Best Watch Faces For Galaxy Watch Active 2 (2024 Updated)

I think you outdid yourself this time! 👏👏👏 First I bought watch for swimming and workout, and then I came across this armor. Since I have been your user for many years, I believed that I would not be disappointed.

But you managed to positively surprise me! 😲 By inserting the watch into the case, I got a totally different product from the one I bought. Amazing! 🤯 The design is absolutely perfect! You thought of every little detail.

The quality of workmanship is flawless. The feeling on the hand is very comfortable and I’m sure that my watch will be safe and protected regardless of the conditions in which I find myself. 🏊‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️ In the end, it’s not clear to me how it is possible that the watch manufacturer does not have this case as an official offer??? Thank you for making this item and be sure that your products will be part of my collection in the future as well! 👌👊👍 Big respect from Serbia!.

I love Spigen products, been using the phone cases for many years and have purchased several. I really love this watch case, it looks great. but I’m on my 3rd one now and all 3 have cracked in the same place, where the front bezel goes thin from the raised part where it says “shock resist” and at the top where it says “rugged armor”.

In other words 2,5,7,11 o’clock. I have always used Spigen products and I will continue to, but this is the first one that has continuously disappointed, just ordered a 4th, if this one fails I will have to look for another brand.

THIS RUGGED ARMO CASE IS AWESOME! BUT, IT COULD NOT BE USED WITH THE 44MM GLASS SCREEN PROTECTOR ON MY MY GALAXY WATCH 4 44MM. HOWEVER, WHEN I WENT WITH THE SMALLER 40MM GLASS SCREEN PROTECTOR ON MY 44MM GALAXY WATCH 4 AND THE RUGGED ARMOR PRO CASE, IT FIT PERFECTLY.

LIKE A HAND IN GLOVE. I WISH I COULD POST A PICTURE TO SHOW YOU.

I previously had the Original Galaxy Watch which was nothing but a glorified notification device and very slow, buggy, and cumbersome to use. I waited to upgrade for 3 more iterations (2, 3, 4) hoping a lot of the bugs would be worked it.

And honestly this watch is still more or less a glorified notification device and is basically worthless if you’re a Verizon customer and use Verizon proprietary apps because you cannot download them on your watch.

For example, if you use the Verizon Messages App and go to start a new message from your watch it requires you to set a different message app as default in order to start a message. What’s the point? Why would Verizon sell something that is incompatible with it’s native proprietary apps? For some reason if you receive a message on your watch, it shows up as being from the Verizon Messages app and you can respond to it, however if you swipe it away there’s no way to get back to it and again no way to start a new one.

So it’s only 1 way compatible or what does this mean??? What’s even worse, I initiated a chat with Tech support who had absolutely no idea whether the Verizon Messages app was compatible with the Galaxy Watch.

The person on the chat promised me a resolution in the beginning and then could not deliver and kept wasting my time asking me to check the app store which I already informed them I had done and was the reason I initiated the chat (i.

e to see if the app was compatible or not). Also, the standalone feature is garbage, if you do try to respond to a message and you aren’t near your watch, it either will not be able to send the message or it will say, cannot send from phone, use watch number instead? What’s the point??? Additionally, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve answered a call on my watch as I’m headed back to my phone only to get back to my phone and find out I can’t transfer the call to my phone (S22 Ultra).

The workout/fitness stuff seems ok I guess but if you want to separately measure your heartbeat you better not move a muscle or it will give you a sensor error, however if you have activated a workout on the watch, somehow it shows as being able to read your heartbeat the whole time no matter how much you are moving, how does this make any sense at all? The individual heartbeat app makes you hold still but the heartbeat monitor built into the workout isn’t the same? So if you haven’t activated a workout and you are doing cardio for example, how the heck can you get a reading without stopping and holding absolutely still? I absolutely love my Galaxy S22 Ultra, I’ve been a Samsung Galaxy Phone user since the Note 3 but Samsung’s Watches seem to be Garbage, and moreso on on Verizon.

My wife has an Apple watch and iPhone 13 (both on Verizon as well) and I am SUPER impressed at how well the Apple Watch works and what it can do (I would get one if it were possible to use it with my phone).

She never has problems and can literally leave her phone at home and have basically the same functionality on her watch from miles away and it uses her phone number (not a watch number). Samsung is INFINITELY far behind on the watch side and needs to step it up BIG TIME and so is Verizon on their Proprietary apps.

After owning this watch for 3 months, this watch has been able to supplement my life’s activities in some way. The main reason I bought it for the purpose of being able to track my exercise and to be used as a golf watch for pin distance.

Upon pairing with my Samsung S9+, all notifications such as text and WhatApp messages, calendar events and call were all actionable from the watch, and mitigated me having to pull out my phone to check these notification.

Things such as email to my gmail account and other application notifications were not available, however as these aren’t really urgent it didn’t really impact me. It has support for many third party applications and native Samsung applications; my Golfshot application allowed for me to check the pin distance from my phone, my F45 workouts were tracked in the Samsung Health with my heart rate and calorie counts for the session available to be viewed on both my watch and my phone, plus the ability (after a bit of fiddling) being able to control my phone’s Spotify whilst connected to my bluetooth headphones (the watch also uses bluetooth).

There’s so many apps you can use such as a compass, stopwatch, Google maps and Samsung Pay, The Samsung Health integration has a wealth of functions, even being able to measure body composition by sending electrodes around your body, providing data on BMI, water mass, bone density.

It also has a sleep monitor which will track your sleeping patterns if you wear the watch while you sleep, I haven’t tried it for the reason below. My only complaint is the battery life. Depending on usage, you’ll find yourself having to charge your watch at weird intervals if you choose to wear it to bed every night.

Given the functions of the watch somewhat demand it to be worn for 24 hours, you’ll just have to pick and choose when you want to go without, which means placing it on a USB charger the size of a 20 cent piece.

