Samsung Gear S will be available on UK for £330

If you alive in UK and waiting for standalone smartwatch that’s working without a phone then your wait will be over on October 24. The Samsung Gear S watch plus phone will be available a week after the Galaxy Note 4 hits. The Tizen-running smartwatch has its own 3G modem so it can do calls and use mobile data on its own, no need for a connection to a smartphone, unlike the majority of smartwatches out there.

The Gear S has a large 2″ screen, a 360 x 480 Super AMOLED, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB storage. It can play music to your Bluetooth headset and make calls even without one. And it’s IP67-certified so light sporting activity is no problem. The Gear S comes in Black and White but only the Black version will be stocked at first.



MobileFun is taking pre-orders at £330 ($530), while Clove is asking £340 ($545). Clove notes that black Samsung Gear S units will be available on October 24, the availability of the white option is yet to be confirmed.

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You can now browse web on Samsung Gear S by Opera Mini

For anyone who has used a feature phone or smartphone in the last decade, Opera Mini is probably a familiar name. Opera Mini has been available for almost every feature and smartphone platform and has offered a simplified browsing experience to millions of users since it was first released. Today Opera made another big step by announcing that Opera Mini will soon be available for use on the Samsung Gear S.



As you expect the Opera Mini will allow you to browse the internet on your wrists and has the familiar features – mobile compression that shrinks pages to as little as 10% of their original size and speed dial with your recent pages. The Opera Mini browser for the Samsung Gear S also has a Smart Page that aggregates social updates and news on one screen. You can change between Smart Page and Speed dial with a tap of the finger. It’s also notable that this version of Opera Mini will be running on Tizen, and will also come with features like private browsing.

Opera Mini will be available from the Samsung Apps store once the Gear S goes on sale this fall. If you are missing anything here then I have to fill you in. Samsung Gear S is different from others before smartwatches as it's also a full-featured 3G and Wi-Fi-enabled device: it can make calls, receive calls, check messages and be connected to GPS even without a phone nearby.

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