Samsung Galaxy Watch 46mm Bluetooth

Buy a fitbit, it has way more capabilities – samsung smart watch is basically only good for looking at the time. Apps are garbage and heart rate monitor does not give a weekly data graph anymore. Be prepared to keep a physical journal for any of the health measurements. And how the hell does driving a car count towards steps walked?? Must be still in Flintstones era technology. I love the… Read more

phones, so, never imagined I would be as disappointed in a Samsung product as I always have been with Apple, but here we are. Do better Samsung, you make enough profit to pay a professional in the field of smart watch tech instead of using the guys who build the washing machine tech.

Best smart watch i have tested – Pros - upto 5 days battery life - impressive clear screen - very stong and durable frame - speaker and mic for calls Cons Not as many apps as android watches I have pushed this watch to the absolute limit, out of every watch i have tested this watch absolutely handled everything and still works Watches compared Fitbit versa, fossil android watch. Show details

Don't Bother – Battery started to fail after 6 months and completely dead after 15 months. A lot of commentary on line about inability for battery to hold charge. Battery is difficult to procure and replace. Not great value for money. Show details

Back sensor will fall off – The sensor cover on the back fell off. Looks like a flaw with the design as its glued and the adhesive was not holding. The watch was under warranty and still worked so I assumed Samsung would glue it back and hand it back. The report was water damage and it is cheaper for me to buy another watch rather than repair it. I have never gone swimming… Read more

with it. They have refused to fix it and this seems to be a common issue. I will not buy another Samsung watch if the sensor is glued. Before you buy one read the reviews...I would not spend 500 for poor design and workmanship

The best watch for your home – On Wednesday 31st March 2021 I bought this so I can text and talk with this using my Mobile Phone and track my sleep at night also monitor my heart rate and read/write emails as well. On Wednesday 7th April 2021 I got a refund since it wasn't the Australian model but the United Ahab Emirates model. Show details

Smart in every way, except connectivity – I have owned my Samsung galaxy watch R805 for 4 days now, in that 4 days I have spent probably 2 hours trying to get the watch to connect re-connect or pair with my phone, including 1 full reset which takes at least half an hour. The watch has every single permission possible and still it wont reconnect with my phone when the phone was out of… Read more

range or turned off over night. I put this down to my experience with other Samsung electronic products where they seem to try and make it as difficult as possible to match non-Samsung products. My phone is a 6 month old Nokia smartphone with the latest Android OS, all up to date. I had a Ticwatch Pro and thought it was inferior to the Samsung but boy was I wrong. By comparison the Ticwatch connects flawlessly, probably because they don't care that you're not using a Samsung phone, and other than the lack of a rotating bezel, which I could do without, the Ticwatch pro is far superior AND cheaper. Anyway, if not for the connectivity issues I would probably give the galaxy watch 3 or possibly 4 stars, but when you have to turn the Bluetooth on and off just to get it to connect (at best) then to me this is not acceptable. If you are thinking of purchasing a Galaxy watch and you don't have a Samsung phone, you've been warned. (don't take my word for it, have a look at how many people have connectivity issues on all the online forums). Fortunately, I did not pay the retail price of around $480 as mine was a demo. UPDATE : I've made it 2 stars as the heart rate monitor is absolutely useless, Samsung pay works less than 50% of the time and as you can see for yourself, Samsung support is non existent

Garmin or Samsung – Always had Garmin watches but Samsung phones. Went new Samsung watch but battery life is terrible and Heart Rate monitor is terribly inaccurate. Garmin way better on both. My mistake.  Show details

It's beautiful and functional. But it's lacking – I've been using the watch for one year now so I think i'm ready to review it. In summary: The fairly slim design, easy swap bands, and custom watch faces makes it a very nice watch. But the battery life and functionality leaves a bit to be desired. The Pro's: - The call quality is crisp. I can comfortably chat via the watch and the person on the… Read more ·  1

other end has no issue hearing me, and I can hear them clearly. I'ts not something you use for every call, but there have definitely been times where the watch made something much easier by letting me chat through it. - Notifications from your phone on your wrist mean much fewer 'hands on' time with the phone. I got used to using the auto reply and planning my calendar events to take advantage of my watch remind me of things. - It helps you to not leave your phone behind. It's only been a hand full of occasions, but it's happened where I have walked out of the house and forgotten my phone, only for my watch to let me know. By means of notifying me that I am not connected to my phone. - It's light, sleek, and beautiful. I cant think of much I would change to make it look better. The face dial is a perfect touch of Analog class and functionality. - The ability to easily swap bands is fantastic. I originally got a metal clip band and soon replaced it with a leather band. And if I want to with a quick flip of a little lever I can go back to a previous band. - It's bright. I've never had an issue seeing the face. - There are plenty of varied and pleasing free watch faces.

