After wearing the Watch 6 the week prior, the Classic felt noticeably heavier than its sibling when I first put it on. It’s even more odd because that would have been a really easy software port to these watches, and an obvious win against many other Wear OS watches, or even versus Apple (of course, very few people are directly deciding between Samsung and Apple watches, given the walled gardens of both platforms). Refined rotating bezel: Smoothly scroll through all your features on Watch6 Classic simply by rotating the iconic bezel. com is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. It's easy to rotate in either direction with one finger or two, with stopping points that enable more precise scrolling than its sibling's touch bezel.

Galaxy Watch6 Classic is water resistant to up to 50 meters in depth for 10 minutes under the 5ATM rating.during the pairing of your devices ensure not to take either device out of proximity of the other or power off either device during set up. I'll start with the good news: Thanks to the increase in screen real estate, icons appear larger on the display and the watches now offer six text font size options instead of four. Worse yet, I then did a 6,000m workout after that (15 loops) and it again said it had GPS, but didn’t.

It massively cut a number of corners by a football field’s worth, and then blazed through buildings when I (obviously) went around them.I didn't go climbing but did dunk the smartwatch in some water, after which it was no worse for the wear. The electrical impedance technology used hasn’t changed in decades, and it sucked then, and still sucks now.

The Classic's stainless steel case has a mostly shiny finish, with brushed matte accents on the left and right sides and on the band clasp. The non-classic edition retains the pre-existing digital bezel around the outside edge, which works as clumsily as it did in the past. I can also use Samsung's rich Wear app to manage all my watch's settings and features, including choosing from among an extensive collection of watch faces that include graphical and animated treatments, faces devoted to health and information, your photos, and classic watch style faces. Also, the sleep consistency seems somewhat basic, but I suppose there’s only so much you can really say on that metric. There does not appear to be any way to create a fully custom one-off workout (such as a mild to complex interval workout, such as mixed 400m and 800m sets) within the Samsung app.Especially given both Google (with Pixel Watch) and Apple, have significantly started expanding their sport/fitness components over the last year. Not horribly slow, but certainly noticed it compared to the Apple Watch Series 8/Ultra, and the Garmin Epix Pro. With the always-on display and Adaptive Brightness enabled, the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic offered about 24 hours of battery life on a charge in testing. Measured blood pressure history can be reviewed within the Samsung Health Monitor app on a paired smartphone. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart home, home entertainment, wearables, fitness and health tech, and various other product categories.

Payment made easy: Grab a drink and a snack using Samsung Wallet with a single tap of your Watch6 Classic. When compared to watches from Apple and Google, my sleep data didn't line up in terms of how long I was in REM or deep sleep, but too often, I did find that the Watch6 Classic thought I was sleeping for an extra 20 minutes longer than the Pixel Watch. You can see that the Watch 6 non-Classic (purple) immediately struggles for the first 10 or so minutes of the climb. As a general rule, I see wide variety/variability between different units/companies for the same data sets.Set your target weight, body fat, muscle mass and more, then set up an optimised program to help you achieve your health and wellness goals.