{"id":89817,"date":"2013-10-23T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=89817"},"modified":"2013-10-23T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T08:32:00","slug":"samsung-galaxy-gear-device-support-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/89817-samsung-galaxy-gear-device-support-extended.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Gear device support extended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung announced in a press statement today (23 October 2013) that the Samsung Galaxy S4, S3, and Note 2 will be able to use the Galaxy Gear once the Android 4.3 “Jelly Bean” update is rolled out to them.<\/p>\n

The Korean electronics manufacturer said it will also extend Galaxy Gear compatibility to other Galaxy devices through a separate software update beginning at the end of October 2013.<\/p>\n

These devices include the Galaxy S4 mini, S4 Active, Mega 5.8, Mega 6.3, and S4 Zoom.<\/p>\n

Software update schedules for each device will vary by country and carrier, Samsung said.<\/p>\n

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Gear at the start of September and its international launch for the device kicked off from 25 September 2013.<\/p>\n

At the South African launch event for the Note 3, Samsung announced that the Gear would be available locally during October 2013 at a recommended price of R4,599.<\/p>\n

More Samsung and SA smartphone news<\/h3>\n

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Crazy price for Samsung Galaxy Gear in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 launch date, pricing for SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Smartphone storage specs gotchas in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of additional Samsung devices will soon be able to use the Galaxy Gear, the company announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,645,21281,22021,22023,14817,21283,9009,18308,19805,19691,20191],"class_list":["post-89817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-galaxy-gear","tag-samsung-galaxy-mega-5-8","tag-samsung-galaxy-mega-6-3","tag-samsung-galaxy-note-2","tag-samsung-galaxy-note-3","tag-samsung-galaxy-s3","tag-samsung-galaxy-s4","tag-samsung-galaxy-s4-active","tag-samsung-galaxy-s4-mini","tag-samsung-galaxy-s4-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89821,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817\/revisions\/89821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}