The beta test is a bit more comprehensive than might have been expected. Proud owners of the Gear S2 and Gear Fit 2 who meet those criteria, though, can waltz right over to Samsung’s sign-up page. Signing up for Samsung’s iOS beta is a relatively simple affair, but there’s a bit of a catch: testers must both (1) own an iPhone running iOS 8.4 or later, and (2) reside in South Korea.
It reportedly packed an app manager, too - it could manage and install Gear apps - and ran in the background when not in use, presumably so as to maintain a connection with the wearable.
In April, crafty developers were able to extract images from a beta Gear app for iOS capable of, among other tasks, delivering notifications to a Bluetooth-paired Gear smartwatch. The integration has long been in the works, apparently. This appears to be the real deal, though: in a news release on its Korean press website, Samsung said the an iOS-compatible version of Gear Manager, the Gear app on Android, would launch in a limited capacity over the next few weeks. Back then, the company was only to commit to a beta test “by the end of this year.” Subsequent, unsubstantiated reports suggested that integration would debut a lot sooner, in March, but the rumored windows came and went with nary a new development. It’s the iOS compatibility Samsung promised at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in January. But that’s changing: on Wednesday the Seoul, South Korea-based electronics maker launched a beta test of a Gear companion app for Apple’s iPhone. Until now, though, taking advantage of all that wearable goodness required a Samsung phone, or at the very least an Android one. It’s slim, sleek, and thin, sports a rotating mechanical bezel that doubles as an input method, packs a 1.2-inch AMOLED display and 1GHz dual-core processor, and features a myriad of sensors - an accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, and heart rate and ambient light monitors, to name a few. Malarie Gokey/Digital TrendsSamsung’s Gear S2 is a powerhouse of a smartwatch, no doubt.
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