Galaxy Watch7 Review - The Lightest, Fastest Watch That Doubled My Productivity

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My settings for ~2 days battery life:
- AOD disabled (temporarily enabled for time critical situations like catching a flight*)
- auto brightness (I wish this could have an upper limit)
- continuous heart rate, and stress tracking
- blood oxygen spo2 during sleep tracking
- I don't use GPS, nor do I track my fitness, my focus on the watch is utility like using the flash light, triaging notifications, voice assistant for home control, etc...

With AOD enabled 24/7, I get about 1 day

00:00 Loving the form factor of GW7 40mm versus others
00:30 Missing the crown for easier scrolling
00:54 Flawless Google Assistant with knock gesture
01:36 Benefit wearing smartwatch to avoid distractions
02:13 Managing notifications and when to be alerted vs DND
03:25 CPU upgrade from Watch6 to Galaxy Watch7
04:53 Other upgrades from Watch6
05:16 Double pinch gesture is a bit limited
05:47 GPS navigation improvements turn by turn directions
06:29 Charger is new but compatible like the 20mm wrist straps
07:47 Advanced health metrics AGE, energy score, sleep apnea detection not helpful
08:36 Body fat measurement
09:14 Sleep tracking is super helpful
11:03 Why I don't wear the watch when exercising
12:43 Best auto rep detection for strength detection
14:54 Battery life works well for my use cases!
15:30 One annoying flaw fixed in the latest version
15:52 Conclusion - should you buy?

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Galaxy watch 7 vs Watch 6 vs Apple Watch series 10

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[DeconstructedWithJosh]

How refreshing to find a utilitarian review from someone who ACTUALLY uses their smartwatch to simplify their life.

[axlcrush]

Very personal and original opinions, unlike most other reviewers. Well done.

[xFreyelis]

Can't understand how Amazfit or Garmin can have 14 Days battery life on their Smart Watches, while Google, Samsung, and Apple has like 1 Day to 1 & 1/2 Day of Battery Life only, which is a big con especially for the working people who come home tired and want to monitor their sleeping status without the hassle of always thinking about that battery life for the next day.

[nazmulhuda.]

9:30 I agree. Sleep tracking is really great. Even with my watch 6 classic it helped me a lot to understand my quality of sleep and it was pretty accurate. And also suggested me to take a break or rest which I actually needed. Somedays score seems to be very high and by my feeling it was accurate.

[markrulz]

Great to see such an honest and balanced review and how it applies to your personal experiences day to day. A lot of reviews should be more like this and not just raving and hyping features. Awesome work.

[vanderslagmulders]

love your review and your ideas about the overkill of health stats.

[dichi]

Good review. I bought mine about a month ago. It is working well and I love it except 1 thing: the Double Pinch feature. What an utter dissappointment. It is not responsive when it should be, and super sensitive when answering phone calls. That is: you just look on the screen to see who is calling and it automatically picks up 😵‍💫 only option is to toggle it off entirely, but then you cant use it when it is actually useful. Atm you cannot select the functionalities you want it for. I have contacted Samsung and they confirmed

[ConfigBias]

The health monitoring perspective, where this data is just too much to make any tangible conclusions of is very helpful and relevant to most users.

[jamesg]

Many improvements over the OG Galaxy Watch? mine is like 6-7 years old and I don't have any issues with it.

[urbanebicycler]

A perfect review in terms of utility. Not just purely health tracking specifications which 99 percent of the rest of the YouTubers focused on. Anyway, can you kindly please compare Apple's gesture assist and Samsung's pinch feature? Who amongst them should I be pulling the trigger on? The Ultra series is welcome as well. I may have no money issue to influence my decision since I will be saving funds for that very important feature that will help me with my day-to-day uses. I really appreciate any help you can provide. Subbed as well. Cheers! 🤘🥰☕

[qazifaisal]

I have my whoop 4.0 and galaxy ring for health. The smart watch is only to act as a teammate for my phone . I have no issues wearing it all the tine. I like that the watch let's me do certian things without pulling out my phone which I appreciate.

[ltetobago]

Getting a 7 LTE. I have a watch3 and still really like it, esp love the rotating bezel but with the Tizen OS, my health app doesn't work anymore esp for sleep 😢

[steve-eyol]

Got myself a sekonda watch never have to charge it - don't need to be told how many steps I've done and it's just so perfect and peaceful

[GTR]

Bro I love the strap you have on where did you 😂 get it

[arctic-]

Great review! Just ordered the 40mm Watch 7 myself 👌

[Sheps]

I'm hoping to do the same thing as you and leave my phone at home, how long will this phone last making phone calls on lte without having your phone present?

[nazmulhuda.]

Energy score was a great feature for me. Maybe not the best but allowing me to confirm if I had a good active day with a meaningful rest. Specially for sleeping its helps me know how well did I sleep which I found to be pretty accurate. The day I wasn't sleeping good the score was down sleep data showed the bad sleep and suggested for more rest. For this it's a useful tool which I wear at night always.

[Coppernickers]

Doesn't want to look like a tourist, proceeds to stare at watch for far longer than checking the time. So nobody can tell he is loaded with expensive tech.

[dexterseamusgaming]

This is the best review video. You are the best.

[joeroganpodfantasy]

4:59 where did you take that screenshot from of all the differences?