Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Watch Active4 will run Wear OS, won't support blood sugar reading
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- Anonymous
- Iw3
- 13 May 2021
Adegbenro, 13 May 2021Time will tell whether this is a good move on Samsung'... moreYep, Apple's sensors and implementation are much more accurate for real exercise than Samsung's (or any of the Chinese brands).
I was hoping for a glucose reading capability and would have bought Samsung for it, but without it, there is no compelling reason to do so. Apple is introducing it 2022 on the Apple Watch.
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- Adegbenro
- XBA
- 13 May 2021
Time will tell whether this is a good move on Samsung's part. I've used 3 Samsung smart watches and still have my Watch Active 2. However I've barely used it since I bought an Apple Watch 6 seven months ago. Moving forward it's likely I'll stick with Apple Watches. The Galaxy Watch 3 was a big disappointment for me. I didn't buy it and the rest is history
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- Anonymous
- myR
- 13 May 2021
yuka, 13 May 2021So this is the end of the road between me and Samsung smart... moreSee the truth is you really aren't that interesting. Google isn't sat there with a team monitoring what you do 24 hours a day.
Really bugs me when people spout this kind of stuff.
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- Anonymous
- ppv
- 13 May 2021
Joe, 13 May 2021To me this is Samsung giving up on Smartwatches and I won&#... moreLag belongs to the past for Wear OS watches with 1GB RAM and even more for watches that will be soon running on the much faster Snapdragon 4100 platform.
Samsung smartwatch users may perceive a switch from a home-brewed OS as a betrayal of their loyalty, but in the mid- to long term this is a win-win for both Samsung (that can save development costs on Tizen; it gets them nowhere in the smartphone game) and Google (that finally can give Wear OS the visibility and market share that needs to make things moving again).
Considering that Samsung tried to replace Android with Tizen on their smartphones and failed, switching to Wear OS from Tizen for smartwatches is streamlining, rather than a misstep.
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- Anonymous
- qI1
- 13 May 2021
I think most people on this comment section are delusional. My biggest problem with Samsung Watches is the lack of third party apps. Having Google will literally fix that and yes, if you are one of those narcissists that thinks your so important that Google "spying" on you is a problem than I am sure, your not gonna like it. Fact is, Samsung is addressing a problem and any one with a brain that keeps up with Samsung knows that their goal is to close the gap between Apple, with how well Apple does their continuity.
I am personally looking forward to this watch and I am very stoked. Probably gonna be the best Smart Watch I ever owned. Better than those lame little square, gizmo-like watches that Apple puts out.
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- Anonymous
- puk
- 13 May 2021
How is Always-On Display on Galaxy watches? Almost all Always-On modes I've seen on smartwatches looked horrible compared to Always-On display on Apple Watch 5. What I mean is that on Apple Watch, whatever dial you have selected, when display dims a bit to save power, it still remains nearly identical to the fully lit watch face. Hands are the same, structure of dial is the same, all the complications are the same and in color, almost nothing changes really. But most others shift the watch face from detailed one into ultra simplified "white outline" one that looks nothing like fully lit one. Checked bunch of Youtube videos and they all just glance over this feature, not really showcasing it fully. Any info on that or even maybe a leak about Galaxy Watch 4 improving in this regard? Galaxy Watch seems like the best alternative and I like it's traditional design, but if it does this simplified outline crap for always-on display I'd be super annoyed by it.
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- Samsung user
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- 13 May 2021
Welp just got a watch 3 then this news came. What an absolute sick move samsung. Tizen is ok no need to dump it for some os that its assistant is broken. Tbh i am not barely using bixby at all. No need to switch for wear os bec TIZEN. USERS. ARE. FINE. WITH. IT. as flossy says "its a watch, calm down bro. Calm down"
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- Anonymous
- S6p
- 13 May 2021
I have galaxy watch 46mm and the battery life is about 2 days and there is battery saver mode which gives huge runtime even if only 15 percent is left and even using it only as watch mode it can give that last 5 percent huge uptime.
Watch is very snappy and i like that rotating bezel for using the watch.
