Samsung Galaxy Watch3 GPS Smartwatch 45mm, Mystic Silver (Renewed)

This watch is pretty great. I bought it was a renewed watch since I wasn't sure how much I'd like having a smart watch, but I'm pretty happy with it. It's my first smart watch; I bought it originally to keep track of my steps/general fitness and for the obvious time function itself. For the most part, I haven't had issues with it. I've dropped it a couple of times, I've dropped something onto it and smacked it into something when swinging my arm around, but there's no obvious damage to it at all, it still functions as intended. The wristband is also holding up surprisingly well, given that I've had it for over a year from when I originally bought the watch (ordered it 5 Feb 24). My ONLY real grievance about this watch is, because I wear it on my left wrist, when I bend my hand back enough it'll trigger the buttons. During exercise, this'll pause my workout tracker; outside of exercise, it can trigger one of the trackers to start tracking something I'm not actually doing. Both are annoying, but they're minor inconveniences. Otherwise, it does what I want it to: tracks my steps, fits correctly, tracks my workouts, tells me the time. The "AI" function on it, Bixli, is kind of useless? I don't know. You have to yell at her to make her listen, and even that's a struggle. I've tried her out a couple of times and it didn't go well, so I just disabled the function. The other features are good though, and there's apps you can download if you want to really personalize your watch face. Otherwise, Samsung does have a lot of good ones to choose from in the watch itself. Oh, I've also taken this watch swimming and into the shower and it did just fine. The water might trigger a sensor to where it thinks you're trying to do something on the watch if it hits it just right, but otherwise no issues. It also has a water "remover" function that you can scroll to and it'll vibrate to shake the water out. The battery life is pretty good. I usually charge it every night or every other night, especially if I know I'm going to the gym, but general use it goes around 2-3 full days before it needs another charge. Obviously, the more you use it, the sooner it'll need to be recharged. You can just slap it onto the charger base and you're good, it doesn't take long to recharge at all. For example: right now, my watch is on standard power mode and says 88% battery left. It estimates it has 2 days, 5 hours, and 21 minutes of battery life left. It was fully charged this morning, before I put it on and went to the gym. The text function is also good, you can read texts pretty quickly and it has quick responses for you to send, or you can write something out on your watch face, but that obviously is a little more time consuming. Phone calls also go through and you can answer them on your watch, so that can be a handy function as well, but I rarely use it. It obviously has other functions/apps you can add to it, but I'm just telling you what I use and what works for me. Overall, I'm happy with this watch. I recommend it if you just want something simple for time and tracking things.

This has been a very good watch. The battery life can go 2 days on a full charge. It gives me the basic notifications and functionality that I want in a smart watch. This size and weight are less than my Fossil watches. Extremely good value for the price and it looks great! I don't like the look or the price of the apple watch and ice been an android user until the last 3 years or so. I It stays connected and some time ago the find my phone feature stopped working. This model I believe is the last model that works with the iPhone as the newer ones are not compatible. The band that came with it didn't last more than a few months but that's okay. The first replacement only lasted a few months, the 3rd one lasted about 7 months as you can see in the picture. I would definitely buy this watch again.

Compliment Samsung S23 ultra nicely. Works great no problem to connect or otherwise

The only real issues I had with this watch was that the spring bars used for the watch band were the type that are flush (single shoulder), and the amount of residue on the refurbished case. Since the band was installed using a single shoulder spring bar and there are no holes to poke the spring in, you have to actually cut the bar (or bend it with pliers which could damage the lug indents or scratch the case). I wanted to remove the band for the reason that the watch itself had a small (but noticeable) amount of sweat/skin buildup near the lugs and around the bezel/ buttons from the previous owner. I wouldn't say that I'm a germaphobe, but it was a bit unsettling seeing this. The watch had a small nick on the bezel (which I was going to cover anyway for shock protection) and a couple of nearly imperceptible scratches around the watch band installation area (that will be covered by a watch band); these wouldn't be worth noting except I try to be as accurate in my reviews as possible. The battery life is on par with any post or article I've read regarding the Galaxy Watch 3. I get about a day and a half with always on display at brightness level 5 and Samsung Health running its little algorithms in the background and using the app "Facer". It arrived in a decent enough box, with a charger that seems to work fine. I go from low (10-20ish %) to 100 in about 2 hours. The band that came with the watch itself is nice enough to keep and use at a formal outing [provided you use a better spring bar (double shoulder/double flange e.g.)]. Screen was flawless. Shipping came a day early. Price is top notch.

I have big hands and heay arm. I had to return this watch. It was too heavy and the battery life really sucked.

There are already many reviews for this generation of Samsung fitness/smart watch so I'll just hit the highlights of why I like it. First, I find the S3 to be a feature rich and stylish watch. I very much like being able to access the watch's features using the bezel wheel. No tapping the screen or swiping to see information if I don't choose to. I have a Samsung phone so the watch and App were easy for me to set up and understand. The watch's screen is bright, sharp, colorful, and there are many modifiable watch faces available. I don't keep the GPS feature turned on so my battery life is a good 2 days. I have tried a couple of other fitness watches over the years, some with much longer battery life, but I have mostly used a version of Fitbit watch since 2015. Because I wanted to try something new and after watching/reading a number of reviews for this watch, I purchased a renewed one for around $100. I have been having fun with the watch and have nothing bad to say about it except step counts and some fitness info does not match up with my Fitbit watch results. I guess I will have to calculate a fudge factor in my head for the difference. Anyway, I liked the watch enough to buy a renewed S4 {next gen} watch that offers a few more features over the S3 such as an important new OS. Luckily, the Samsung App allows me to enable 2 watches so I can keep 1 watch charged all the time and switch back and forth between them. Samsung has promised 4 years of software updates so I will have plenty of time with these watches to try out the Samsung ecosystem before I have to decide to move on {or not} to their next gen watch. I believe S3 support updates end the Fall of 2023. The last thing I will say is that the $399 Samsung wanted for these premium watches brand new is way out of my cost to value price range so I was happy to be able to purchase them renewed. The good news is that their 5th gen fitness watch is more reasonably priced. But if you want to kick the tires on a premium Samsung fitness/smart watch without it costing an arm and a leg, I'd recommend you buy it renewed {excellent condition} to see if it just might become your new favorite watch.

I was so excite when I ordered this watch. first it came with no instruction paper, so I had {you tube} how to install it, it took a long time for me to figure it, out but I did. the charging just a day and half only, witch other watches that I use to have, stay charge was a lot longer than that. it looks like is very accurate on steps and sleeping too. I love the feel of the watch it's nice and heavy not plastic just like some others, and looks very classic watch, that's what I love about it. I just give it 3 stars because it doesn't hold the charge longer.

Works for when I'm working or driving.