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Hi,
Here is a Hands-On video going through the User Interface (UI) of the upcoming Gear S2, which should be released next month. The smooth UI is a definite killer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbNEkhX8eu0
Who is Interested in getting one?
I already got a Classic ordered. Hopefully it gets delivered Friday or I will expect it Monday at the latest. I may end up doing an unboxing video if it really doesn't get released this week in the West.
supersoulfly said:
I already got a Classic ordered. Hopefully it gets delivered Friday or I will expect it Monday at the latest. I may end up doing an unboxing video if it really doesn't get released this week in the West.
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Great news. Where did you order it from ?
It was a preorder promotion in Korea through a mobile network provider named KT. A couple weeks ago Samsung in Korea sold 1000 preorders through their website and they also gave 500 units each to a couple network providers. It was a good deal I got, they threw in some Sennheiser earbuds and an additional charger for the S2 for free.
Hello S3 Forums, Just wanted to say hello and share my store about how I became an S3 Frontier owner. (sorry, it got kind of long and wordy, lol)
I got my first "smart watch" when I came across the OG Pebble and had the wife buy it as a Christmas gift one year. From that day I synced it until now, I have not missed a day with my tech wearables. I eventually Kickstarter backed the Pebble Time, and loved that one even more. It had just a little more to it, and did everything I wanted from a little wrist tech.
Fast forward to a few days ago when I finally got my hands on a S3. As some or many of you may have heard by now, Pebble is going down in flames and they are selling out to Fitbit. This was the push I needed to start doing research on a suitable replacement for my trusty Pebble Time. I have never used anything but Pebble, so where was I to go? Android Wear? Samsung? Tic Watch (a close 2nd choice) or back to a classic watch?
I watched YouTube after YouTube and finally had my mind just about made up on the S3 Frontier. One problem, It was a week after Black Friday, and dang near every vendor was sold out. I called Best Buy, and they told me that they could order it in and it would be around 4-5 days. So on a Monday I took a trip up to my local Best Buy to check it out in person and hopefully pull the trigger. While one think was for sure, I fell in love with the size and design of the S3 way more then the S2 or any other watches on display.
Then the crazy story about how I ended up with my watch. I was told by 2 different Best Buy associates that, "yes, we can still get you one in 4-5 days" and So when I made up my mind, the guy said, its on order and should be here by Friday (12/16/16). So we proceeded with the transaction, and I bought the Bluetooth only version for $299.99. The next few days seemed to take forever and once Thursday night came, I couldn't take it anymore. I decided I would call and check on the status of my order just to make sure it was going to be here on Friday. Well.. that's when my heart sank. The customer service agent on the phone, couldn't find my order and didn't see where anyone had ever placed the order. He managed to find my sales receipt, but said there was no order associated with it. Thankfully he listened to the situation and with some on hold time, had the Manager at the store verify my story and was going to get back to me on Friday to let me know what they could do. Thankfully the store's inventory was now showing negative 1 on hand after my sale. They said it was a glitch in their system, and that the watch was basically sold out and not available.
Once I got that call, my option was to basically take a refund, and then once they got some more in, I could come back and buy it then. But all I wanted was to buy this thing! Even Samsung direct website said that it was going to be January before any other watches shipped out. So.. I decided to try and talk them into letting me exchange my pre-ordered Bluetooth model in for the ATT LTE model that I knew they had on the shelf. After some deliberation between sales managers, they decided to let me exchange it, plus $25. Because the Bluetooth was on sale for $299.99, but the outright ATT was still $349.99. I am on Verizon, so I had no use for the LTE, but I still just wanted the watch, lol. But to my surprise for all the headache and hassle, the Mobile manager decided to just exchange them straight up and apologized for the mistake. I love it when customer service based business comes to the plate for customers. Huge kudos to my local Best Buy for making it right for me.
Not going to get into the issue of getting the correct apps installed on my custom ROM HTC 10. But after a night of reflashing a stock based ROM and getting the apps done, its finally working! Even Samsung Pay which is so damn cool on my wrist. I'm excited to be a part of the Samsung S3 family and can't wait to see how much better it gets as more and more join in. I think the S3 is going to get a lot more customers as its out longer. I know I love it and don't think I'll find a replacement soon.
