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.
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.
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.
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).
Sold Out now.
27% of buyers bought 3 of them, what the heck are people doing with these watches from three generations ago?
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?
Ok, I understand now
I just got a Bass-O-Matic blender and will give it a try.
Perfect!
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.
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.
My wireless charger came with a plastic cover. Did you leave it on or peeled it off? (like I did)
I peeled it off.