Overview Galaxy Watch - a new smart bracelet from Samsung, which looks like a classic watch

Galaxy Watch - continued Gear series. Samsung accessory pull together with a line of smart phones, giving him a Galaxy console, and made it a little more functional and appealing.

Table of contents

• Specifications
• Equipment
• Design and dimensions
• Display
• Control
• dials
• Interaction with your smartphone
• Activity and Sleep
• Sports and Fitness
• impermeability
• autonomy
• results

Specifications

Equipment

In the box: the watch, dock with microUSB cable and adapter (we were given a sample with American plug), an additional elongated strap and documentation.

Design and dimensions

46-millimeter version of hours sold in the color "silver steel", 42 mm - in the "deep black" and "red gold". Option with the latest colors and we got as a sample.

Comparing the Galaxy Watch with Gear S3, for example, that have kept watch from Samsung features in common, but become a little more elegant. The pink version for sure.

The straps are removable - 20- and 22-millimeter, depending on the version of the Galaxy Watch. However, it seems that the body is in this color a little with what will be combined. Therefore, those who do not like to experiment with the appearance of accessories, more appropriate one of the dark versions. Watchbands Gear series are suitable.

Dimensions of our version of hours - 41,9 × 45,7 × 12,7 mm. Simply indicate here these indicators is rather pointless, so tell better about personal feelings. Our chief editor of special projects Tanya held with hours a week, says that was used for mechanical watches smaller and Galaxy Watch it seem quite noticeable accessory. Weightless they also do not include: weight 49 g excluding the strap there, though, and does not cause discomfort.

Display

The diameter of our version of the screen - 1.2 inches or 30 mm. Display Resolution Galaxy Watch - 360 × 360 pixels. Screen - Super AMOLED, with his usual brightness, contrast and readability from almost any viewing angle.

Screen brightness is automatically selected, the image is visible even in bright light.

There Always on Display mode where the backlight is not turned off. And the display is always the color - with the Galaxy Watch it always looks like a clock, but not a gadget with the body from them and off screen.

Control

the clock is controlled via a touch screen and three mechanical controls: two buttons and a rotary bezel. Twist ring is especially nice - it turns easily and poscholkivaet.

The top button - this action is "Back" returns the user to the previous screen. Lower - power button, causing the quick tapas menu with the applications. You can choose a program that will be opened by double-clicking.

Swipe down on any screen, open the control center. Here you can enable power-saving mode or "Airplane", adjust the brightness of the dial, go to the main settings or enable Always on Display mode. If svaypnut right on the screen to open the notification (the same as coming to a smartphone), and swipe left or rotating bezel can browse custom carousel widget.

On the play, you can turn on "The Theater", not giving the display light up when you turn the wrist and in the basin - to turn off the sensor, leaving accessible only the mechanical pressing of a button. To the screen is off, you can slap on his palm. Everything seems to be convenient and logical, but there is a feeling that the developers added to the clock too many widgets, menus and settings. Easy to get confused, and the desired function is often difficult to find.

A lot of activities can be done without a smartphone: Galaxy Watch supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. But for some reason, you can use only one of the wireless interfaces. So, listen to music with headphones in hours, not disconnected from the Wi-Fi-network will not work.

Galaxy Watch run on Tizen operating system add-Wearable 4.0, installed inside a dual-core Exynos 9110 with a frequency of 1.15 GHz. Responsible for the performance is quite powerful for hours iron and proven in a series Gear platform. Indeed, for the week clock buggy only once - after a reboot. Everything works fast and does not lag.

We found a problem with the enigmatic running Gyro: Galaxy Watch the display is always switched on when you turn the wrist. To look at the screen, it was necessary to press one of the buttons or turn the bezel. At some point the problem is no less mysteriously disappeared.

dials

At Galaxy Watch has several preset dials with different widgets. There are options that are suitable to the body - something like this would look like the clock, whether they are really mechanical.

If the standard is not enough, you can download additional dials in Annex Galaxy Wearable.

Interaction with your smartphone

Setting is carried out through the same Galaxy Wearable application. On the main screen displays the charge clock, and the amount of internal RAM. You can also install new dials and download applications from the Galaxy Apps directory. For example, adapted to the round display analogue "snake" or baro-altimeter showing the altitude and the pressure on the street.

Galaxy Watch - not a standalone gadget, and to complete the work it they still need a smartphone. But the clock solve an important problem: you can finally remove the phone from the table when communicating with friends and colleagues. All important notifications are displayed on the screen Galaxy Watch. And yet they have their own memory, which can be filled with music. When connecting Bluetooth-headset compositions can listen without a smartphone.

Activity and Sleep

Track daily performance takes place through one more application from the developer - Samsung Health. Supported Android and iOS, but integration with Apple Health unavailable.

The application can maintain weight control and calories absorbed. Automatically counts steps, calories burned and traversed floors. The smartphone is able to fix it without accessories but with the Galaxy Watch obtained more accurately.

With the Samsung Galaxy Watch in Health opens new data: statistics pulse, sleep, and Rounds training hours. Function "Smart Service" No, but you can monitor their activity during sleep: an accelerometer hours determines what period you more intensely tossed and therefore restless all slept. There is also a system of motivation, informing friends about achievements using the app.

Sports and Fitness

Among the dial, you can select an option for fitness with key widgets and rapid transition in the training mode. Available 39 types of activity, including not only a run, bike ride and swimming, but also less popular and even exotic: yoga, Pilates, rowing, twisting, pulling, training on specific simulators.

To play sports, not necessarily to take with a smartphone. While jogging workout card will be drawn up with the help of GPS-sensor, and to know the height of the descent from the mountain to help built-in altimeter.

If you start to engage in physical exercise, but not switched to training mode, Galaxy Watch will understand it and will not forget you cheer. However, sometimes they work in a similar way, when you move just a little harder than usual and making a waving hands - for example, to change.

impermeability

Protection Galaxy Watch - IP68. The device is fully protected from dust, and with it you can swim and even shallow diving.

And yet Galaxy Watch tested the US MIL-STD-810G military standard. This means that they are protected not only from dust and moisture, but also from attacks, earthquakes and extreme temperatures.

autonomy

In different versions of Galaxy Watch installed batteries with different capacity. Our watches are equipped with a battery of 270 mAh. If you do not include Always on Display mode, but to actively use the Galaxy Watch and sleep with them hours to discharge and a half to two days. Charging takes about three hours.

results

Galaxy Watch - a serious device that preserves the features of traditional mechanical watches. And it's not just a disguise, that is easy to deploy. The dark version is able to supplement the formal suit and gadget in the "pink gold" is perfect for your shoes and dress.

It's not the most user-friendly gadget. To use all of its features, the device must be properly sorted out. It may take a couple of days. We tested the Galaxy Watch in conjunction with the iPhone SE, and perhaps it was not entirely true. Still, its creators are working to develop its own ecosystem, as evidenced the presence of Voice Assistant Bixby, interaction with the Samsung Health and the need to log in via the login Samsung.

Choosing flagship wearable is not particularly wide. If you have Android-smartphone, the Apple Watch will not work with him. Models from Garmin and Polar usually positioned as accessories for sports and the full potential of the interaction of hours with your smartphone will not open. A low cost options from Xiaomi may be any number of good and popular, but they just do not look.

Galaxy Watch - not perfect, but very nice gadget that will make life more comfortable any Android owner. And yet this is a good way to complement a wardrobe accessory, which is similar to the classic expensive watches, but has a lot more useful features.

The cost of 46-millimeter version of the Galaxy Watch is 26 990 rubles, a 42-millimeter will cost 21,990 rubles.

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