The Samsung Galaxy Watch offers alot for a smartwatch. Battery life can go about 4 days without always on display and 2 days with always on display. The rotating bezel is awesome to use and is reliable. I have gone swimming with it many times and it works just fine. All of my notifications show up on my watch. Having the ability to call people from my wrist is a good experience. The speaker is fine, but obviously hard to hear in public. Using bluetooth headphones for calls and music work well.
The main downside of this watch for me is the lack...Read more

Initially I was skeptical about purchasing a smartwatch because a lot of opinions are that these devices are user specific, but after buying one I can say that I fall into the category of those that consistently use it.

The build quality is exceptional and feels solid (although slightly heavy) on my wrist. The main feature that sets the galaxy watch apart from the competition is the rotating bezel that has a tactile feel when you're spinning it. After I connected Samsung Pay to my card I can just use my watch on terminals now without needing t...Read more

I just hate the samsung 4g galaxy watch.
I loved it though when I first bought it for about 1 week. Then it started overheating when web browsing. Then it started sending out random mobile phone numbers to my friends.
The store I purchased it through replaced it straight away which was terrific as it was only 2 weeks old.
So the replacement started overheating again ( in Australia )! Boring. The store said send it back to Samsung for a Service. I did. Samsung say it works within their specifications so they consider that there is nothing wrong ...Read more

I purchased 2 Samsung Watches in October 2018 for my husband and myself. I previously used a FitBit so was aware of my activity levels. I found that my Samsung watch did not record my steps accurately, or map my sleep or other activity effectively. I called the contact centre within the 1st week and was told it would have to go for an assessment. I didn't have the time to go drop off the watch for an assessment immediately. In December I ran a test of the Samsung watch just for step counting. I counted my steps manually, i compared it with the ...Read more

Bought in November 2018. Since the first week this watch gets hot on my wrist almost every second day, then gives a warning beep with an error of 'watch overheated, will shut down' or similar. After a month or 2 of that I'd had enough and took it back to Telstra. They sent it to Samsung. Samsung says 'nothing wrong with it'. I have it back for 2 weeks now and the same thing is happening. Contacted Samsung direct and they just don't seem that interested. The person at Samsung seemed like she was just going through the motions and didn't c...Read more

I can't comment on many of the features, because to achieve an 18 hour battery life I have had to turn OFF, exercise monitoring, heart monitoring, and sleep monitoring. Also, the handwriting recognition function will turn itself off after 2-6 hours, every time. So I'm continually turning it back on.

Worst of all is the service. See above comments - "if you want us to look at it you have to have it assessed by a technician." Except when you have an issue that only occurs after a few hours they refuse to actually test the defect, instead just...Read more

If you can run your samsung phone its a walk in the park...so easy to use, very bright amoled screen, nice and clear, responsive and lots of features..rotating bezel is very good as is the watchface options. You can download additional watchfaces and stop watch etc.
Connects to samsung phone easily without messy passwords and the like and the health app to display your settings and challenges is good without being brilliant. Only negatives so far....battery goes quicker if lots of use and screen left permanently on (about 1.5 days). A full cha...Read more

After years of upgrading my Fitbit with the latest and greatest I decided to make a switch to a watch that looked a little less "smartwatch" and more like a regular watch. The 42mm rose gold Samsung Galaxy watch definitely doesn't disappoint in the looks department. When it comes to performance though - it does lack in a few areas.

The "Product Expert" at Harvey Norman happily advised I'd get a good 6 days out of the battery which was definitely a step up from my Fitbit Blaze. I figured since I'm at the gym 4-5 times a week perhaps I'd sha...Read more

I never had too much interest in smart watches. I didn't see what the hype was about when you can do everything on your phone anyway. But I was gifted a Samsung Galaxy Watch in Rose gold for my birthday in November and I LOVE IT!!! Not only is it a gorgeous looking watch, it's so handy. I love that you can customise the watch face (during Christmas I used really cute Xmas themes). I love the steps counter. It's actually stopped me using my phone so much as you get sent notifications on your watch and I can look and see when they pop up and see ...Read more

Took me a while to buy a smartwatch and was excited by what this one promised, unfortunately it doesn't deliver.
My key conerns relate to why I bought the watch, monitor sleep and for fitness.
Firstly, the heart rate monitor barely works. I did at least 25 workouts, before I sent it back the first time, and not once did it monitor my heart rate for the whole duration of the workout. In fact it battled to do it for about 40% of the activity. May have a lot of different workout settings, but they don't work.
Half the time I can't get a readin...Read more