Samsung Gear S2 Rose Gold Preis

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Platinum and eighteen karat rose gold. As scout finishes, these precious metals audio more "Tag Heuer" than "Samsung", but it's true: The South Korean electronics goliath let usa try on two new versions of its stainless steel Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch plated with the marvelous metals.

We don't know pricing nonetheless, only expect it to be college than the $300 or AU$499 or £299 original. The new watch options should land sometime in March.

This is Samsung's outset time using precious metals on any of its seven smartwatches, in a move that demonstrates more ever Samsung'due south readiness to push into the realm of luxury timepieces. The company isn't alone, either. Before today at the CES evidence, Chinese rival Huawei also announced rose aureate and crustal-studded options for its Huawei Watch, in an effort to entice female buyers looking for more blueprint choices.

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I liked the way both new styles looked on my wrist, just especially the rose gilt, which I lean toward anyway. Fifty-fifty the large-size strap on the demo watch managed to circle my wrist without any of that bad-mannered overhang. Equally on the original G2, the watches' top band turns with a satisfying click.

Strap options galore

Although the Gear S2 does come up in large and pocket-sized strap lengths (or long and brusk), the band width remains the same 20mm as the original. Samsung says they upgraded the leather straps on these two styles, including finer stitching. But yous don't have to content yourself with leather if that's not your jam. At our briefing, we saw at to the lowest degree a dozen other bands you can buy -- once more, in that location aren't whatever fixed prices, simply expect them to outset at $forty and shoot upwards from there.

There were some new digital sentinel faces, too, which you can access when you press and hold the chief screen.

Pay with your picket

One of the most exciting titbits to come from this CES proclamation is that before March is out, Samsung will turn on the Samsung Pay mobile payment app for all of its Gear S2 watches. Different the Samsung phones with Samsung Pay, the watch will only support the NFC protocol (rather than NFC and MST), which ways you tin can tap a compatible outlet to pay, just you won't exist able to utilise your picket similar a credit bill of fare as you tin can with a phone like the Samsung Milky way S6 or Note 5.

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