Overall it’s a great life assistant. It looks smart, you can choose for virtually an unlimited number of watch faces, there’s an app for everything you want and you can set it up to help you with anything you wish.

I received the Bluetooth version of this watch, and have been using it for a few weeks. There is also a 4G version of it. The watch comes nicely presented in a white box, and includes a proprietary magnetic USB charging pad, so you’ll need a charging block to plug this into in order to charge the watch.

Charging takes 90 minutes with my charger, and a full charge lasts ~2 days (though I’ve not used it for intensive fitness tracking). Battery life is the only downside of this watch for me, though this may be normal for smart watches.

I’ve been using this watch with a Samsung Galaxy S10 – It is not compatible with iPhone. There are certain features that only work with Samsung phones – such as full health tracking (heart rate monitor, blood oxygen level, sleep quality, stress, and body composition).

Unless you’re really into monitoring your fitness, this is unlikely to be an issue – I find basic fitness tracking (steps etc) is perfect for my needs. The watch is comfortable to wear, though I find the rubber strap can get a little bit sweaty (which may be partly due to the UK 2022 Jul/Aug heatwave).

This may not be an issue if you are a regular smart watch wearer already. Before starting the watch for the first time, I’d recommend installing Samsung’s ‘Galaxy Wearable’ app and ensuring that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone.

On starting the watch, it walks you though the Bluetooth pairing process, and then gives a brief interactive demo of how to use the watch (Mostly swiping left/right/up/down to access different feature areas, and is definitely worth paying attention to).

The app allows you to configure your watch – lots of different faces etc. , as well as specifying the apps you wish to use. Other than phone and Messages, I regularly use Spotify and Samsung Pay (as it’s more convenient than using the phone).

I find this watch a very user-friendly piece of tech. If you’re happy to charge it every day or two, I’d definitely recommend it.

I don’t buy refurbished that often as when I do I’ll sometimes receive products that are filthy, clearly scratched, and may not be in the best condition/working order. This purchase however was 110% worth the buy! Not only did I get an insane deal on the Galaxy Watch 3 (whose MSRP is $100s of dollars more), but the item is practically brand new.

I observed not a single scuff nor scratch, and aside from the original box missing, all the required items were present and brand new. I recommend this seller to anyone and this is a great watch if you’re on the fence about a Smartwatch.

Only thing I don’t love is the battery life but make a couple adjustments to your settings and it will last you a day or slightly more. You may have to lower brightness, turn on power saving, etc but it will last with some tweaks.

Usually, I use my watch mostly to control my music, read/type texts, make/receive calls, track my steps, occasionally search the internet, and check time of course. If you’re bored, you can even play a few games on it.

My favorites are probably Pin Rotary and Tetris-style games. I’m just waiting now for someone to make a Pac-man game that utilizes the rotating bezel. Also in the picture I attached, I have a protective case over my watch face; essentially the watch is verycustomizable and within a few days I will be doing a strap change and new watch face cover change.

This is my 4th smart watch I have owned and things are starting to finally mature. One of the first things I want to say is the battery life on this watch is far far superior to any other watch I have used which was one of my biggest problems when using a smart watch its hard to get through one evening.

That is not the case with this watch, you can actually go multiple days with normal use without the battery dying, a major improvement Samsung has a very talented and creative design team. The ideas they create are some of the best in the world.

PROS Smooth Fast UI Samsung Pay paying with your watch is pretty cool Love the rotating dial which, so smooth Build Quality of the watch Seamless integration with GS7 edge Amazing battery life Charging dock micro usb w LED indicator which is great Samsung very innovative such as the rotating ring on the watch, excellentCONS Runs Tizen Certain features only work on Galaxy Phones Samsung pay has two version, you have to redownload and setup all cards again, terrible Stock band feels cheap SVoice No always on display Cant use anything in the standard app store including all faces in the market Separate special Tizen versions must be developed and maintained separately Mandatory pin code or you cant use Samsung PayI dont think Tizen is a bad OS, but why do we need yet another platform Im not saying competition is a bad thing but an effort needs to be made to work together vs against each other.

I dont want 4 places to download apps, I want one. Now app developers have to custom make versions just for Tizen which is a separate download which Im not a fan of. I also do not like svoice and while the speech recognization might work well on the watch, its not on par with a nonTizen watch.

Stop putting RD into something we dont need. Why not just use what is already in place No separate app downloads. While you do have to enter a pin once until you take the watch off again its super annoying.

Its my watch, let me decide what I want my security settings to be. If you disable a pin, it wipes pay. Yes its a great smart watch but running Tizen just makes it a proprietary thing to Samsung which I dont like proprietary things.

The overlapping app downloads on the Samsung store is just a yucky experience. Its a great watch, great battery life, great design, the speaker sounds great and the rotating ring is great so if you are ok with Tizen and have a Galaxy phone already absolutely you should buy this, its a great watch.

Even know this watch blows my other smart watches out of the water for battery life, I dislike very much that everything must go through the Samsung app store vs the regular one meaning everything made for wear platform is not going to work.

Okay, Ive had the Gear S3 Frontier Bluetooth version for about a month now and feel like I need to share my opinion on the latest generation wearable from Samsung. Let me start by saying I have had three other smart watches.

One android wearable, a Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear S. I guess you could say that Im a bit of a watch fanatic since I have many other nonsmart watches I enjoy wearing too, but I digress. My first impression is that Samsung spent some time to make a quality timepiece.

It looks elegant, as an expensive watch should, and feels solid. Im sure this will take a beating and keep going however beating a watch is not in my nature, so this is just an assumption based on the impression it get from handling this watch.

The Frontier has a nice outdoor rugged look which is why I chose it but that is personal taste. I really went back and forth since I wear a suit most days of the week and I think the Classic would have worked well too.

