Review on SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch Active2 (Aqua Black, R820-44mm) 📱 with Bluetooth, Silicon Strap, and Aluminum Bezel - International by Goro Ueda ᠌

Name: SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch Active2 (Aqua Black, R820-44mm) 📱 with Bluetooth, Silicon Strap, and Aluminum Bezel - International
Item: SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch Active2 (Aqua Black, R820-44mm) 📱 with Bluetooth, Silicon Strap, and Aluminum Bezel - International
Rating: 4

October 22, 2022

The product is of good quality, there is only one minor defect.

Purchased in August 2022, used in conjunction with s8.
In principle, the model is interesting and, given the understanding of its strengths and weaknesses, it could well be recommended for purchase. However, I can give such a recommendation only subject to a thorough check upon purchase and a return guarantee in case of very likely complications: communication with the support service - either in service centers, on the website, or on the phone leaves strange sensations ranging from bewilderment to the desire to apply heavy bodily; any issue is not so much resolved as kicked off, and the competence (what is there - just adequacy) of the interlocutors raises serious doubts.
Well, and besides - the device is not a real "smart watch", but at best - with some claims for it; they can neither fully replace the phone, nor be considered at least a semi-professional fitness tracker (actually, this is the misfortune of any "universal").

Pros

1. Design (a matter of taste, and a rectangular watch is perhaps really more practical, but round ones somehow “come in” to me more). 2. A large set of watch faces and the ability to create your own. 3. Ease of wearing (I switched to them from a Samsung fitness bracelet - and no discomfort: it’s “just” to wear, and train, and sleep - everything is quite normal). 4. Autonomy (compared to apple) - a couple of days are completely "pulled out". 5. Interchangeable straps (I immediately took a ceramic one with a double latch to the complete "sports" one and I'm planning something else in the "Milanese loop" style, but rather fabric than metal. 6. Functionality - the ability to talk, listen to music (or control it on the phone), watch videos (although, of course, on such a screen it is not very convenient, but for what it is - definitely "+"; you never know), message notifications and reading them (and here are the answers (except for the simplest ones - it's pain), fitness functions (definitely better than Gear Fit had); heart rate monitor - very good (accurate), although more settings (conditions for measurement) would not hurt .

Cons

Disadvantages - continuation of merits. 1. Design (round - it is optimal for "watch functions", for "smart" ones - rectangular is really more convenient). 2. Some of the installed dials from the application store are really beautiful and convenient, but picking them out of the mass of the same type is another task (however, this is more of a nitpick than a drawback). 3. Sometimes the hand under the strap sweats. Here they complained about the non-wear resistance of the case or glass - so far (pah-pah) everything is fine with me. 4. AUTONOMY - the most serious drawback. Gentlemen, when will you begin to do not one-day? In addition, I basically imagined what to expect from the device and charging every other day didn’t scare me (although a week would be oh, how not superfluous), but for a couple of months now I’ve been stubbornly fighting with watches (and with Samsung) in order to squeeze out at least would these miserable 2 days. Moreover, the problem is not in the watch itself (without a connection with the phone - and sometimes even with it! - they pull it out), but in unoptimized applications that are periodically attacked by non-stop "zhor" - and the lack of competent support for such cases. 5. The mechanism for changing straps is not very convenient (it’s more interesting for apple makers), there are fewer of their varieties themselves (again, than with apple; though the prices are much more noticeable there), and they are much less common (in most salons - only on pre-order, which not very convenient; for example, when buying, I was lucky to come across a salon with different samples and, based on the results of the fitting, I took the wrong one that I was oriented at first). 6. All communicators (sms, whatsap, telegram, mail-agent) are inferior: you can only read the incoming message and give a short answer from the blanks: neither write "from scratch" nor look at the archive - nothing . For the second decade of the XXI century this is an obvious slip. The fitness functions are rather goofy (it feels like they were made solely for "losing weight", and not for normal monitoring of physical activity).

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Hongseok Bak ᠌

October 28, 2022

Has pros: Good and bright display. Convenient management. Different cons: Small autonomy (2 days), but over time you get used to it, it looks unusual on a thin hand.