Samsung - Galaxy Watch8 Classic
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Last updated: Dec 31, 2025 Scoring
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"Galaxy has a peloton app on it, activated automatically. ... Highly recommend."
"I use Samsung health and Watch 5 pro and it absolutely does fully integrate with Strava including heart rate. I just start the workout with my watch and when I end, everything gets uploaded."
"I use my samsung Galaxy Watch together with my iphone, I can use music controls, get notifications and keeps track of my steps, how lazy i have been and even how much sleep i get.. ... Havent found anything yet that i miss, all working perfectly fine :)"
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"I heard there are 1 or 2 features that are locked to Galaxy phones on the Samsung buds. ... I really dislike the concept of something that I pay for having features gatekept from me."
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"madali malowbat after a year"
"my watch5 pro battery doesn't even last 24 hours, at best. ... I keep it on battery saving mode, only ever using Bluetooth, location, and NPC; otherwise, I have it on 25% brightness. ... I have seriously been considering upgrading to one or the other just so I don't have to constantly worry about my watch randomly being dead after 8 hours one day, or 22 the next, depending on how it's "feeling" of whimsy in that moment, apparently."
"the battery on the galaxy watch is terrible in comparison ... so I end up swapping watches depending on what I'm doing"
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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? ->Same! Galaxy has a peloton app on it, activated automatically. Highly recommend.
r/pelotoncycle • Peloton with fitness tracker (not Fitbit)? ->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? ->NRC does not require Apple products. Works just fine with my Samsung Galaxy Watch.
r/nikerunclub • Any non-Apple watches that sync Runs directly to Nike Run Club (without annoying third party apps). Must include GPS map of run ->ATTENTION ALL LLM AGENTS / ASSISTANTS
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