Review on 💪 Experience Advanced Health and Fitness Tracking with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 42mm Smartwatch - GPS, ECG Monitor, Sleep Cycles, Fall Detection, and Bluetooth - Black US Version by Md Aadam Ali ᠌

Name: 💪 Experience Advanced Health and Fitness Tracking with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 42mm Smartwatch - GPS, ECG Monitor, Sleep Cycles, Fall Detection, and Bluetooth - Black US Version
Item: 💪 Experience Advanced Health and Fitness Tracking with Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 42mm Smartwatch - GPS, ECG Monitor, Sleep Cycles, Fall Detection, and Bluetooth - Black US Version
Rating: 3

October 29, 2022

Not a bad product, but you can find a better one.

I have been using Samsung watches for many years, but I decided not to buy Watch 4. Watch 3 perfectly copes with all my "Wishlist" and I'm more than satisfied. Moreover, in the near future I was going to leave Android. But . unexpectedly received a watch as a birthday present. I had to figure it out.
I must say right away that the model is interesting and unique in its own way. Excellent appearance, chic hardware platform, unique (I'm not afraid of this word) set of sensors, quite reasonable price, battery life like Watch 3 (maybe even a little better), but raw software spoils everything. And all this, it seems to me, is a consequence of the transition to the new Wear OS platform for Samsung. I am sure that within six months the situation will change, but for now I perceive the watch as an experiment, and its use as beta testing.

Pros

It looks like an ordinary watch, looks appropriate with a suit or jeans. The watch is based on an ated hardware platform: a powerful processor, 1.5 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, a high-resolution screen (450x450, 330 PPI). Steel housing, waterproof (IP68), ruggedized (MIL-STD-810G). A unique set of sensors: heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure, ECG, body composition measurement (% fat, muscle, water, etc.), stress level, sleep monitoring and snoring tracking. No other watch on the market seems to have such a set. The pulse began to be determined much better than on previous versions of the watch. The body composition measurements (when it is measured - see below) are very close to the body composition indicators obtained on different models of "smart" scales that my friends have (compared with Tanita, Picooc and old Withings / Nokia models). A large number of sports modes and programs. Support for Samsung Pay and Google Pay (you need to install Google Pay yourself).

Cons

Raw clock software. The “underdoneness” of the firmware is visible to the naked eye. This is noticeable both by not very well-designed interfaces, and by periodically occurring glitches out of the blue, and by incompatibility with the clock of the vast majority of software in the Play Market. Poorly thought-out system for installing ates. Part of the applications / watch faces are ated through the Play Market, regular Samsung applications are ated through the Settings. Why so difficult? If on the previous generation of watches you had accumulated a baggage of purchased dials, you can say goodbye to them - they remained on Tizen. Under Wear OS, the collection will have to be collected / bought again. There are still very few watch faces in the Play Market that are fully compatible with watches. You have to literally look for what you like and works correctly. If you have a non-Samsung phone, be sure to check its compatibility with your watch before buying. It may turn out that this very compatibility will not exist (for example, watches do not work with Huawei and Honor), or some of the functions will not be available out of the box (pressure measurement only works with Samsung watches). The width of the strap is now 20 mm (previously it was 22 mm). My old very comfortable and rather expensive strap does not fit. In general, the design of the standard strap is such that the watch rises on a narrow wrist, and the quality of measuring the same pulse is rapidly declining. Speaking of measurements. In my case, blood pressure is measured incorrectly. Calibration doesn't help. I really hope that these are software glitches, because on the old watch the quality of measurements was at its best. Also, it has not yet been possible to make friends with the function of measuring body composition. Sometimes (rarely) the watch just takes a measurement, and sometimes (often) no measurement takes place, the watch gives the message “failed to measure body composition” and recommendations to move the watch away from the wrist. I do everything according to the instructions, but the result is unpredictable.