**A Companion App for Your Smartphone: The Gear 2**

For those who are looking to enhance their smartphone experience with a companion app, the Gear 2 is an excellent option. As we can see from our initial steps, installing the app is quite straightforward. After installing the app on your phone, you'll notice that it also appears on your Gear 2 watch. This means that you can use the camera on your watch to take high-quality photos of anything, including wine labels.

**Features and Functionality**

Under settings, we have access to various options such as double pressing the home key, which allows us to select features like S Voice notifications. We also have the option to enable Autolock, which turns our Smartwatch into a key for unlocking our device. This means that once we're connected to our device, we don't need to enter in a passcode or swipe our gesture to unlock it.

Additionally, we can adjust the settings for text input methods, including selecting SVO templates or emoticons, and editing existing ones. We also have the option to enable voice command for incoming calls, allowing us to respond directly from our watch. Furthermore, Safety assistance is an important feature that sends an emergency message to designated contacts along with a video and audio sample in case of an emergency.

**Pros and Cons**

In terms of aesthetics, there's a significant difference between the Gear 2 and its plastic counterpart. The metal watch face looks much more attractive and sophisticated, but comes at a premium price of $100. On the other hand, it's also very light and comfortable to wear, with impressive battery life that can last up to two days on heavy use.

However, there are some drawbacks to consider. The user interface can be a bit confusing at times, especially when trying to access notifications, which feel more like an app than a built-in feature. Additionally, the watch is only compatible with Samsung devices and apps, which may limit its appeal for those who don't use these services.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the Gear 2 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, the Galaxy Gear. The display is impressive, and the camera functionality is excellent. While there are some drawbacks to consider, such as the user interface and compatibility issues, the benefits of this watch far outweigh them. With its sleek design, advanced features, and seamless integration with our smartphone, the Gear 2 is an excellent choice for those looking to upgrade their wearable experience.

**Outdoor Photography**

As we take a stroll outside with our furry friends Zoe and Chloe, we can test out the camera functionality on the Gear 2. The camera performs exceptionally well in outdoor conditions, capturing vibrant colors and sharp images of the world around us. Whether it's a beautiful sunset or a playful moment with our pets, this watch is up to the task.

With its advanced features and seamless integration with our smartphone, the Gear 2 is poised to revolutionize the way we experience our wearable devices. As technology continues to evolve, it will be exciting to see how this device continues to improve and expand its capabilities.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at two devices in one video so we're going to take a look at the Samsung Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo both of these are basically the same devices but the Gear 2 Neo is $100 cheaper at $1.99 this is $2.99 basically this is cheaper because it lacks the 2 megapixel camera and it's made out of Cheaper materials plastic instead of more metal on the gear too now these are no longer called Galaxy gear and that's because they're powered by tyen which is Samsung's alternative operating system to Android now this also joins the Gear Fit device which I've also reviewed and the Gear Fit is kind of a combination Smartwatch and fitness band which is kind of a different form factor but this is run by rtos or real-time operating system as opposed to tysen or Android now let's go and take a look at these specs and pretty much we have the same specs except for the fact that this one does not have the camera as you can see by that blank space there so again 2 megapixel camera on the Gear 2 a gyroscope accelerometer heart rate monitor as well as an IR blaster for controlling AV Equipment which you're now finding on B basically all Samsung devices we have Bluetooth 4.0 low energy we have a 1.63 in Super AMOLED display 320x 320 resolution good for 227 pixels per inch this is also IP67 certified meaning that you can submerge this in water for up to 30 minutes under 3 m of water up to 3 m of water it's also dust resistant so it's just like the Galaxy S5 now both of these devices have the same 300 mAh battery which is good for about 2 to 3 days of normal use and unlike the gear fit this also includes cludes a microphone and built-in speaker so you could answer your phone calls directly on your watch now the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neal are available in a wide variety of colors so as you can see here I have the black Gear 2 and the gray Gear 2 Neo and the Gear 2 also has different metal colors so this one is the silver one you can also get kind of a coppery gold color all right so let's go ahead and unbox the gear to I'm just going to slice the plastic tabs along the side here all right so I've cut the tabs I'm just going to lift the lid here so there is our Gear 2 so we have a little tab here to open up so we have our Samsung branded power adapter with this fixed micro USB charging cable so you can't remove it and then we have our charging cradle and that's because this does not have a micro USB charging port instead you have this little adapter here which keeps the device thinner and waterproof on the left side we have our paperwork so we have our health safety and warranty guide not a lot of interesting information there and then we should have our quick user guy quick reference manual which tells us how to use the device how to charge it Etc so we're going to explore that in this video all right so let's remove the Gear 2 and as you can see it's wrapped in plenty of plastic it's got a nice Hefty feel to it because it is made out of metal all right so I'm just going to remove the plastic here so you can see completely wraps the band it's also wrap behind it just going to pull the tab back here and there we go now we have another piece of plastic covering the watch clasp which no longer integrates the speaker as it did with the Galaxy Gear from last year now before we take a close look at the design and features I just want to boot it up so I'm going to press and hold the new power button which is now a more traditional home button sort of orientation as opposed to the side button on the gear Galaxy Gear from last year as you can see the button was along the side you can see you get that boot animation which is very similar to the Galaxy S5 Samsung Gear 2 now to connect your gear first download the Gear manager via the Samsung app store on your mobile device now the Gear 2 compatible with about 20 Samsung Galaxy devices including the GS5 which it launched with now as soon as I wake up my GS5 it automatically detects the presence of the Gear 2 watch so I can go ahead and select okay to activate the pairing sequence so right now the first thing it needs to do is install the software I have already downloaded the Gear manager which again you can do from the App Store now I just need to pair my gear to to my phone so I'm going to click okay here click okay now the first order of business is to update the firmware on the Gear 2 which you'll be prompted to do once you pair your device all right so there we go we have the Gear 2 ready to be used and we have our Gear 2 manager for adjusting the settings and features now next up is the Gear 2 Neo she just have to cut the plastic tabs here lift the lid and there we go the Gear 2 Neo this is the kind of gray color it is mostly plastic we don't have the metal finish of the gear to so there we go we're going to set that aside for just a minute as you can see we also have a white USB power adapter as opposed to the black one I'm not sure if that's indicative of the color or not but as you can see white with a charging cable and then we have our cradle which is color matched to the color I chose here so that that kind of mocha color there we go and we also have our paperwork which is basically the same as the full gear too all right so let's go and peel the plastic off here we have another tab here inside there we go and we have another piece of plastic to peel off the metal clasp on the watchband all right so let's take a Clos look at the design and the materials they're using on the Galaxy Gear 2 as you can see it has this nice metal face plate which looks a little more premium than the plastic construction of the fit and the Neo so it looks a little more professional this is very similar to the Galaxy Gear from 6 months ago uh as you can see also had a metal face plate and they've redesigned it you can see the screen is the same size uh but otherwise the watch band and the face plate have been redesigned so as you can see now we have a home button as opposed to just a sleep wake button along the side you can also see that the camera module has been moved so instead of being integrated into the watch band it's now integrated into the watch face which means that you can now replace the watch band in fact if you look along the side profile you'll see that the watch band is now modular on the Gear 2 as opposed to integrated on the Galaxy Gear now the Galaxy Gear also integrated the speaker into the watch clasp that has been moved to the Watch Body on the gear to which allows them to slim down the clasp considerably now taking a look at the watch body as you can see it's plastic but it does integrate our speaker and it has a little friction fitting here for the charging cradle that friction fitting is also on the other side right here just like we see with the fit we also have a single microphone down here which of course has to be waterproof for the IP67 certification that also goes for the speaker now on the back we'll find a heart rate monitor just like on the fit and the Neo uh this will measure your heart rate during exercises and of course