With the Watch5 Series, Samsung's Wear OS Gamble Is Paying Off

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Android phone owners are finally getting better smartwatches that can rival the Apple Watch.

, and sleep tracking. Thirty minutes of charging from 20 percent brought it up to 70 percent, which is good enough, but I wish it recharged even faster. The Watch5 Pro fares a little better, usually lasting to the end of day two after the same level of activity on a single charge., but marginally so. I should also disclose that my battery results are with the always-on display turned on, so the Watch5 will last longer if you don't enable that.

As for health and fitness tracking, the most important thing to know before you buy is that the electrocardiogram feature works only if you pair these watches with a Samsung smartphone. It's a really silly restriction. Technically this applies to blood pressure monitoring, but that feature has yet to be cleared by the FDA despite it being available inEverything else works with Android phones perfectly well.

One of my favorite features of the Galaxy Watch5 series is the auto-workout detection, especially when it starts up automatically when I walk my dog. There's something about a watch counting my daily walks as a form of exercise that makes me feel a bit better when I can't do any strenuous exercise that day, and it actively encourages me to walk for a bit longer.

Sleep tracking has been pretty accurate for me as well, and it now tracks blood oxygen levels and how much you snore when you're in the land of nod. It's good for evidence gathering because I can show my partner that. One new feature is a coaching program to improve your overall sleep. It requires a full week to gather data, so I've entered just my first week of a four-week sleep course.

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