So there we go, sorry it got so long, but I'm just so excited about my new tech and thought my story was crazy enough to share.
Attached is a neat picture of my last 5 watches. Pretty cool to see the progression of wearables. Left to right: favorite black Fossil, favorite stainless Fossil, Original Pebble smart watch, 2nd generation Pebble time smartwatch, and the newest beast, the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier.
I also have the S3 Frontier. I do like it but it would be even better if it had compatibility with Android Wear apps. The lack of apps is the only thing I don't like about the watch. Other then that it is great.
I am sad that Samsung abandoned this phone. I got my note the first day it came out in 2014. Went to work late to pick it up. Best phone I ever had.
But I have worn it out. just got the note 8 and am sadly disappointed. Especially with the notifications. So I have 10 days to rake this back. Does anyone know where I can find a real, new, Samsung note for t-mobile? Amazon and ebay all say they have new but it ends up being refurbished. ANY help you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I keep getting an in game ad for this site. It seems like a clone of the Gear S3. No reviews anywhere online that I could find. Any experience? I bought mine from A4C for under $200 last year, but this price is absurd. Website is pretty vague. No official specs. I've bought Chinese clones before without success. For sure the phone worked, but was nothing like the original. Though I've bought some that weren't meant as clones (probably the same or similar specs) and they were fine for what I was expecting.
https://www.magicube.shop/collectio...a3-frontier-smartwatch-bluetooth-50-off-today
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I keep getting an in game ad for this site. It seems like a clone of the Gear S3. No reviews anywhere online that I could find. Any experience? I bought mine from A4C for under $200 last year, but this price is absurd. Website is pretty vague. No official specs. I've bought Chinese clones before without success. For sure the phone worked, but was nothing like the original. Though I've bought some that weren't meant as clones (probably the same or similar specs) and they were fine for what I was expecting.
https://www.magicube.shop/collectio...a3-frontier-smartwatch-bluetooth-50-off-today
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I bought one on a whim 2 days ago and am now hoping I've not been stung. The only thing I can find reviews-wise is on the magicube site where I got it, nothing independent.
I'll keep my ingers crossed I suppose and update if it arrives.
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I bought one on a whim 2 days ago and am now hoping I've not been stung. The only thing I can find reviews-wise is on the magicube site where I got it, nothing independent.
I'll keep my ingers crossed I suppose and update if it arrives.
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Very interested in what you find out. Thanks
Likewise I saw these advertised, and at just over £30 thought it was worth a punt. Don't think I'd have paid more though.
Will be interesting to see how it compares to my gear s2
Same aspect do not mean same feature like the No1 Watch. They have just a physic resemblence but not others things : not same OS, not same app, not same watchface..... so just a Chines watch like others thousand....
silo2 said:
I bought one on a whim 2 days ago and am now hoping I've not been stung. The only thing I can find reviews-wise is on the magicube site where I got it, nothing independent.
I'll keep my ingers crossed I suppose and update if it arrives.
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Did you get any shipping confirmation email? I have also bought one and now I have some serious doubts. They have simply copied samsung gear s3 ads.
Seen on Instagram
I've just gone for one too. Paying by PayPal and a Credit Card gives protection if all is not as it seems.
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Did you get any shipping confirmation email? I have also bought one and now I have some serious doubts. They have simply copied samsung gear s3 ads.
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Yes I did, however not yet dispatched, so I will see what develops.
Also just bought one with Paypal. How's the buyer protection, if we never receive it Paypal will reimburse 100% ?
Will also update if I get tracking number
I keep getting these adverts all over my Facebook. The video and the pictures they use are from the Samsung website. So the pictures you see are the gear s3 frontier and the s3 classic.
However, you aren’t going to receive the watch you see. You will receive a cheap Chinese clone, it’s also dubious whether the bezel will in fact turn or control the device.
Also the charger is not going to be the same as in the pictures
If you YouTube no.1 smartwatch, you’ll see what you are going to receive.
I’ve commented a few times on this companies Facebook advert about this issue of using the Samsung pictures but they just ignore it
Keen to see what people who have bought this end up with.
