Fantastic little "health…

30/08/2023 20:46

After my first week with the Samsung galaxy watch 6 I have to say, it's a great smart watch with a lot of health and fitness based features.

To start with, as a smart watch it's really quite good. It took a couple of days to get used to running my finger around the screen to scroll but now it feels natural and quick. The screen is bright and crisp. I do like the always on display but I have found that the battery lasts a fair bit longer with it turned off. The notifications are better that with other smartwatches I have tried before, in particular with WhatsApp with its stand one app allowing me to not only see new messages as they arrive but also read through all my previous messages too. I also like the ability to pull calls from my phone to the watch, quite handy when you need to go hands free. There is also a calculator on the watch! More useful than you might think!!

Now, where it really excels is the health and fitness tracking. The auto detection of activities had been spot on, and has picked up walks, runs and bike rides accurately, stoping and starting with no input from me. It can they auto upload to Strava! Very cool.

Likewise, the sleep tracker seems accurate, but more importantly for me, it's comfortable to wear to bed. Previous smart watches I've owned I've not been able to sleep through the night, having to take it off.

Lastly, I was very surprised by the amount of checks the watch can actually do, from ECG and heart rate (I knew about these) to the less advertised stats such as body fat %. And it's so easy to take the readings too.

For me, if you have a Samsung phone (or I guess most android devices) the watch 6 can do everything you are likely to need from a watch, and so much more.