Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch SM-R800 Review

The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch wants to fix what has forever been a sticking point for watches – promising 5 days battery life, TIZEN-based Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch also provides sleep and fitness tracking, heart rate monitoring, and smart notification with Bixby integration.

After this Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch SM-R800 review, I notice while it provides activity tracking, its outcomes are not like some dedicated fitness tracker or even hybrid variants like the Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatches. But still, it is one of the best alternatives out there to Smartwatch under 300 bucks.

The Galaxy SM-R800 – Design & Display

The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch is well designed and the company has paid fine attention to detail. It’s available in 2 different variants – 42mm and 46mm. if you’re looking at the smaller variant, you get to select 2 colors, Rose gold and midnight black. The bigger model (Samsung Galaxy Watch SM-R800) and my current review variant are only available in silver. If you like large chunky dials, you will have to settle for the later.

Every model also has a rotating bezel to help UI navigation. Compared to utilizing the touch screen feature every time, it’s far simpler and a bit more convenient to utilize the rotating bezel. It provides fine clickable feedback that always allows you to know how much input you’ve dialed in.

This means you do not necessarily have to seem down at the Smartwatch to navigate via its options.

Samsung Galaxy SmartWatch SM-R800 – Usability

The bezel of the watch is finished in black and it complements the silver case extremely well. The company has applied a similar treatment to the 2 buttons on the right side as well. The upper one back key and while the other is home key.

You will also see a mic right below these buttons in the right section. The left side of the smartwatch only houses a speaker.

Turn it around and you’ll see heart monitor sensor in the middle. There is also a feature for wireless charging here. You get a wire-free charger in the box that reminds us of the charger packed with Moto 360 Gen 2. The charging cradle has micro USB wire and the supplied watch charger is rated at 3.5 Watt.

At the hub of the case is a 1.3” AMOLED screen with a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass DX Plus for screen protection. Since the display is AMOLED you get a feature always on screen mode. When enabled, the screen doesn’t turn white and black.

You’ll get complete color on the watch faces, which is extremely good. The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch has an IP68 water rating, and the company claims it’s water-resistant up to 5ATM. It’s also a shockproof model and has an aMIL-STD-810G rating.

The Performance

This watch is one of the flagship smartwatch presently available in the market. It is powered by Samsung’s own EXYNOS 9110 processor that performs finely showing no lags and shutters while using the Smartwatch. It comes with 768MB of RAM  and comes with four GB storage where you can store songs, which I didn’t make use of. The company’s TIZEN OS is quite working very smoothly on the Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch. The UI is simple to control using the rotating bezel.

SM-R800 Smartwatch – Battery Life 

Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch is backed by a 478mAh decent battery. Initially, I was utilizing it without any connectivity, I was simply to get around 4-5 days of battery life easily. As soon as I used always on the display feature, the battery life dropped to 3 days of usage. Though, considering a lot of several other brand’s smartwatches die in one or two days, for me this is so good.

Compare Samsung Galaxy Watch Smartwatch  SM-R800 to Other SmartWatch

Features of Samsung Galaxy SM-R800 Smartwatch

The Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch SM-R800 can do many things from showing you your notification and being capable to replay to texts to locating your mobile, tracking your activities, and many more. But these are normal smartwatch functions so we will talk about a few of the unique features you can use in Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch.

• Ability to live smarter and stronger life with Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch at your wrist. Rest very well and stay active with advanced built-in tracking and wireless connection that keeps all at your wrist. As well as go for days without charging. This is great.
• Advance feature to track physical activity at an amazing accuracy. Which is almost 100 percent correct.
• Battery life is decent, go non-stop for days on one charge, the wire-free charge allows you power up without showing down. But the average expected performance of the Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch is based on typical use and outcomes might vary.
• Pairs with both Apple and Android Smartphone with Bluetooth link smoothly without any issue.
• AMOLED display with solid coring Gorilla Glass makes this Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch upper hand on their opponents.

Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch Review – Pros & Cons

Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch SM-R800 Review – Final words

After this Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch SM-R800 review, I find it the most refined watch due to its useful fitness tracking and decent battery life – if you prefer the bigger 46 mm size that we recommended and liked. The entire of this packaged inside a stunning-looking circular black and silver watch that has a rotating bezel for smooth menu navigation.

Be warned 3^rd party applications are lacking and its Apple support is limited if you are using Apple phones. This is great for Android fans.