Samsung Galaxy Watch Active Review: Premium qualities, thin and light body
Smartwatches are finally starting to become more affordable without sacrificing important features. Case in point: the Galaxy Watch Active. Pitched as a lower cost version of last year’s Galaxy Watch, Samsung has boiled that flagship smartwatch down to its essentials. It ditched the rotating bezel, pared down the design and slapped on the word “Active” to appeal to sportier users.
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This is the first big name smartwatch that looks truly minimalist to me and doesn't stick out on your wrist. Even the Galaxy watch 42mm is too think to me with the HR monitor underneath.
When/if Samsung either releases a 42MM version of this or can stretch the screen to 1.2" without changing the form factor I think they'll have hit perfection.
Maybe at some point we'll see a rotating bezel that is nearly flush to the device and not so jutted out above the face as they are right now.
I love you cherlynn low ? ???
The fitbit versa doesn't have on board gps you can't reply messages with full text just, pre programmed text messages, the active does have gps and you can write full text on the watch.
1:41 it shows a notification about Fed Ex
My Xiaomi Mi Band 2 can do most of these things, and programmable even further in a way smaller and usable design
I much prefer this design over the galaxy watch. This one doesn't try too hard to look like a mechanical watch
Smaller watch is no for me
Who else is watching this from their Apple Watch series 4?
I love the basic design, if it had a 1.3" screen I'd swap it for my 42mm galaxy watch
finally they stuck to their own proprietary (not android wear) OS and removed that rotating bezel, way to go!
3:58 I get what she's saying here, but I mean… All you have to do is count to 20 (max) in your head.
These watches are to small
It measures the stress level by analysing imperfections on each heart beat.
Since I had upgraded to a Gear Sport from gear Fit 2 I don't know if I could ever go without the dial on whatever my next watch will be. I almost never swipe.
I grabbed the black at first, I returned it for a silver galaxy watch and snagged a silver metal band. Best decision.
Samsung Software always makes me skip their hardware.
Can we take calls from this watch
You guys really should stop recommending devices from fitbit. They have serious hardware quality and reliability issues. This alone should drive them to bankruptcy. They are not even in the same ballpark with devices from Samsung, Garmin or Apple.
For men simplicity is the best. No design is the best design, ha ha …
I think it looks great
I need a watch with a very very very accurate heart rate monitor. no budget. what do u recommend?
first!