(NEW) SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch 4 40mm Smartwatch

(NEW) SAMSUNG Galaxy Watch 4 40mm Smartwatch

I’ve been using this watch (44 mm version) for a little while. It’s got a good collection of features I was looking for, including wifi (can connect to the phone across the house, outside of Bluetooth range,) speakerphone (it’s a little low in the volume output, but it’s still serviceable for handling calls,) and various health monitoring capabilities (of non-medical grade accuracy.)

Would recommend if the price is right, although newer generations potentially increase performance, endurance, and health features.

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Does this watch have a rotating bezel?

Hello. It does not. The Watch 4 Classic does but we’re not selling that one.

Battery life is advertised at 40 hours, but some users are seeing as few as 8 hours. That’s about the same battery life I was seeing from my Apple Watch 6th gen when new (8 hours/charge).

Since jumping ship from Apple, I have a OnePlus Watch 2R and I get 5 days of battery life with pulse monitoring, or 4 days with pulse and O2 monitoring. I also own a Garmin Instinct 2 that gets around 15 days battery life.

If battery life means anything to you, maybe look elsewhere.

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As TT mentioned, it doesn’t have a physical, rotating bezel, but it has a virtual one, where you swipe the edge of the screen along and it’ll scroll down the screen.

I think that’s a common experience with the Galaxy watches. When I first started mine, it was after a fresh battery replacement, and I felt that the battery life was poor. After using it for a few days, I think that helped to calibrate the watch to the new battery, however, and now it uses around 20-30 points of battery life during the day which is more than enough for me (I don’t wear it overnight, and I charge it up to 75-80% max once daily for long-term battery health.)

I also changed the display to always on, and turned off raise-to-wake, because that was suggested as offering the best combination of power usage. So those settings and the aforementioned calibration/break-in period have yielded satisfactory battery life.

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It’s now $85 with the $15 off code for using the Woot app, valid today only.

I was on the fence, but with the code that pushed me to order it…

I added in $2 for some hair bands to my order, so the order is $100+ (part of the requirements for the code).

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Sold Out now.

27% of buyers bought 3 of them, what the heck are people doing with these watches from three generations ago?

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Reselling them? Trading them in for discounts towards newer models? Blending them? Putting them in hydraulic compressors?

What if they put a watch in a blender and then put that into a hydraulic compressor and traded that in for a newer model?

@Froodyfrog @peaceetc

Ok, I understand now :slight_smile:

I just got a Bass-O-Matic blender and will give it a try.

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Perfect!

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Watch was delivered today. New in box sealed, battery is taking a charge ok.

The only region problem noted so far is the temperature display. I can’t get the temp to display in Fahrenheit. Not sure if I’ll be able to resolve this yet…

It’s updating and charging, so far so good.

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I charged it to 85 percent then started applying the updates. There were 4 large updates and I left it on the charger throughout the updates.

After the first update there was a message that the battery was too hot to charge, so I used a table fan to keep the temp in check while I was applying the updates and charging.

To be safe, don’t apply a update unless the battery is over 50 percent.

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My wireless charger came with a plastic cover. Did you leave it on or peeled it off? (like I did) :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I peeled it off.