Its a beast

30/08/2023 14:04

First impressions count, and this is a large watch, at 47mm, it looks stylish and premium but looks large if you have small wrists. It comes with a charging puck but can be wirelessly charged on some Samsung devices. The watch comes with pretty much all the health features you could want, body composition, ECG, blood pressure, stress, sleep tracking as well as the usual exercise tracking.

The display is clear, bright and legible in all lighting conditions with it being 1.36 AMOLED display, and the band that comes with the watch is sports style inside with a faux leather outside, and is interchangeable via a button on each strap (it is compatible with all watch 4 and 5 bands too).

The watch supports LTE so if your provider supports you can leave your phone at home and still send and receive calls, messages, and music streaming. All notifications are clearly displayed and within the app you can control which ones get sent to your watch. Being WearOS as well as the watch coming with several stunning faces from Samsung you can also download many more 3rd party ones from the play store.

As with every wearable there are some areas where improvements could be made, namely battery life, with the always on display on expect to get a day to 1.5 days nothing more, with this off you can just about get 2 days between charges, which is not bad but isn’t an improvement on earlier models. Some of the features like stress tracking and body composition seem a little gimmicky, stress can go from one end to the other within seconds, so take their values with a pinch of salt.

Overall, it is probably the best WearOS watch available and if you have a Samsung Mobile a match made (some features as Samsung mobile only like EGC and Blood Pressure)