The Cons: -The battery life is not fantastic. Even when I've cut back on a lot of functions it still only really gets through a day and a bit. There was a time when my wife's watch (I got her one when I got mine) struggled to get through a day. Which is a red flag I think. This is a consumer product and a non-tech-native should be able to use it easily. And that is not the case. I had to spend a fair bit of time watching videos and reading guides to optimize her watch and get more battery life. - Glitches. They are becoming more frequent. I dont know if it's updates on the watch, on my Android phone. Or the apps. But more and more there are glitches. And I dont have many additional apps/widgets: 2 watch faces, 1 timer app - The lack of Google Assistant. This is a big killer, I didn't think I would mind, but more and more I do. Especially as I use the Assistant a lot around the home and on my phone.

Would I recommend this watch: not really. I think you should take a look at the newer watch and do a fair bit of research into smart watches and what you want out of one. If you just want some phone functionality and a few widgets on your watch with a fairly beautiful design, sure its a winner. But if your expecting something a bit more advanced and a true extension of your phone you might need a newer (pricier) model.

I dont regret the buy, but I will be replacing it soon I believe.

Awesome watch looks great and does plenty – The Samsung Galaxy watch 46mm bluetooth model is an awesome watch. It looks great and does plenty of things so don't need the phone as much. Got me to be more active, plays music to bluetooth headphones, great and very useful apps. Overall highly recommend it. Show details

Great watch – This 46mm watch looks amazing and is surprisingly light to wear for its size. Great number of functions including all kinds of health related functions such as step counter, flights of stairs, heart rate, calories burnt, music apps, emails, barometer, altimeter, news, calender, and many more. Watch is waterproof and can make and receive calls via Bluetooth not is available as a cellular version. No regrets here.

It's alright – Battery doesn't last very long so you have to choose whether you want it for during the day or to monitor your sleep at night....can't really do both. Other than that it's great. Awesome sound quality and call connections...sometimes it clearer than taking a call on my note 9! Show details

A smart watch for the non-Apple people – I've had mine for around 10 months or so. My primary reason for a smart watch such as the Galaxy Watch was for fitness tracking. Not so much that it would be religiously tracking what I did and how fast and how often, but to motivate me to be healthier. Basically I enjoy walking/running and swimming so the built-in fitness tracking functions,… Read more

plus the water-proof ability meant this was perfect for me. (Note: waterproof in fresh water only but this is typical of most smart watches that state they are waterproof)

I have the watch paired to a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and from reviews I believe the watch works best with Galaxy Phones. Although it will work with an iPhone, some of the functionality (eg replying to text) is limited; but the if you have an iPhone you'd be getting an iWatch!

In terms of accuracy for step counts, distance, heart beat etc, it seems pretty accurate. I used to have a Microsoft Band 2 and comparing both they are much the same. The Galaxy Watch also has an auto-workout detection. Basically if you forget to start an activity on the watch, it will start it for you once it detects you've been doing it for approx. 10 mins. So I can go for a walk or run, and if I forget to start it, the watch will track it for me.

I swim often, and the watch will count laps for me as well. It's pretty accurate too. The only it has mis-counted laps is if I've stopped mid-lap (to clear goggles of water!)

You can make and receive calls from the watch via a Bluetooth connection to your phone. It's actually come in handy a few times when my phone was the other side of the room; as I could answer on my watch instead.

The spotify app is quite good. You can control music on your phone from your watch as long as you've started this form the watch. If you've started playing music from spotify on your phone, then you can only see the track playing displayed on the watch.

The watch basically does everything it promises to do. There are plenty of in-depth reviews out there so look those if you want detail. From my experience, this is what I found in terms of pros and cons:

Pros:

Looks like a watch! Useful built-in fitness tracking apps Lot's of free watch faces available Lot's of replacement bands available on eBay Pretty accurate in terms of steps, distance and heartbeat measurements Great battery life (3 - 4 days depending on how often you use GPS) Surprisingly comfortable to wear as 46mm is a large watch

Cons:

Limited number of apps compared to Apple iWatch Limited memory for storing music on the watch, much better to stream from your phone Very slow upload of music to the watch Full functionality for Samsung Galaxy Phone only.

Recommended!

