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Samsung has released a value pack update to the Gear S3 with enhancements that increase the device’s utility and streamline users’ access to the information. S Health has a new user interface and more functionality.

Samsung has a burgeoning business to business (B2B) side, using its understanding of how businesses can use technology in wearables, smartphones, and smart devices to custom design them for specific industries and applications.

Samsung used the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show to announce competition to Apple’s watch in the form of its Gear S2, S3, and the Gear Fit 2 that now run on Apple’s iPhone 5 or later.

Smartwatches, particularly those with good health and fitness underpinnings, are still a niche, but growing market. Samsung may well have made its new Gear S3 the best, certainly the most comprehensive, smartwatch with fitness benefits so far.

Users of Samsung Galaxy devices which are compatible with the Samsung Gear S2 or new Gear S3 can now use Samsung Pay at outlets in Australia.

It is water resistant, mil-spec, allows you to make and take phone calls, plays music, has GPS, wireless charging and a has a raft of new features that don’t need a tethered phone to work.

Do we need another smartwatch, fitness band, and now phatch? The answer is emphatically yes – this “category”, after a few false starts, is just starting to gather momentum.

Comic strip detective Dick Tracy first showed his two-way wristwatch communicator in 1946, and although there have been numerous attempts to emulate that, the technology has not been up to the task. Now it is. The GS3 will make and take calls without a smartphone.

It seems that the market is polarised between smart watches and fitness trackers – it is heavily skewed towards the latter. But the smartwatch category is in steep decline as more of these “useless fruity devices fill the sock drawer”.