Samsung - Galaxy Watch
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Last updated: Jan 14, 2026 Scoring
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"battery lasts me forever, I charge it once a week and I game every day."
"especially because of the battery life. ... The mouse I had right before this was the steelseries super light one, that was an every other day charge at minimum. Whereas this one is like once a week at most - and I work from home and game all night."
"Oh, and the battery lasts days even when exercising a lot (weeks without excercise)."
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"It's also absolutely unbreakable ... I have it since 3 years, done ton of afters, street parties, beach parties, etc, with it. Saltwater, beers, dust, sand, falling on the ground, etc, nothing broke or deteriorated it the slightest, and I am a pro for breaking anything technological."
"will last you forever as they are absolute tanks"
"amazed how the quality resembles logitech g pro 1"
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"after having it die on a couple seven mile/1.5 hour runs WITH the battery freshly charged and battery saving options on"
"The battery life is a literal joke. ... Do an activity? There goes 75% of your battery."
"Mine kept dieing one me mid run ... after two years of using it twice hours was about all an aw had battery for when using music and gps! By the 2:15 mark it would be dead. ... When I started running for longer than 2 hrs my battery would die mid run"
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"I really don't like the touch"
"the "click" controls (instead of just a touch like in the new v3)."
"well about touch maybe not the best"
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"I used to find that wrist HR sucked for rowing"
"when I’d swim in pools it would so often double count my lengths…"
"Garmin only adds load when you are tracking an activity, so it can miss a lot if it's not a planned workout."
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"It is NOT the watch for tracking. ... while not working out, it barely tracks ANY of my steps around the house. Literally off by 1000-2000+ in the evening."
"Don’t get this if you want a good health-tracking watch because it’s nowhere close to that. ... Sometimes, it won’t even record my runs—it shows that tracking has started, but when I check later, it’s still at zero. ... Even when it does record, the exercise time only appears in one widget on the app’s home screen, while the activity ring stays empty. ... I haven’t used my watch in over a month because it’s just not worth wearing if the tracking is so inaccurate."
"the fitness tracking is pretty bad ... the heartrate monitoring is terrible ... they dropped the ball with the fitness tracking"
I had a samsung galaxy watch and my bestie had an apple watch. We both switched to garmin. I have the forerunner 165, and she has the vivoactive. One of best features of the garmin watches is battery life - one charge lasts about a week with daily workout tracking
r/orangetheory • Smartwatch Recommendations for Fitness + OTF Beat Burn Outside the Studio? ->For battery life I would go Ticwatch or OnePlus 3. I have the latest Galaxy Watch and while the watch itself is slimmer than my Ticwatch 5, its battery life isn't great. I would have 70% battery left after listening to podcasts all day on my Ticwatch, while I have less than 50% with my Galaxy Watch.
r/WearOS • Best suggested Wear OS watch for early 2025 ->I wore my galaxy watch for 3 years climbing with no protection on it and while it got some scratches, it never really got anything on the screen and nothing cracked, it's a pretty durable piece of hardware. The only time it really got in the way of climbing was on the occasional very large sloper where you get an arm on the hold and on crack climbs. I don't wear it anymore because I no longer enjoy smart watches in general, but it was a pretty solid piece of tech in terms of durability.
r/bouldering • Performance / Fitness Tracker ->I've been eaten alive for saying this, but I'll say it again. Most information available comparing smart watch accuracy find them pretty close to each other. If you want something to generally track this information then Galaxy Watch is a perfectly fine pick. If you're doing more extreme sports then someone more rugged like a Garmin smart watch might be a better pick. If you want the absolute most accurate measurements then get a medical device that measures that. Smart watches are not designed or claim to medical devices. Just accurate enough to be useful overall. You may have times where it misses something or has blips but the overall result is accurate to be actionable. And Galaxy AI can offer suggestions that may be helpful in improving your health or exercise routine.
r/GalaxyWatch • Do you think that galaxy watch 8 reliable in health and fitness monitoring ->Neither does galaxy watch. These watches last lole 1 day at max meanwhile Garmin can last for a whole week in a single charge.
r/Fitness_India • Why Do People Choose Garmin Over Apple or Samsung for Fitness? ->For most a garmin a more than enough and that battery is a huge win. I went from galaxy watch to fenix and would not go back. Sounds like we are aligned :-)
r/GarminWatches • So for someone who does absolutely no exercise at all is fenix 8 over kill haha ->I use my galaxy watch because I like to listen to music while I climb without having my phone near by. I use a protective screen on the watch. I run through em quickly.
r/bouldering • Do you climb with a watch on? ->I use hevy with my galaxy watch but I have been tempted by the supposed garmin sensor and battery life superiority and even bought an epix pro gen 2 during BF sales but the lack of hevy and garmin only being able to write to google's health connect and not read data was a deal breaker and I returned it.
r/Hevy • What smart tech are people using with Hevy? ->My leg day HR today. Matches almost exactly to my oura ring. This metric never excited me either way as it's always pretty consistent as long as I am wearing it properly. Similar readings from all my Galaxy watches going back 5 years. I would need to wear a medical HR monitor to really know if there was any difference.
r/GalaxyWatch • The galaxy watch ultra just isn't good enough(for me) ->Yea I used to jog years ago and workout with one of those. I think it was a Polar...anyways, at my age now, I am more interested in HRV , sleep metrics, and ease of use and I love the Galaxy watches and kinda have become somewhat of a collector. I swim 4 days a week and find they work excellent there. I enjoy seeing the advances in tech each generation and since my entire ecosystem is Samsung, I stay true to this brand because of compatability. BP is also VERY accurate but in the US it needs to be side loaded because FDA has never cleared it even though it's been working in most other countries for 5 years. While these wearables aren't perfect, they do keep improving and it really depends what is most important to you as far as features. It seems in your case that HR is at the top of the list which I totally get.
r/GalaxyWatch • The galaxy watch ultra just isn't good enough(for me) ->I might go this route in the future, I only heard good things. I had switched to a Galaxy watch a few years back, but when it broke I came back to Fitbit because I hated having to charge it every single day.
r/fitbit • With mandatory Google migration, what devices are you turning to besides Fitbit? ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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