Ive owned 2 squarerectangular faced watches and 2 round face watches and I normally would say that you should buy for your own taste, but with the addition of the outside bezel that assists in navigating through options, widgets and menus Im forced to say the round face on the S3 is the only way to go.

Its amazing how one simple design change could make such a great difference in your experience with a smart watch but Samsung hit it out of the park with the addition of the bezel control. I still use the touch screen quite a bit but its nice when you have potato chip fingers, to be able to navigate your way around without messing up the display.

Again you can see Im a fanatic about caring for my watchesThe display on this watch is phenomenal Its actually a pleasure to stare at this watch which makes it a lot of fun to try and find a watch face you like.

By the way, there may not be a ton of apps available but there are plenty of watch faces to choose from. The colors are vibrant and the display is bright, making photos look really nice, although as I get older, I would rather look at much larger pictures, but for those with younger eyes, I promise youll be impressed.

The Gear S3 has worked well for my fitness needs Its a little heavier than a fitness tracker but for me it provides all the same stats. Ive never had a problem with it registering my heart rate and the numbers provided for BPM, steps, miles and floors seem quite accurate but Im not a professional runner and if it were off a few yards over 5 miles I wouldnt know it nor would I care.

To me, all this information provides incentive to work out and motivation to push myself from the last workout. I should mention here that I do have the watch remind me to move if Ive been sitting at work too long Now if you want the most accuracy and youre running outside rather than on a treadmill youll be pleased to know it comes with GPS.

The only downside is that it takes a few minutes to acquire the satellite signal but that gives you a chance to stretch first. Theres also room to store music on this watch if you dont want to carry your phone when you run.

It will sync with Bluetooth headset so you can carry your favorite tunes, listen to them without wires while you run and leave your phone at home. The speaker on this thing is remarkable too. Every sound is crystal clear and can be loud if you want.

I played some music though the speaker on the watch and it blew me away for such a tiny speaker, however I would recommend a headset for your runs. The sleep tracking feature worried me a little when I read reviews.

What scared me was that people would say the watch would run out of battery by 3 or 4 in the morning. My experience has been completely different, of course I do make some adjustments that may be helping.

First Ive found a watch face that sucks very little battery and in the always on display mode its just two red hands Mickey Face Red. Then I turn on Do Not Disturb, turn the display all the way down and shut off sound and vibrate.

Ive used the sleep tracking app that comes with the watch and Ive used the Sleep as Andriod app. In fact, Ive used them both at the same time and never used more than 15 battery on my most wrestles night.

I prefer using the Sleep as Android app because it allows the alarm to wake me up with vibration to the watch. Yes, even though Ive turned off the sound including vibration on the watch when I go to bed, it still allows the alarm from the Sleep as Android to vibrate and wake me up.

The vibration of the watch doesnt wake up my wife on those early morningsThe battery could last me easy two days with as much as I use it. I know Samsung says 4 days but if youve got such a beautiful display and tool on your wrist youll want to show it off, so use it.

The really cool thing about this watch is the fantastic charging unit that comes with it. Theres no need to plug it in or clamp on a battery. You just set it in the charging stand and it charges up for you fast.

I generally take it off for 3060 minutes in the morning when Im getting ready for work and 3060 minutes as Im getting ready for bed and the thing rarely goes below 75 charge. Another review I read said that their banking institution wasnt setup to allow the use of Samsung Pay, so I had to try that first thing.

Im sure this will vary based on everyones individual institution however I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only was I able to use the credit card from my bank but also from my credit union.

It took just minutes to set up and was really slick when I checked out at the register. Just two pushes on the back button, tap on which card you want to use, put your watch next to the terminal and youre done Im sure I will be using this feature a lotLastly let me say that I dont miss having the LTE capability I have with my Gear S.

I rarely took advantage of the standalone phone capabilities and defiantly not enough to justify the extra cost including the monthly fee the service provider charged for the phone number. In summary, Im head over hills with the quality, looks and function of the Gear S3.

It was easy to set it up, but Ive had other smart watches so Ive had a little practice and for the month Ive owned had it, it has performed well in every aspect. So if youve got some dollars burning a hole in your pocket this might be an enjoyable place to spend them I highly recommend checking this out.

After using my active 2 for almost 2 years, it is the only watch (smart or otherwise) that I have worn consistently. I opted for the larger size purely to read the screen size easier; however, the small size would have fit my small wrist just fine.

I love how easy it is to swap out the bands on the watch. I’ve purchased a handful of bands from Amazon just to accessorize my outfits and mood. The band that comes with the watch originally is so easy to clean and maintain.

Personally, I never tested the watch’s underwater ability, but I never had any issues when I would get it wet. For me though it is habit to take it off whenever I shower. I do not have an LTE plan on just my watch, so using smart pay via my watch does require that I have my phone on/near me.

As a person with health issues, I love the sleep monitor and heart rate monitor functions. Those are my most used apps on the watch. I docked a star because the ECG ability has stopped working for me.

It no longer properly recognizes my finger on the button. That is disappointing since that was a factor in purchasing the watch. Also, I added and then removed the period cycle app on the watch because on the watch it would glitch, but in the Samsung health app on my phone it works just fine.

Overall, I highly recommend for any Samsung phone owner looking to have a smart watch. I influenced my husband to get one for himself, and now either of us can’t imagine not having a Samsung smart watch.

Disclaimer – I think this was an open box purchase, but it came with it’s original box and band ,with zero tarnishes or any immediately noticable problems. This was not my first smart watch. I had used Fitbit and Garmin.

something I really appreciated about my Fitbit was that not only did it read my pulse and sleep, but also my Spo2, which I follow closely because of medical reasons. I was rather disappointed to learn that the ability to detect Spo2 was not available.

Another problem I encountered was nearly constant disconnecting from Bluetooth and Wireless. I had set notifications to inform me whenever this happened, and it was so frequent that I turned notifications off in annoyance.

