Samsung Gear S review: The smartwatch that’s also a smartphone – CNET. It doesn’t seem like 5 years since I bought the Gear S LTE SmartWatch by Samsung. It was the first Smartwatch that was also a Smartphone, and made phone calls as well as all the other SmartWatch functions. I still have mine, and this trip down memory lane makes me want to put this big, honking, smartphone back on my wrist. Not.