there is a dedicated app for measuring your heart rate now the watch band on the exterior has this nice textured finish it looks pretty high-end on the inside you'll find this ribed pattern which makes it a little more comfortable to wear on your wrist so allows your wrist to breathe now the clasp itself has also been redesigned it's a little simpler so as you can see it snaps into place like so and then when you want to pop it off you can do it that way now you can also resize it as you can see you have a pin right here if you want to resize it just pop the pen and slide it around so if you want to make it a little more spacious you can do so like that snap it into place and you're good to go now getting back to the Neo this is very similar in design to the Gear 2 but it's entirely made out of plastic so as you can see here the front plate is pretty much the same design it's just made out of plastic instead of metal as you can see it's also more monochromatic so the watch band matches the color of the face plate and the back panels now the home button is also different here so you can see the Home bun is metal in this case or at least it feels like metal has a nice texture to it it feels a little more more raised than the what feels to me a smaller home button on the Neo so this feels a little less tactile a little harder to feel for now the displays and internal specs are identical on both devices but you can see up here the one major feature difference which is the lack of a camera module on the Neo it just has an IR blaster which the Gear 2 also includes now both these devices have the same internal specs they both have a 1 GHz dual core processor half a gig of RAM and 4 gigs of storage if you look at the back we have the same heart rate sensor we have the same speaker Grill along the side here which is waterproof IP67 waterproof and we also have a microphone now the clasp mechanisms are identical on both watches but the watch bands are a little different now to me the Gear 2 feels a little higher quality you can see the patterns a little different but the material is softer and more pliable than the more rigid plastic on the Gear 2 Neo so as you can see with the charging dock on the inside we have those electrical connections which lines up with the pins on the back of the device you just snap this on there you go you have your USB port for charging and you also have a perforation that lines up with the speaker Grill so the speaker can work through the charging dock now the Gear 2 Neo also has that same charging cradle design with the speaker outlet pop it off like so now this is in Star contrast to the charging cradle of the Galaxy Gear from last year which was a big clamshell that actually snapped around the entire watch face all right so let's take a look at our user interface now if you tap and hold the home button it gives you several options here so you can power it off you can restart it you can select outdoor mode which will brighten the screen and increase contrast for better visibility Outdoors but it's limited to 5 minutes I'm just going to uncheck that here we also have our sound options so we have vibration we have mute and then we have sound but you can't have both so you can't have both sound and vibration now we can go back to the home screen and as you can see we have several pages of apps kind of similar to a smartphone in fact if you look down here you have these little indicators at the bottom which indicates which page you're on and which one is the home screen now there are several multi touch gestures to be aware of here so if you double tap the home screen with two fingers you get to your volume controls so you can go all the way up to maximum or decrease it all the way to vibration this also allows you to see your battery status which is otherwise not visible so again double tap here and you can also increase your brightness and again uh six is outdoor mode which is limited to 5 minutes you also decrease it all the way down to barely visible we also have a dedicated app for these controls so you can quickly access brightness and volume now if you long press with two fingers you'll get to your recent apps so as you can see here just like on a Samsung TouchWiz device you can tap on any one of these to bring them forward or again tap and hold again to bring up your multitasker no matter where you are and then you can also swipe them out of the way to close them and you can also get to that close all feature at the bottom now we have another gesture here so for example if I go into the app if I go into the pedometer if I drill down here go into our history now how do I go back well there is a gesture here to go back just like on the Galaxy Gear you SW swipe down from the top now if you're in the gear fit you actually get a dedicated back button which I actually find a little more intuitive now we have multiple pages of apps but not all apps are actually on the home screens in fact we have an app drawer here so if we go to the app drawer right here apps you'll see we have another section full of apps so if I drag and drop this take it up to home screen here it will drop it onto my home screen and create a new page I can also edit this and move it around on my home screen so I can create a new page I can delete it or I can drag it around to one of the other home screens and as you can see I need to make space on one of those home screens in order to drag and drop it it doesn't bump it out of the way for me now you can also delete an app just by tapping and holding on it and take it up to remove it just removes the app it doesn't uninstall it now I cannot remove the home screen here so as you can see here the home screen is basically one big widget with shortcuts on it so I can take it up here it won't delete it so unable to remove it now if I go to my apps I can actually move them around within the app drawer here and as you can see they will move out of the way for me which is not the case on the home screen which is kind of interesting all right so let's take a look at some of the fitness apps they've included so we have our podometer The Exercise app sleep and heart rate so pedometer is pretty basic it keeps track of your steps so as you can see here I've walked 814 steps today I can pause that or I can resume it it also tells you how much distance you've traveled and how many calories it estimates you've burned in that activity so you can resume it you can go up here to your history as well to see your previous days you can tap on that to see exact spec or exact stats from that day so 75 miles traveled yesterday 79 calories burned and I walked 4 1486 steps which is well shy of my goal of 10,000 steps speaking of goal here is the goal which you can modify 10,000 steps you also can reset your steps for the day now next up we're going to take a look at the exercise app which incorporates running walking cycling and Hiking so if you want to go walking here you go to the walkin app and You Begin start so as you can see it's keeping track of time as well as your heart rate and the distance travel as well as calories burned now up here you have this little icon for getting to the music player on the device so you can begin playing music now if you go up here to your menu you have several options here so you can see your history so you can see I don't have much here to take a look at but you can tap on it see more information and then drill back here back to your uh root menu so you can go to your goal as well to set a variety of goals so you can set your distance time or calorie goal you also have your heart rate monitor so you can turn that off possibly to save battery life so if you don't need the heart rate monitor running you can disable it here and of course these apps are adjusted for the type of activity here so for example if you're cycling it will use your GPS location to estimate miles traveled now we also have a standalone heart rate monitor which keeps track of your heart rate and the time of day as well as date it was recorded which will sync to the Sealth app and since you wear this on your wrist you don't have to be too picky in terms of movement so it will record your heart rate no matter what you're doing as long as it's snug to your wrist we also have this sleep app which will actually keep track of your sleep activity so if you're wearing this watch at night and you activate this app before you go to bed it will actually keep track of motion during the night now you can see that last night I slept for 6 hours and 21 minutes and I was motionless for 92% of that time which is pretty restful now I can also enable blocking mode because this does push notifications to your wrist you don't necessarily want this going off in the middle of the night now on the next page we have our phone dialer logs and contacts everything related to our phone so you have your dialer here so you can input your phone number it does include autocomplete you also have quick access to your contacts in the upper right corner you also have your logs right here which includes text messaging as well as uh phone calls Miss phone calls that sort thing all of that is included here and you can delete them as well you can also filter by all logs calls or Miss calls sent calls received calls rejected calls messages sent messages receive messages Etc you also have your contacts app right there which of course will reveal a bunch of phone numbers I'm sure don't want to be shared on the internet now you can place and receive phone calls directly on the Gear watch of course using the Galaxy phone as the receiver it just pipes it through the Smartwatch so as you can see I have my caller ID information and I can go ahead and answer the phone call directly on my watch all right this is just a test of the audio of the Smartwatch so you can see it's pretty loud but certainly not going to work terribly well in a noisy environment now alternatively you can reject the call with a text message and again you have to select one of the pream messages now we also have a page full of utility such as the music player watch on remote control voice memo and SVO now SVO is kind of Handy on a smartwatch but it's definitely a lot more limited than the version on the smartphone so let's go ahead and test it out what's the weather