It showed up Friday and I've had a few days to play with it .
Surprisingly similar to my
Active 2 except there's a lot less apps I use in Wear than there was on Tizen but I've already found alternatives that work well . Battery life is on par with my old one with 1 very glaring flaw . There's a bug that's been on Samsung LTE watches since the Gear S2 that if your signal is craptacular the watch shuts down from overheating after 5 minutes of usage , or less in my case . I was watching YouTube on LTE with a very weak signal and about 2 minutes into the video the watch went into airplane mode and an overheat warning showed up until it cooled down, about 5 minutes later . Couldn't power it off or anything until it cooled down . This is supposed to have been fixed in the latest firmware update but mine hasn't updated to find out if it's fixed or not yet .
My favorite app so far is called Lefty. It literally flips the watch 180 degrees for those who wear it on their right arm , or like me who wants the controls on the other side of the watch .
There's also a bug where for about the first minute after power up the watch is super laggy . After that it speeds up nicely and I turned off animations in developer options to make it even snappier .
I still believe even with the heat bug I'll be ok as I only used LTE for short bursts when I had the og Gear S and don't see it being an different this time .
Getting it hooked up to T-Mobile was a real pain . I ended up having to go to a brick and mortar store . From what I read Verizon is even harder to get it hooked up and numbers synced . AT&T from what I've been reading and chats work them before I decided to move doesn't know how to at all .
My suggestion to others on the fence , don't get the LTE . It's not quite ready for the big leagues but everything the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth version is .