Samsungs New Watch 6 and 6 Classic

[GaryB82]

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 is the latest smartwatch from Samsung, and it's packed with new features and improvements. Both sizes have a Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 x 360 pixels.

The Galaxy Watch 6 is powered by the new Exynos W930 chipset, which offers a significant performance boost over the previous generation. The watch also has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage.

In terms of health features, the Galaxy Watch 6 has a number of new additions, including an ECG sensor, a blood oxygen sensor, and a body composition sensor. The watch also has a new sleep tracking feature that provides more detailed insights into your sleep patterns. Health Features Including

Advanced Sleep Coaching, ECG / Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification, Personalized Heart Rate Zones, BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis), Skin Temperature / Cycle Tracking and Blood Oxygen

The Galaxy Watch 6 runs on Google's Wear OS 4 operating system, which means you can access a wide range of apps and services on the watch. The watch is also compatible with Samsung's One UI Watch software, which offers a number of customization options.

The Galaxy Watch 6 is available for purchase now, and prices start at 299.99 for the 40mm and 329.99 for the 44mm and for the Watch 6 Classic with its rotating bezel 399.99 for the 43mm and 429.99 for the 47mm before trade in

Colors for the Watch 6 are Gold, Silver and Graphite and for the Classis are Black and Silver

[Walstib]

Did they actually state that? All the articles I've researched they said they were guesses that's what would happen.

[Robin621k]

People and I mean big time YouTubers, were where is the rotating bezel , they won out.

[userlQcCM1wRc8]

Galaxy Watch 6 Classic.

So, yeah, it's not the 6 Pro, but the watch is elegant from a hardware design. The sapphire screen is stunning.

Now while I knew what I was getting, and it was not going to be days on end battery life,
It would appear that a fresh charge is estimated to last a little over 22 hours.
No user apps open.
What happened to the advertised 40 hours?

Second is memory.
Good that memory was boosted from 1.5GB to 2GB,
but seriously this is rather small considering the device is now using 1.2GB.
The apps, watch faces, etc. are a duplicate of the Watch4C. It only had 1.5GB to play with. Could Samsung have splurged a bit and gone to 3 or 4GB in memory. That could have made for a real performance boost and battery life.

Third is storage.

Samsung held the line at 16GB. Two generations and no increase?
My main question is storage allocation and reporting. According to the Wear App,
10.1 GB of storage is being utilized. Look at the screenshot. The numbers don't add up.

Apps 616 MB
Images 790 KB
Audio 4.61 MB

Where did all the other GB's go? System apps, OS, wouldn't amount to that much.

Again, pretty sleek watch, but Samsung has some splainin' to do with the stats?!

[Legal_arbitration]

but you forgot to mention they removed the ability to use it as standalone.  new DOWNGRADE FEATURE of the developers ,,, unlike the smartwatch 4 YOU NEED A PHONE PLAN AND A WATCH PLAN to use it.... but dont worry they are STILL MARKETING IT LIKE IT CAN DO STANDALONE ... fake until you make it

[userlQcCM1wRc8]

I will applaud Samsung on the trade in values. We are now really leasing our devices if we want to trade up every year or so.

Traded in my GW4C for $200 plus another $50 cash discount. $172 for the GW6C.
And the GW4C was purchased used on Amazon for less than what I traded it in for.
Now the GW5 Pro 45mm is on sale in the Samsung Shop app. Traded in my GW3C for $190! Seems off considering the 4C trade in value, but I will take it! Plus the sale, so the GW5Pro for $220.

Two flagship watches for less than the price of one... A bit more factoring in the used GW4C which was in perfect condition all around.

GW6C for the office, going out on the town. It is super nice looking and classy.
GW5 Pro for exercise and on the trail.

With Wear OS app it is easy to have everything you want on both watches and switch seamlessly with the watch you want to connect to your phone.

Each watch has their own strengths and weaknesses.

Until the next round, I am super happy with both and being in the Samsung ecosystem.

Fix that sleep monitoring though.

[Hakiem]

Very nice

[KK33]

Unfortunately, Samsung's latest watch technology is still limited in usable apps.  Especially the watch will not connect with hearing aids.  I have ReSound Quattro which connect to the S23, and I assumed it would translate to the Watch6.  I was wrong.  When will Samsung work to support hearing aid users?  I need the ReSound Smart 3D app to work on my watch.  Thank you.

[Cinnamonbear1944]

Samsung watch on sale black friday

[user42tUYxPhrg]

Bought watch and I can't believe the temperature sensor doesn't measure unless you are sleeping. Really?? How useless.

[bill-e]

Skin Temperature affects sleep quality which is why Samsung and others monitor it as part of sleep tracking. 

How did you want to use it?