like tomorrow on Saturday we'll have some sunshine with a few clouds send an alarm for tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. to wake me up all right this is your alarm for 7 a.m. do you want to save this alarm yes okay I saved your alarm for 7 a.m. send a text message to Michael Kela mobile are you going to be in tomorrow question mark here is your message ready to send it yes Sending message now I can ask things like how tall is the Empire State Building 1,00 250 ft City rank first national rank third world rank 24 but you can't do things like show me photographs of a Ford Mustang what search is not supported now you can also open up apps so you can say open the podometer open podometer now we also have an onboard music player so you can load songs on this device and play music directly from your watch using a set of bluetooth headphones or the internal speaker now we also have a voice memo app which syncs to your voice memo app on the phone now you're limited to 5 minute sessions and it also includes transcription so let's go ahead and try this out this is a test of the voice memo app which also includes transcription all right so if I go up here I can see my history so I can see that message I just recorded now let me go up here to enable transcription this is a test of the voice memo app which Al includes transcription now if you go to the voice recorder app on the Galaxy phone you can see that one has been synced including the transcription The Voice mem app which also includes transcription now we also have the watch- on remote control app which is pretty easy to set up now this allows us to control our TV or set top box using an IR blaster now we're kind of limited in this app versus the full featured app on the mobile phone so we can set up our TV I can select my Samsung TV here select okay we're going to send the power code and if that worked to turn on the TV we're going to click yes and we're done so it's added the TV and given us this control panel now we can also add our set toop Box by going to STV we're going to go to the USA I'm on Comcast click okay select the power button if that worked click yes click done and then we have our set top box and TV and as you can see when you swipe right you get your uh input for your channel selection now what I found to be a big problem here is there is no okay or enter button which my set top box requires in order to to input a channel selection so I find this to be a very limited app now the email app is pretty full featured and it includes all the accounts you've added to the email app on your Samsung device so I can see my combined view uh and my individual accounts and as you can see they're colorcoded now I can swipe to delete a message or I can cancel it I can open the message and see the entire text of the message I can also swipe left or right to navigate through my messages I can also reply now I am limited to cam messages when replying into an email now you can set these up or customize them under the uh Gear Manager app which I'll show you a bit later now if you go up to settings here you have more reply options so you can select templates or you can select modons so if I select the modons I can now reply to this message with something like that I can go ahead and send it off now I can also delete the message or I can tell it to show it on the device so if I select show on device it will automatically unlock my device and take me right to that message now we also have the messages app which works with the included messaging app on your Galaxy phone uh so for example you have all my previous messages including one I sent to myself now I can swipe to the left to message me or I can swipe to the right to call me this is very similar to The Experience on a Galaxy phone now if I want to reply to a text message I can click reply and I can use any one of the canned messages but if I swipe down here and go to my settings I can change that to SVO or emoticon so you can see with messaging you have a little more options here in terms of input so if you select S Voice you can actually dictate a reply using voice what's your message this is just a test of S Voice on the Gear 2 period here is your message ready to send it cancel and incidentally when you press here you can see you little indicator for adjusting the volume so if you can't hear S Voice or if you want to quiet it down you always have a quick access toggle to your volume control now I also have find my device so if we enable this this will start ringing our phone or tablet to help us find it now this also works in Reverse if you want to find your gear directly from the Gear Manager you can do that as well now we also have the gallery app which shows us all the photos and videos recorded directly on this device now we also have a media controller which is kind of like a remote control for the media apps on your mobile phone or tablet whatever is connected to it so I can click play now it's controlling whatever media app I was last using in this case Google play music so I can pause it play it skip ahead and then I can also increase volume or I can mute it now we also have the weather app which uses your GPS location to identify the current conditions no matter where you are you can click refresh to update it as well now if you tap on the app it takes you to your future forecast now we also have our calendar which syncs with the S Planner app on your Galaxy phone as you can see you can swipe through the days and you can navigate through the entire day just by swiping up and down and if you want to see more information all you have to do is tap on any one of them like so to get to more information you can see the time of day the event is as well as more detailed information in the title information now we also have a stopwatch and timer so we go to the stopwatch app we can click Start we can also lap so we can record our individual laps and that goes with the fitness theme of this watch click stop so you can see all your lap times let's go back to the timer so with the timer we can set the specific time like so uh and then we can click Start and as you can see we got a little progress indicator now we can navigate away from this timer and it will automatically alert us when the time is up now let's take a look at notifications as you can see I have three pending notifications and these are all the apps I have authorized for pushing notifications on my gear 2 so as you can see I can delete them all I can also see that I have three unviewed uh messages and then I can see that I have these previous messages which have push notifications to my SmartWatch so for example I can the Instagram I can see my Instagram event so it's basically a notification that's similar to what appears on your smartphone now not all notifications are the same so for example if I look at the Gmail oh there I just got a notification here so I've received a new question on Ask.fm I can swipe it out of the way here and then we can go to email notifications so as you can see here the email app basically comes up and I can see more detailed information than just the popup which is kind of nice now if I go to the Gmail app which doesn't isn't as full featured here if I go to Gmail just gives me a notification very similar to the notification I would get on the Galaxy phone so I get a preview but I don't actually see the full text of the email now these notifications stay sync to your Galaxy phone so if you look at them here they'll disappear from the pending notification panel in your drop- down shade now there are two ways of receiving notifications on the Gear 2 either as a full screen popup or as a banner popup now most of the time you'll get the full screen popup but in certain apps you don't want that to happen such as the camera app so if you're looking at the camera and you receive a notification instead you'll get a banner pop up at the top of the screen without interrupting what you're doing now let's take a look at our settings the first thing we have here is the clock face which we can change so you can also select the clock with weather you can select a different clock face and you can also get more clock faces from the Gear manager which I'll show you later we also have our wallpapers which you can customize here from the available gallery items I only have one image there but you can also go with the available options here so you can see patterns or you can select a solid color we also have our notification panel so that just allows us to turn it on or off and then we also have our sound settings and there's quite a few sound settings here so we have our volume control here we have multimedia ringtones notification and system so you can individually control the volume of these settings so you can see multimedia ringtones notifications as well as system so you can see all of those are controlled independently we also have touch sounds which you can disable if you prefer that those are off by default we have our ringtones so you can see there's not too much to pick from here you have modernness Timeless and twinkle click okay there then we also have vibration so you can change the vibration from strong to weak uh we also have notifications so we have driving signal Flicker and Tic Tac now under display we have our brightness controller here we also have our screen timeout settings which are defaulted to 10 seconds I've extended it to 5 minutes for this demo we also have our fonts so we can change our font style so you can see the available fonts none of them look terribly good and we also have our font size so we can go from small medium to large and we also have the wake up gesture so if you lift your wrist to look at the time it automatically detects that that's what you want to do and will wake up the display to show you either the time or the last view D so you can select that under the settings here you also have the home icon size so by default we have the small icons but if you select large icons let's go to the home screen now you can see that very similar to the iPod Nano you now have these larger icons as opposed to the smaller grid view we also have our home screen editor which is a little different so as you can see here you can re R apps you can remove them or create new pages and as