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Performance: Fast. Battery life: Two days (or less)
The Galaxy Watch 4 feels very fast, and loads apps faster than any Android watch I can remember. It’s not always as lightning-quick as the latest Apple Watch, but it still feels great. The watch’s new chipset seems to be a very good sign of where other Google watches could go as far as feeling more responsive.
Battery life? Not as great, alas. I swapped the Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic on my wrist for weeks, putting one on when the other ran out of batteries, sleeping with the watch overnight. Battery life never was better than two days. And that’s with the always-on watch face turned off. When it’s on, I only got about a day of use before needing a charge. And the smaller watch may have even shorter battery life. Also, if you get an LTE-equipped model that doubles as a phone (which I didn’t get to test and costs extra), expect battery life to be even less. Same with using the watch for GPS-enabled workouts.
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