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Samsung Galaxy Watch4 series receives major software update

Sean — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:19:00 +0000

Samsung is rolling out a major new software update for its Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic smartwatches. With this new update, the wearables from the company receives improved body composition insights among other features.

The latest update brings better breakdown of body composition while also offering advanced interval training programs for runners and cyclists. Furthermore, the South Korean tech giant is also bringing new watch faces as well as a new line of watch straps that will be available from the company’s official website and other partner retailers. Talking about the new software updates, the body composition improvements helps user plan targets and receive insights in the form of daily tips and reminders.

These will help users keep their fitness routines on track by offering specific details regarding their bodies like weight, body fat percentage, and skeletal muscle mass. All of this information will be visible on the Samsung Health app on the paired smartphone. Arriving at the new advanced interval training, this will let runners and cyclists set and track custom intensity training sessions. The feature is supplemented by the addition of VO2 Max reading along with new sweat loss indicator as well.

In other words, the update lets you track how much water you should consume to recover the water lost when you sweat. Other features include the addition of the recovery heart rate measurements that generate data up to two minutes after the workout ends. To help with rest cycles, Samsung is also introducing a new sleep coaching program that gives users personalized tips to get better rest. This new update will be available for both Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic starting from 10th February 2022.

Galaxy Watch4 update brings Fall Detection, Gesture Control, and more

Habeeb Onawole — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:57:20 +0000

Samsung is rolling out a new update to the Galaxy Watch4 series, its latest line of smartwatches announced in August. The new update brings new customization features, new ways to operate your watch, and Fall Detection.

New Watch Faces

The Galaxy Watch4 series is getting four new watch faces, all of which have their own special features and use cases. Info Brick allows you to monitor your health stats right from your homescreen and owners will be able to customize what stats are displayed. Weather Center is a watch face that does what the name says – display weather info while Basic Dashboard displays info such as date, steps, battery level, time from other zones, and the temperature while Live Wallpaper brings the live wallpapers of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3 to your wrist.

The update will also allow owners to choose a gif for the My Photo+ watch face and add up to four complications to the Animals watch face. Steps Challenge Watch Face also adds new animations such as an animated bear that will stretch before you begin the challenge, celebrate when you win, and sob when you lose.

Gesture Control

The Galaxy Watch4 can be controlled with gestures such as rotating your wrist twice to reject a call or dismiss an alarm. Samsung has added a new one that allows for a double knock gesture to launch a pre-set app, open the list of workouts, turn on a light, or create a reminder.

Fall Detection

The new update also brings Fall Detection to the Galaxy Watch4 but unlike when it made its debut last year on the Galaxy Watch3, Fall Detection will not only work when you fall during an exercise but can also be adjusted to detect a fall even if the wearer is standing still. When a fall is detected, it will send an SOS notification to up to four pre-selected contacts.

Samsung is also offering a free 60-day subscription to Strava for Galaxy Watch owners including older models.

Samsung brings its Bespoke color customization to the Galaxy Z Flip3 and Galaxy Watch4

Habeeb Onawole — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:56:27 +0000

The Galaxy Z Flip3 comes in multiple color options but if none of the seven colors it is available in catches your fancy, then Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Flip3 Bespoke Edition is for you.

With the Galaxy Z Flip3 Bespoke Edition, buyers will be able to choose from a palette of different colors for their phones. Samsung will let buyers choose between black or silver for the frame and from blue, pink, yellow, white, and black for the top and bottom. Sure, the colors are not as many as Xbox offers for its Xbox Design Lab program but there are 49 different combinations to choose from.

Once you are done choosing, you can place your order. Samsung is charging $1099.99 for the Galaxy Z Flip3 Bespoke Edition. This is the same price the 256GB version of the phone sells for. Does that mean Samsung is charging you extra for the customization? Not at all. The Galaxy Z Flip3 Bespoke Edition has 256GB of storage too. What Samsung is doing is practically allowing buyers to customize the 256GB version of the phone.

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Samsung is even offering an option to replace the colors of the bottom and top part when you get bored but at an extra fee under a service called Bespoke Upgrade Care.

The Bespoke customization is also available for the Galaxy Watch4 series via what it calls the Galaxy Watch4 bespoke Studio. Buyers will be able to choose from different types/colors of bands and three different colors for the case.

Samsung offering a customization option for its phones isn’t a first for the mobile industry. Motorola used to offer a similar service called Moto Maker which even allowed users to engrave their devices after choosing the colors or materials they want for their phones. Nevertheless, it is nice to see that manufacturers are offering customers a chance to customize their phones.

Samsung tops the smartwatch market in India in Q2 2021: IDC

Abhinav — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:28:10 +0000

As per recent research conducted by market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Samsung emerged as India’s “biggest smartwatch manufacturer” in Q2 2021. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, Samsung recorded an 860-per cent year-on-year growth in shipments.