you can see here when you move the apps around they'll rearrange for you we also have our bluetooth settings which allows us to disconnect our Bluetooth connection to our phone or add a Bluetooth headset now we also have double press settings so that's referring to the home button so if you double press the home button in my case I've activated SVO but you have many other options here so you can do recent apps which is actually very useful then we have camera context controls dialer email exercise find my device Gallery heart rate logs etc etc so basically every function of this device can be activated by double pressing the home button Now privacy lock is a feature that locks our Smartwatch if it disconnects from our smartphone that prevents somebody from finding this and having access to potentially sensitive information so we can go to privacy lock activate it by entering a pin in now as you can see right now I don't need my PIN to access my SmartWatch but if I disable Bluetooth on my smartphone here it will pop up automatically now we also have our profile settings here this is necessary for the fitness app so you can see my gender date of birth height weight Etc that's all setable here all right so let's take a look at the camera app again 2 megapixels with autofocusing you have a camera mode and a video camera mode as you can see here you just tap the screen to take a photo and it focuses it for you it does both at the same time so you don't have a lot of flexibility in that regard now if you go to your settings up here you have Focus mode so you can select auto or Macro for closer photography you also have photo size so you can adjust it all the way up to 16 by9 or less we also have sound and shot which is a feature we're familiar with on the Galaxy devices so this will record a 9-second clip when you shoot a photograph so let's go ahead and demonstrate that this is just a test of the sound and shot feature and you can click stop if you don't want to record the entire 9 seconds now if you swipe to the right you get to your gallery this is just a test of the sound and shot feature and and of course you can swipe through the other parts of your gallery as well now we also have something called Signature and if we enable this and take a photograph basically all it does is imprint Samsung gear on the photograph so now if we swipe to the right you'll see it right there we also have location tags which you can turn off or on it's off by default and when it's on you'll actually see an indicator in the upper corner here now we also have voice control which is off by default but I've enabled this so basically all I have to do is say shoot cheese and it takes the photo for you handsfree now when you're in video mode you basically tap the screen to start recording in and as you can see you're limited to 15 seconds and you're limited to 9 Clips so if you exceed that you'll then be prompted to start deleting them but of course this will automatically transfer to your phone so you can keep your storage free on your device now you can also select your video size from the options menu so you have 720p or 640x 640 all right so let's take a look at the Gear manager so we can adjust our home screen so we can adjust our wallpaper as well as our clock faces as you can see it syncs to the device so it knows exactly what your device is on right now so if we go to our wallp we can select any one of the wallpapers they've given us now as you can see it doesn't update it live like it does on the fit you actually have to click done so if you click done it then applies the wallpaper now you can add a custom image by going to more images it'll take you directly to your photo gallery so we can add one of our images let's go to one of the images in my camera roll let's go to Zoe here picture of Zoe and then we just have to resize it to fit the Gear 2 screen click done and click done to apply it so there we go we have our Custom Image for our wallpaper which works great with with those transparent icons now we can also select different clock faces as you can see they update in real time for you now some of these clock faces have additional settings here so for example if we go to our shortcut clock which is the default clock you can actually select what shortcuts you want to appear here so if you go to settings here you'll see that we have shortcut application 1 two and three the one I want to change here is application 2 the podometer which I would like to add a different application as you can see here I have lots and lots of applications to pick from so the one I may want is let's say SVO let's click SVO so it changes it for us in real time now you can also change the clock font to light dynamic or default we also have our event clock which will add our calendar events now this allows you to cycle between all the events on your clock face and if you want to see the event just tap on it takes you right to it now under s we have our sync settings so we can change our podometer transfer interval from 24 hours to 3 hours or you can transfer now now under notifications we have several options here including limiting notifications so if you don't want the notifications to appear on both your smartphone and your Smartwatch while you're looking at your smartphone you can click that option we also have Smart relay so if you're looking at a notification on your Galaxy gear and you pick up your phone it automatically launches the app from that notification you can also select specific apps to push notifications such as phone calls your alarm the calendar Miss calls messages email and weather and then you have all your third party apps here which you can check manually so you can see I've only selected a few of them but you have quite a few to pick from now if we go to my apps you'll find all the apps including their settings so for example if we go to the camera we can select auto transfer so you can automatically transfer all your photos and videos directly to your device right now I have selected for always only when charging or manual are also options you also have your contact so you can select exactly what contacts are displayed so you can do all contacts or only your favorites you also have your email settings so you can select specific accounts or add additional accounts and edit a signature now we also have our S voice settings so we can enable voice prompts or disable it we have voice memo so we can do auto transfer which I have also set for always now if you want to transfer music to the Gear 2 you can do so via the USB port and the USB adapter or you can do it from your phone so all I have to do is go to the app settings for music so we go to the music player go to settings send tracks to the Gear so as you can see here I've added some songs to my Galaxy S five now I can send these songs over to the Gear just by going up here to select and I can select certain tracks so let me go and select that one click Send so now if I go to my music player I'll find an additional track to pick from now you can also download additional apps for your gear too so you can see they're categorized by entertainment Finance Health Fitness lifestyle social networking and utilities so if I go ahead and select one of these categories I can see all the apps that are available in that category so you can see I can download free paid Etc or what's new let's go ahead and download this app now this is actually a companion app for the smartphone app now there are not many apps to pick from so for example if we go to social networking you can see it's basically one page and I don't see Facebook Twitter Instagram go+ or anything like that in here now after installing that app if I go to my app you'll see that it now appears at the bottom if I want to delete it I just go up to the trash can up here and delete it so as you can see in this case it's installed an app on my phone as well as on my gear so if I go to my apps now I'll see it right here now it's basically a camera app that combines with the app on the phone so you can use the camera here to Snap photos of wine labels now under settings we have our options such as double pressing the home key so we can select that here as you can see even our third party apps do appear here so you can select S Voice notifications and that sort of thing so I'm going to select notifications now which I actually prefer you can also select autol loock now basically this turns your Smartwatch into a key for unlocking your device as long as it's connected you don't have to enter in a passcode or swipe your gesture in to unlock the device you just unlock it but if you disconnect the watch let's go ahead and just disconnect Bluetooth and now try to unlock the phone you'll have to enter in your gesture you can also adjust the wakeup gesture settings right here so you can select clock or last view screen like you can directly on the Gear 2 itself you also have the default text input method so you can select SVO templates or emoticons and you can also edit the text templates right here so you can delete them or add addition ones to pick from now we can also enable voice command for incoming calls so for example when receiving an incoming call you can speak directly to the Gear 2 by seeing answer or reject now we also have Safety assistance so what this will do is basically send an emergency message to designate contacts to let you know your location and we'll also record a video and an audio sample just to let you know that you're in a situation and you need help this is meant to be discreet so if you can't answer your phone you can't pick up your phone basically all you have to do is triple TT the home button to activate that feature now let's talk about the pros and cons of these watches and I think the biggest Pro here is the display it's a nice large display it's perfect for reading full text it's also a bright vivid colorful display that looks great off AIS it also looks pretty good outdoors although it tends to get washed out in bright sunlight now in terms of Aesthetics there's a huge difference between the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neil the metal watch face is much more attractive at least to me than the plastic watch face it definitely looks a lot more sophisticated and would definitely be the