Galaxy Watch7

I am using Galaxy Watch 7 and Amazfit Active 3. Amazfit is closer to my professional medical devices from work. Edit: and topo maps are better than any app on Wear Os

I just upgraded to the galaxy watch 7 (just set it up it minutes ago) 40mm and the Watch 4 classic looks better and the rotating bezel protects the screen. I'm a little scared to break or scratch the glass of the 7. But it's quicker indeed, and lighter but let's see if battery life is better, I don't use the screen always on but was having bad battery life on my aged watch 4, that wad the main reason. I considered the OnePlus Watch 3 for its great battery life but since I own a Samsung s24 ultra decided to buy a used 7 for 81 euros.

If you're worried about battery life, I wouldn't go lte. Drains battery faster. Same thing with your phone on mobile data vs wifi. My gw7 dropped almost 30% battery to youtube music in around 3 hours of playback. That was using my galaxy buds, and having the songs pre-downloaded... on the 44mm Bluetooth model.

Oh yeah without youtube, I took this thing off at 3 am yesterday... at 65%. Music dropped it to that in a few hours though.

I got a refurb from Amazon for 150 US, and saw it for 140 a week later. Looks and works like new FWIW.

Hello, friends, I am writing this post to express my frustration, disappointment, and regret for buying Galaxy Watch 7 as a runner. I am a long time runner by now, and fairly advanced. Before, I used to use Garmin Fenix 5S which lasted me almost five years before it gave out. Buying a new Garmin was scary expensive, so I decided to give Galaxy Watch a go as the tight integration with the smartphone was a big selling point for me. Regret was almost instant. While I won't argue that if you are a very casual runner or a beginner runner, you might have your needs met, if you are a serious runner you won't do well with this watch. Let's begin with the fact that there's little to no workout customisation. On Garmin, you can very easily create runs and customise them as you want: not only set desired pace, distance, or time goals, but also to easily segment your runs using those parameters and have your watch guide you. The Galaxy Watch offers little to no customisation in this regard. It has a very simple interval training function, and a very disappointing "Coach", which has artificial and absurd limitations that I struggle to understand why are they even in place. For example, you can only select pre-set run types, most of them force a warm up and cool down. For example, my personal best for 3KM is 11:15. I wanted to train to keep around that or beat the time. With Garmin, it's ridiculously easy. With Samsung Health, the watch won't let you set a guided run for 3KM that'd be faster than 20 minutes? WHY? Furthermore, the GPS is bad. Strava is almost anecdotally known at this point to always steal 10-20 meters for your runs, but with Galaxy Watch I'd end up actually have 100-200 meters ADDED to my run. The reason is that Strava actually uses the real-life data they have on distances and compare it with your track, and then adjust accordingly. This shows just how inaccurate Galaxy Watch tracking is. And the biggest issue of all: Watch UI 8 is supposedly going to bring a Garmin-like adaptive running coach to the watch. Yet, it's being purposefully withheld from Watch 7 (which is literally the latest model before Watch 8) in an attempt to force people into buying Watch 8 because Samsung isn't meeting their sales expectations. While they released a beta for select countries, there is absolutely no reason to put this only redeeming feature for runners behind a lock as all of the calculations are done by the app and not watch software. And even so, those who got access to the feature say it's still heavily based on beginners and completely useless for serious runners. I ended up selling the Watch 7 at a loss and bought Garmin Instinct 2. Instantly rediscovered the joy of proper running features. Mind you, these watches cost around the same price as a Galaxy Watch. So do think twice. The disappointment and regret is immeasurable.

I appreciate your reply. I do agree that as SMART-watch, it was amazing. But as a fitness watch, for me, it was horrible. I am just upset that they made a watch that otherwise could be a great all around device with its only drawback being battery life, but they completely neglect their running features