Updates would either resolve the issue, but then bring it back later, or just make it worse in general. Next would be battery life. When I first began using this watch, it could last two days before needing to charge.

But after about six months of use, it began to require more frequent charges. Mind, I didn’t use any excessive watch faces , and didn’t add music onto the device. Storage and Ram were mostly free. But after almost a year, this watch will lost almost 60% battery life from full after maybe 90 minutes.

This renders the watch unusable for me. This became exceptionally worse after each watch update. Resetting the device multiple times did nothing. I am convinced that Samsung has no idea what they’re doing in regards to updates.

They’re far and few between, and they seem to cause more problems than they fix. I still wanted to have a Smartwatch, as the convenience is necessary for my busy life. So hopefully most of these issues will be resolved with the Galaxy Watch 4, which does come with SP02 reader!.

I’ve always been a fan of the samsung line of watches. Not being biased to other watches, since i’ve used and still own quite a few other brand smart watches. This item was purchased for my girl as a replacement to an aging TicWatch.

She needed something that would hold up against spills, dirt and other bodily *stuff* that would maybe hit it in the process of her job. With her being an ER nurse, she very frquently comes into contact with very gross situations that would be very difficult to clean from ordinary watches or even smartches with external moving or rotating faces or knobs.

That being said, it’s worked wonderfully against all situations she’s ran into. The features have come in very handy for her job. From little things that we normally take for granted or on a regular basis we don’t ever use, she’s found them to make her job very easy.

The sleep monitor has been a very solid staple with her since it’s helped her find some issues with her sleep habits. The heart-rate monitor has come in very handy with her workouts and day-to-day activities.

She’s honestly used more features and options on that watch than I ever have. The clean aesthetic look of the watch makes it a joy for any outfit or srubs combination she chooses. It’s not bulky or uncomfortable.

The options for bands is great, because she tends to go through a few of them. Overall a great option for a smart watch.

i bought the smasung 2 golf watch this time last year and have used it over the season. i play 50+rounds a year and typically use the grint. everytime i have used the watch and app, the yardage are off.

sometimes by 5 yards and others by 15 or more. we used a range finder, course markers, other gps watches, grint, and much more to determine that it is consistently off. this has actually led to flying or coming up short multiple times.

the layout and functions are nice when they work. the green reading heat map doesn’t always load or takes forever. with the delays and lack of yardage information, the app and watch arr useless for golf.

if someone from the team can reach out and provide a resolution, i would appreciate it so i can use my watch again.

Overall, a fantastic, user friendly, versatile and convenient accessory for all types. It has an easy to use bezel that rotates your choices quickly and easily, making selecting options very simple. It has a large bright face with east to see and use icons.

The smartphone app on android phones links your watch to your phone making it even more versatile and convenient. I have become reliant on my Galaxy Watch as it is now a part of my daily life, as much as having my phone with me at all times.

I would recommend this watch to anyone, it’s a great watch at a great price. Enjoy!.

I have had my watch now about 6 months. I love how it challenges me health wise. I’ve lost several pounds. I really love it helps track so many things even the REM sleep. My job does not allow us to use our phone during work hours this helps me track important messages and phone calls just in case something important does happen!!My old watch did not do that.

The battery life is awesome as well as all the extra accessories you can buy to really bling it out even more!! I only buy Samsung products I have NEVER owned Apple products nor do I have the desire to.

Samsung’s quality and technology is outstanding there is no other thing I even want!! Thank you for supplying all my needs for years now starting with an S5.

Getting this watch at first made me nervous. I became paranoid trying to cover it with my hand everytime I got into a situation I think it would scratch or bang into something. As a volunteer firefighter, I would always take off my watch before responding to an incedent.

But one day as I responded to a call, I forgot to take it off. A house caught fire and our crew went in to save a few animals. We had to shove and throw furniture to reach our destination which was on the second floor.

We reached the animal room and smashed the window to let the heat escape and eventually the fire was put out. Anyway, we returned to to the fire house and I took my gear off. I noticed my watch on my wrist and freaked out.

But as I saw that it was completely intact with no scratches or smoke stains, I became less protective about it. This watch is not only water proof but heat proof. Best purchase ever!.

Absolutely terrible after 6+ months of use. In the beginning it was okay tracking workouts, but after 4 months or so the Under Armour APP is the worst part of this watch, and it is the main reason I got it.

I’ve been using mapmyfitness for 11 years to keep track of all of my workouts and I got this watch specifically for this purpose. I’ve been through the whole deal with support and they have no answer for me.

The best they could do is tell me to uninstall it from the watch. WHEN I CAN’T because it’s native to the watch (greyed out, no option to uninstall). Whenever I try to use the workout (MMF-UA) app, it stalls at least 10 times before it miiiiiight load all the way.

It keeps loading, whenever I get to a page I want to use, the screen turns off, and I have to start from scratch, somewhere between 10 and 50 times. This happens for up to a half hour when I give up or it starts working.

Then when it starts, there is a definite delay in everything that happens, then EEEEEVEN if you finally get the app to START and record your run, for the last month it will tell me it recorded it, give me stats, let me hit the check mark to save the workout, and after it’s all done, apparently the last months worth of workouts were NEVER RECORDED ON THE WEBSITE/APP.

SO FRUSTRATING. I’m so done with this watch. It is so slow overall that I just can’t take it anymore. It works decently well for most other things that it is supposed to, but for someone who bought a workout watch specifically for a specific workout app that comes pre-installed on the watch because he workouts out every day.

way too much frustration. Buyer Beware.

Purchased in March 2020 – worked perfectly for the first year or so. Did everything I wanted a smartwatch to do, except take an ECG like the Apple Watch. Rumor on the Internet at the time was that Samsung was within months of getting it approved (hardware was already in the watch) – but that never happened.

The 2-star rating is due to an issue with phantom touches on the face of the watch. Simply, the watch goes nuts randomly (and often) and switches screens, changes settings, and generally become inoperable.