version I would prefer to wear but of course it is $100 more it's also very light and comfortable to wear has pretty solid battery life 2 days out of heavy use in my case but of course you can get up to 3 days they say under normal use and it's fantastic to have notifications on your wrist without having to take your phone out of your pocket and that has worked out pretty well now in terms of cons I think the biggest one for me is the user interface sometimes it's a little confusing I'm not sure if I'm on the home screen or if I'm in the app drawer and it's kind of difficult to get to Notifications which I think is one of the most used features here so it be nice if the notification panel was kind of built into the user interface instead of treated like an app and of course this watch is locked down to Samsung devices and works best only with Samsung apps which may not work for a lot of people so in conclusion I think this is a huge leap over the Galaxy Gear just 6 months old so you can see the progress has moved up quite a bit with the Gear 2 so I can only imagine what the next step is and certainly there's a lot of interesting competition coming so that's going to do it for me in this video thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next one all right so here I am in my foyer with Zoe and Chloe looks like they're Sun baiting but I think they're ready to go outside so in fact that's what I'm about to do so let's go outside and take a look at performance of this camera Outdoors hey girls come here hey Chloe Chloe hey what's up hey girls come on come on let's walkhey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at two devices in one video so we're going to take a look at the Samsung Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo both of these are basically the same devices but the Gear 2 Neo is $100 cheaper at $1.99 this is $2.99 basically this is cheaper because it lacks the 2 megapixel camera and it's made out of Cheaper materials plastic instead of more metal on the gear too now these are no longer called Galaxy gear and that's because they're powered by tyen which is Samsung's alternative operating system to Android now this also joins the Gear Fit device which I've also reviewed and the Gear Fit is kind of a combination Smartwatch and fitness band which is kind of a different form factor but this is run by rtos or real-time operating system as opposed to tysen or Android now let's go and take a look at these specs and pretty much we have the same specs except for the fact that this one does not have the camera as you can see by that blank space there so again 2 megapixel camera on the Gear 2 a gyroscope accelerometer heart rate monitor as well as an IR blaster for controlling AV Equipment which you're now finding on B basically all Samsung devices we have Bluetooth 4.0 low energy we have a 1.63 in Super AMOLED display 320x 320 resolution good for 227 pixels per inch this is also IP67 certified meaning that you can submerge this in water for up to 30 minutes under 3 m of water up to 3 m of water it's also dust resistant so it's just like the Galaxy S5 now both of these devices have the same 300 mAh battery which is good for about 2 to 3 days of normal use and unlike the gear fit this also includes cludes a microphone and built-in speaker so you could answer your phone calls directly on your watch now the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neal are available in a wide variety of colors so as you can see here I have the black Gear 2 and the gray Gear 2 Neo and the Gear 2 also has different metal colors so this one is the silver one you can also get kind of a coppery gold color all right so let's go ahead and unbox the gear to I'm just going to slice the plastic tabs along the side here all right so I've cut the tabs I'm just going to lift the lid here so there is our Gear 2 so we have a little tab here to open up so we have our Samsung branded power adapter with this fixed micro USB charging cable so you can't remove it and then we have our charging cradle and that's because this does not have a micro USB charging port instead you have this little adapter here which keeps the device thinner and waterproof on the left side we have our paperwork so we have our health safety and warranty guide not a lot of interesting information there and then we should have our quick user guy quick reference manual which tells us how to use the device how to charge it Etc so we're going to explore that in this video all right so let's remove the Gear 2 and as you can see it's wrapped in plenty of plastic it's got a nice Hefty feel to it because it is made out of metal all right so I'm just going to remove the plastic here so you can see completely wraps the band it's also wrap behind it just going to pull the tab back here and there we go now we have another piece of plastic covering the watch clasp which no longer integrates the speaker as it did with the Galaxy Gear from last year now before we take a close look at the design and features I just want to boot it up so I'm going to press and hold the new power button which is now a more traditional home button sort of orientation as opposed to the side button on the gear Galaxy Gear from last year as you can see the button was along the side you can see you get that boot animation which is very similar to the Galaxy S5 Samsung Gear 2 now to connect your gear first download the Gear manager via the Samsung app store on your mobile device now the Gear 2 compatible with about 20 Samsung Galaxy devices including the GS5 which it launched with now as soon as I wake up my GS5 it automatically detects the presence of the Gear 2 watch so I can go ahead and select okay to activate the pairing sequence so right now the first thing it needs to do is install the software I have already downloaded the Gear manager which again you can do from the App Store now I just need to pair my gear to to my phone so I'm going to click okay here click okay now the first order of business is to update the firmware on the Gear 2 which you'll be prompted to do once you pair your device all right so there we go we have the Gear 2 ready to be used and we have our Gear 2 manager for adjusting the settings and features now next up is the Gear 2 Neo she just have to cut the plastic tabs here lift the lid and there we go the Gear 2 Neo this is the kind of gray color it is mostly plastic we don't have the metal finish of the gear to so there we go we're going to set that aside for just a minute as you can see we also have a white USB power adapter as opposed to the black one I'm not sure if that's indicative of the color or not but as you can see white with a charging cable and then we have our cradle which is color matched to the color I chose here so that that kind of mocha color there we go and we also have our paperwork which is basically the same as the full gear too all right so let's go and peel the plastic off here we have another tab here inside there we go and we have another piece of plastic to peel off the metal clasp on the watchband all right so let's take a Clos look at the design and the materials they're using on the Galaxy Gear 2 as you can see it has this nice metal face plate which looks a little more premium than the plastic construction of the fit and the Neo so it looks a little more professional this is very similar to the Galaxy Gear from 6 months ago uh as you can see also had a metal face plate and they've redesigned it you can see the screen is the same size uh but otherwise the watch band and the face plate have been redesigned so as you can see now we have a home button as opposed to just a sleep wake button along the side you can also see that the camera module has been moved so instead of being integrated into the watch band it's now integrated into the watch face which means that you can now replace the watch band in fact if you look along the side profile you'll see that the watch band is now modular on the Gear 2 as opposed to integrated on the Galaxy Gear now the Galaxy Gear also integrated the speaker into the watch clasp that has been moved to the Watch Body on the gear to which allows them to slim down the clasp considerably now taking a look at the watch body as you can see it's plastic but it does integrate our speaker and it has a little friction fitting here for the charging cradle that friction fitting is also on the other side right here just like we see with the fit we also have a single microphone down here which of course has to be waterproof for the IP67 certification that also goes for the speaker now on the back we'll find a heart rate monitor just like on the fit and the Neo uh this will measure your heart rate during exercises and of course there is a dedicated app for measuring your heart rate now the watch band on the exterior has this nice textured finish it looks pretty high-end on the inside you'll find this ribed pattern which makes it a little more comfortable to wear on your wrist so allows your wrist to breathe now the clasp itself has also been redesigned it's a little simpler so as you can see it snaps into place like so and then when you want to pop it off you can do it that way now you can also resize it as you can see you have a pin right here if you want to resize it just pop the pen and slide it around so if you want to make it a little more spacious you can do so like that snap it into place and you're good to go now getting back to the Neo this is very similar in design to the Gear 2 but it's entirely made out of plastic so as you can see here the front plate is pretty much the same design it's just made out of plastic instead of metal as you can see it's also more monochromatic so the watch band matches the color of the face plate and the back panels now the home button is also different here so you can see the Home bun is metal in this case or at least it feels like metal has a nice texture to it it feels a little more more raised than the what feels to me a smaller home button on the Neo so this feels a little less tactile a little harder to feel for now the displays and internal specs are identical on both devices but you can see up here the one major feature difference which is the lack of a camera module on the Neo it just has an IR blaster which the Gear 2 also includes now both these