The Samsung Gear Sport Watch, released in the summer of 2017, is water resistant, making it suitable for swimming and other water sports, as well as showers and rainy days. Unlike other Samsung smartwatches, it doesn’t have speakers for making calls or playing music (no Bluetooth), and there’s no LTE version, which would let you make calls and send messages even when your smartphone isn’t nearby. However, it can track a variety of activities, including swimming (naturally), and it’s compatible with Samsung Pay.

The watch comes in one size (44mm) with black or blue bands. It also works with all 20mm watch bands. Like the Galaxy Watch and Gear S3, the Gear Sport Watch has a rotating bezel for navigation. It also has an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, heart rate monitor, and gyroscope.

The watch runs on Samsung's Tizen OS, not Google's Wear OS, and is compatible with Samsung smartphones, Android phones running Android 4.4 or later with at least 1.5GB of RAM, and the iPhone 5 or later running iOS 9.0 or later.

These are the five best features of the Samsung Gear Sport watch.