Samsung - Galaxy Watch 6
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Last updated: Jan 4, 2026 Scoring
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"Still daily drive them after 3+ years."
"They survived two trips in the wash and still rock."
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"HR - even better in tracking than AW. Less drop offs in readings during workouts. 9.5/10 ... I open zepp only to track heartrate."
"The HR data is solid! ... I am currently testing it agains the Morpheus recovery system chest strap and it is almost a 1 to 1 comparison."
"I have my HS on my wrist connected to Runna, and the HR matches up near-perfectly (+/-1 bpm) against my Garmin Epix Pro gen 2 with HRM Pro Plus."
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"Oh and battery life went from charging every two days to every 15 days."
"Battery, obviously. Listening to downloads on LTE burns 20% per half hour for me."
"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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"The thing whoop is giving me is wildly inaccurate HR readings. ... Did a casual bike ride with my child yesterday afternoon and whoop gave me a 187 high HR. This was a really slow like 4 block bike ride. ... AW said 108hr peak. Ive biked hard, ran as hard as possible doing max HR tests with my H10 chest strap and never hit above high 160s. ... Im not sure whats going on but its been doing this type of odd HR readings all week."
"I had Whoop for three months and it started showing a very bad data. Like catastrophicly bad. ... Bought Polar chest strap to check my HRV, it was VERY different and was showing me my normal data, data that whoop originally showed to me as well until three months into use it stopped."
"HR reading on Whoop are known for being absolutely aweful. ... Better having an accurate reading every 5 minutes than multiple bad readings every seconds. ... Whoop has awesome software and data analysis, but makes it somehow unusable because of bad hr data in. ... If HR accuracy is not a problem for you, and only follow "very general trends", yeah Whoop is a cool product. But if you are at some minimal point serious about HR accuracy, for real sport / performance / improvment, you cannot relly on it. ... If a Polar device, Garmin, apple watch says it's at 80 with readings every minute or so, and whoop says 65 every seconds, your "constant readings" are not worth anything. Garbage in, garbage out. ... Even counting it manually with a timer and my finger on my neck would be more accurate. ... their linear HR sensors are poor quality, and not the ideal way of positioning them (VS circular patern)."
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"the UI was so old and slow i grew to hate the watch."
"I tried a Garmin Forerunner but couldn't figure out how to customize it (and I'm pretty tech savvy)."
"Garmin silently stopped feature updates for Fenix 7 and Epix watches it was still selling at high prices, which is much worse than what any other brand did."
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"Running with AOD turned off is broken for me. The activity still tracks when you turn your wrist away but it kicks you back to the clockface instead of Fitbit."
"I have a non-standard sleep schedule so it's a 50/50 crap shoot if I'll get a HRV reading in the first place since they won't pull a daytime reading, and each time I didn't, it would just average in a 0 and completely ruin any use the data was having."
"GPS is inaccurate, I run the same route on weekends and it tracks ±10% on clear sky days (!!)."
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? ->Same! Galaxy has a peloton app on it, activated automatically. Highly recommend.
r/pelotoncycle • Peloton with fitness tracker (not Fitbit)? ->I don't know how it is on the Ultra but I had a Galaxy watch 6 and the damn thing couldn't track my heartrate during a workout. Most of the watch was nice but the fact it couldn't do something a $100 Fitbit could do was a deal breaker
r/Android • The Google Pixel Watch 4 is the Android watch to beat ->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 ->"Honestly there are SO many expensive options out there that do NOTHING, go for mid tier options like these 2 since stuff like this strikes a balance between price and features. 1) [The Amazfit one](https://quancoconline.com/dp-B0DHZDCF6WI) this one’s my top pick if you want REALLY GOOD battery life (27+ days), reliable fitness tracking, proper waterproofing, offline maps, and even AI voice control. Like, it does everything you actually need without turning into a second phone but it does not have google play store or third-party apps so if you’re into installing spotify or messaging apps on your watch, this ain’t it. 2) Galaxy watch6 is sleek, very smooth if you’re on a samsung phone, and probably the best looking out of the bunch. The fitness tracking’s good, and notifications are seamless but battery life isn’t great usually around 1–1.5 days tops, so you’ll need to charge it almost daily."
r/AndroidWear • Best Android Smartwatch? Just Want One That Actually Works Well ->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? ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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