High street retailer Phones 4u has started offering the
Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch for free when buying a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, a
saving of £300.
With the Samsung-branded, Android-powered smartwatch having got
off to something of a rocky start to life, failing to fully capture consumers’
attentions, the costly Samsung Galaxy Gear is now being bundled with the
manufacturer’s latest phablet offering.
Available for a limited time only, Phones 4u has confirmed that
it will be giving away free Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatches until
November 14.
The techy timepiece will be packaged with the Note 3 when the handset is taken
out on contract.
With the Samsung Galaxy Gear having been unveiled at IFA
2013 earlier this year, the camera and speaker incorporating, smartphone
syncing wrist wear was until this week compatible only with the Note 3. Earlier
this week a Samsung Galaxy S4 Android 4.3 update bring Gear compatibility to
the flagship phone.
While the Samsung Galaxy Gear, which lets you receive texts
and calls to your wrists, is priced at £300 on its own, the smartwatch started
at a disadvantage to the rival Sony Smartwatch 2 which came free with a Sony
Xperia Z1 from the start.
Last month it was suggested that the Samsung Galaxy Gear was
suffering from 30 per cent return rates as early adopters quickly became
unenamoured with the touchscreen hosting gadget.
In our recent Samsung Galaxy Gear review we awarded the
smartwatch just 4/10 stating it “is under supported, overpriced and feels like
a rushed effort, made to beat the competition, and rumoured competition, that
has failed to achieve its potential.”
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