devices have the same internal specs they both have a 1 GHz dual core processor half a gig of RAM and 4 gigs of storage if you look at the back we have the same heart rate sensor we have the same speaker Grill along the side here which is waterproof IP67 waterproof and we also have a microphone now the clasp mechanisms are identical on both watches but the watch bands are a little different now to me the Gear 2 feels a little higher quality you can see the patterns a little different but the material is softer and more pliable than the more rigid plastic on the Gear 2 Neo so as you can see with the charging dock on the inside we have those electrical connections which lines up with the pins on the back of the device you just snap this on there you go you have your USB port for charging and you also have a perforation that lines up with the speaker Grill so the speaker can work through the charging dock now the Gear 2 Neo also has that same charging cradle design with the speaker outlet pop it off like so now this is in Star contrast to the charging cradle of the Galaxy Gear from last year which was a big clamshell that actually snapped around the entire watch face all right so let's take a look at our user interface now if you tap and hold the home button it gives you several options here so you can power it off you can restart it you can select outdoor mode which will brighten the screen and increase contrast for better visibility Outdoors but it's limited to 5 minutes I'm just going to uncheck that here we also have our sound options so we have vibration we have mute and then we have sound but you can't have both so you can't have both sound and vibration now we can go back to the home screen and as you can see we have several pages of apps kind of similar to a smartphone in fact if you look down here you have these little indicators at the bottom which indicates which page you're on and which one is the home screen now there are several multi touch gestures to be aware of here so if you double tap the home screen with two fingers you get to your volume controls so you can go all the way up to maximum or decrease it all the way to vibration this also allows you to see your battery status which is otherwise not visible so again double tap here and you can also increase your brightness and again uh six is outdoor mode which is limited to 5 minutes you also decrease it all the way down to barely visible we also have a dedicated app for these controls so you can quickly access brightness and volume now if you long press with two fingers you'll get to your recent apps so as you can see here just like on a Samsung TouchWiz device you can tap on any one of these to bring them forward or again tap and hold again to bring up your multitasker no matter where you are and then you can also swipe them out of the way to close them and you can also get to that close all feature at the bottom now we have another gesture here so for example if I go into the app if I go into the pedometer if I drill down here go into our history now how do I go back well there is a gesture here to go back just like on the Galaxy Gear you SW swipe down from the top now if you're in the gear fit you actually get a dedicated back button which I actually find a little more intuitive now we have multiple pages of apps but not all apps are actually on the home screens in fact we have an app drawer here so if we go to the app drawer right here apps you'll see we have another section full of apps so if I drag and drop this take it up to home screen here it will drop it onto my home screen and create a new page I can also edit this and move it around on my home screen so I can create a new page I can delete it or I can drag it around to one of the other home screens and as you can see I need to make space on one of those home screens in order to drag and drop it it doesn't bump it out of the way for me now you can also delete an app just by tapping and holding on it and take it up to remove it just removes the app it doesn't uninstall it now I cannot remove the home screen here so as you can see here the home screen is basically one big widget with shortcuts on it so I can take it up here it won't delete it so unable to remove it now if I go to my apps I can actually move them around within the app drawer here and as you can see they will move out of the way for me which is not the case on the home screen which is kind of interesting all right so let's take a look at some of the fitness apps they've included so we have our podometer The Exercise app sleep and heart rate so pedometer is pretty basic it keeps track of your steps so as you can see here I've walked 814 steps today I can pause that or I can resume it it also tells you how much distance you've traveled and how many calories it estimates you've burned in that activity so you can resume it you can go up here to your history as well to see your previous days you can tap on that to see exact spec or exact stats from that day so 75 miles traveled yesterday 79 calories burned and I walked 4 1486 steps which is well shy of my goal of 10,000 steps speaking of goal here is the goal which you can modify 10,000 steps you also can reset your steps for the day now next up we're going to take a look at the exercise app which incorporates running walking cycling and Hiking so if you want to go walking here you go to the walkin app and You Begin start so as you can see it's keeping track of time as well as your heart rate and the distance travel as well as calories burned now up here you have this little icon for getting to the music player on the device so you can begin playing music now if you go up here to your menu you have several options here so you can see your history so you can see I don't have much here to take a look at but you can tap on it see more information and then drill back here back to your uh root menu so you can go to your goal as well to set a variety of goals so you can set your distance time or calorie goal you also have your heart rate monitor so you can turn that off possibly to save battery life so if you don't need the heart rate monitor running you can disable it here and of course these apps are adjusted for the type of activity here so for example if you're cycling it will use your GPS location to estimate miles traveled now we also have a standalone heart rate monitor which keeps track of your heart rate and the time of day as well as date it was recorded which will sync to the Sealth app and since you wear this on your wrist you don't have to be too picky in terms of movement so it will record your heart rate no matter what you're doing as long as it's snug to your wrist we also have this sleep app which will actually keep track of your sleep activity so if you're wearing this watch at night and you activate this app before you go to bed it will actually keep track of motion during the night now you can see that last night I slept for 6 hours and 21 minutes and I was motionless for 92% of that time which is pretty restful now I can also enable blocking mode because this does push notifications to your wrist you don't necessarily want this going off in the middle of the night now on the next page we have our phone dialer logs and contacts everything related to our phone so you have your dialer here so you can input your phone number it does include autocomplete you also have quick access to your contacts in the upper right corner you also have your logs right here which includes text messaging as well as uh phone calls Miss phone calls that sort thing all of that is included here and you can delete them as well you can also filter by all logs calls or Miss calls sent calls received calls rejected calls messages sent messages receive messages Etc you also have your contacts app right there which of course will reveal a bunch of phone numbers I'm sure don't want to be shared on the internet now you can place and receive phone calls directly on the Gear watch of course using the Galaxy phone as the receiver it just pipes it through the Smartwatch so as you can see I have my caller ID information and I can go ahead and answer the phone call directly on my watch all right this is just a test of the audio of the Smartwatch so you can see it's pretty loud but certainly not going to work terribly well in a noisy environment now alternatively you can reject the call with a text message and again you have to select one of the pream messages now we also have a page full of utility such as the music player watch on remote control voice memo and SVO now SVO is kind of Handy on a smartwatch but it's definitely a lot more limited than the version on the smartphone so let's go ahead and test it out what's the weather like tomorrow on Saturday we'll have some sunshine with a few clouds send an alarm for tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. to wake me up all right this is your alarm for 7 a.m. do you want to save this alarm yes okay I saved your alarm for 7 a.m. send a text message to Michael Kela mobile are you going to be in tomorrow question mark here is your message ready to send it yes Sending message now I can ask things like how tall is the Empire State Building 1,00 250 ft City rank first national rank third world rank 24 but you can't do things like show me photographs of a Ford Mustang what search is not supported now you can also open up apps so you can say open the podometer open podometer now we also have an onboard music player so you can load songs on this device and play music directly from your watch using a set of bluetooth headphones or the internal speaker now we also have a voice memo app which syncs to your voice memo app on the phone now you're limited to 5 minute sessions and it also includes transcription so let's go ahead and try this out this is a test of the voice memo app which also includes transcription all right so if I go up here I can see my history so I can see that message I just recorded now let me go up here to enable transcription this is a test of the voice memo app which Al includes transcription now if you go to the voice recorder app on the Galaxy phone you can see that one has been synced including the transcription The Voice mem app which also includes transcription now we also have the watch- on remote control app which is