It was announced on August 28, 2014, as the successor to the Samsung Gear 2 and was released on November 7, 2014.
[2] The smartwatch can be modified to run Android 5.1.1 [3] or Wear OS 6.0.1.
The Samsung Gear S has a curved 2.0 inch Super AMOLED screen at 360×480 pixels.
It has a Quad Core 1.0 GHz processor (limited at two running cores from factory) and runs the Tizen operating system.
It was the first wearable device to include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G connectivity.