Samsung Gear Sport

The Gear Sport is a fine smartwatch - but fine in the sense of average, not luxury. It does almost precisely what its predecessor does in a slightly sleeker and more water-resistant way, but lowers the battery life somewhat. With the older model disappearing from the shelves, this is still the best Samsung watch... but not much of a step forward.

But all of those things also apply to the two-year-old Gear S2, which makes the Gear Sport far less impressive at the end of 2017. Perhaps smartwatches have matured enough that we shouldn’t expect massive leaps every year (this can certainly be said about the Apple Watch’s functionality, which has had annual, incremental improvements, but few radical new use cases) as they focus on delivering notifications and fitness tracking.