Samsung teases Gear S2 smartwatch, and it looks gorgeous

Well, this is a pleasant surprise: Samsung just teased its Gear S2 smartwatch at its big smartphone event today.

At an event at Alice Tully hall in Manhattan Thursday, Samsung launched its new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ smartphones along with its Samsung Pay mobile payment system. Samsung then decided to surprise the crowd with a tease of its new Gear S2 smartwatch, which it plans to officially unveil in September at the IFA show in Berlin.

Samsung showed off a number of the screens on the Gear S2, but didn't reveal any further details on the watch. It looks likely that the Gear S2 will run its own proprietary OS, as gear devices have in the past, rather than Android Wear. We'll know for sure when the watch makes its full debut on September 3. Read more...