Samsung Galaxy Watch Active SM-R500 Smartwatch 40mm Aluminum - Silver, for Android & iOS [International Version]

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Galaxy Watch Active has a water resistance rating of 50 meters under the ISO standard 22810:2010. It is not suitable for diving or high-pressure water activities. If the device or your hands are wet, they must be dried thoroughly prior to handling. This is another circular smartwatch from Samsung. Unlike on the Galaxy Watch, there's no rotating bezel here in what we believe is an attempt to make a sportier design for the wearable. To use Samsung Health app with Galaxy Watch Active, requires signup and pairing with your compatible smartphone. Account log-in and data network connection (Wi-Fi or data network) required. User interface may change and differ by device. Compatible with select Bluetooth-capable smartphones. Galaxy Watch-supported features may vary by carrier and compatible device. For a list of compatible smartphones and features, please visit https://www.samsung.com/galaxywatch/device-compatibility. For best results, connect with compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Sure, the Galaxy Active is a good looking smartwatch, but an ordinary good looking smartwatch all the same. The control wheel on the Galaxy Watch (left) makes the wearable easy to use. The Galaxy Watch Active (right) misses out on this, and is a little less easy to get used to. Is it worth your money?

It’s been a handy feature that helped make the Gear and Galaxy wearables really interesting, but without it and the Samsung Galaxy Active is just like other smartwatches reliant on mediocre touchscreen controls, because that’s all this one has. No control wheel means no way to easily get around Samsung’s cute circular menu, making the whole thing less intuitive.

At least Samsung has fixed one of the major aspects that affects every wearable: how you charge it. One other critical point comes from the controls, because Samsung really had something in the Gear and Galaxy series, but has removed a key feature in the Galaxy Watch Active: the control wheel.

with Qi compatible Samsung devices (compatibility with non-Samsung Qi devices not guaranteed); speed and power efficiency of charge varies by device. use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity. device and related software are not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease. On the one hand, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is a friendly and relatively well-priced wearable that looks and feels like a real watch. And as you can see from the screenshots above, the data it collects is reasonably thorough too. The heart rate numbers are highly questionable, but the rest is pretty solid, and though the Galaxy Watch Active doesn’t support ANT+ external chest straps, certain third-party watch faces can connect to Bluetooth models.While the silicone band it comes with doesn’t use magnets to hold in place like the Apple Watch, Samsung is using a more standard pin-based band, meaning it should be compatible with others out there. Unlike the Apple Watch and the wearables made by Fitbit, the Galaxy Active borrows from the traditional circle of watch design, providing a relatively small smartwatch for your wrist that lets you read off a 1.1 inch AMOLED screen, complete with other features thrown in, including a 1.15GHz processor, 4GB storage, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, and more. What does it do? You might know the Apple Watch as the main smartwatch out there, but Samsung has been making them for a while, too, and the Galaxy Active of its latest, arming wrists with a small circular wearable designed to be worn day-to-day and during bouts of exercise. We wouldn’t call that great life for a smartwatch, and depending on how much exercise you do — depending on how often that screen lights up and you make use of the technology inside — you may only get a day out of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active, forcing you to charge it nightly. That’s not a positive in our eyes, and if you get a lot of notifications, the battery life has a tendency to drop, too. resistant up to 50 meters per ISO standard 22810:2010. Not intended for scuba diving. Avoid excessive, sudden temperature changes and high-velocity activities. Rinse in fresh water/dry after use in sea water or chlorinated water.

That’s good to know, as is the 5ATM rating, which means it’s water resistance down to 50 metres for up to ten minutes, and very shower friendly. The Samsung Galaxy Watch series is a line of smartwatches designed and produced by Samsung Electronics. The line features various health, fitness, and fashion related features, and is integrated with Samsung's other products under the Samsung Galaxy brand. The series is also the successor to the previous Samsung Gear watches. In the Galaxy Watch Active, the charge mechanism is the same Qi wireless charge standard used for phones, meaning you can use the included wireless dongle for the wearable, but also other Qi wireless chargers. That also includes phones with wireless reverse charging such as the Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung Galaxy S10+, and the Huawei P30 Pro, meaning it can be charged from a phone. Handy.You won’t need to take the Galaxy Watch Active off unless you need to charge it. What does it need? If you’ve been following Samsung’s watches in the past few years, the company has featured a neat little controller built into the design, with a wheel that sits around the bezel allowing you to get from menu to menu simply with a twist of the dial. For any content that you submit, you grant SAMSUNG a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you.