I miss when the Galaxy Watch ran Tizen instead of Android. I still have the original Galaxy Watch and the battery life is just unbeatable. Likely because it’s not constantly phoning home about the most benign metrics.
Wear OS is pitiable. My previous GW 4 40mm had 247 mAh battery and barely lasted a day with AOD on. Plus the charging was so slow. Even with Samsung’s latest Galaxy Watch Ultra, it has lesser endurance that what Tizen based Frontier had.
What do you use your watch for? I’ve sometimes considered getting one, but I don’t really know if it would be worth the cost.
Mostly heart rate tracking and scheduling reminders so I don’t forget things. Also good for step tracking and stuff, realistically I’ll just get a Garmin next time cause I still want the long battery life and that’s not really a thing with Android based smart watches.
Interesting. Yeah, notifications would probably be huge for me. I utilize a lot of them to get things done, but I sometimes miss important ones on my phone.
I love using it as an mp3 player at the gym or while running and keeping my phone in my locker. If you deal with a lot of authentication texts or apps for work software, I find it makes me slightly less angry to authenticate with my watch. Rapid weather and calender checks are convenient too.
