I’ve spent a full week with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6. I’ve been using it to track my sleeping, running, general activity level, water consumption and more via Samsung Health. I’ve used Whatsapp, Spotify, Strava and other third-party apps to test out their functionality on Samsung’s One UI Watch 5.
The fast screen refresh rate and response time for the apps we were able to use mean the overall experience is butter-smooth, and the design is nice – both externally and internally. Crucially, I’ve drained the battery down and monitored how much battery life GPS workouts drain from the watch.
The end result? We can clearly see the potential for it to knock the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 off the top of our best smartwatches list. It’s packing some nifty new features: notably, the processing power and RAM have been boosted, and Samsung Wallet has expanded to be able to include documents other than cards, such as airline tickets.
A new Custom Workout option allows you to put together multi-stage workouts, and a redesigned Sleep app experience makes the Watch 6, in Samsung’s words, “the best device on the market for monitoring your sleep”.
It’s an iterative upgrade in many ways, but an upgrade nonetheless, even if it doesn’t quite improve on the Watch 5’s flaws enough to earn a rare five stars. In isolation, the Watch 6 an excellent device, perhaps the best Wear OS watch I’ve
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 improves on many of its predecessor’s features, with an updated processor and RAM delivering enhanced performance and efficiency across the board, and new health features including a high-heart-rate alert and fall detection. It’s well designed, and shines when teamed with a Samsung phone. Its battery life isn’t as bad day-to-day as I initially thought; it’s easily comparable to its competitors, but still not where I’d like it to be.
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