Extremely Good, but Just Falls Short of Being Excellent – Instead of writing a review talking about the tech specs (which you can all easily find elsewhere), I shall try to give an overview of my experience in wearing the watch almost every day for the past 5 months. Also, just as a side note for a bit of context which may be referred to, my smartwatch before this was the Pebble Time. Design/Interface: … Read more

One of the key reasons I bought the watch was due to the fact that it looked like a watch, and that I could realistically wear it in professional settings (something that was unfortunately not possible with my Pebble). On the wrist, assuming you get the size which best matches yours, the watch sits nicely and does not instantly look like a ‘gadget’. I have the watchface set to the always-on mode, which helps with this as well and is something I’d recommend as it does look admittedly odd if you leave it off since there is just a blank black screen visible until you lift your wrist. In my opinion, this aesthetic isn’t worth the extra day of battery life you may net. In terms of its general usability, the Galaxy Watch is extremely intuitive to use and I’ve yet to find myself mistakenly pressing the wrong button or selecting the wrong option. You may have heard about its rotating bezel, and its safe for me to say it lives up to the hype. One recommendation I would make though if you intend to wear the watch in professional environments is to buy a different strap, as the included silicon one feels a bit too ‘sporty’. I should note that it is extremely easy to change straps as the watch uses standard quick release pins so you shouldn’t be too worried about having issues there.

Battery:

Not much to say here, it performs almost exactly as advertised. The advertised battery life of 4 days from Samsung is while using the setting that keeps the screen off until you lift your wrist. I, however, use the always-on screen setting, and even then, still get 3 days of battery which I believe is quite acceptable considering just how good the display is and the power it would require to run. Charging the watch is quite simple as well, there is no port as it only charges wirelessly. I have the charger set up on my desk and simply drop it on that (it attaches to the charger magnetically and is quite secure) every few days.

Features:

I will be honest here, the only other reason I have a smartwatch is so that it can display notifications from my phone. As such, I’m in no position to talk about the health/fitness features, apart from the fact it seems to fairly accurately automatically track my walks from the train station to university. The watch runs Samsung’s own operating system (called Tizen), which is not to be confused with Android. While there is nothing inherently wrong with the OS – it does exactly what you need it to – there’s also not much to write home about. It has extremely limited app support, so much so that I haven’t found any app worth installing and as such am only running the default apps, most of which don’t see any use. In terms of how it handles notifications, the Galaxy Watch does the job. Using the rotating bezel (which has an extremely satisfying click to it), makes cycling through multiple app notifications a breeze. The watch allows you to send pre-written replies to messages (eg. Yes, ok, on my way, etc.), otherwise you can even type on the watch itself (which is cumbersome for long messages, but one can easily get used to it for writing <1 sentence responses).

Now as I mentioned earlier, this watch replaces my Pebble Time, and from my experience using that, I have a few slight nit-picks with the Galaxy Watch that unfortunately stop it from being a truly top-tier smartwatch, regardless of how it fares against its main competitors. Firstly, the watch handles multiple notifications from messaging apps poorly. For example, if you receive 1 message from a friend, the watch has no troubles displaying that message. However, if your friend then sends another message before you have checked the first one on the watch, the OS decides to bundle both together, meaning you are no longer able to view the full messages, and can only see a preview. This may not seem like something you would ever think about, however coming from a Pebble which would allow me to read each individual message in full, without having to take out my phone, I’d expect that as a minimum from a product that’s worth more than double that. As such, it can be quite frustrating to have to still take out my phone to read messages, when I would expect the key roles of a smartwatch is to allow me to avoid doing so. The second minor UI issue I’ve noticed is that notifications do not actually display on your screen unless you physically lift up your wrist. While this may not seem like a big deal, imagine you are in a meeting and feel your watch buzz. Naturally, you’d be seated, potentially with your arms folded or resting on the table, with either of these positions still giving you full view of your watch. The issue here is that even though you can see your watch, and even with the always-on setting enabled, the Galaxy Watch simply refuses to show you the notification unless you make the exaggerated motion of lifting your wrist up as if you were checking the time. This is also the case when walking, as the watch still doesn’t show the notification when I make the fairly natural reaction to simply glance at my watch which is by my side. Lastly, the only other slight niggle I will make note of is that there is a noticeable delay for the watch to show you the notification itself. For example, you feel a notification, you lift up your wrist to view it, but then have to wait a noticeable period of time for it to actually show it, as it spends the first second simply showing the name of the app it's coming from. I would like to point out though, that for all 3 of these points I’ve raised, I strongly believe that they can all be fixed via basic software tweaks, and are not a result of any hardware limitations. As such, I hope these are addressed, and would, in turn, make this already great smartwatch an excellent one.