The side buttons usually get it back to the home screen, but not always. I have conducted a decent amount of research on the Internet and there are many forums (especially the Samsung forum) where others complain of the exact same issue.

Many of those users, however, state their watch starts that issue after only a month or two — mine went the first year and a few months. Many of those users have also filed official warranty complaints with Samsung, only to be denied, with Samsung inexplicably claiming it was the user’s fault.

In one instance, Samsung denied the claim and stated the user must have gone swimming with the watch, as there was water damage. The watch, however, is advertised by Samsung to be “swim-proof. ” Since I am past the 1 year warranty, I am out of luck anyway and will be purchasing a different brand smartwatch.

As a smartwatch, this is an outstanding choice. The watch is well made, it has a lot of useful features and settings. As a activity tracker, quite frankly is sucks. Here are the features I like: built-in microphone so you can answer a phone call, speech-to-text text message replies, music controls and alarms.

Now for what I don’t like. I used before this and I feel like it was far more accurate in tracking sleep and activity. The Active 2 tracks my sleep properly about half the time. Some days it says it couldn’t get a good reading even though I wear it close to the skin as I should.

If it does track, I don’t always feel like it’s accurate. Sometimes when I’m doing nothing out of the ordinary it goes into workout mode. And then finally, the battery life. With a FitBit I got spoiled on charging it every other day or every 2 days.

Because of the features of this watch, it has to be charged everyday. It does have a helpful battery saver mode but that takes away 99% of the features you’re going to buy it for. No voice texting or replying of any kind and no use of the apps or watch faces.

I bought this used at a deep discount. I’m very thankful I didn’t buy this new because it’s not really worth the price tag to me.

Happy so far with the watch case. It is light, fits the watch well, and works well with the Spigen screen protector. The material is stretchy enough to mount relatively easily, but should be durable enough to stand up to my wife’s torture testing.

;-).

I’m new to the smartwatch scene, and I didn’t even realize cases/skins/bumpers for these watches were even a thing. I couldn’t find very many for the Galaxy Active 2 watch, but I’m glad I came across this Spigen bumper.

I like that it doesn’t add much bulk to the watch, and it covers every area that would need protection from dings, dents and scratches. It honestly does fit the watch perfectly!! It also doesn’t interfere with any of the watch functions at all!.

This is a great case for the Active 2 watch! I was skeptical at first after seeing reviews where people said it didn’t fit the watch (?) but decided to try it out anyways and haven’t been disappointed.

It has a snug fit around the watch, easy to install and great material. Honestly I think it makes the watch look even better and more wearable. Great product, definitely worth the purchase.

I bought the Watch 4 for my wife as a birthday gift, she has been wanting a smart watch for sometime now. I spent weeks researching different brands and options and settled on the Watch 4 because we have S10 phones and they advertise that they are great fitness trackers.

My wife loves to run so I purchased the LTE model so she would always have a way to call or text someone if she needed while tracking her miles and pace. She used the Watch for a couple of months before it started doing weird things.

It started to randomly answer calls on the Watch instead of the phone even when you picked up the phone and not the Watch. Battery life was terrible it wouldn’t last more than 12 hours, apps would randomly turn on.

Finally the screen went white and there was no way to reboot the Watch. I sent it in for repair as it was still under warranty and they emailed me back to say it wasn’t under warranty due to water damage.

I explained to them that the only “water” it could have been in contact with was sweat. They told me there was nothing that they could do it wasn’t under warranty. I have found several other people that have had the same problem.

The watch 4 is falsely advertised as water resistant and you can use it for swimming laps with it. Samsung will not allow me post this review on their website! DO NOT BUY this watch, save yourself the headaches and money!!!.

I have the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (44mm) in silver. Overall, I like the watch. I like sending and receiving texts on my watch (I can respond to Signal messages but cannot initiate them from the watch).

The sleep monitoring is helpful and seems accurate. I also like the detection of physical activity, like when I’m walking or running. The battery life is ok. Two days is a big stretch, so I usually just charge it every day (a bit of a pain since I want to sleep with it on, so I need to remember to charge it before bed).

One small complaint is that the watch has no left hand setting. So I wear it on my right wrist, like most left-handed people do, but the buttons are in the wrong side. So I’m constantly reaching over the watch face to tap a button.

Annoying and unnecessary because the watch is physically symmetric (top to bottom) and the watch face rotates while charging but not while wearing it. So the software and hardware could handle it, if it were made by a company that cared about its customers.

The bigger complaint I have is accessories. If you don’t love the stock silicon watch band, you are out of luck. I started looking for a metal band as soon as it was released. A Milanese band was advertised on their site for months as “coming soon.

” I signed up to receive a notification of its availability but none ever came. By accident, I saw it available in early December and ordered it (silver, 44mm). They sent me the wrong size (40mm) which I returned.

They sent me the wrong size (40mm) again, which I returned again. The third order has been placed since mid-December with no end in sight. Customer service is apologetic and confident it’ll be sent soon.

I receive periodic emails about my order, saying it’s delayed and will ship in the next three weeks. Customer service is confident it’ll arrive by that date. I’ve played this game since mid-December and it’s wearing thin.

No one knows where the watchband is but everyone knows it’ll be sent soon. Last few times I checked, the wireless charging trio platform is MIA too. Good luck getting accessories for this watch; they don’t seem to exist and Samsung doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to make them available.

After upgrading from a Galaxy S7 to the Moto Z Force I was sad to find that my old Samsung Gear Watch would not pair with my new phone. I looked long and hard for a suitable replacement because I became very accustomed to my wearable technology watch.

After multiple attempts to download apps and pair my old watch with my new phone I was rightfully concerned that the new Samsung Gear S3 Frontier would be very timeconsuming and tedious to pair with a Moto Z, but I was completely mistaken.

