Samsung Galaxy Watch4 44mm Smartwatch with Heart Rate Monitor - Green

I personally like this watch a lot. It is not perfect, but I think it does deserve good rating. I want to start this review with things that I do not like about the watch. Number one is lack of official support for Alexa and Google Assistant. I understand Samsung wants to push Bixby but the fact is that Alexa and Google popular and they are objectively better smart assistants. The workaround for Alexa is an app called Alexa Ultimate (you will need to buy it for few $) which will make Alexa default assistant on the watch. I do not know workaround for Google. Number two complaint is that there is no way to limit battery charging to 80% like on Samsung Phones or Samsung Laptops. I wish Samsung Watch had this option to prolong battery life. Now with all negative stuff out of the way lets talk about things which I think are good about this watch. First is the design. The watch is beautiful, I am so glad that Samsung did not go with competition designs and made a smart watch that looks like a typical watch. The watch build quality is excellent. Materials used are high quality and the watch just looks great. The display is awesome. It is beautiful, large and bright. The UI is intuitive, easy to use, and the watch responds quickly to all commands. There are tons of features , options and apps that my previous smart watch could only dream about. Coming from Fitbit ,fitness features of this watch are important to me. I am happy to report that there is nothing really that I miss from Fitbit. Samsung Health App works well with the watch, and I get all vital health stats that I could ever possibly want. Lastly is the battery. Battery is good. It lasts over a day with heavy use. There are many instructions online that will help you to maximize battery life. I like magnetic charger that is included with the watch because it makes charging of the watch super easy. I normally charge the watch together with my Samsung phone over night so it does not bother me that SGW4 does not have Fitbit six days battery life.

I love using this watch, but there is no accessibility feature for wearing the watch on the right wrist (left handed people support). I'm left handed, so I wear watches on my right wrist. Unlike the apple watches, where the screen would rotate 180 degrees, and the crown faces your opposite hand, this watch doesn't have that option. Hopefully they can fix it in a future update

Switched recently from an Iphone 12 Pro Max to a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra so I needed to replace my Apple Watch Series 6. I decided to go with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. The packaging was really basic. Unboxing experience was really dull. The battery life of the watch is amazing, much better than my Apple Watch S6. But overall build quality is okay, close to being bad. Software is often laggy and unresponsive. Also not as fluid as my Apple Watch S6 I often need to restart my watch since it freezes often. The screen image quality is great, but there is often a delay between my touch and the responsiveness of it. The design is really cool, looks more like a real watch than the Apple Watch does. Charging is fast. Probably the best Android smartwatch out there, but far from perfect and not even close to the experience that Apple Watches offer. The biggest downside is no ECG and BP.

I waited for a month before writing the review so I could give a thorough opinion and I cannot find fault with it. I was going to purchase the Classic as I'm 6'2" but it felt too big for my personal taste. The 44mm fits great and I hardly know I'm wearing it. Battery life is fine. I charge it about once a day when I'm relaxing just to top it up and I don't think the battery life has ever dropped to less than 65%. Features and functions are easy to navigate. The thing I like the most is that I can leave my phone at home when I go for a run and play music to my Bluetooth headphones.

Having many Samsung products, I feel that we as customers have been betrayed by Samsung with this unstable and battery-lacking product. I purchased this mainly for fitness, using the watch to listen to music while I run. The Spotify app doesn't work half the time, not even giving the watch as an option to listen from. Won't find my Bluetooth headphones 20% of the time, where I need to restart the watch to be able to get the functionality again. Battery hardly lasts 18-20 hours with only being used 1-2 hours for fitness and music. And wait till you have to recharge the battery, you will literally be waiting and waiting. In this day and age when other watches can fully recharge in less than an hour, the Galaxy watch 4 is an embracement.