I love it, but I’d never buy it - Samsung Galaxy Watch 7

Samsung has included some compelling features in the Galaxy Watch 7, such as an all-day+ battery life, a full suite of health tracking sensors, and a pleasing design. However, can it justify the price? Adam has some doubts.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Unboxing
1:47 Physical features
2:35 Sponsor
3:00 Watch face
4:40 Battery life
5:18 Apps and health tracking
7:28 UI and interface
8:08 Phone compatibility
9:09 Conclusion and pricing
10:19 Credits

[DoRC]

The Sapphire crystal is a game changer. I would never have a watch without one anymore. I was not gentle to my watch six and after wearing it every single day for a year there was not a single scratch on it.

[loudryka]

Pretty sure it's apple who doesn't allow support. I think they killed it back in the day

[gabegalleries]

I feel like this video just isn't well researched in general. Samsung doesn't lock their watches from Apple users - WearOS itself does. You can put unwanted apps into a folder. Not much research or testing into the accuracy of the sensors or how it stacks up with other watches.

[DoRC]

I find myself buying the new version every time it comes out simply because the trade-in they give on the previous version is usually pretty ridiculous. With the other discounts I get and trading in my watch six I was able to get the watch 7 for $37 shipped. Not going to say no to that.

[Denuwu]

man i love reading watch manuals to my mouse friends in 10+ different languages at 3 am in the kitchen

[vladislave]

Wear os compatibility is severely limited by apple. Can't blame this one on samsung, since pixel watch doesn't support IOS either.

[kacperolszowski]

To be honest the inabillity to pair galaxy watch to IOS isn't samsung fault. Watch is based on wearOS which is tied to android very deeply, so you cannot pair any watch with wearOS to IOS

[Zach-rwjf]

Once again, someone blaming Samsung for lack of compatibility with Apple, when it's Apple's fault...They really have their cult wrapped around their finger, don't they?

[asdfjoe]

99 out of 100 Apple reviews: A minor thumbs down you can't use it on an iPhone.
99 out of 100 Samsung reviews: I will not buy this or recommend it because it doesn't work with iPhones. What a terrible anti-consumer move. Samsung is ship!

Meanwhile at Apple: See, it was a great decision to not allow any WearOS device to work with iPhones!

[zrpsukv]

I'm a Samsung galaxy watch 4 user, you can add app shortcuts to the home screen from any apps

[kodyappleton]

Long time LTT viewer, pretty poor video all around. 44mm still uses 20mm bands. Apple prevents the watch from having any decent functionality with iPhone, so to prevent a bad experience, they advertise it to not be compatible. Imagine you buy a $400 watch and it can only pop up notifications. As a watch4 user, you can add app shortcuts to the home screen. It's literally called app shortcut, and of course it has that feature since they both it and the pixel watch run WearOS, made by GOOGLE. Slander of the body composition features, but I have to say I have only had accurate positive experiences with mine after nearly four years of use. Why compare to a FITBIT when its competing with an Apple Watch (which are more expensive btw). I have sent texts from the middle of a pool and control my smart lights from my watch, can a fitbit do that? No. So why compare the two, they aren't equal products. Its like comparing a chromebook with a gaming laptop. Different use cases. Feels like too much personal opinion in this video. Disappointing.

[ash]

Can't blame WearOS issues with iPhone on Samsung, it's an Apple problem. I don't think it'd be enough to make me hand in my Watch 4 Classic. I still enjoy the twiddly bezel and some of the new features don't give me enough reason to upgrade yet. I prefer a physical bezel to a touch bezel. Especially when it gets wet

[GG-sxgi]

Oh wow. An apple fan boy is unhappy with Samsung. I'm shocked.

[TheRogueBro]

Every smartwatch needs a raised bezel. It has saved my watch SOOOO many times. I still rock an original Samsung Galaxy Watch and the screen still looks like new, and it's like 6 years old!

[pnqqzrx]

I can somehow understand why samsung refuses to open its watch for iphone users, since apple won’t give other manufacturers the same level of APIs and access to iOS devices, any other watch besides apple’s would seem pale and inferior compare to apple watches. Samsung just doesn’t like its watches to be compared to apple’s when they are artificially limited by them.

[MotoCat]

We need more hybrid analog watches imo.. Withings Scanwatch does heartrate, steps, sleep, spO2 as well as general notifications/alarms and such while getting a whole ass month of battery.

In fact if you let it run down low enough it shuts off the health tracking and can extend the remaining teeny bit of battery life for several more months so you always have the time available

[blazemgb]

It seems like the losing iOS support was an apple thing not a samsung thing, they quit supporting it when they migrated to wearOS and having used wearOS watches with iOS it's a super broken experience because iOS wouldn't let wearOS stay running in the background

[pocketlint]

I suspect it doesn't work with apple more due to Apple than to Samsung. It's not like Apple watches work on android. I bet Apple doesn't allow Samsung health or Samsung watch appon its store, not to mention the watch uses Google wearOS. So apple would need to support Google app store to work properly

[DirtCheapFU]

Just to note. I thought it was hilarious that the video sarted with OP setting the bar really, really, low for a minimalist watch. Then setting a unreachable and glowing expectation for the Waych 7 as if its a flagship. I thought it was hilarious and absurd because he also laid out his bias.

[G_Fresh_UK]

just bought the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic 47mm for £220, its great. did buy a fabric strap that attaches with Velcro for £9.99 that makes it fit better. Love it.