Once the watch was powered up it prompted me to download the appropriate Samsung Gear app, enter my email address and a memorable password and after a few short very simple to follow steps the watch and my new phone are paired and theyre working perfectly.

I am extremely pleased with the fit and finish of my new S3 Frontier and how simple it was to mate it to a non Samsung phone. I had watched several YouTube videos of how to pair previous model Samsung SmartWatches to non Samsung or Galaxy phones and had anticipated a number of downloading and application steps two make the two communicate with each other but as I said before it was completely unnecessary and extremely simple.

The watch is fairly expensive but well worth the money if you have become accustomed two wearable technology to stay uptodate with whats going on with your phone. I look forward to getting more accustomed to using it and I know it will be a very enjoyable experience.

The one sacrifice of not having a camera on the watch as I did with the previous one is a feature that I will miss but it is by no means a dealbreaker as I am completely satisfied with my purchase. I highly recommend this watch for anyone having a non Samsung phone as an alternative to purchasing one made by Motorola if you purchased a Moto Z as I did.

It Is by no means a watch to wear well swimming or diving and maybe one day manufacturers will step up and make something that is truly waterresistant enough for that kind of use but the water and dust repellency is more than adequate for daily life and besides I have plenty of other watches for scuba diving and swimming so there again definitely no dealbreaker and this will be my watch a choice for daily wear and all outdoor activities.

At almost three bones it is a very pricey investment but as I said before if you are a fan of wearable technology Im sure you will enjoy it as much as Im sure I will.

The rose gold case looked nice but was too big. I ordered the black and rose gold case together and selected the same size but the rose gold would not stay on. I opted to return and I was immediately given a credit.

The customer service experience was excellent.

I was so excited to get this, and it looked so pretty on my watch. Unfortunately, after 2 days of wearing it, it fell off while I was running errands and I had no idea until the next day. Very disappointing.

Give me all the BLING!! I ordered this bling case in a 44mm rose gold & they sent me a 45mm. I emailed them as soon as I opened my package & realized it was the wrong size! They shipped the correct size out that day!!.

Switched from the watch active 2 to this, and it was a painful step backwards. I originally assumed that the poor reviews were from people with unrealistic expectations from a reasonably priced watch, but I was very wrong.

The battery life is actually genuinely incredibly poor (I thought people were exaggerating) it will not make a day with reasonable settings. Fortunately this aspect doesn’t bother me too much (it can make a day if you turn off all smart features, but makes the device somewhat redundant) as I only use the watch for listening to music while running.

Here are the issues I have with it. – [Most frustrating] It cannot be turned on and used for music, you need to budget about 20 minutes each time to use the offline music function. The watch needs to be left for about 15 minuets after turning on before it stops lagging painfully slowly.

And you often have to turn it on and off multiple times before it allows you to play music without an internet connection. (In an ideal world you’d just put it on, leave the house and downloaded playlist would continue – this does not happen – if you don’t turn on aeroplane mode before leaving, disconnecting from you phone and wifi, prior to leaving you’ll have to spend about 10 minuets fiddling around with it outside, which is more annoying than doing it before.

– Heart rate and gps sensors are terrible; doesn’t bother me, but I find it perverse having come from the cheaper (at time of release) active watch 2. – The software experience is horrible, the watch freezes constantly, it has less options and apps just continuously close, forcing you to turn off and on the watch multiple times if you want to use it properly (i.

e. change the music playing). Apps are generally terrible, i. e. spotify has no offline playlist (it does on the WA2) youtube music has offline (which is painful to use as previously stated), but you cannot pick songs that you want played (on or offline) it has a shuffle option that only plays them in one order (i.

e. if you run for 30 mins everytime you have to listen to the exact same 8 songs in the exact same order even if your watch has downloaded a 500 song playlist). I’m sat typing this as I once again reset the watch and attempt to get it to work so I can go on a run, normally the 10 min on/off process is annoying, but not enough to actually write a review, but it’s pushing 20 minutes now, and I realize that I have to put the watch away in my draw and buy another either garmin or just the Samsung watch active 2.

The product is painfully bad, an incredibly frustrating experience and if you read this and buy it (as I did after reading negative reviews) you ultimately have yourself to blame when you shallow the loss and buy a second smart watch to replace it.

The watch is nice and sleek. Very pretty to look at. Being a first time user of Samsungs smart watches I’m truly blown away. Just lifting the watch and activating the display allows me instant access to the time, date, weather, uv index, percentage of precipitation, wind speed and direction, current heart rate, with a ridiculous amount of other customizable options for adding other info you might want directly to the watch face.

Once google assistant is installed through the watches built in play store I was able to access it just by waking the watch by lifting my wrist and saying ‘hey google’. Pretty sweet. I can also confirm that the ECG, heart rate monitor, blood pressure monitor, GPS and all other toys this phone offers are enabled and functioning in Canada.

I’ve been playing with this watch all night setting everything up and the battery life is only down 15% under very heavy usage. A real bonus I found was the ability to charge the watch wirelessly with samsung smart phone that has wireless power sharing built in.

I tested it with my Samsung galaxy S20 FE 5G and it charged my watch wirelessly without any problems at about the same speed as the wireless usb charging pad did that came included with the watch. A real plus in my book.

The review is mostly positive because as a new adopter of smart watches I am nerding out over what this product can do and the fact I’ve had zero problems with it so far. I got it on sale for $75 off with a bestbuy.

ca introductory gift card promo so it was a no brainer. That being said I’d still buy it at MSRP.

Purchased a galaxy watch 4 classic on the weekend. My 1st impression was very good, was a nice fit and navigating around the UI felt very smooth and responsive. I’ve had a few problems already with Samsung though that are making me think about returning the products I use.

As a truck drive putting in 7-9 hours driving a day I wanted to accurately keep track of my health and my steps. Was very disappointed to see my watch clocking up around 1000 steps an hour while driving.

