We are not far from the next Samsung Unpacked event, but the Galaxy watch 3 wearable isn’t doing a great job waiting on the wings until showtime. Earlier this week, very clear photos of the Galaxy Watch 3 leaked, and now it appeared again, this time in “Bronze”.
Okay, so you may be scratching your head and wondering if we’re seeing the same image. Yes, we agree that it looks closer to rose gold, but Evan Blass (who leaked the image through his Patreon) It is firm that Samsung calls this Bronze.
Don’t worry if Bronze is not for you. Blass shared another image of the more traditional black watch a few hours earlier.
Leaving color aside, something else can immediately stand out: while the Bronze model has smooth edges on the bezel, the black version looks a bit more contoured. While Blass notes that they are of different sizes (41mm for the Bronze version; 45mm for the black model), it makes us wonder if Samsung is planning a couple of flavors like it did with the Gear S3 smartwatch.
Back then, you may recall, Samsung released a ‘classic’ version along with a stronger ‘Frontier’ model. There were no differences in specs, just looks and weight, a tacit acknowledgment that the watches have as much to do with looks as they do with performance.
There is one last intriguing detail in the second image: the date on the watch face reads “Wednesday the 22nd.” How Blass himself points out, July 22 of this year falls on a Wednesday. Does this mean Samsung might be planning to surprise us with an early reveal?
Everything we’ve heard previously points to ‘no’, but then again, Samsung’s upcoming unpacked event already looks pretty packaged, with the Galaxy Note 20, Galaxy Fold 2, Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Tab S7 It should already be part of the procedures. Would it really be weird if Samsung decided to work things out with an early reveal for the Galaxy Watch 3?
Disappointingly, we are going to stay on the fence here. Samsung is known to have released products outside of official unpacked events before – the Tab S6 was expected to launch at Samsung’s official 2019 event, but ended up going a week before to give the Note 10 room to breathe. In fact, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 It also didn’t have its own event, so it’s possible that Samsung may get the Galaxy Watch 3 out earlier.
