In addition to the Galaxy Ring, Samsung expanded its smart wearable lineup with the Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra.
The Ultra comes in a single 47mm size, while the Galaxy Watch7 has the usual 40mm and 44mm options. Sadly, neither watch has a rotating bezel, which means there’s no Classic model this year.
The Galaxy Watch Ultra (not the Watch7 Ultra, note) is Samsung’s answer to the Apple Watch Ultra series and has a lot in common, first of all in the way it looks. It’s a more rugged-looking watch with what Samsung has dubbed the Cushion Design. It’s a rectangular watch with a circular watch face and bezel.
The Galaxy Watch Ultra comes in a single 47mm size with a 1.5-inch 480x480px Super AMOLED display with a 47mm diameter, with a maximum brightness of up to 3,000 nits. The display sits comfortably under a sapphire crystal top, so scratches shouldn’t be an issue. The casing uses titanium grade 4 and weighs 60.5 grams.
The Galaxy Watch Ultra is a truly robust device, with 10ATM, IP68 and MIL-STD-810H certification for water, dust and shock resistance. In addition, it can withstand temperatures between +55° and -20° and survive up to 9000 meters above sea level and -500 meters below.
This watch has a 590mAh battery, which is just as power packed as the Galaxy Watch5 Pro from a few years ago. This gives the Galaxy Watch Ultra the longest battery life in the Galaxy Watch lineup – up to 100 hours in power saving mode and up to 48 hours in exercise power saving.
Inside the Galaxy Watch Ultra is the new Exynos W1000 – a 3nm chip with a 3x faster CPU and 2GB of RAM than the W930. Samsung says the new chip is 30% more efficient.
Samsung’s new watch finally includes dual-frequency GPS, allowing for more accurate tracking even in dense urban environments.
The Galaxy Watch Ultra can track up to 100 sports and multi-course workouts – essentially separate activities combined as one workout. The Watch Ultra also brings FTP index tracking or Functional Threshold Power. This is a cycling-focused measurement of your maximum cycling power.
For runners, there’s a new Race mode, which can compare your current performance to your past performance in real time – mind you, this only works for outdoor running.
The Galaxy Watch Ultra also features advanced bioactive sensors as well as AI-enhanced tracking algorithms. Sleep analysis is better thanks to new sleep apnea support that will check if you have the condition based on an abnormally high or low heart rate. Speaking of heart rate – the new watches can scan for irregular rhythms that indicate atrial fibrillation. ECG and blood pressure monitoring are still present, as well as a skin temperature sensor used for period projection.
Finally, the new Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy Watch7 can do advanced glycation tracking to monitor your sugar levels. They then give you the AGEs index – a biological aging process index that gives you information about your metabolic health.
All these advanced fitness and health metrics are present in the Galaxy Watch 7. It also has sapphire crystal glass, a new BioActive sensor, and the Exynos W1000 5-core chip.
Here, you get a choice of two sizes – a 40mm with a 1.3-inch 432×432 Super AMOLED display and a 44mm with a 1.5-inch 480x480px screen – the same as the Ultra. And while the Galaxy Watch7 can’t climb the highest mountains and isn’t suitable for deep diving, it matches the Galaxy Watch Ultra’s MIL-STD-810H as well as 5ATM + IP68 rating.
Both smartwatches boast exclusive use of Wear OS 5 (until the Pixel Watch 3 launches in August), and run Samsung’s One UI 6 on the watch.
The Galaxy Watch7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra are available to pre-order starting today and will begin shipping on July 24. Pricing for the Galaxy Watch7 starts at €319/$300 for the 40mm (green and cream) Bluetooth model and goes up to €349/$330 for the 44mm (green and silver). The Galaxy Watch Ultra is available in titanium grey, titanium white, and titanium silver and has a single Bluetooth + 4G configuration, which costs €699/$650.
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