Top 20 apps for Samsung Gear S2 Best smart health innovation

More than three months after its release, the Samsung Gear S2 figures as a benchmark smart health connected watch. Faced with fierce competition from the Apple Watch, which holds more than half of the market, the Korean watch appears to be a serious outsider. Overview of the best apps available on the Samsung Gear S2.

Apps to stay in touch

1 – Twitter Trends

Twitter also has a place on your wrist. All social network feeds are sent and can be viewed on the Samsung watch. The app immediately informs you of retwitt and latest news. To avoid notification overload, simply adjust your settings.

2 – Voxer

If it is not yet possible to communicate directly by calls made via your watch, it is however possible to send audio messages. The Voxer app finally offers to use your smartwatch as a walkie-talkie. Just choose one of your contacts, then talk to your watch. This message will then appear as text on the recipient's watch, which they can listen to using a bluetooth headset.

Sport / health apps

3 – S Health

With S Health, you can monitoring your physical activity directly on your watch. The application automatically counts the number of steps you take during the day, allows you to program goals to reach and calculates your heart rate. In addition, you can calculate your water and caffeine consumption by simply pressing an icon after you quench your thirst. An app originally integrated with the Gear S2.

4 – Nike +

A new basic element present on many smartphones. Nike + accompanies you during your jogging and gives you precious information on the distance and the pace of your run. Data that can be viewed directly on the dial of your watch.

Apps for traveling

5 – Here Navigator

This is one of the few apps available to guide you. Whether on foot or behind the wheel, Here Navigato is there to guide you through the streets and other crossroads. Easy to use and providing precise directions, the application was able to compensate for the lack of Google Maps on Samsung.

6 – Travel Translator

From your watch you can instantly translate 37 different languages ​​by simply speaking on your wrist. The translation will then appear on the screen. A very useful application to unravel sometimes confusing situations, or simply to help you understand your interlocutor abroad.

7 – Uber

Access all of Uber’s functionality with a turn of the wheel. Finding a driver has never been easier. Once activated, the application lets you choose your driver and informs you of his arrival. The route taken is drawn on your dial and alerts you to the budget that you will have to pay once you reach your destination.

Smart apps

8 – Voice Memo

An idea comes to your mind, you do not want it to escape you? Voice Memo is there. Just speak and press the red button at the same time and the app will record your voice. It is possible to pause and delete its recordings, directly transmitted to your smartphone via the Bluetooth network.

9 – Find My Phone

No more searching for your smartphone for hours, your watch will do it for you. In addition to alerting you as soon as your phone gets too far away, Find My Phone helps you find it in case of loss, by making it ring remotely. A more than practical application that should avoid certain panic attacks.

10 – Kevo

With Kevo, you no longer have to leave your keys under the mat or check five times that your door is properly closed before leaving. In one gesture you can directly open or close the Unikey lock (smart health connected lock) of your health home, and check that it is properly locked. What to leave health home with peace of mind.

11 – Volkswagen

As you can see, this one is only for drivers of the famous German brand, but could very well extend to other car brands. This application will allow you to check at a glance that your doors have been closed and to start your air conditioner remotely on electric models. We are waiting for the next app to check the pollution level of our car.

Applications to personalize your watch

12 – Mr. Time Maker

Personalizing your Samsung smart health connected watch becomes possible with Mr. Time Maker. The application offers to adapt the design of the watch face by choosing your own color codes and widgets, or by using themes already developed by other Gear S2 users.

13 – Line

Line is an application allowing you to personalize the screen of your Gear S2. Even if the dials it offers are questionable from an aesthetic point of view, Line has at least the merit of giving you the benefit of its colorful creations which will give a new face to your smart health connected watch.

Apps for shopping

14 – Groupon

A restaurant, a trip, a gift to buy? Now you can take advantage of all the good Groupon deals directly on your watch, in more than 500 cities around the world. Every day, the best promotions offers are updated to satisfy all your desires, at low prices.

15 – eBay

The online purchase / sale site is available on your smartwatch and makes some of its functionality accessible from your touchscreen. You can follow the evolution of prices there and act on the targeted offers with a turn of the wheel. An extremely handy app to keep an eye on site auctions, anywhere, anytime of the day.

Applications to stay informed

16 – CNN

The US news channel was the first to develop its smartwatch app. It allows direct access to the information delivered by the channel, either in the form of a notification, or by navigating from one section to another.

17 – ESPN

All the sports news made in the USA on your watch. Thanks to this application, ESPN informs you in real time about the scores and results of your favorite teams playing across the Atlantic, whether in basketball, baseball or American football. An idea that should be quickly taken up by other sports media, this time outside the American borders.

18 – Weather

At a glance you can check the weather forecast. Temperature, precipitation and sunshine data for the next few days will appear directly on your watch screen via the smartphone app.

Apps for entertainment

19 – Samsung Milk Music

The essential app to control listening to your music from your Samsung watch. The extension of this application allows you to control the volume of the song you are listening to, but also to change tracks as soon as you want, with a simple movement of your finger.

20 – Space Invaders

It is the most downloaded game on Android Wear and is now available on the Gear S2. A real star war is taking place on the screen of your watch. Just follow the instructions to complete your mission and defeat your enemies with your imperial skill.

After the Gear S2, here is the Gear S3

With diverse uses and the many applications available for the Gear S2, this smartwatch was one of the few products that are really relevant in the smart health connected watch market. With a Tizen operating system compatible with Android, it only needed a few adjustments to complete its functionality. Recall that Tizen makes it possible to browse widgets without having to press a button. We especially remember the change of menu just by turning the dial. After this well-deserved success, Samsung wanted to do it again with the Gear S3. This new baby from the Korean giant is an improved version of the Gear S2, with a wider range of uses. The Gear S3 offers a notched crown to simplify handling. On the other hand, the Gear S3 comes in 2 versions: the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier and the Samsung Gear S3 Classic. With an improved battery capacity (380 mAh for 3 days of autonomy, against 250 for the previous version), an autonomous GPS, a microphone and a built-in speaker, the Gear S3 range borders on flawlessness. Added to this is a powerful OS, a whole series of sensors which, among other things, explain the small overweight compared to its predecessor, and an altimeter. Apart from the impressive format, the other negative point of this device is undoubtedly the obligation to go through Samsung Gear or S Health applications etc …

Despite these caveats, it would be a shame not to take advantage of this all-in-one gadget.

On the premium side, the two Frontier and Classic binoculars are very similar, except for a few details. With almost the same uses and characteristics, the Gear S3 Frontier will be better suited to athletes or hiking enthusiasts wishing to measure their pace, the number of steps or their sleep. The watch will collect and use this data with the S Health app. If you happen to get lost, all you have to do is press the button 3 times at the bottom of the watch for it to send an SOS alert message to the selected contact. Likewise, you can answer an incoming call via the watch if you are driving thanks to its speaker and microphone. Here is a comparison that will allow you to learn more about the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier: (https://www.mobilitedouce.com/randonnee-running/samsung-gear-s3-frontier/ )

Either way, the two Gear S3s are good alternatives if you want to do without your smartphone for a few days.

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