Samsung took the covers off of its latest smartwatch, the Gear Sport back in September at IFA 2017 and now, just as the wearable device goes on sale, the first wave of reviews are hitting the web.

The Gear Sport launched last Friday for $299 (£299, or AU$499), along with a new longer-battery-life version of the Gear Icon X heart-rate-enabled headphones with music storage.

However, the Gear Sport is slightly smaller, with a 1.2-inch display (versus 1.3-inches for the Gear S3), and it’s a bit thinner at 11.6mm (versus 12.9mm for the Gear S3).

The Gear Sport is a close second, but it’s the best option if you’re on Android. Slim, stylish and comfortable Earlier this year, Samsung released the LTE-connected Gear S3 smartwatch.

The Samsung Gear Sport display is 0.1in smaller than that of the Gear S3, but I wouldn’t have known without having the two next to each other. What hits you first is the great colour and contrast of ...

The Gear Sport features a 1.2-inch AMOLED display, a built-in GPS, and is waterproof (up to 50 meters) with the ability to track swimming times and your heart rate.

Maybe the coolest feature of the Gear Sport is that, thanks to a partnership with Spotify, you can download playlists to the smartwatch (it has 4GB of internal storage for up to 1,000 songs) and ...