In a statement to IDC, Samsung said that the popularity of Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Watch 3 series helped the company capture 41.2 per cent market share in June ’21. Samsung also said, “the company strives to enable smartwatch users lead a healthier lifestyle and hopes that the new Watch 4 series will usher in a new generation of individuals into the Watch family.”

Samsung Galaxy Watch3

Further, a recent report from Counterpoint suggests that India emerged as the fastest-growing market in the last quarter for smartwatches. India used to be the smallest market in the same quarter last year with a 2% market share of the total market but last quarter it accounted for 6% of the global market.

According to the Counterpoint report, Apple emerged as the winner in Q2 2021, but the company witnessed a slight fall in its market share compared to last year. The firm cites increasing competition from Chinese and Indian brands as a reason for Apple’s decline. Meanwhile, Samsung had a great quarter with a 43 per cent year-on-year growth, whereas Garmin showcased 62 per cent year-on-year growth in the last quarter.

Samsung Galaxy Watch4

Samsung recently announced the Galaxy Watch4 Series, which includes Watch4 and Watch4 Classic. The new Watch series comes with the company’s bio-active sensor comprising three sensors – Optical Heart Rate, Electrical Heart, and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. These sensors help users monitor their blood pressure, blood oxygen levels and AFib irregular heart rate. The Galaxy Watch4 Series is now available for pre-orders in India starting at Rs. 26,999 for the Watch4 and Rs. 31,999 for the Watch4 Classic.

Samsung announces Galaxy Z Fold3, Galaxy Z Flip3, Galaxy Buds 2, and Galaxy Watch4 series in China

Habeeb Onawole — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:42:34 +0000

Samsung had a launch in China today during which it announced all of its new products that were unveiled at the last Galaxy Unpacked event in August. The lineup of products includes the Galaxy Z Fold3, Galaxy Z Flip3, Galaxy Buds2, and Galaxy Watch4 series.

Galaxy Z Fold3

The Galaxy Z Fold3 5G will be available in a single configuration with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Buyers will be able to buy it in Meteorite Black, Glen Green, and Snow Silver. The price tag is put at ¥14,999 (~$) while the Thom Browne edition will sell for ¥25,499 (~$3947).

Galaxy Z Flip3

Samsung will offer the Galaxy Z Flip3 5G in Moonlight Champagne, Meteorite Coast, Summer Night Forest, and Dreamland Aurora. It will be available in two versions – 8GB RAM + 128GB and 8GB RAM + 256GB priced at ¥7,599 (~$1176) and ¥7,999 (~$1238) respectively. Samsung will also sell a Thom Browne version of the phone for ¥16,499 (~$2554).

Galaxy Buds2

The Galaxy Buds2 has a price tag of ¥899 (~$139) and will be available in four colors – Olive Black, Frosted Sugar White, Green, and Purple.

Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic

Samsung’s latest smartwatches have also made their way to China. The prices for the smartwatches, which only work with Android devices, are listed below:

Galaxy Watch4 40mm – ¥1699 (~$263)
Galaxy Watch4 44mm -¥1899 (~$294)
Galaxy Watch4 Classic 42mm – ¥2399 (~$371)
Galaxy Watch4 Classic 46mm – ¥2599 (~$402)
Galaxy Watch4 Classic 46mm LTE – ¥2899 (~$449)
Galaxy Watch4 Classic Thom Browne – ¥5799 (~$898)

The 40mm Galaxy Watch4 40mm will be available in Black, Silver, and Cherry Gold while the 44mm version will also be available in Black and Silver but swap Cherry Gold for Green. The Classic version will be available in Black and Silver.

Samsung’s newly launched Galaxy Watch4 series doesn’t support Apple’s iOS

Jeet — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:18:17 +0000

At the recent Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch4 series wearable devices along with the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3 foldable smartphones and Galaxy Buds2 TWS earphones.

The newly launched Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic run the latest Wear OS 3 which is jointly developed by Google and Samsung. But, unlike its predecessors, the new smartwatches from Samsung are not compatible with Apple’s iOS.

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Series

This means that the users of the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 series won’t be able to pair their wearable device to an iPhone. Samsung has also stipulated that the new smartphones can only be paired with smartphones running Android 6.0 or above version.

Also, the company has stated that device activation is only available after connecting to a smartphone that supports Google Mobile Services (GMS) and has Play Services and the Play Store installed on the device.

The company has clarified that the older Galaxy Watch would retain iOS compatibility. Samsung added support for iOS devices on its wearable devices with the launch of Gear 2 in 2016 and all the successor models support iOS. All of these products from Samsung run the company’s own Tizen OS.

Given that the latest generation smartwatches from Samsung are running the WearOS platform, it remains to be seen if the iOS support will be unavailable to all the devices powered by the WearOS, which is quite unlikely.