know exactly how much music you have.”
“Interesting, that's a good idea. I know in the past I have had phone issues too but I have a Samsung now and have had it for 2 years and it seems to be okay. The S3 that I have now... or had I guess is older and if it had problems in the past then maybe I just seem to have bad luck. That's my best bet lol I was thinking about a Fitbit but Google announced that they are going to discontinue fit bit so I would rather get a watch that isn't going to go extinct any time soon haha I have been looking into the Galaxy watch 5 though but ill take a loot around! thank you!”
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