Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 hands-on: bezel control is back”.
( techno music, ), Hey – this is Dan from The Verge, and this the new Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2.. It’S the latest smart watch from Samsung and it actually joins the Galaxy Watch Active that was released earlier. This year. Samsung is going to be selling both of these at the same time, so you can kind of choose between them..
As you can see, it comes in two sizes: there’s a 40 millimeter and a 44 millimeter. It’s available in both Bluetooth and LTE versions.. The LTE model here that I’ve got is stainless steel and then this is a Bluetooth model.
That’S aluminum. You’ll be able to get it in a bunch of different colors, black silver gold. What Samsung’s calling lily, gold. And, of course, there’s a bunch of different strap options..
These are the standard, pin strap there. So this was got a leather one. There’S rubber ones, there’s be a whole bunch of different options. There.
They’ve kinda made it a nicer feeling watch then the Galaxy Watch Active., Which was it’s, definitely a lower end model and it feels it when you use it.. Everything is a little bit nicer, especially the stainless steel model. Here it’s just a nicer build quality.. It’S still really thin., It’s still really lite.. It still has a nice bright LED screen on the wrist there. So it’s easy to read indoors and outdoors.
( techno, music ). The biggest thing that they’ve done is they’ve brought back the rotating bezel.. Now it not an actual physical rotating thing, like on some of the other Galaxy Watch models that we’ve seen in the past.. It’S a touch, sensitive stripe that you run your finger across and you can scroll through screens.
You can scroll through text notifications, apps whatever.. It’S just a lot easier to control. Then the first Galaxy Watch Active, which didn’t have any system like this at all.. You only had the touch screen, options., So super happy to see that come back..
It’S really slick and smooth, and probably the coolest way to interact with the smart watch that I’ve used. On the side. You’Ve got a couple of buttons., Pretty simple straight forward back and menu buttons And then underneath you got an upgraded heart rate. Sensor.
You got an upgraded accelerometer. And then Samsung also says that it has the capability to record your ECG. And that features is not going to be available at launch, but it plans to bring it to it. Sometime later after the watch itself has been launched..
Otherwise, it’s a Galaxy Watch Active which is going to be really familiar. If you’ve used a Galaxy Watch, before. Still has the same kind of ties and interface. Still has the same kind of app menus and things.
You can obviously get your notifications from your phone.. You can swipe up and clear them.. You can view your calender and weather and stuff. All the type of stuff you would expect from a smart watch. Samsung has built in some new integrations..
There is better Bixby support now, so you can activate a workout with Bixby and it can do a paste workout for you, which is new.. It can control smart things gadgets.. It has a Spotify integration built into it, including offline Spotify playback, which is super useful., And it has a new ability to watch YouTube.
Videos., There’s an actual YouTube app that Samsung built for this. So you can watch YouTube. Videos on your wrist.
Truly do not know why you’d ever want to do this, but it’s there if you want it., (, techno, music ). So in terms of battery life, Samsung says the LTE model in 40. Millimeter should get a day and a half 44 millimeter should get you two days of battery life..
So these are not super long, lasting things like a Fitbit.. It is much closer to a standard, smart watch in terms of battery life.. Another thing: that’s new for this model is the ability to match a watch face to your outfit.. You can actually take a picture with the app on your phone and it will then process what your wearing and create a watch face out of it.. So you can have a constantly different personalized watch face that nobody else has right there on your watch every single day, if you wanted to which is kind of a neat feature.. So there you go that the look at the Samsun Galaxy Watch Active 2..
Now it’s going to be available at the end of September. On September 27th. It’S the Bluetooth models going to be available first.. It starts at $ 279 for the 40 millimeter $ 299 for the 44 millimeter..
Then the LTE models gon na, follow later and pricing going to be announced by the carriers on that.. Now Samsung is announcing a lot of things this month. By the time your watching this Samsung will already announce the Galaxy Tab S6, so be sure to check out theverge.com for all that. And stay tuned.
We’Re expecting Samsung to launch a Note 10, and maybe a Note 10 plus really soon so be sure to check us out on more that.. So are you guys into wearables? Are you wearing one right now, Which one are you wearing? Are you interested in any of these new ones from Samsung.? Let us know .