Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 Review

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is their mainstream smartwatch entry for 2024, available in 2 sizes. It has a faster 3nm CPU, double the storage vs last year and dual band GPU. There’s an LTE option and the watch has a round AMOLED display. It runs Wear OS 5 with OneUI 6. It features a wide range of health tracking and exercise tracking.

[narakusdemon]

Lisa again killing it with the awesome shirts! 😂

[michaelthomashamilton]

I've been wearing a Galaxy Watch Active2 for the past couple years. I was thinking about trading it in and buying the Watch 7 as an upgrade, but after seeing all the comments about the mediocre battery life (which apparently also was an issue with the Watch 6), I decided to buy a second-hand Watch 5 Pro for $120 lol.

So yeah. The Watch 5 Pro has pretty good battery life.

[xsshul]

Thanks Lisa! I've tried the Galaxy watch and the Apple watch, but ultimately charging another device every day or 1.5 days just wasn't worth it. Then, I got a pure fitness watch, the Coros Pace 3, and this thing keeps a charge for over a week, depending on how much I use the GPS for runs. No, I don't have Apple/Samsung pay, but I get notifications, and it's amazing for fitness and sleep tracking. Until these phone companies get better battery life, I just can't buy into the ecosystem.

[GeorgeGiann]

I would love to get a "smarter" smartwatch (installing apps, etc) but honestly, with 24hrs of battery life it is still a no-go for me. After switching from my beloved Huawei GT2 (3 full years on my wrist, 10+ days of battery life), I recently got Huawei Fit 3. NO WORDS.
Samsung should take notes and for the time being, be a little bit ashamed.

[fletcherchambers]

Went from the Galaxy Watch 5 to the 7... It's a worthy bump, and given Samsung's generous trade-in for pre-orders ($200!) was definitely worth it. Only gripe so far, I'm one of the early adopters with battery life issues (shorter life than my two year old Watch 5 had)... Hope that is just a software bug like they're saying...

[clover]

Hi Lisa! Love your reviews, been watching since I was in middle school.

I was wondering if you would be reviewing the Asus Proart px13? It's the only 13 inch 2-1 with dedicated graphics and the new AMD AI 300 chips. I have a 2021 Dell XPS 15 that's on life support and need an upgrade for college. I'm just concerned about battery life and heating for such a compact yet powerful convertible.

Thanks!

[j.w.grayson]

Hi Lisa, I recently upgraded to the Galaxy Watch 7 44mm. It is such an improvement over the GW4! I've only recently started using my watch to monitor my sleep, but it doesn't start tracking when I go to bed or fall asleep. Often the first couple of hour are omitted. I consistently go to bed at 10:00 PM, is there a way to tell the watch to start monitoring my sleep?

[lewiskelly]

I still hate all of the bloat that I can't delete

[MarxMarvelous]

Nice review - had my GW7 for 1.5 weeks. I agree battery life is not amazing but I do get better than 24h with 60+mins GPS and 45 mins circuit training. I also use the always on display but do disable "raise wrist to wake" and NFC. Processor is a big step up especially if you use background apps (like Spotify) while working out.

[mundzine]

The only reason why I've been upgrading samsung watches is because samsung is almost paying me to upgrade to the next model

[ninjatogo]

I disagree with the point raised @6:50. Not using the always on display feature doesn't really defeat the purpose of having this kind of watch.
Having the display on when you're not looking at it, seems like a massive waste of energy imo. I've been using my Watch 4 Classic with the raise to wake mode and it works ~90% of the time, and allows me to have two day battery life.