pretty easy to set up now this allows us to control our TV or set top box using an IR blaster now we're kind of limited in this app versus the full featured app on the mobile phone so we can set up our TV I can select my Samsung TV here select okay we're going to send the power code and if that worked to turn on the TV we're going to click yes and we're done so it's added the TV and given us this control panel now we can also add our set toop Box by going to STV we're going to go to the USA I'm on Comcast click okay select the power button if that worked click yes click done and then we have our set top box and TV and as you can see when you swipe right you get your uh input for your channel selection now what I found to be a big problem here is there is no okay or enter button which my set top box requires in order to to input a channel selection so I find this to be a very limited app now the email app is pretty full featured and it includes all the accounts you've added to the email app on your Samsung device so I can see my combined view uh and my individual accounts and as you can see they're colorcoded now I can swipe to delete a message or I can cancel it I can open the message and see the entire text of the message I can also swipe left or right to navigate through my messages I can also reply now I am limited to cam messages when replying into an email now you can set these up or customize them under the uh Gear Manager app which I'll show you a bit later now if you go up to settings here you have more reply options so you can select templates or you can select modons so if I select the modons I can now reply to this message with something like that I can go ahead and send it off now I can also delete the message or I can tell it to show it on the device so if I select show on device it will automatically unlock my device and take me right to that message now we also have the messages app which works with the included messaging app on your Galaxy phone uh so for example you have all my previous messages including one I sent to myself now I can swipe to the left to message me or I can swipe to the right to call me this is very similar to The Experience on a Galaxy phone now if I want to reply to a text message I can click reply and I can use any one of the canned messages but if I swipe down here and go to my settings I can change that to SVO or emoticon so you can see with messaging you have a little more options here in terms of input so if you select S Voice you can actually dictate a reply using voice what's your message this is just a test of S Voice on the Gear 2 period here is your message ready to send it cancel and incidentally when you press here you can see you little indicator for adjusting the volume so if you can't hear S Voice or if you want to quiet it down you always have a quick access toggle to your volume control now I also have find my device so if we enable this this will start ringing our phone or tablet to help us find it now this also works in Reverse if you want to find your gear directly from the Gear Manager you can do that as well now we also have the gallery app which shows us all the photos and videos recorded directly on this device now we also have a media controller which is kind of like a remote control for the media apps on your mobile phone or tablet whatever is connected to it so I can click play now it's controlling whatever media app I was last using in this case Google play music so I can pause it play it skip ahead and then I can also increase volume or I can mute it now we also have the weather app which uses your GPS location to identify the current conditions no matter where you are you can click refresh to update it as well now if you tap on the app it takes you to your future forecast now we also have our calendar which syncs with the S Planner app on your Galaxy phone as you can see you can swipe through the days and you can navigate through the entire day just by swiping up and down and if you want to see more information all you have to do is tap on any one of them like so to get to more information you can see the time of day the event is as well as more detailed information in the title information now we also have a stopwatch and timer so we go to the stopwatch app we can click Start we can also lap so we can record our individual laps and that goes with the fitness theme of this watch click stop so you can see all your lap times let's go back to the timer so with the timer we can set the specific time like so uh and then we can click Start and as you can see we got a little progress indicator now we can navigate away from this timer and it will automatically alert us when the time is up now let's take a look at notifications as you can see I have three pending notifications and these are all the apps I have authorized for pushing notifications on my gear 2 so as you can see I can delete them all I can also see that I have three unviewed uh messages and then I can see that I have these previous messages which have push notifications to my SmartWatch so for example I can the Instagram I can see my Instagram event so it's basically a notification that's similar to what appears on your smartphone now not all notifications are the same so for example if I look at the Gmail oh there I just got a notification here so I've received a new question on Ask.fm I can swipe it out of the way here and then we can go to email notifications so as you can see here the email app basically comes up and I can see more detailed information than just the popup which is kind of nice now if I go to the Gmail app which doesn't isn't as full featured here if I go to Gmail just gives me a notification very similar to the notification I would get on the Galaxy phone so I get a preview but I don't actually see the full text of the email now these notifications stay sync to your Galaxy phone so if you look at them here they'll disappear from the pending notification panel in your drop- down shade now there are two ways of receiving notifications on the Gear 2 either as a full screen popup or as a banner popup now most of the time you'll get the full screen popup but in certain apps you don't want that to happen such as the camera app so if you're looking at the camera and you receive a notification instead you'll get a banner pop up at the top of the screen without interrupting what you're doing now let's take a look at our settings the first thing we have here is the clock face which we can change so you can also select the clock with weather you can select a different clock face and you can also get more clock faces from the Gear manager which I'll show you later we also have our wallpapers which you can customize here from the available gallery items I only have one image there but you can also go with the available options here so you can see patterns or you can select a solid color we also have our notification panel so that just allows us to turn it on or off and then we also have our sound settings and there's quite a few sound settings here so we have our volume control here we have multimedia ringtones notification and system so you can individually control the volume of these settings so you can see multimedia ringtones notifications as well as system so you can see all of those are controlled independently we also have touch sounds which you can disable if you prefer that those are off by default we have our ringtones so you can see there's not too much to pick from here you have modernness Timeless and twinkle click okay there then we also have vibration so you can change the vibration from strong to weak uh we also have notifications so we have driving signal Flicker and Tic Tac now under display we have our brightness controller here we also have our screen timeout settings which are defaulted to 10 seconds I've extended it to 5 minutes for this demo we also have our fonts so we can change our font style so you can see the available fonts none of them look terribly good and we also have our font size so we can go from small medium to large and we also have the wake up gesture so if you lift your wrist to look at the time it automatically detects that that's what you want to do and will wake up the display to show you either the time or the last view D so you can select that under the settings here you also have the home icon size so by default we have the small icons but if you select large icons let's go to the home screen now you can see that very similar to the iPod Nano you now have these larger icons as opposed to the smaller grid view we also have our home screen editor which is a little different so as you can see here you can re R apps you can remove them or create new pages and as you can see here when you move the apps around they'll rearrange for you we also have our bluetooth settings which allows us to disconnect our Bluetooth connection to our phone or add a Bluetooth headset now we also have double press settings so that's referring to the home button so if you double press the home button in my case I've activated SVO but you have many other options here so you can do recent apps which is actually very useful then we have camera context controls dialer email exercise find my device Gallery heart rate logs etc etc so basically every function of this device can be activated by double pressing the home button Now privacy lock is a feature that locks our Smartwatch if it disconnects from our smartphone that prevents somebody from finding this and having access to potentially sensitive information so we can go to privacy lock activate it by entering a pin in now as you can see right now I don't need my PIN to access my SmartWatch but if I disable Bluetooth on my smartphone here it will pop up automatically now we also have our profile settings here this is necessary for the fitness app so you can see my gender date of birth height weight Etc that's all setable here all right so let's take a look at the camera app again 2 megapixels with autofocusing you have a camera mode and a video camera mode as you can see here you just tap the screen to take a photo and it focuses it for you it does both at the same time so you don't have a lot of flexibility in that regard now if you go to your settings up here you have Focus mode so you can select auto or Macro