Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Watch Active4 will run Wear OS, won't support blood sugar reading

12 May 2021
The two models will be unveiled at the next Unpacked event alongside the new foldables.

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Andrew , 15 May 2021No blood sugar monitoring is a big disappointment. Someone ... moreI was also excited for blood glucose monitoring feature. Will shift to Apple if they do it first.

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    • maranr
    • Y6r
    • 17 May 2021

    In Canada, I bought the Active Watch 2 expecting a whole bunch of features that I never got. In fact they took a lot of great features away like the in-depth Weight tracking that you had on Samsung health and the watch. It actually went backwards in terms of functionality from when I bought it. Not happy. They are extremely poor at communicating with their customers what is coming and when (or if). Starting to look at Garmin more and more.

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      • 17 May 2021

      Bella, 15 May 2021Mmm.... love our Samsung watch yet, Samsung make promises a... moreI'm just curious, does your region just not support it yet or something?

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        • Andrew
        • 7tt
        • 15 May 2021

        No blood sugar monitoring is a big disappointment. Someone with heavily volatile blood sugar levels to read it on my watch would help😕

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          • Bella
          • f3e
          • 15 May 2021

          Mmm.... love our Samsung watch yet, Samsung make promises and don't deliver. Still waiting for our ECG function on our Samsung active watch 2...

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            • kvnrprabu
            • uwW
            • 14 May 2021

            I was actually interested to buy this, but lack of blood sugar monitoring changed my mind not to go with this device.

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              • Anonymous
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              • 14 May 2021

              Sinnaoi, 14 May 2021"The truth is you aren't that" smart. And sa... moreWell, speaking of "smart," one doesn't need to be a genius to see the difference between being tracked by Google's AI and something like the AI used by governments such as the Chinese.

              Google discloses what it tracks and it sells information so that ads can offer you shoes or movie tickets.

              China tracks you for much more sinister purposes.

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                • Shankar
                • Abb
                • 14 May 2021

                I Was looking forward for the blood sugar reading. Very disappointing

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                  • xGd
                  • 14 May 2021

                  I really hope this is just a fishing exercise and Samsung stays with Tizen. I own Watch 3 think its a great watch and has all the apps bases covered. Tons of beautiful watch faces, great health apps, messaging, email, maps, etc. I know there AI assistant Bixby is not as good as Google, but its getting better.
                  So go to WearOS for more apps and add a bigger battery, maybe 2 screens. doesn't make sense.
                  Samsung, stay with Tizen and lure more developers to Tizen.

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                    • sxr
                    • 14 May 2021

                    Was looking forward for the blood sugar reading. Very disappointing

                      I was actually looking forward to the non-invasive blood sugar reading. I wonder if Samsung will help Google improve wearOS.

                        Anonymous, 13 May 2021See the truth is you really aren't that interesting. G... more"The truth is you aren't that" smart. And sadly you are deeply ignorant. Neither Google nor any other "Google " need a team to spy on you. There's AI for that. And yes, they are recording EVERYTHING you see, how long you spend looking at it, what you click, everything. You don't need to be "interesting " for that, you are perfectly sellable as you are. I don't expect you to understand but maybe somebody else will.

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                          • 14 May 2021

                          Anonymous, 13 May 2021See the truth is you really aren't that interesting. G... moreSure, Google itself is not interested with what i'm doing, my heart problems or who my friends are. But, Google is selling my data to those who might be interested in it, for whatever reason. Quite simply, i can be denied a job or get fired because my ECG reading are not standard or whatever. You never know.

                          They are not developing WearOS for the sake of it, they are not philanthropists. They are in the business of spying and selling data. And now it's the next step, intimate health data.

                          Apple's business for example is selling hardware, not selling their user's data. Recently, when given choice, more than 90% of iPhone and iPad users have been opting out of ad tracking. And believe me, Facebook was really pissed off.

                          https://www.gsmarena.com/facebook_launches_new_ad_campaign_to_convince_iphone_users_to_enable_ad_tracking-news-47952.php

                            "The truth is you aren't that" smart. And sadly you are deeply ignorant. Neither Google nor any other "Google " need a team to spy on you. There's AI for that. And yes, they are recording EVERYTHING you see, how long you spend looking at it, what you click, everything. You don't need to be "interesting " for that, you are perfectly sellable as you are. I don't expect you to understand but maybe somebody else will.

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 13 May 2021

                              I hope they at least keep the rotating bazel. Best part about the Samsung watches.

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                                • 13 May 2021

                                RiGo001, 13 May 2021Well said! Totally agree with your statement. The 6 year ol... moreAlso my S3 and Galaxy watch work as new.

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                                  • 0Bj
                                  • 13 May 2021

                                  No shazam, whatsapp images, video etc..

                                    nooo Tizen was so good efficent and smooth with no lag. wear os is just laggy and not well developed. the battery will probably be worse caus of wear os

                                      Samsung user, 13 May 2021Welp just got a watch 3 then this news came. What an absolu... moreWell said! Totally agree with your statement. The 6 year old S2 watches still get updates and run smoothly.

                                        I've gone through 3 Wear OS watches. Mostly because they weren't supported once new OS software was released. Supposedly the hardware couldn't handle the OS (even though the Sony SmartWatch was one of the devices used to test the software)

                                        My wife has the Gear S2 Classic and the Gear S2 sport( about 6 years old). I have the Gear S3 Frontier LTE (5years old). All of them have continued to get software updates even up until last week. Sometimes even gaining features the newer watches have.

                                        To me Tizen still runs smoother than the demo model Wear OS watches I've looked at. I also find the basic apps on the Galaxy watches are fine enough. Extra apps aren't really necessary for me at least.

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