3 Ways the Samsung Gear S3 will help you rock the Year of the Rooster

The Samsung Gear S3 is one of the poshest looking smartwatches in eons. Coming in two aesthetic variants – the S3 Classic and the S3 Frontier that are designed by a master Swiss watchmaker and then packing some serious customisability, the Gear S3 is as fetching as it is functional. Check out how one of these babies can help you rock the Year of the Rooster like a boss.

#1 Post Feast Weight Watching

Good food, great huge feasts with aromatic roasted meats, heart-warming thick-broth enriched soups and dozens of titbits, sweetmeats and snacks aplenty are an obligatory part of the Chinese New Year experience along with red packets aplenty for bachelors and bachelorettes. While gaining more of the latter is most welcome, getting more of the former, in particular racking up a terrifying calorie count is something that’s best avoided. More so if you don’t keep track of what you actually chow down on and end up eating way more than what you’re supposed to.

The Gear S3 helps you manage all this and more. Via the Gear S3 and the downloadable S Health app on your phone, you can track your calorie intake with every meal along with your weight, heart rate and blood pressure too. The watch and the S Health app also work together to help you track fitness activities from walking to running and tracks it all so you can see the big picture. You’re even able to track fitness goals too so you can work towards working off all that weight.

#2 Good Gaming Goodness! – Games, Music and more on your wrist

Any good old family feast or gathering will involve significant amounts of waiting. You’re either waiting for someone or other to make their fashionably late way in or someone who despite having been to grandma’s place umpteen times in a row to amazingly get lost. Again. That or waiting forever for the food to make its appearance on the table.

All this requires the patience of a saint. Unfortunately, the standard go-to means of distraction: the smartphone may not always be viable nor practical. Some chaps consider it a bit of a faux pas if you deign to do something more important like collecting your crops on Farmville than, you know, actual discourse with everyone else at the table. Fortunately, the Gear S3 offers a viable solution as it offers quite a few games to while away the time and a ton of other handy apps too to tide you over.

If you’re a fan of Flappy Bird, you can get a somewhat similar clone given the somewhat linguistically mangled named Lubberly Bird that has you tapping the touchscreen to keep said avian afloat onscreen to bypass navigational hazards. Sea Wolf has you twisting the bezel back and forth like a safecracker as you dial in the direction to fire torpedoes to sink enemy shipping. Fruit Ninja allows you to slash about the touchscreen to annihilate all manner of hapless produce onscreen.

#3 Fashionably versatile – change to any watch strap & swap your watch face anytime you fancy

When it comes to customisability, most smartwatches typically relegate you to sticking with just what came with the box. This usually involves, at most, a single watch strap or even two if they’re feeling charitable and a middling array of changeable watch faces. Want more? Sure – just fork out more cash for a fixed list of whatever they have. Want to use your own favourite watch strap? Too bad.

The Gear S3’s design goes entirely in the opposite direction. Rather than slapping on a proprietary watch strap with some bizarre connector to just milk you out of more cash, the Gear S3 instead comes with a universal 22mm connectors.

This subtle but inestimably handy feature effectively allows you to  change the straps of your Gear S3 to any other watch strap on the market, not just what came with the Gear S3. That’s not all, there’s dozens of downloadable digital watch faces to suit any and every occasion. Combined, you can effectively change the look of your Gear S3 at will. Visiting grandma for the obligatory Chinese New Year luncheon? Attach a vibrant red watch strap, swap the watch face to something suitably ostentatious (and red) and you’re all set for prosperity to roll your way.  Heading for an evening get together with friends later? Just swap the straps to a classy black number and change the watch face to match it too. The Gear S3 Frontier and Classic retails for RM1,399 at all good retailers and Samsung stores nationwide as well as online at Lazada and 11street.