for closer photography you also have photo size so you can adjust it all the way up to 16 by9 or less we also have sound and shot which is a feature we're familiar with on the Galaxy devices so this will record a 9-second clip when you shoot a photograph so let's go ahead and demonstrate that this is just a test of the sound and shot feature and you can click stop if you don't want to record the entire 9 seconds now if you swipe to the right you get to your gallery this is just a test of the sound and shot feature and and of course you can swipe through the other parts of your gallery as well now we also have something called Signature and if we enable this and take a photograph basically all it does is imprint Samsung gear on the photograph so now if we swipe to the right you'll see it right there we also have location tags which you can turn off or on it's off by default and when it's on you'll actually see an indicator in the upper corner here now we also have voice control which is off by default but I've enabled this so basically all I have to do is say shoot cheese and it takes the photo for you handsfree now when you're in video mode you basically tap the screen to start recording in and as you can see you're limited to 15 seconds and you're limited to 9 Clips so if you exceed that you'll then be prompted to start deleting them but of course this will automatically transfer to your phone so you can keep your storage free on your device now you can also select your video size from the options menu so you have 720p or 640x 640 all right so let's take a look at the Gear manager so we can adjust our home screen so we can adjust our wallpaper as well as our clock faces as you can see it syncs to the device so it knows exactly what your device is on right now so if we go to our wallp we can select any one of the wallpapers they've given us now as you can see it doesn't update it live like it does on the fit you actually have to click done so if you click done it then applies the wallpaper now you can add a custom image by going to more images it'll take you directly to your photo gallery so we can add one of our images let's go to one of the images in my camera roll let's go to Zoe here picture of Zoe and then we just have to resize it to fit the Gear 2 screen click done and click done to apply it so there we go we have our Custom Image for our wallpaper which works great with with those transparent icons now we can also select different clock faces as you can see they update in real time for you now some of these clock faces have additional settings here so for example if we go to our shortcut clock which is the default clock you can actually select what shortcuts you want to appear here so if you go to settings here you'll see that we have shortcut application 1 two and three the one I want to change here is application 2 the podometer which I would like to add a different application as you can see here I have lots and lots of applications to pick from so the one I may want is let's say SVO let's click SVO so it changes it for us in real time now you can also change the clock font to light dynamic or default we also have our event clock which will add our calendar events now this allows you to cycle between all the events on your clock face and if you want to see the event just tap on it takes you right to it now under s we have our sync settings so we can change our podometer transfer interval from 24 hours to 3 hours or you can transfer now now under notifications we have several options here including limiting notifications so if you don't want the notifications to appear on both your smartphone and your Smartwatch while you're looking at your smartphone you can click that option we also have Smart relay so if you're looking at a notification on your Galaxy gear and you pick up your phone it automatically launches the app from that notification you can also select specific apps to push notifications such as phone calls your alarm the calendar Miss calls messages email and weather and then you have all your third party apps here which you can check manually so you can see I've only selected a few of them but you have quite a few to pick from now if we go to my apps you'll find all the apps including their settings so for example if we go to the camera we can select auto transfer so you can automatically transfer all your photos and videos directly to your device right now I have selected for always only when charging or manual are also options you also have your contact so you can select exactly what contacts are displayed so you can do all contacts or only your favorites you also have your email settings so you can select specific accounts or add additional accounts and edit a signature now we also have our S voice settings so we can enable voice prompts or disable it we have voice memo so we can do auto transfer which I have also set for always now if you want to transfer music to the Gear 2 you can do so via the USB port and the USB adapter or you can do it from your phone so all I have to do is go to the app settings for music so we go to the music player go to settings send tracks to the Gear so as you can see here I've added some songs to my Galaxy S five now I can send these songs over to the Gear just by going up here to select and I can select certain tracks so let me go and select that one click Send so now if I go to my music player I'll find an additional track to pick from now you can also download additional apps for your gear too so you can see they're categorized by entertainment Finance Health Fitness lifestyle social networking and utilities so if I go ahead and select one of these categories I can see all the apps that are available in that category so you can see I can download free paid Etc or what's new let's go ahead and download this app now this is actually a companion app for the smartphone app now there are not many apps to pick from so for example if we go to social networking you can see it's basically one page and I don't see Facebook Twitter Instagram go+ or anything like that in here now after installing that app if I go to my app you'll see that it now appears at the bottom if I want to delete it I just go up to the trash can up here and delete it so as you can see in this case it's installed an app on my phone as well as on my gear so if I go to my apps now I'll see it right here now it's basically a camera app that combines with the app on the phone so you can use the camera here to Snap photos of wine labels now under settings we have our options such as double pressing the home key so we can select that here as you can see even our third party apps do appear here so you can select S Voice notifications and that sort of thing so I'm going to select notifications now which I actually prefer you can also select autol loock now basically this turns your Smartwatch into a key for unlocking your device as long as it's connected you don't have to enter in a passcode or swipe your gesture in to unlock the device you just unlock it but if you disconnect the watch let's go ahead and just disconnect Bluetooth and now try to unlock the phone you'll have to enter in your gesture you can also adjust the wakeup gesture settings right here so you can select clock or last view screen like you can directly on the Gear 2 itself you also have the default text input method so you can select SVO templates or emoticons and you can also edit the text templates right here so you can delete them or add addition ones to pick from now we can also enable voice command for incoming calls so for example when receiving an incoming call you can speak directly to the Gear 2 by seeing answer or reject now we also have Safety assistance so what this will do is basically send an emergency message to designate contacts to let you know your location and we'll also record a video and an audio sample just to let you know that you're in a situation and you need help this is meant to be discreet so if you can't answer your phone you can't pick up your phone basically all you have to do is triple TT the home button to activate that feature now let's talk about the pros and cons of these watches and I think the biggest Pro here is the display it's a nice large display it's perfect for reading full text it's also a bright vivid colorful display that looks great off AIS it also looks pretty good outdoors although it tends to get washed out in bright sunlight now in terms of Aesthetics there's a huge difference between the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neil the metal watch face is much more attractive at least to me than the plastic watch face it definitely looks a lot more sophisticated and would definitely be the version I would prefer to wear but of course it is $100 more it's also very light and comfortable to wear has pretty solid battery life 2 days out of heavy use in my case but of course you can get up to 3 days they say under normal use and it's fantastic to have notifications on your wrist without having to take your phone out of your pocket and that has worked out pretty well now in terms of cons I think the biggest one for me is the user interface sometimes it's a little confusing I'm not sure if I'm on the home screen or if I'm in the app drawer and it's kind of difficult to get to Notifications which I think is one of the most used features here so it be nice if the notification panel was kind of built into the user interface instead of treated like an app and of course this watch is locked down to Samsung devices and works best only with Samsung apps which may not work for a lot of people so in conclusion I think this is a huge leap over the Galaxy Gear just 6 months old so you can see the progress has moved up quite a bit with the Gear 2 so I can only imagine what the next step is and certainly there's a lot of interesting competition coming so that's going to do it for me in this video thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next one all right so here I am in my foyer with Zoe and Chloe looks like they're Sun baiting but I think they're ready to go outside so in fact that's what I'm about to do so let's go outside and take a look at performance of this camera Outdoors hey girls come here hey Chloe Chloe hey what's up hey girls come on come on let's walk\n"