Really hope it's ok lol
Again like you guys I thought **** it why not and spent £30. Just watched that YouTube video and I'm actually hopeful as it was quite positive though. No notifications on dispatch times or anything though which is not worrying but obvs casts doubt. Will update asap
i just order one too ....thru paypal and i got confirmation from them and also from the site with order no. and all....will see
Jonybravo78 said:
I keep getting these adverts all over my Facebook. The video and the pictures they use are from the Samsung website. So the pictures you see are the gear s3 frontier and the s3 classic.
However, you aren’t going to receive the watch you see. You will receive a cheap Chinese clone, it’s also dubious whether the bezel will in fact turn or control the device.
Also the charger is not going to be the same as in the pictures
If you YouTube no.1 smartwatch, you’ll see what you are going to receive.
I’ve commented a few times on this companies Facebook advert about this issue of using the Samsung pictures but they just ignore it
Keen to see what people who have bought this end up with.
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I have also commented on there Facebook page that it's a Samsung add. Still waiting to hear back from them.
I too am interested to see what turns up
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Just bought mine, shipping to germany....so if this is a real Wear OS Watch and its near to the normal Wear OS Watches, this one is amazingly cheap .
At this moment i have the Amazfit Stratos 2 ...amazing battery life, kinda interessted if the watch can hold up to 2 Days with full usage.
Just received shipment confirmation, so fingers crossed something turns up
Heck next time I start a scam website I am posting here.
Hope you guys get something usable.
Not to sound racist... I'd love to hear your experience. What game? Mine was TPB.
Like everyone else I'm tempted... but sceptical. I did a whois and the website was only born in March this year... I saw a similar beautiful advert for a fake light sabre replica last week, at a similar price and an even younger URL. They ship some crappy toy... slowly I assume. It popped up daily for about a week before it disappeared... I assume taken own by FB. It seems scammers have found a sweet spot price to harvest thousands of orders then disappear. Hope I'm wrong... I want one!
I allready recieved a tracking number, its coming from China, iam hyped but not very confident xD.
Also bought one 25 minutes ago, so will wait and see. Paid by PayPal as it was the only payment method available, so should be covered
Wasting money. Nothing like the ad. Super lag. Super slow
Just wondering if anyone received their device yet. I've been eagerly awaiting some hands-on impressions of the phone to see if it's a worthy successor to my year old Key2. The spec sheet says "hell yes!" but I just want to be sure there's no hidden dealbreaker like sketchy build quality or poor keyboard experience that would ruin an otherwise attractive package before taking the $700 plunge.
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Just wondering if anyone received their device yet. I've been eagerly awaiting some hands-on impressions of the phone to see if it's a worthy successor to my year old Key2. The spec sheet says "hell yes!" but I just want to be sure there's no hidden dealbreaker like sketchy build quality or poor keyboard experience that would ruin an otherwise attractive package before taking the $700 plunge.
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At this point, nobody has received a full production model yet. The current statement is that the distribution centers will send out the first phones on or before October 29th 2019. There are three groups, the motomod backers, the pre-orders, and the regular orders. I'm the 150th of the pre-orders and really hope to be in that 10/29/19 shipment group!
https://tinyurl.com/y295cuml
Just got this in the mail, seems its another week...
https://mail.webfx.co/t/i-l-pkiuyc-jrhuyuktir-y/
b_x said:
At this point, nobody has received a full production model yet. The current statement is that the distribution centers will send out the first phones on or before October 29th 2019. There are three groups, the motomod backers, the pre-orders, and the regular orders. I'm the 150th of the pre-orders and really hope to be in that 10/29/19 shipment group!
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It seems that at least 6 people have received emails saying theirs has been shipped. No indication of anyone receiving it yet, other than the people who got prototypes.
On the official F(x)Tec forums people have been posting tracking numbers and such. Looking like Nov 19th is the date!
UPS said, I get my Pro1 next Tuesday!
a Japanese guy had already received the phone:
https://twitter.com/JH174941/status/1196247918908297216
I'm waiting for this device. Just want to watch some reviews on it by someone who has purchased it. The entire two months of November and December 2019. Nothing! Nothing! At all. I am so frustrated with this company and their transparency.
