Forget Samsung Galaxy Watch 2: This is the Galaxy Watch 3

Forget Samsung Milky way Watch 2: This is the Galaxy Watch 3

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More details have surfaced around Samsung's highly anticipated new Galaxy Watch — including a major name alter. According to a new regulatory filing, Samsung may skip the Milky way Watch 2 nomenclature and call its next smartwatch the Galaxy Lookout iii, while introducing some heady new features and multiple size variants.

Equally spotted by Sammobile, a certification from the NBTC reveals that Samsung's next flagship watch may exist called the Galaxy Watch three. This proper name modify could assistance avoid confusion with Samsung's existing Galaxy Watch Active 2, and let customers know that the latest lookout man is a true generational leap. At that place'due south too some precedent to Samsung playing with its naming conventions, as its flagship phone line jumped from the Galaxy S10 to the Galaxy S20 this year.

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The filing also confirms that the Galaxy Watch 3 will come in 41mm and 45mm variants, which is a slight trimming from the 42mm and 46mm models that the current Galaxy Watch offers. And nosotros already know from a previous leak that the Watch 3 will probable bring back a concrete rotating bezel after ditching it for the Picket Active 2.

Other expected Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 specs include a Gorilla Drinking glass DX display, an onboard GPS, 8GB of storage and 5ATM-rated water resistance. The Picket 3 could besides infringe the Watch Agile 2's new blood-force per unit area monitoring feature, and may have a bigger bombardment than its predecessor.

That could position the Lookout 3 every bit a worthy rival to the upcoming Apple tree Watch vi, which could get such avant-garde features as sleep tracking, blood oxygen detection and the ability to find stress and anxiety attacks. Samsung's new watch may debut in August alongside the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Fold 2, which could pb to an exciting showdown once the new Apple Lookout launches shortly after in September.

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