Samsung Galaxy Gear Tops 30% Return Rate
The Samsung Galaxy Gear is rumored to have return rates of over 30%, according to Geek.com.
Many are in a hurry to update their lives with the latest gadgets and tech. NFC, Bluetooth cars and GPS have all revolutionized the lives of the average person in the developed world. Unfortunately, Samsung's latest bid to make things just a bit easier on us isn't going too well.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear is rumored to have return rates of over 30 percent, according to Geek.com. The smartwatch was released this September to middling reviews. (See our sister site LAPTOP's review.) Syncing with the user's phone to streamline the experience of taking photos, making calls and more all from the wrist, the Gear seemed like one of the better options on the market.
Samsung is partnering with its reps in Best Buy to try and isolate the problem.

Better yet, only galaxy S4 etc not even S3...dont know if this is still actual right now, but nevertheless...why was it even actual.
Does it have Bluetooth?
That said, I did take my Note III to best buy and sync to one of the watches for a test run. It has a "neat factor" to it but nothing that said to drop 300 on it.
But seriously; people actually wanted to buy these in the first place?
I suspect this is something they felt they had to get to market first to avoid another $1 billion infringement decision against them in the future. The judge specifically prohibited them from showing the jury touchscreen phone prototypes they were working on before the iPhone (because they missed a filing deadline). That's why the Samsung attorney said "what's the point of even having this trial?" if that evidence were disallowed. So they needed to protect themselves in a way that was judge-proof and technicality-proof. If they're first to market, that's incontrovertible.
If you think about it, computers are going to continue to get smaller. For a while (since the PDA days, before the iPhone) I've been saying that your PC was going to shrink down to something you can carry around in your pocket. If you project it even further into the future, your PC is going to shrink down to something you can strap to your wrist or wear as a ring. So while the first attempts may be clumsy and not very impressive, this is the direction PCs will be going in the coming decades.
(Yes I know the screen is too small. Fortunately people have been working on transmitting the screen contents to a remote display over wifi or widi. My prediction is that in the future, your PC will be in your pocket or on your wrist, and your "tablet" will just be a display which connects to it wirelessly. Your "laptop" will just be a display and keyboard which connect to it wirelessly.)
Samsung is far from being the first to market with a smart watch. They were beat by Sony and several Chinese companies by a couple years. This is simply another case of Samsung copying other companies.
I suspect this is something they felt they had to get to market first to avoid another $1 billion infringement decision against them in the future. The judge specifically prohibited them from showing the jury touchscreen phone prototypes they were working on before the iPhone (because they missed a filing deadline). That's why the Samsung attorney said "what's the point of even having this trial?" if that evidence were disallowed. So they needed to protect themselves in a way that was judge-proof and technicality-proof. If they're first to market, that's incontrovertible.
If you think about it, computers are going to continue to get smaller. For a while (since the PDA days, before the iPhone) I've been saying that your PC was going to shrink down to something you can carry around in your pocket. If you project it even further into the future, your PC is going to shrink down to something you can strap to your wrist or wear as a ring. So while the first attempts may be clumsy and not very impressive, this is the direction PCs will be going in the coming decades.
(Yes I know the screen is too small. Fortunately people have been working on transmitting the screen contents to a remote display over wifi or widi. My prediction is that in the future, your PC will be in your pocket or on your wrist, and your "tablet" will just be a display which connects to it wirelessly. Your "laptop" will just be a display and keyboard which connect to it wirelessly.)
Samsung still isn't safe, as they're not the first to produce or market a smart watch. They're just the most expensive. I'm sure if Sony looked hard enough, they could probably find somewhere that Samsung infringed on one of their patents this go round....
Can't wait till these show up a Big Lots!
Nah it really holds no interest for me.
Maybe if the tiny screen could flip up it would be worth the eye strain to watch a video on it...Hmmm...Still no.