I have just spoken with a colleague in Singapore who has taken delivery of an unlocked S7 edge with Gear.
It would seem that the phone gives better value when purchased in Asia as the retail value is equivalent to £501 and Asian an USA models are also using the Snapdragon chip over the Exyonos chip that is in the European models. Snapdragon is said to give an improvement of around 30% over the Exyonos chip,