Conclusion:

The biggest advantage the Samsung Galaxy Watch has over its competitors is to do what a smartwatch should do (ie. Display notifications) and look good while doing so. The Galaxy Watch certainly does that, and quite well. The lack of apps is a bit disappointing although there aren’t exactly many apps I can imagine I would want on a watch in the first place, due to how difficult it would be to use on a much smaller screen (this is also the case for the Apple Watch, which has a significant number of apps available). The only gripes I had with the watch were all things that I believe can easily be fixed with a few software tweaks, but overall, the Samsung Galaxy Watch is definitely the best smartwatch currently on the market for your Android device.

The whole family is happy – I bought 4 watches for the whole family and they are extremely happy with this watch. I was lucky to get it at discounted price before the release. It is nice little gadget which makes our life easier. Phone and message option is particularly very helpful. Would definitely recommend this product. Show details

Great device – I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and got the Galaxy Watch because Apple Watch is not yet compatible with Android. Running Tizen OS, it does the job with a nice display and great tactile bezel. Show details

Outstanding device but lacks apps – The Samsung Galaxy Watch offers alot for a smartwatch. Battery life can go about 4 days without always on display and 2 days with always on display. The rotating bezel is awesome to use and is reliable. I have gone swimming with it many times and it works just fine. All of my notifications show up on my watch. Having the ability to call people… Read more

from my wrist is a good experience. The speaker is fine, but obviously hard to hear in public. Using bluetooth headphones for calls and music work well. The main downside of this watch for me is the lack of apps it supports. No google maps, no facebook messenger, etc. If more app support was added this would hands down be the best smartwatch to get. Only other slight complaints are that the 46mm version only comes in silver/grey (42mm has more options) and the wireless charger uses micro usb instead of usb C. Overall it is really solid, just lacks app support.

Piece of tech that I now use everyday – Initially I was skeptical about purchasing a smartwatch because a lot of opinions are that these devices are user specific, but after buying one I can say that I fall into the category of those that consistently use it. The build quality is exceptional and feels solid (although slightly heavy) on my wrist. The main feature that sets the galaxy… Read more

watch apart from the competition is the rotating bezel that has a tactile feel when you're spinning it. After I connected Samsung Pay to my card I can just use my watch on terminals now without needing to pull out the wallet! The reported battery usage is around 4 - 5 days between charging but I've found that with heavy usage in notifications, calls, calendar items, fitness, and sleep tracking I'm only managing between 2.5 - 3 days between charges.

Nevertheless if you're looking for a smartwatch in this category then would highly recommend considering the Galaxy Watch.

Best Smart Watch on the market – Purchased the Samsung Galaxy Watch R800 (Bluetooth) 46mm watch and love it . Heaps better then any other smart watch on the market . Battery last about 4 days between charge , the military grade waterproof and shock resistance is brilliant and had no issue with this watch in water and getting knocked . Great feature and so many different watch… Read more

faces to suit just about every occasion

Also a great looking watch classical watch design which can be dressed up or down with custom leather or metal bands to fit your style which looks a lot better then the tacky I-Watches

Don't buy this watch – Took me a while to buy a smartwatch and was excited by what this one promised, unfortunately it doesn't deliver. My key conerns relate to why I bought the watch, monitor sleep and for fitness. Firstly, the heart rate monitor barely works. I did at least 25 workouts, before I sent it back the first time, and not once did it monitor my heart rate… Read more

for the whole duration of the workout. In fact it battled to do it for about 40% of the activity. May have a lot of different workout settings, but they don't work.

Half the time I can't get a reading when I'm static, in the 2 months I've had it, it has never taken a reading in my sleep.

The GPS function doesn't work properly either, on a recent hike it measured the distance as 10.7km, but it was only 7.3km! Also suggested I was doing sub 4 minute km's, been a while since I could do that running let alone hiking.

Samsung have been horrible to deal with, sent it back twice, but no refund, in fact they won't even listen. Said thier Techs have checked and it's fine, asked if they've been for a run with it on, of course they haven't! So if it checks out in tbe lab, means it's a lemon.

Never again Samsung.

Brilliant Product – This smart watch has lived up to all expectations. Anyone purchasing this will not be disappointed. Samsung has done it again and Toby deals have delivered the goods on time as promised.