First impression of Galaxy Watch4: a new era for Android watches under the new Wear OS!

Expectations are very high!

Although it was leaked a lot in advance, it was finally officially published. Samsung's Galaxy Watch4,Watch4Classic. It is not only the new model of Samsung's smartwatch, but also the attention of the new Wear OS terminal for the first time. The editorial department of Gizmodo in the United States will touch it right away. Please take a look at the comments!

Due to the early leak, Samsung's Unpacked itself ended without a special surprise, as expected. However, as an Android user, what Wear OS has been pursuing since his debut in 2014 has finally come true, and this is a highly anticipated launch.

まず見た目でいうと、そんな大騒ぎすることはなく。前モデルとなるGalaxy Watch Active 2とGalaxy Watch 3をベースに、ちょっと変わったかなくらい。（※既存のActiveシリーズはGalaxy Watchへ、プレミアムGalaxy WatchシリーズはClassicへと名称変更あり。）Watch 4は、盤面40ミリと44mの2モデル、Classicはそれより大きく42ミリと46ミリの2モデル。WatchはActiveシリーズのデジタルタッチベゼルを継承、ClassicはSamsugnウォッチの特徴である物理回転ベゼル搭載！

In Samsung's activities, although wearing physical objects in a short period of time, but 4 (model 2 size 2) are suitable for the fashion on the wrist! Design this when you render an image? I think so, but once I put it on, it's good. It's a lot more complicated than I thought. The chessboard screen is also very good! The watch strap can of course be changed. Feel like wearing it on my arm, 40mm for Galaxy Watch4 or 42mm for Classic. Look forward to a good review!

In Watch4 upgrades, it is important to install Exynos W920 first. Samsung says it is the industry's first 5-nm wearable chip. So far, I've been working on Qualcomm's 28 nm Snapdragon Wear chip, so it's a pretty big update for Wear OS Smavo. The release of Samsung shows that the CPU of Exynos W920 is 20% faster than the previous one, and 50% of memory is 10 times faster than the previous GPU. It is not only a chip, with a capacity of 16 GB memory and 1.5 GB, which is currently the top specification of WearOS Smavo. It's not just numbers, you can really feel the improvement in chip performance with a try. The application starts quickly, the animation moves smoothly, and the widget scrolls are empty. Due to the short contact time, the LTE connection situation cannot be tried, but we are working on it.

Galaxy Watch/Classic are battery rice cakes that are fully recharged for 40 hours at a time. I think it takes 10 hours to recharge in 30 minutes.

So are processors, and the biggest benefit of hardware is BioActive Sensor (bioactive sensor). One of them undertakes three tasks: optical heart rate sensor, electrocardiogram and bioimpedance analysis. Samsung said confidently that I put it in a compact design without reducing precision, but I can't say if you don't make good use of this comment. However, the value of the ECG is almost the same as that of the Apple Watch SE in the hand.

Thanks to the new sensor, a new body composition meter function has also been added. The basic metabolism can be found in 15 seconds from muscle mass, body fat and body water scores. Wear on the wrist is not measurable, the index finger and middle finger on the terminal to stretch the arm and other measurements need to be specified. However, the terminal software touched during the release event is still in beta, so you can't try this feature.

Note: not limited to Galaxy Watch, the function on devices equipped with bioelectrical impedance sensors is not recommended for people using embedded devices such as pacemakers.

Watch4's new features include sleep depth measurement and snoring perception. In addition, it is equipped with current Smavo basic sensors (GPS, accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, light sensor, geomagnetic sensor). NFC, Bluetooth 5.0 and Wifi are supported.

The first thing to say is that the Wear OS on Galaxy Watch4/Classic is "Wear OS Powered by Samsung", the Samsung version of Wear OS. In other words, don't forget that Wear OS in Watch4/Classic contains Samsung elements.

Basically, it's still the One UI Watch of this year's MWC. If paired with a Galaxy smartphone, the apps used on the smartphone can be downloaded automatically, the master settings can be synchronized, and the voice can be switched.

Wear OS Powered by Samsung is the mashup of Tizen and Wear OS, and you need to get used to it for a while while confirming how to use it. For example, so far, Wear OS is sliding up the notification display, which is applied to the grid display (editable). This is easier to see than displaying Tizen app menus in circles, so this is good. You can scroll the widget by swiping to the left, but it looks more Tizen than Wear OS.

Samsung's health app has also been refreshed. The appearance is refreshing, easy to use, and the numerical value is also easy to understand. It has a tab for exercise, which can beam the exercise video to Smasung TV.

There are not only Samsung colors, but also Google colors. Google Maps, Google Messenger, Google Pay and so on all reflect the "Material You" design. Third-party applications will also be dealt with in the future, according to the statement on Google IPUBO.

In Google's new Wear OS release, it is worth mentioning that Google apps can be downloaded to Samsung Smavo. Samsung also says you can choose everyone who likes the service, which means you can use the default app installed by Samsgun, or you can download Google Maps, YouTube Music and Google Pay and use it. The freedom of the user has been improved. Having said that, I can't say it here before the actual comments.

Although it is a short time to start, but on the whole it seems quite worth looking forward to. In the future, I would like to review it and see the real ease of use (fun).

It has not yet been announced for sale in Japan.

Galaxy Watch/Classic will go on sale on August 27th, and reservations will be accepted after the news is announced. If you make a reservation, you can get a Samsung credit of $50.

The Galaxy Watch4 starts at $250 and the LTE version starts at $300. Forty millimeters are black, silver and pink gold. 44mm is black, silver and green.

The Bluetooth version of the Galaxy Watch4Classic costs $350 and the LTE version costs $400. Limited to Calabali black and silver, a limited edition of Tom Brown will be launched in September.