SamsungGalaxy Watch4 40mm Bluetooth Smart Watch, Black (UK Version)

The watch is great in many respects, looks great, sounds clear and offers lots of great features. The ability to get WhatsApp and SMS texts to the watch is superb. Being able to control Spotify from my wrist rather than take out my phone from my pocket it excellent. Works a treat with Samsung Buds Live too. Size I went for the 40mm for a 16.5cm wrist - for slender wrists this is the right size. Choice of watch faces is good and the screen is perfectly readable in direct sunlight. Samsung Pay works flawlessly with my HSBC card. Easy to set-up and one simple NFC tap to pay. Used in on bike rides to track distance and it produces accurate distances and also nice route maps. Body composition seems spot on too, good for everything so it must be right :P Battery life is over a day which to me is perfectly acceptable, I plonk it on it's charger on my bedside table each night. Overall very impressed and would recommend wholeheartedly

Overall, this is a watch that gets a thumbs-up from me.I'm not overly interested in all of the fitness tracking features. I'm unfit, I already know it and I have a job that keeps me busy 8 days a week leaving me no time whatsoever for working out.What I do use is the sleep monitoring function with blood oxygen level monitoring. This works a lot better than other smartwatches I've owned. The back of the Galaxy Watch 4 is smooth, so it fits snugly against the wrist without leaving an imprint and is able to able to take accurate blood oxygen level readings.Plenty of people have left bad reviews of this watch because of its poor battery life. On the whole I'm getting 3 days out of a full charge with moderate use, "always on" switched off and "Bedtime" mode scheduled to kick in automatically at night. Can't complain about that.The display is crisp with great contrast. The brightness adjustment depending on ambient lighting levels is effective and much appreciated. The touch screen is mostly responsive, only a few cases of lag or missed touches.Google Pay works after a bit of tweaking. The default payment app will always be Samsung Pay, but at least it is now possible to install and use GPay here in the UK. There are some localities where this is not possible and where you're stuck with Samsung Pay.For the things that need tweaking... Firstly, I put an after market strap on the watch. I don't get on with resin straps at all. They always make me come out in a rash and then crack and break on me, and I don't want to lose the watch because of that. A leather strap went on straight away.Secondly, the watch face. Maybe it's just me being a luddite but I do like a watch face that looks like a watch, not like something out of an animé cartoon that I grew out of about 50 years ago.The out-of-the-box setup is not what I would want to use, but it is not hard to set the watch up to work how you want it.

This watch is a great fitness tracker and has many wonderful customization features which I enjoy. The screen is surprisingly good and it is easy to navigate even without the bezel that the classic offers. I wear it every day and it is comfortable and I haven't experienced any irritation of my skin as others have said. was surprised because if you do any type of workout, the watch identifies it and tells you after 10 minutes. It is a great choice and I highly recommend it. However the only downside is the battery, after a full day, the watch is at around 36% so I have to charge it before going to sleep if I want to use the sleep tracking feature which I love as it can tell you how you can improve. Despite the large availability of apps, I would like to see social media apps such as Twitter or Instagram be available for download, currently, they can only be accessed through the very efficient web browser. I would recommend this to everyone I know and I am very pleased with it and with how it has helped me with my overall fitness.

Overall this is a nice watch with some great features. I haven't been a fan of watches in general as I often find them uncomfortable and just annoying to have on my wrist. This however is extremely comfortable and I don't really notice it on my wrist.I also love the design. Nice good quality screen which I find just the right size.The watch is also fairly easy to navigate and simple to use.It also has some great features. I love that you can take and receive phone calls with it which is handy for me as I live in a 3 story house meaning that sometimes my phone is on the top floor and Im say in the kitchen cooking. I can leave my phone upstairs but can still take or receive a call or message using the watch.Its also handy that I can use it to make or receive a call when Im driving using the bixby feature. I can just press and hold the top right button and ask it to call a contact and it will call them.The pay app (I use Samsung pay) is also excellent and convenient.Spotify is also a useful app to use when im in the gym. It saves me having to keep getting my phone out if I want to switch songs etc. The only problem is that firstly the app is at times a little unreliable as it sometimes seems to lose connection with my bluetooth ear phones. I've also noticed exessive battery drain when using the app.This brings me on to the main negative of this watch which is the battery life. Even when employing all the battery saving techniques such as wifi and location off, AOD off, heart rate measuring off and a dull low power consuming watch face mongst others, I'm still only just about getting 2 days battery life with minimal use which seems very poor. It does however fully charge from 0% to 100% in about 1hr and 40 mins using my samsung fast charger which s reasonably fast charging.I have also noticed issues with the sleep measuring. It was working ok for a few days but then for no apparent reason it has stopped giving me a sleep score. I dont know if this is an issue with the watch or the health app.I have a Samsung galaxy s21 ultra which is one of the reasons I wanted a Samsung watch over other brands as I believe some features work better with a Samsung phone and others possibly dont work at all.Overall it's a nice watch and I'm happy with it. It's just a shame about the battery life. I would that this could be improved with updates.