Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 review: The first take of a great future idea

I might like to say the brand new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, which begins at $250 (£249), delivers the final word Android watch expertise. I can not fairly say that, however it’s shut. After carrying Samsung’s latest watches for 2 weeks, nonetheless, I’ve preferred it extra over time. It is the primary to run a complete new Google Wear OS co-designed by Samsung and Google, and whereas I might say the longer term seems to be promising, the current seems to be somewhat unresolved. In a way, my remaining emotions now are nonetheless fairly much like my first few days carrying them.

Samsung makes nice watches. The Galaxy Watch 3 was a powerful mixture of health and well being options and a variety of smartwatch connectivity. However Samsung’s Tizen OS and app retailer at all times stayed other than Google’s Android ecosystem. The Galaxy Watch 4 has a lot of the identical design and options as final yr’s watch, however with extra well being sensor tech. The OS is the Huge New Factor, although.

Shifting to Google’s Put on OS, a smartwatch platform that is been round for years, means the Watch 4 runs Google Play apps and might theoretically be much more hooked-in to Android telephones. I say “theoretically” as a result of, proper now, a variety of the important thing issues on the Galaxy Watch 4 occur to run off Samsung apps, which require a Samsung account. It is a part of the Google ecosystem, but additionally stands other than it.