Samsung - Galaxy Watch 5

I wouldn’t expect a major breakthrough in this matter in few years. We need better battery technology for that. Amazfit and Huawei have simpler OS and CPUs, so energy consumption is much lower. I’ve never owned an Apple Watch, but I had Galaxy Watch 5 and I needed to charge it every day too, but I think it’s not a big problem. Just put it on a charger once day when you don’t need a watch on your wrist. It’s not just a problem of Apple Watch. Watches with Android (WearOS) have similar battery life.

I have tried Fossil. Skagen, Galaxy 4 and 6, Ticwatches, Oneplus, Amazfit watches. The ticwatches I tried had terrible vibration. I recently was surprised and found the galaxy 5 and the Galaxy 5 pro watches and they both have great vibrations. The 5 pro is thicker and its vibration is the best I have felt in years. Reminds me of the Pebble time and time steel which had a similar vibration. I would also like to point out the Galaxy watch 5 is 44 and the 5 Pro 45mm. The 40mm usually have less vibration strength.

You mention you want to use your watch for hiking I believe you are better with the Galaxy watch. The step count on the galaxy watches is right on the step count on the Oneplus watches is off. I have read this for the Oneplus 2, I experienced it on my Oneplus 2R and the Oneplus 3 has the same processors so I would be concerned. The galaxy watches get the updates the Ticwatches do not. My galaxy watches already have wear 5.0. The other problem with the Oneplus watch is the sleep monitoring. If you take a nap it will link in with your sleep score and you can not remove it. The galaxy watches have a much better sleep monitoring and if you take a nap it is registered separately so you can remove it or keep it. The stress monitoring on the Oneplus watch simply does not work. Galaxy watches win here again. If vibration strength is important to you the Galaxy 5 and 5 pro have the strongest vibration. I could go on and on.

A used Samsung galaxy 5 watch. Does the job.

I still have the GW 5 and it's been incredibly laggy and slow the past year. I've only had it for about 2 years now and I'm not the type to jump to the newest thing immidiately. I'd feel bad replacing it so soon. But if I were, would the 8 classic be a good choice? Or should I look at the 7 instead?

i've used the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and now the Watch 7. Both have been pretty accurate. i don't like Samsung Health's display of swim stats (it's just long list of 25's with no indication of when i rested), so i use [swim.com](http://swim.com) instead of the native app. [Swim.com](http://Swim.com) does not track kickboard laps at all and drilling and/or sculling, for reasons that should be self-evident, is hit or miss. You can, however, go into "Drill mode" in the middle of a swim and manually tell it how many kicking/drilling laps you will do.

Thirding the Fit 3. I have a Galaxy watch 5 as well but I got so sick of charging it every day. The battery on the Fit 3 lasts so long! I think I last charged it 2 weeks ago and use it everyday to track my stats.

Apple Watch is good because you can do other things not just fitness related. I have se 3. But my god the battery dies so quick. Everyday I have to charge it. Sucks. Have to purchase multiple chargers soon, one for home and one for work. Prior I used a Samsung galaxy fit. Battery lasted days. Small slim profile watch which was nice and not delicate like the Apple Watch. But I have an iPhone and did not put time into experiencing if it can connect to other fitness apps. I had a Samsung before this phone so I had a Samsung galaxy watch 5. It was a good watch that tracked my fitness activity similar to apples watch where I could also do more than fitness related things. It was very nice and I really liked the round screen. Overall I think it comes down to what your fitness needs are and the mobile device you have.

Personally, Ive been using my Galaxy Watch 5 for Strava for about 10 months now and it hasn't had any hiccups. Only once did the "strava sync" toggle turn itself off, but it was after I reinstalled Samsung Health so its expected.

Its very dependent on your budget, what phone you have, battery life you want, and actual features you want it to have. If you have a samsung phone, you can get either a Galaxy Watch (high on features, but only 2 day battery) or a Galaxy fit (very limited features but 7 day battery life) If you have an iPhone, obviously the Apple Watch works best, but battery life is abysmal. If youre ok with a 3rd party watch that has its own app to sync, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is pretty hard to beat. 10-15 day battery life. Has built in GPS, dive computer, and looks sleek as hell.

I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and used the Active 2 before. Before Samsung I used Fitbit. I found the algorithms for the health information is probably different. I'm very interested in the Pixel Watch 4. Some of the features I'm not interested in, but also interested in the health features of the PW4. I'm frustrated with Samsung for some features not being available unless you have a Samsung phone (which I don't). And it sounds that the restrictions on a PW if you don't have a Pixel phone is not health features, which makes it more appealing to me.

Thank you. It helps a lot and confirms that it will be a good move to a Pixel watch. I was never able to use some health features from my Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 because I don't have a Samsung phone. It always bothered me why it should be necessary for someone to have to buy other products from a particular brand just to be able to use the functions of said product.

I'm very interested in the PW4. Currently using a Samsung W5. One of my frustrations is that I'm limited in using some of the features because I'm not using the Samsung phones. Is there any limitations in the use of some features on the current PW3 and do you know if there will be with the PW4?

If you want Wear OS, get the Watch 4 or 5. https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Galaxy-44mm-Smartwatch-GPS/dp/B0BWNZMCR5?crid=UC53KETJ3WNE&sprefix=galaxy+watch+5%2Caps%2C239&sr=8-1 The watch 5 is pretty cheap and the watch 4 is like $50 on Amazon which is great for a wear OS watch.

If you don't want Wear OS, get the Fit