Shame that Samsung is ditching tizen os for android wear with bad battery life. Could they even use their rotating bezel with it?
Well truth to be told this probably is my last smart watch, i am going to upgrade to smart/ar glasses which gives notifications and when those will get better i could watch youtube with huge display in front of me. Facebook is releasing smart glasses september and ar glasses later with very low price.
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- Anonymous
- kjR
- 13 May 2021
Looking forward to the Watch4. I CAN'T stand Tizen and so I've never given much thought to the galaxy watches. To me the Galaxy watches are by far the best looking smart watches on the market and now that they will run on a hopefully improved WearOS, I will be the first in line to pick one up.
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- Robin1962
- ke5
- 13 May 2021
This would have been my first smartwatch if it had the glucose reading... now I'll buy the Ticwatch Pro 3 and pair it to my cgm device.
So very disappointed
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- Yes man
- m5@
- 13 May 2021
Finally we we all be buying the new Samsung watch backed by google OS. Nice one Samsung
- Livius
- Lax
- 13 May 2021
Joe, 13 May 2021To me this is Samsung giving up on Smartwatches and I won&#... moreThe same for me ! I own a Gear S3 and just bought a brand new Watch 3 and after reading this Samsung can go F themselves because I am not going to buy another watch from them. Wear OS is one of the worst OS in the world. Tizen is not perfect but it's light years ahead of ShitOS.
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- AbH
- 13 May 2021
I hope they bring back MST for Samsung Pay. So useful more useful that relying solely on NFC.
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- Joe
- gxu
- 13 May 2021
To me this is Samsung giving up on Smartwatches and I won't be buying another Samsung watch. I have a Samsung watch 3 and have owned every Samsung watch since the Samsung watch 1. I've also owned lots of Wear OS watches and gave up on them after the Fossil Watch Gen 5 due to awful lag. Terrible move by Samsung.
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- yuka
- nK3
- 13 May 2021
So this is the end of the road between me and Samsung smartwatches. There's no way i could have a watch with Google stuff inside. I'm tired of their constant spying and surely don't want my every move and health data to be uploaded to Google's servers and then to be sold to who wants to buy them. NO WAY.
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- Anonymous
- mv2
- 13 May 2021
Anonymous, 13 May 2021It makes sense though for both Samsung and Google. Samsung&... moreSo it's not feasible to make your own OS if you want to appeal to the bigger market. Unless you're doing it for a niche market and you're not concerned about sales. Or if you're Apple.
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- Anonymous
- ppv
- 13 May 2021
beep bop boop, 13 May 2021bad move, TizenOS 5 is miles better than WearOSIt makes sense though for both Samsung and Google. Samsung's aspirations to make Tizen a credible Android replacement for smartphones are long gone and development of Tizen just for smartwatches is an unnecessary additional development cost, that Samsung could avoid, when Wear OS is already available. On the other hand, with Samsung adopting Wear OS, its market share will explode, which is exactly what is missing from the Wear OS ecosystem to convince partners like Qualcomm and other hardware and software developers to support the platform. It may need a few months or years, but in the long run it is a win-win situation for both Samsung and Google.
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- beep bop boop
- GYi
- 13 May 2021
YoloBS, 13 May 2021" The problem with Tizen is its lack of third party ap... morei mean, yes and no. See, the Samsung store in the latest TizenOS 5 while it may have some useful third party apps like Spotify and Outlook, the rest is either useless or poorly made, and those apps make up like 99% of the apps in the store.
And to answer your question, i would assume most people use the first party apps most of the time in the watch, since the music player that comes built in can control your music playing from your phone. so for example i can control Spotify from the first party music player in my watch. If they were using third party apps, i would say they use something along the lines of Strava or other third party music streaming services
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- Tylerdurden93
- 8AU
- 13 May 2021
Does anyone know if the old watches( Galaxy Watch 3 , Active 2) will be able to update/run to Wear OS or continue getting updates, I just receive the Tizen 5.0.5.1.
Active 2 44mm
Note20 Ultra