Cnet - The Samsung Gear S has a big, bright curved display, decent battery life, comes with its own bonus battery pack and can stay connected away from a phone with its own 3G data or Wi-Fi. It's attractive, albeit rather large.
"We decided to compare what we know about the Apple Watch to the newly launched Samsung Gear S, one of the most feature-packed smart watches on the market right now"
Comparing a product that isn't out yet and the author clearly hates Apple in the article. Nothing but a fanboy jerk fest over a Samsung product.
Android Central - Samsung helped launch the idea of a modern smartwatch to general consumers when it unveiled the original Galaxy Gear. That was in September 2013, if you can believe it, and since then Samsung has launched four more smartwatches — the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, Gear Fit and Gear Live. And here we are just over a year after its first smartwatch, and Samsung launched its sixth — the Gear S.
Whether you think it's a waste of money or not I have found people who know if this method to be useful as they wanted the standalone phone anyways. But it's your review you judged it the way you saw fit.