SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch 3 (45mm, GPS, Bluetooth, Unlocked LTE) Smart Watch with Advanced Health Monitoring, Fitness Tracking, and Long Lasting Battery - Mystic Black (US Version)

Notice: I am a software tech and understand how computer equipment works. Not everyone will have the same experience as me! I had read a lot of reviews about how they couldn't get it to work or connect to ATT. Yes, the Watch3 is fairly new and not everyone at ATT probably knows everything about it. But I hope that my review will help those people because I found that with ATT, a Samsung watch is different than any other smart watch.I like to try and do things myself rather than call someone to set up things like this watch. So I went to the ATT website and logged into my account. The first thing I was told by ATT when I was investigating the watch was that the watch DOES have it's own phone number. So I knew that I need to click on the link to Add A New Phone Number to my account. The next question was if I was going to purchase the equipment from ATT or bring my own. I selected to Bring My Own.Now here is where you have to be careful and fully read the instructions. Natural thinking would be to fill in the form that asks for the IMEI number of the watch and the SIM number. Problem is, you don't have a SIM number. If you read the instructions, for a Samsung watch, you need to purchase an eSIM activation number so you have to tell it that you are adding a Wearable and the click the link to get an eSIM Card and add it to your cart. Depending on the specials on that day, you could get it free or pay fees. Once you purchase this card, you will have to wait for it to arrive. Or you can be like me and call customer service and ask for the eSIM number right away.When I called ATT they saw that I had ordered and paid for the card and so they got the card number and with my IMEI number, they set up their system for the new cell phone number. You will not get an actual phone number because the watch will clone the cell phone number when you connect the two. The agent then texted a photo of the QR code for me to scan into the app when it asked for it. I printed the photo or you can email it to your desktop email to use it from the screen.Now you should have downloaded the Wearable app from the Samsung Store and started it. The app will turn on the Bluetooth and see the watch and connect it. It will then will ask you to scan the QR code or enter the activation code number. After doing that, I had to go to the menu option Mobile Plans and run the function to NumberSync your watch to the phone. Once you do this, your watch should be connected to the cellular network ONLY when it can not connect to your cell phone via bluetooth or via the same wifi network that they are both on at the same time.After that, everything worked right away. I had to answer permissions for every app that I started on the watch for the first time and sometime in the phone. It can be annoying but is a necessary evil. Understand that text will work when connect to the phone or not but email you can only read when it is connected to the phone. Same with a few of the health apps and other things. But overall, it has been great. If you have Samsung Pay on your phone, it will sync with the one on your watch.There are practically a thousand different watchfaces that your can get or purchase in the store for cheap. I found that the ones that you purchase work better and have more configuration than the free ones. There are Navigation apps and even Radar maps for the weather that work great.I even downloaded an app called Nearby Places that will tell me what businesses or government offices are near me. Just tap, select the category you are looking for and then search. Once you find what you want, double-tap and a map with the route will show up with options to get directions as well.For the most part, I can leave my phone at home for most of what I need to do if I don't need to worry about getting emails. But the biggest reason for purchasing this watch was because it has an SOS option where if I fall or if I click three times on the home button, it will text my neighbors and family as well as call 911 so that I can ask for emergency services. I have tested it with my son and hope to test it with 911 soon... once I know that the odds are accidentally triggering a false alarm is minimal.

Overall, the Galaxy 3 Classic watch is a great watch. I love the look which is very traditional and not cheap quality like the newer watches... very robust. As long as you can live with some of the newest watch faces not being compatible you will be fine with this watch.I haven't had any technical issues and yes, I work in I.T. like another user, so I don't understand why they think it's so hard to use. It couldn't be easier. Want to reposition an app when you use the bezel? Start rotating the bezel, long press an app, then drag it left or right. Want to customize a watch face? Use the wearable app on your phone. If it's an issue with a watch face, don't blame the watch. Email the developer of the watch face.I've used many of the features, including heart rate, O2 sensor, EEG, steps, etc and they all work great.

I just bought the Samsung Watch3, Amazon delivered it the next day, and I had it completely set up within an hour or so. Great watch. My wife and I have identical Samsung cell phones (Note4) and tablets (S5e) and have been very happy with them. So the watch was the next step. We bought the LTE unlocked version to add to our Verizon plan. Adding this watch to our plan (for an additional $10/month) was very easy on the Verizon web site with the IMEI. I have seen a few reviews saying they were not able to add their watch to their Verizon plan and were told they would have to but the watch from Verizon (for higher price than Amazon). Not true—we set it up just fine. We are about to purchase our second Watch3 but my wife is trying to decide if she wants the 41mm smaller size or the 45mm size I have. Other than that, everything is as it should be, works well, an amazing collection of features. We still don’t understand why some folks think the Apple watch at twice the price and half the battery life is a better choice.

I have Verizon. On 5 September, Verizon representative tried telling me my imei number was not compatible.I instead connected the watch to my phone having decided tk see if it would just work. Durring setup, it asked if I wanted to add mobile service. I selected yes. The phone app connected to my verizon account and permitted me to select the smartwatch I was replacing. Everything worked and now my watch works.I did buy it here on Amazon.I wanted to add this review for those considering purchase. You dont HAVE to buy from Verizon (although setup will be easier that way.) You MAY have to take a trip to the 37th ring of hell (as I saw another reviewer describe it) but an LTE watch from Amazon SHOULD work and I can verify the automated way of connecting service is functioning since it just workrd for me.If nothing else, at least Amazon is pretty easy to return to if you get the runaround.Hope this helps.(I gave it 4 stars as my gripe is I hate the included watch band and lack of wall plug in the box. Almost 500 dollars and you cant let me choose my watch bad or at least include a wall plug? Elsewise, love it but Im probably biased. I have had samsung products for a while.)

Short answer: I bought this after being a Fitbit user for almost seven years. Fitbit products have gotten more and more unreliable. My Sense would not stay connected to my Galaxy Note 10+ for more than a few minutes, and the Sense was the only real replacement for the Ionic after they stopped selling that watch. The Galaxy Watch 3 does everything I wanted it to do, and stays connected to my Note 10+ almost intuitively! I have yet to try and connect the watch to LTE via Verizon, but should be trying to reach Verizon soon to do so. The running GPS is great. Having my Samsung Buds connect to either my phone or my watch for workouts is even better, and so easy! Much better than trying to connect my buds to the Fitbit for sure! If you don't care for Apple products and need something a little more reliable than Fitbit, this is the answer.