Samsung and Lonely Planet bring new travel app and watchfaces to the Gear S3

The Gear S3 is Samsung’s latest dive into the smartwatch market, and it is already seeing more splash than any smartwatch Samsung has released before it. Samsung just released a speedometer app for the Gear S3 earlier this week, and Here has now released its Here WeGo navigation app for the wrist wearable. Now, to add to the app-adding party, Samsung and Lonely Planet are bringing Lonely Planet’s Travel app, travel guides, and four new travel-themed watch faces to the Korean giant’s latest wearable.

The new Lonely Planet travel app, watch faces, and guides will allow customers to find new places to pursue from their current location as well as travel tips to enhance their various journeys. Lonely Planet says that the Gear S3 app will work in companionship with the Lonely Planet Guides mobile app that lets users access travel resources for 50 cities worldwide.

Users can bookmark destinations or access directions to a place of interest. The Galaxy S7 and Gear 360 will also be leveraged to provide a more immersive experience for users of Lonely Planet’s travel app and guides. Additionally, four new watch faces will provide a world clock, weather information, and destination details, exclusive goods that only Lonely Planet’s watch faces will provide.

Samsung continues to show its ability to ramp up apps and generate a larger app store for its Tizen-powered wrist wearables. On top of these two apps that are now available for the Gear S3, Spotify intends to bring an official app with offline music playback to the wrist wearable this month. Check out the link below for more details.

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[Poll] Do you set up emergency contact numbers on your phone?

A phone’s primary use is to be in contact with people you care about, but what happens in cases of emergency? Well, most smartphones these days come with an option to set up emergency contact numbers so that your nearest people could be contacted during an emergency.

Samsung’s smartphones let you set up a group named ‘ICE – Emergency Contacts’ and one can reach these numbers right from the lock screen. This is particularly handy since anyone can call those numbers without a need to unlock the device. Do you use this feature? Let us know by casting your votes in the poll below.

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Daily Deal: Get 53% discount on Samsung’s wireless Bluetooth headset

If you are in the market to buy a basic wireless headset for taking calls without picking up your smartphone, have a look at this model from Samsung. The HM1350 wireless Bluetooth headset from Samsung is currently being sold for just $13.98 on Amazon, which is a discount of 53% over its regular price of $29.99.

The Samsung HM1350 has a simple design and weighs just 11 grams. It connects to compatible devices through Bluetooth 3.0 wireless interface. It features Multipoint technology so that you can connect it with two smartphones or tablets. It has a simple pairing process, and Samsung is promising up to 8 hours of talk time or up to 300 hours of standby time per full charge.

Hit the source link to check out the product, and grab it before the deal runs out.

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Themes Thursday: Here are some Christmas theme packs for your Galaxy

Welcome back to this week’s Themes Thursday! The Christmas holiday season is nearing, and you might want to theme things related to Christmas, so we decided to pick some theme packs for your Galaxy device.

Themes packages like [Walk On Mars] Christmas Card (Live) and Flying Santa (Live) offer minimal design. On the other hand, you can check out the ones like EiD – Christmas Tree (Live), EiD – Green Christmas (Live) which go all out. Check out all the theme packs that we’ve liked below.

[PIXOME] Paper Toy Rudolph (Live)

[Walk On Mars] Christmas Card (Live)

[Walk On Mars] Snowy Snowman

EiD – Christmas Tree (Live)

EiD – Green Christmas (Live)

Flying Santa (Live)

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Exclusive: Samsung to launch the Gear S3 in India sometime in January 2017

Samsung has already launched its latest smartwatch, the Gear S3, in some of the important markets around the world including Canada, Europe, Korea, the US, and the UK. However, the company didn’t release any information regarding its launch in the Indian market. Now, we’ve received a word that Samsung is planning to launch the Gear S3 sometime in January 2017.

The Gear S3 will be launched in two variants: Gear S3 classic and Gear S3 frontier. The Gear S3 classic is the successor to last year’s Gear S2 classic, while the Gear S3 frontier is the successor to the Gear S2. Both the new smartwatches have larger displays with the Full Color Always On Display mode, an inbuilt loudspeaker to take calls and for music playback, GPS connectivity for tracking activity, and larger batteries for longer battery life.

Samsung hasn’t announced a specific date for the launch of the Gear S3 smartwatch in India, but we will get back to you once we receive any relevant information. Look forward to our review of the Gear S3 classic and Gear S2 Frontier in the coming days, and check out our initial impressions of the Frontier variant here.

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