Clove Technologies
I ordered and received a clack of my very own from Clove Technologies in the UK. I've not started transferring over to that as I'm trying to decide whether to use stock OS or flash LineageOS, but it is online and I'm doing some light mobile web browsing etc. to kick the tires.
Definitely glad I held on and didn't cop out for a ROG Phone II or ZenFone 6 (or was it because both of those were out of stock when I was weak?), the shifted QWERTY keyboard was the right decision IMO as the keyboard is broad for me, and I'm a 6'1" half-German-half-Norwegian somewhere back before the US of A.
Chatting with friends via XMPP hasn't felt this good since the Symbian days. Finally! A device that has some consistency to its input, and a lot of character to boot. Clack is quite enthusiastic in personality, which (aside from their abysmal communication) likely reflects the passion Fxtec put into this device in order to get a smartphone with current guts and a physical keyboard going.
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I ordered and received a clack of my very own from Clove Technologies in the UK. I've not started transferring over to that as I'm trying to decide whether to use stock OS or flash LineageOS, but it is online and I'm doing some light mobile web browsing etc. to kick the tires.
Definitely glad I held on and didn't cop out for a ROG Phone II or ZenFone 6 (or was it because both of those were out of stock when I was weak?), the shifted QWERTY keyboard was the right decision IMO as the keyboard is broad for me, and I'm a 6'1" half-German-half-Norwegian somewhere back before the US of A.
Chatting with friends via XMPP hasn't felt this good since the Symbian days. Finally! A device that has some consistency to its input, and a lot of character to boot. Clack is quite enthusiastic in personality, which (aside from their abysmal communication) likely reflects the passion Fxtec put into this device in order to get a smartphone with current guts and a physical keyboard going.
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Thank you kind person!
Since my last post I've been learning all I can about the Jolla company and their operating system. More so I plan on getting the Xperia XA2 simply because it's available and can run sailfish os. If I follow the procedures and find the correct zip files online. At least I know the phone will fit the new direction I want to go in even if it does not have a pkb that I'm looking to replace from my keyOne Blk edition
Keep the information coming and thanks for the/any update.
Abysmal = good word usage! ??
Got my stock assigned email today
Finally
"Hello!
Good news! This message is to inform you that we have now assigned the stock for your Pro1 order.
The product is currently in our fulfilment warehouse awaiting to be packaged up and shipped to you in the coming days. Our warehouse is processing the queue as quickly as possible before their shutdown for the Chinese New Year holidays.
We will be back in touch with your tracking details shortly.
Thanks for your support and continuous patience.
Kind regards,
F(x)tec Logistics"
Fingers crossed...
Received mine yesterday. While there are a few bugs, I must say that it was well worth the wait.
Just got mine - a bunch of people are receiving theirs now that the promised "big shipment" finally went out...
So glad I got mine before china shut... So much better than my old D4
Received mine earlier this week. Ordered and paid back in August/September.
Got mine today. Ordered back in October. Trying out stock and lineage now. Not sure If I can get used to the weird keyboard layout (qwerty). Constantly trying to hit a key left of the actual one because the whole keyboard is shifted one key to the right. Also the round edges on the screen are really bad. I don't like it in the first place but with this one I get a lot of accidental touches.
Let's see how I feel about it in 2 weeks.
FxTec Pro 1
Hi XenGI,
I was wondering to buy the FxTec Pro 1. When did you orden your phone from them? How long time did it take, before you had your phone? I have today, the BlackBerry Key2, happy with that phone, but want to try something new. Are you happy with your phone?
Just 1 or 2 week go, BlackBerry announced that the will come with a new phone in the start of 2021.
I got mine October 13th 2020. And, I still cannot root the device. Desktop and laptop don't recognize the device. Yes I have Debugging on, Yes I have unlock OEM in developer mode. I have got to the fx tec and windows 10 website looking for drivers but have found none. so I guess I will continue to wait.
Received one a few months back
I ordered a Pro1 in May, and received a unit in August. I heard there were production issues, and naturally COVID-19 made things exponentially difficult (supply chain issues everywhere, carriers trying to ship things safely, etc.).
With all that said, I'm happy I didn't have the same experience as folks who ordered back in 2019 and are still waiting (??). Hopefully anyone who ordered a Pro1 last year actually have a Pro1 by now...