![]() ![]() Most of those features worked well and the Google Maps and Assistant support particularly stand out in terms of usefulness. Google's app presence consists of things like Assistant, Agenda (to keep track of your calendar), and Google Maps integration. The stream of notifications on the new Wear felt well optimized for Summit 3's touchscreen. There was some slight lag at times and slow app loading to contend with, which is slightly worrying. The UI feels for the most part slick and intuitive though there we did experience some performance niggles. On the watch, the experience of using the Summit 3 is largely positive. You can also do things like tinker with notifications and calendar sync settings and that's really about it. This is where you can assign your Google account, select from a nice array of watches and select your preferred Tiles. To get the watch set up, you'll need to download the Montblanc Summit phone app, which we did on our Android phone. Here you'll find a mix of Google and Montblanc apps and of course third-party ones that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. Pressing the crown gets you into the app screen, which certainly looks a lot cleaner than it does on Wear OS 2 watches. There are Tiles (widgets) when you swipe left or right, your notification stream when you swipe up and the quick settings menu when you swipe down. Getting around is similar, letting you swipe from all directions from the main watch face screen to get around to the key areas. The app screens are set up and accessed differently as well. Using Wear OS 3.0 on the Montblanc Summit 3 does feel different from using it on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 or Watch 5, and that's mainly because you don't have Samsung's UI overlaid on top. The reality though is that some UI tweaks aside, the old Wear 2.0 feel incremental, not radical. It's powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 4100+ along with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage – which is par for the course these days.Īs mentioned, this is the first non-Samsung smartwatch to use Google's new smartwatch operating system – and we were hoping for big things. Montblanc Summit 3: Wear OS 3.0 and smartwatch featuresĭigging into the watch settings reveals that the Summit 3 runs on Wear OS 3, but there are no details of the version number. It doesn't necessarily offer something radically new in terms of smartwatch design, but it does take a typical, male-focused look and it feels like a high-quality watch that will get compliments as we did when it's strapped to your wrist. The Summit 3 is an attractive-looking smartwatch that gives you that feel of a traditional Montblanc watch. Just make sure you whip off that calf leather watch band first. ![]() If you want to go swimming with this watch, you can do that. It's not the brightest smartwatch display we've used, but we did find it a struggle to view the screen in much brighter outdoor light, even during a trip up to see the Mont Blanc mountains. There's sapphire crystal in place to offer some protection against scratches here too.Ĭolors feel accurate and you can use it in always-on mode as well, at the expense of the battery you can expect to get from this watch. The screen is 1.28-inch, 416 x 416 resolution AMOLED, so that's a bump up in size and resolution compared to the Summit 3. It still manages to retain that more elegant look when you're getting a sweat on with it. It's good to see that Montblanc also includes the option of using either calf leather or a silicone sport strap, and the latter doesn't look like it's been ripped off a Garmin or Polar sports watch. You've also got two pushers and an elegant watch crown to twist when you want to navigate through menu screens or press to jump into the app screen. It measures in at 14mm thick, so it's certainly not the slimmest smartwatch you can pick up, but the satin finish on that case body screams quality and class. There's also steel around the back where the optical sensors lie. ![]() The 42mm case is made from titanium with a stainless steel bezel surrounding the screen – it feels light and comfortable – even on our slender wrists. You're getting high-grade materials, great quality removable 22mm bands, and a vibrant touchscreen display. The Summit 2 and the Summit Lite were both great lookers, and that doesn't change with the Summit 3. A lot of data not tracked in Montblanc appĪfter dishing out a disappointing design with the first Summit, Montblanc hasn't put a foot wrong since.Screen visibility in bright outdoor light. ![]()
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