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May 2019
(82%)
235 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(94%)
2643 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
820100235
The editors liked
Two sizes for large and small wrists
Battery promised to last several days
Inventive calendar watch face
Impressive four-day battery life
Great core smartwatch software
Rotating bezel cycles through UI
Looks like a real wrist watch
Solid fitness and sports tracking features
Slick Tizen OS
2 day+ battery life
Battery life
Software
Rotating bezel
Screen
Samsung's Galaxy Watch has an arguably superior design to Apple's Watch Series 4. Battery life is good
It's fully waterproof and you can get hundreds of watch faces for it. Samsung has improved its software and enhanced its fitness tracking. Spotify prem
Smart design
Rotating bezel is a great interaction method
Great array of fitness sensors
Bright and sharp display
Offline Spotify support
Lovely design
Great build quality
Good price
Easy to use interface
Good fitness tracking options
Superb battery life
Great display
Attractive design
Solid stainless steel case
Rotating bezel is brilliant
Tizen OS's user interface is user friendly
Great battery life
Great design and bright screen
Rotating bezel is lovely
Good for loads of different sports tracking
Waterproof and can be used to track swimming
Rotating dial on the bezel makes it easy to control the watch and acts as a guard for the screen too
Built-in heart rate monitor is simple to use and accurate
You can store music on the watch to listen to wh
The editors didn't like
Only the largest size has a big battery
LTE model is going to cost you extra
Is Bixby good enough vs Google Assistant
Proprietary wireless charger
Bixby proven to be terrible again
No Google Maps
WhatsApp
FB Messenger
Bixby is lousy
App quality still lacking
Big battery claims seem optimistic
Feels like a piece of technology
Bixby is useless
Charge time
No killer reason to buy
3rd party app support
The Bixby voice-assistant could be better. Samsung has quashed some bugs but not all. To achieve Samsung's battery life numbers
You have to institute battery-saving measures
Lack of apps
Bixby is a poor assistant
Limited Samsung Pay support
Bixby isn't strong
No rotating bezel
No LTE model
Tizen OS still lacks apps
Active 2 has more features
Bulky
Few new features
Tizen OS lacking in apps
Software looks/feels the same as it has for some time
Notifications load slowly
42mm limited battery
Works best with a Samsung phone
Bixby could be better
Needs more app support
46mm might be big for some people
Using with a phone that's not made by Samsung? You can read notifications for messages and WhatsApp notifications but you can't reply or use email
The smaller screen size doesn't have the same battery life as the larger Galaxy Watch
Overall, the Samsung Galaxy Watch improves on the Gear S3 in every conceivable way. Battery life, in particular, is stellar and the watch also fills adds the only significant hole in the Gear S3's feature set – swim tracking. Bar a few annoying bugs, ther...
Lovely design,Great build quality,Good price,Easy to use interface,Good fitness tracking options
Bixby isn't strong,No rotating bezel,No LTE model,Tizen OS still lacks apps,Active 2 has more features
The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is a lovely simple and sophisticated smartwatch that offers a smaller, sportier version of the Galaxy Watch.We're sad to see the rotating bezel go but the Active's seamless design is nice and it looks great on.We'll let you...
Waterproof and can be used to track swimming, Rotating dial on the bezel makes it easy to control the watch and acts as a guard for the screen too, Built-in heart rate monitor is simple to use and accurate, You can store music on the watch to listen to wh
Using with a phone that's not made by Samsung? You can read notifications for messages and WhatsApp notifications but you can't reply or use email, The smaller screen size doesn't have the same battery life as the larger Galaxy Watch, Lacks some of the mo
The ideal smartwatch for Samsung phone owners that want to focus on fitness and don't mind that popular apps like Google Maps and WhatsApp aren't available. Ideal for those where money is no object, as it's expensiveRATINGS:Ease of use: 3.8/5Design: 4.5/5...
Published: 2018-10-25, Author: David , review by: CNET.co.uk
Samsung's Galaxy Watch has an arguably superior design to Apple's Watch Series 4. Battery life is good, it's fully waterproof and you can get hundreds of watch faces for it. Samsung has improved its software and enhanced its fitness tracking. Spotify prem
The Bixby voice-assistant could be better. Samsung has quashed some bugs but not all. To achieve Samsung's battery life numbers, you have to institute battery-saving measures
The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a great looking smartwatch that beats the Apple Watch on battery life and its wide variety of custom watch faces...
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Published: 2018-09-20, Author: Sam , review by: gizmodo.co.uk
Abstract: Divorce yourself from the far out sci-fi depictions and crazy nerd dreams of what a smartwatch is supposed to be for just a second, and instead think about what makes sense for a wrist-mounted device in 2018. You'll quickly realise there's a huge gap betw...
Published: 2018-09-14, Author: Michael , review by: wareable.com
Solid fitness and sports tracking features, Slick Tizen OS, 2 day+ battery life
Bixby is lousy, App quality still lacking, Big battery claims seem optimistic
Whether you pick up the big or small Samsung Galaxy Watch, you're getting a smartwatch that makes a much more compelling argument for Android phone owners than a Wear watch does right now, even if it may not necessarily see iPhone users ditch their Apple...
Published: 2018-09-06, Author: Matt , review by: techradar.com
Impressive four-day battery life, Great core smartwatch software, Rotating bezel cycles through UI, Looks like a real wrist watch
Proprietary wireless charger, Bixby proven to be terrible again, No Google Maps, WhatsApp, FB Messenger
The Galaxy Watch is Samsung's most refined smartwatch due to its helpful fitness tracking and four-day battery life – if you opt for the larger 46mm size that we liked and recommend. All of this is packaged inside a sophisticated-looking circular silver-a...
