Despite garnering mostly negative reviews, Samsung claims it has sold 800,000 Galaxy Gear smartwatches in 2 months after the device hit the market, Reuters reports.
According to the report, which cites unnamed Samsung officials, Galaxy Gear sales exceeded Samsung's expectations. The company now plans to expand sales promotion for the Gear in time for the holidays.
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"It's the most sold wearable watch available in the market place...and we plan to expand its availability by expanding mobile devices that work with the Gear," Samsung said in a statement.
In our review of the $299 smartwatch, we liked the look and feel and the quality of the screen, but we found it expensive and marred by compatibility issues and awkward charging.
Recently, Samsung has announced it will bring Galaxy Gear support to more smartphones.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear smart watch is big -- but it will also fit on small wrists.
The default watch face displays time, date and weather. You can customize the face to include other digital faces, analog faces or to show shortcuts to different apps.
Speaking of apps, the Galaxy Gear comes with a bunch of pre-installed apps, including access to your contacts, the phone dialer and controls for the built-in camera.
Evernote and Line are two third-party apps available for the Galaxy Gear.
Other apps include Snapchat, Path and RunKeeper.
The camera is on the wrist strap, perfect for taking photos of your food.
The camera's location means that you can't replace the strap. It also means you don't want to get the strap wet.
You can adjust the Galaxy Gear to make it surprisingly snug on even the smallest of wrists.
The Galaxy Gear is designed to work with other Galaxy devices, including the brand new Galaxy Note 3.
The Galaxy Gear installs a Gear Companion app on compatible smartphones. This is what controls app installation and configuration settings.
You can customize the clock face in the Gear Companion app.
Lots of third party apps can be downloaded from Samsung's Hub via the Gear Companion app. To the right, this is what a photo I took via the Path app on the Gear looks like.
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