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this is Samsung's gear s3 the latest addition to its gear SmartWatch line last year Samsung kind of nailed it with the gear s2 and you'll notice that not a lot has changed this time around the gear s3 has a really similar design just bigger and with more stuff inside the new model has a 1.3 inch display and is 2 millimeters wider than the s2 that sounds like a really negligible difference but it's not the s3 feels bigger and chunkier and small Watch fans will definitely want to look elsewhere but the extra space let's it include some new stuff the s3 has a speaker it sports GPS which would be great for runners and it can do mobile payments both over NFC and on magnetic swipe machines to the watch still has a rotating bezel which is for checking notifications and spinning through menus the interface hasn't really changed at all which is mostly a good thing Samsung has made some tweaks though so that you can actually use the bezel to control things more and you want to swipe around with your finger as much there are going to be two models for the s3 the s3 Classic and s3 Frontier I like to frontier way better it comes in a matte black and has a nice clicky bezel it can also include LTE the classic comes in stainless steel and is supposed to be a little classier though I didn't really get that from it it's also only going to be Wi-Fi and Bluetooth so there's no LTE both models though do include standard watch shops which is a nice touch this time around so that's really the deal the s3 is just a refinement of the s2 it takes something that was already working pretty well and add some new stuff that ought to make it work even better Samsung hasn't announced pricing or release date just yet but it's supposed to be available sometime in the final quarter of the year so it's coming up thanks for checking out our first look at the gear s3 if you want more videos we have our galaxy note 7 review and our s7 edge review right here you can also head to youtube.com slash the verge and subscribe to get more