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Review on πŸ’ͺ 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 Som Chai ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Unsuccessful purchase, I am disappointed.

I compare with S3 Frontier, with which I passed for many years. The watch itself has become lighter and more compact. Compared to Frontier-toy. I would love to take something like Frontier on new hardware. If you do not compare with others - probably not bad. But for 5 years since the release of Frontier, they could not come up with anything suitable. Perhaps in six months or a year they will finish the OS to a normal state, now it is an expensive toy without significant value. There are many more interesting options on the market. Great care for pre-order users. Those who ordered immediately after the presentation were given the EP-P4300 (watch + phone), now it's the EP-P6300 (you can charge your phone, headphones and watch). Usually they do the opposite, at the beginning of pre-ordering better buns, then what is left. Loyal customers are valued so much. Old watch chargers are not compatible. Straps. At the time of ordering, there were no branded textiles at all. Although, they don't exist now. Under the rubber hand sweats, it is inconvenient to train with leather. Due to the rounding, standard 20mm straps leave a gap, it looks like a . Google assistant go can be installed, and it somehow works, but it slows down quite a lot. Some ates are coming out - the duty "stability and security". The fitness apps themselves remained functionally at the frontier level. For great, you can’t set a goal, for example, pace.

Pros
  • It looks badly similar visually to the old Tizen interface, which somewhat simplifies the migration to the new watch.
Cons
  • The strap attachment has become narrower, the straps from Frontier will not fit. For ECG and pressure measurement to work, the Samsung health monitor (SHM) application is required. If the phone is not Samsung - this is a problem. Since the SHM app is not on Google Play. It is available only in the company store, which does not work on non-Samsung smartphones. Yes, you can spend time and make it work, but this is not what you plan to do when you get the "crown of technology". It is written in footnotes, but who reads them. The bezel does not work in many applications, even in built-in ones. The UI in many built-in applications is terrible - somewhere there are abbreviations, so that there would be no scrolling, somewhere on the contrary, very long sentences with a scroll. Stock dials - no matter how you offend anyone, this is very "modern art", you won't look without tears. Memory is cheap to the point of impossibility. What prevented me from putting at least 64GB - so that I could throw music there, since there is no eSIM. There is no need for fast memory, if you're really too lazy, microSD would be installed. While setting up after unpacking - the battery went from 60% to 15. This is in about 4 hours. Compared to the clock on Tizen, there was an application with a store where you could normally select watch faces. Since now they are all in googleplay - it is inconvenient to search, it is inconvenient to watch. So more or less an option is Facer or WatchFaceApp, but they have problems with displaying the current battery status. Charging tablet - I liked the old one more - like a chair, it was more convenient, this watch can slip off and stop charging. And it, unlike the previous ones, is one-piece, if the cable is damaged, there can be difficulties. The heart rate monitor in training lives its own life. It may stop reading, it may suddenly start. Implementing a notification in the program that the pulse is not being read would seem to be quite simple.

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