![]() You can now get around this by downloading GBoard from the Play Store, which has a swipe to text keyboard and enables Google’s more accurate text to speech engine.Īnyone coming from a previous Galaxy Watch model will feel right at home as the user interface retains the same Tizen look and feel in addition to what WearOS offers. Some may prefer the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic’s traditional look versus a square smartwatch Also, the option to use a T9 keyboard on such a small display is about as frustrating as it sounds. For example, responding to text messages has always felt cumbersome on older Galaxy Watches, as Samsung’s voice to text engine never felt accurate enough to use regularly. The perks of access to the Play Store is felt throughout the Galaxy Watch 4 experience. This includes answering calls, replying to messages, using Google Maps and streaming music. You can install a variety of apps via the Google Play Store and do more than a handful of things from the watch screen. Outside of health and fitness, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is a proper smartwatch and strives to be an extension of your phone. On the upside, Samsung Galaxy phone owners get access to Samsung’s Health app, which is far superior when it comes to features and usability than Google’s own Fit app (more on that later). While compatibility issues with non-Samsung Galaxy phones may disappoint potential buyers, most of the watch’s features will get on fine with just about any Android phone including heart rate scanning, body composition, SpO2, stress and sleep tracking. The other issue is that some of Samsung’s key health tracking features such as ECG and blood pressure will only work on Samsung Galaxy phones. The Galaxy Watch 4 offers the most complete health and fitness tracking on any smartwatch to dateĬompounding the issue further is that in Australia, at least, Samsung Pay doesn’t support as many bank and credit cards as Google Pay, which will make switching for some not an option. This means that you need to manually fire up the app every time you want to pay for something over the counter. Similarly, while you can download Google Pay, there’s no way to make it your default contactless payment option. Instead, you’re forced to use Samsung’s own and much less capable Bixby. The most glaring is that the Galaxy Watch 4 doesn’t support Google Assistant. The reality is that while we do get access to a larger library of apps courtesy of the Google Play Store, Samsung services are still baked in fairly deep to the point that it feels more like a hybrid OS. There was a lot of excitement around the news that Samsung will be ditching Tizen in favour of Google’s Wear OS starting with the Galaxy Watch 4. The included watchband, while comfortable, is fairly bland but thankfully they can be swapped out with any regular 20mm watch band. The circular watch face means that the Galaxy Watch 4 looks closer to a traditional wristwatch than the squared off design of the Apple Watch which, in our book, is a good thing. ![]() In terms of connectivity, you have Bluetooth 5.0 and dual band Wi-Fi as well as an LTE model for both the Classic and the regular Watch 4.Įach model is also IP68 water and dust resistant, which means you can submerse them in water up to five metres. The remaining can be used for more apps, data and music. ![]() This is accompanied by 1.5 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, where more than half is taken up by the OS and preinstalled apps and services. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is powered by an Exynos W920 dual core processor. The Galaxy Watch 4 and the Classic offer identical features with the latter sporting a physical rotating bezel for scrolling Closer to a traditional watch in design The question is, just how accurate is the Galaxy Watch 4 as a health and fitness tracker? Also, how well does it function as a smartwatch given its shift from Tizen to Google Wear OS? Let’s dig in.
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