This completely defeats the point of the health app for my self and doesn’t seem very smart watch to me at all. I’ve seen very basic and cheep pedometers be smart enough to realise when your driving.

At the very least have a setting to put it into driving mode and stop step counting. On top of that I’ve also had to factory reset my watch twice now as scrolling through the tiles they would just disappear and the screen would go black for no reason.

The final straw for me was the awful experience I’ve had trying to get my s21 repaired by Samsung for a screen repair with it nearly being a month without my device being returned and costing me £280 odd pounds.

Overall feeling very let down by Samsung.

These are pretty good watch bands, not great or bad, but good. The black mesh magnetic is probably my favorite of the two, it feels a little nicer and looks nicer too. The magnet is strong enough to keep the band secured and the watch on my wrist, and I haven’t had an issue of it coming loose yet.

My only complaint with this one is I have longer arm hair and sometimes it’ll get caught in it and gets pulled, not the best feeling lol. The silicone sport is okay, not too comfortable and I feel like it retains moisture when I wash my hands, but I do use this band when I work out just because I don’t know if I can trust the other one during a workout.

In the summer, the silicone gets uncomfortable on my wrist with the heat and the humidity, but I live in the Southeast so we have abnormally high heat and humidity in the summer. So all in all, they’re good watchbands, and a good value for two, especially if you live in a cooler climate.

These two Samsung Universal 22mm Smartwatch by WITHit – 2 Pack in Black Mesh and Gray/Black Silicone Sport wrist watch bands have measured up yo my sensitive skin. My skin either peels or a rash begins to form making it very uncomfortable to wear my Android smart watch.

Having to work with patients it is very important to use my watch more then just being in town. The silicone band does not make skin sweat nor does it inhibit warmth causing the rashes other bands have caused.

The black mesh bank does not irritate my skin or cause itching due to the rough feel most bands have. This Samsung mesh band is soft yo my skin and does not skip on my wrist. These Samsung smart watch bands are great.

Too small for me. I’m an average-sized man with average-sized wrists and hands. The silicone band barely had enough leftover length when buckled to tuck under the small strip that keeps the strap from sticking up, and i had to completely open the metal band to put my watch on my wrist (not big enough to slide it over my hand).

I have a 42mm Galaxy Watch. Price was far above what ive seen other places but i try to support retail in-store shops when possible. Bands seem to be good quality, but I’m hoping to be able to return them.

I’ve been using the Galaxy Watch 4 since its release and I have been quite happy with it as an overall smartwatch. It does some things very well, like notifications for texts, emails, phone calls, and NFC payments.

It has some great aesthetics too, like numerous watch faces to choose from and band styles that are easily interchangeable. Now for what its terrible at: Heart rate monitoring The heart rate is used to approximate calories burned along with other factors.

This is a feature active individuals, like myself, rely on when exercising, or simply staying on top of daily heart health. In no uncertain terms, the watch simply sucks at monitoring the heart rate.

The watch is totally terrible at providing a constant update to the heart rate. For example, as I’m doing a set of weighted chest presses, the watch shows my heart rate is elevated, which is expected.

The rate displayed is approximately close to what I feel and calculate in my pulse. As I sit and relax and my heart rate lowers, the watch completely fails to reevaluate this change in heart rhythm fast enough.

Nearly 2 minutes after my exercise set and the watch still shows the same elevated heart rate, but I can feel my pulse and simply calculate that my heart rate has dropped significantly, but the watch has no clue and hasn’t adjusted the rate.

The watch almost needs 3-5 minutes to accurately recalcuate, and by that point you’ve moved on. You need to remove the watch from your wrist, so that it doesn’t detect your pulse anymore, and reattach it for the sensors to take a new evaluation, and this won’t happen for several more minutes.

All of this means that the approximate calories burned during your exercise are WAY off. Until this is fixed, I cannot recommend this watch to anyone looking for a fitness tracker. As a simple smartwatch, it’s great.

For a fitness tracker, it’s simply terrible.

As noted in other reviews, a significant downgrade IMO from the Galaxy Watch 3. I agree with all the other reviewers on the most important points. Horrible battery life (46mm Classic) – someone said you can literally see the battery drain, and I agree.

You’ll be lucky to get through a day. If you want to monitor your sleep cycle with this, you’ll need to charge it a couple of hours sometime before you go to bed, and then again when you wake up. Best get a couple of chargers, for charging at work and at home.

I can only imagine the battery life in the 40mm. Very poorly organized interface as well, beginning with the mish-mash of apps you need to scroll through to get anywhere. And speaking of apps, very sparse selection – Samsung may think they’ve partnered with Google, but it’s abundantly apparent that Google does not agree.

And literally NOTHING is explained about how to do anything setting up this watch – coupled with the fact that nothing will import from any other Samsung watch you have. You’ll need to set up Samsung Pay all over again, you will have no watch faces (other than the elsewhere mentioned bloated list of included “cute” faces that are un-deletable, that only a 14 year old girl would wear), and downloading other watch faces (if you can find any) involves an arcane, multi-step process of paying vendors “croissants” and “wine,” and many of the faces linked through Samsung’s own Wearable app are incompatible.

The Google Play store has literally thousands of apps – only a few of which are compatible with this watch – and you will have only very basic apps, most of which duplicate what’s already (minimally) installed.

I could continue, but having spent the better part of a day trying to get this hot mess of hardware and software working, I’m frankly too tired. Rant off, there are some improvements in the health measurement components, and it may or may not be marginally faster (if it is, it’s barely detectable, but benefit of a doubt).

It’s also lighter than my Titanium 3. So I’ll be keeping it and hoping for some huge updates, but this effort is almost an embarrassment to call an “improvement. ” It does tell time, so there’s that.

Here’s what Samsung do not want you to know…. I had high hopes when buying a top brand watch but found that even the best of the biggest Mobile (cell) phone makers can make mistakes. I rarely write reviews but I am so disappointed that I wanted to share this with everyone so they do not make the same mistake that I did when buying this watch.

