The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 series offers an iterative update with minor improvements such as new watchfaces and enhanced on-wrist data. However, it falls short of being a revolutionary upgrade.
on top of that. When I first booted up the watches, there were some minor differences I noticed. The Sleep widget, for example, holds more on-wrist data than it used to. There are new watchfaces. When I paired the watches for the first time, I noticed a new prompt for transferring your watch’s data to a new phone. And then, a few days later, I promptly forgot this was new. The bottom line is that so far, Wear OS 4 and One UI 5 Watch feel a lot like Wear OS 3 and One UI Watch 4.5.
Catching up to your rivals is objectively good. It ensures these watches remain a competitive option in the market. They’re just not that exciting. In a race, it’s eye-catching to see someone at the back of the pack creep up on the frontrunner. But people don’t get out of their seats until it looks like the frontrunner might get overtaken. With these updates, Samsung’s leveling the playing field, but it’s not making anyone nervous.Last year, I wasn’t too happy with Samsung on this front.
The thing about Samsung smartwatches is your mileage with battery life is going to vary based on the settings you choose. If you disable the always-on display, enable bedtime mode, limit notifications to the essentials, and sparingly use LTE, GPS, or continuous health monitoring? I maxed out at around 32 on both watches. But that’s kind of like not using the watch to do much more than tell time. With AOD on, I topped out around 25 hours.
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