Name: Samsung made the smartwatch Google couldn't
Uploaded: 2020-12-18T21:10:55.000Z
Duration: 5 min 17 s
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The imperative

I've spent the last year and a half or so

complaining that there aren't any good smartwatch options

for Android users, but here's a question for me.

What if I've been too hard on all these watches?

Now, look, there aren't any great options.

There's nothing as good as the Apple Watch for iPhone users,

But this watch right here, the Galaxy Watch Active 2

and you wanna smartwatch you should give this thing a look.

And if your Android phone happens to be a Samsung phone,

you should definitely give it a second look,

because this thing is actually kind of a looker,

All right, so the Active 2 is a smartwatch

that comes in two sizes, a 40, and a 44 millimeter.

and it comes in a few different colors and finishes,

Now it runs this operating system called Tizen,

but if you have an iPhone, well, trust me,

you should just move on, get an Apple Watch

Anyway, the Tizen underpinning here doesn't really matter

so much as the interface that's on top of it.

See, Samsung designed everything here to work in circles,

You spin your finger around the bevel to do things,

like look at widgets or notifications, or even apps,

and I love that, it's really clear and really consistent,

was released like six months before this one,

and six months isn't a very long time between models.

But the thing is, Samsung just straight up

didn't think about how this OS works in circles,

This is one does have a touch sensitive rotating bezel

as an actual, physical rotating one, but it works.

And overall, I think this hardware works really well.

It's always on, and that is how watches are supposed to be,

and I don't know why it took Apple five years

It gets the basics right, it mirrors notifications,

it has a bunch of health features for tracking

and it has a battery that lasts a full day.

It's comfortable to wear, and it's not aggressively chunky,

that I haven't seen other smartwatches do well.

It turns off the screen, and notifications,

You can set up these widgets on this watch,

which you could scroll into with the touch sensitive bezel,

It's actually a feature that Google pretty much

straight up copied for AOS and they should've copied it,

and you can download Spotify music directly to the watch,

Not so great is the third party app eco system.

There's really not a lot of things you're gonna want there.

the YouTube or Twitter apps for this watch,

Samsung internet web browser here if you want.

and I haven't found a great third party option

Now, the watch faces are, well look, they're fine.

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