I bought the Samsung Watch4 LTE 4G with the intention of using it to talk to people while running or just when you don’t want the bulk of carrying your mobile (Cell) phone. You have everything on your arm including google pay etc.

How wrong could I be. The problem with all this fancy tech in a little watch is inevitably the battery, it is this that is the big issue. Now I like to talk, but if you think you may get more than 60 mins talk time from your watch spread over 10 hours you won’t.

You will be lucky if the watch will last more than 12 hours without making any calls at all while connected to LTE (4G) The battery drains while connected to a mobile network is just too much for this watch to handle.

Also, this is what Samsung do not want you to know. If you live in an area with low mobile (cell) signal then your watch will overheat trying to amplify the signal. This means you will get at best 2 mins worth of conversation before the watch shuts down due to overheating.

Samsung are aware of this situation but is powerless to do anything about it and in truth does not want you to know! So, if you want a watch that’s smart and are happy to charge it up twice a day so you can use all the features then this would be OK.

If you want to use it instead of a mobile (cell) phone then look elsewhere as this watch is useless with the battery life it offers. Seriously useless! You also only find out how bad this watch is after starting a phone esim plan so you can make calls and then you are tied to a network for 12 months that you’ll never use due to how incompetent the watch is at making calls.

Also note it’s an esim. ie digital – no physical sim to add or remove. I even tried to use the watch on the charger to talk longer and even the charger could not cope with the drain on the battery and inevitably after some long telephone calls the watch died after 2 hours of use.

I honestly do not think there is anything wrong with the watch as other people have had the same experience, its obviously a design fault and an oversite by Samsung to make the watch perform longer on the very small battery that it squeezes into this watch.

I hope this review helps people to make a choice when looking at this watch as an option of a standalone mobile (cell) phone. Watch maybe, cell phone definitely not!.

Just upgraded from a Galaxy Watch, first version, 46 mm, LTE. Never used the LTE on the other watch so I don’t miss it here. First, version 4 classic is definitely less bulky, lighter, and more comfortable to wear than older versions for the same screen size.

The straps are high quality and feel velvetty on the skin. The screen is very sharp and vivid. Samsung pay works a lot better with this version too, which I use a lot. The bezel is a must for me on a smartwatch, and works great here again.

The watch is a lot faster, and Google Wear OS is indeed a huge step in the right direction. Voice calls on the watch are much clearer too, and louder. No problems whatsoever with Bluetooth 5 for me, and pretty good rang of about 40-50 feet.

It’s paired with a Samsung Galaxy S10. The Galaxy wear app on the phone is getting better and better as well. I’m taking a star off for lack of (but coming I’m told) Google Assistant (I hate Bixby), and yes a shorter battery life.

After doing all the recommended tweaking and settings to save battery power, this one lasts approx 2. 5 days vs 4. 5 for the old one. I never did use Samsung Health so no comments here. I’m overall very happy with this upgrade and I do recommend it!.

Was able to get my Watch 5 Pro 10 days ahead of release and so, so pleased with it. As a 2018 Galaxy Watch owner, I was a little ambivalent about the Wear OS switch and battery life, but made the switch due to an ongoing heart condition and wanting to better monitor what it’s up to.

Just love the watch. After being wired up multiple times on ECG’s and the heart behaving; I really wanted to catch the episode causing the grief and now I have. Simple, to setup, connect and configure, it is simply a delight to use.

Is the battery life as good as my original Tizen galaxy watch ? No. But I still get 3 days with my usage between charges and that’s with multiple ECG and blood pressure tests, so pretty happy. Don’t understand the move away from the rotating bezel and consider that a complete design miss given that was the signature feature over others.

The capacitive replacement works, bit it is nowhere near as functional, pleasing to use or accurate, but that’s perhaps subjective to user. Love the watch at any rate.

I like the sporty silicone straps, but I was looking for something a little more formal. To be honest, the strap DOES seem a little cheaply made. Despite this, it looks pretty good and wears well. Just make sure you check the dimensions of your watch face before purchasing, as it won’t fit all of them.

It was easy to switch out with the small switches on the back of the strap.

So so. Leather is already starting to fall apart and look horrible. Discoloring started days after purchase. Its only been about a month and it looks like it is 10yrs old. Eouldnt recommend purchasing this particular brand.

Look elsewhere first. Especially being it cost so much money.

While the quality was good, had to return the product. Searched bestbuy. com for bands compatible with my galaxy watch 3 classic and this popped up so i bought it. unfortunately, the band was the wrong size for my watch.

while the size is listed deep in the specifications, it should also be listed in the title.

I can barely get through an eight hour work day on a full charge. Then the recharging. it takes so long! I lose well over an hour a day just to recharge. When I first got the watch, I thought I would sleep with it on to keep track of rhythms, but it was dead by morning so I couldn’t use if for my first workout of the day! Not happy with battery life, battery re-charge time.

My other issue is that I cannot connect to a small Blue Tooth speaker ever since I got the watch. It’s weird, why would that have anything to do with it? I don’t know, but even after shutting off Blue Tooth on the watch, powering it down, doing the same on the phone then rebooting my phone, the connection still gets rejected! It makes no sense, but I NEVER had connection problems to this little speaker, EVER before.

And lastly, I know I’m not getting my bang for my buck. Why do I need to pay a monthly connection charge if I have a BlueTooth connection?Thought I was bringing myself into the new decade electronically but it’s probably not worth it for me.

Loved this watch. Got it for Father’s Day a few years back. Worked awesomely but all of a sudden stopped working after a swim one day. Monitors a lot of stuff walking running biking steps weather phone calls texts swimming tons of different faces you can personalize it too.

Pretty durable in the wood shop but like I said stopped working after a swim one day. The active 2 was my favorite. Worked with all phones but then I replaced with the active 4 and that one only worked with Android phones.