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I waited a few weeks before writing this review having ample time to write my thoughts about my experience with the Samsung Galaxy Watch. I'll breakdown the review into multiple key points and share my thoughts and experiences and shortcomings if any. 1.)Battery - Probably the most important thing everyone wants to know about before making their purchase! As always your mileage will vary here based off of multiple factors like: notifications how many received and how often updates are pushed, screen brightness, if you use always on display or not, GPS etc the list really goes on. Based off of my personal usage pattern and with the following settings: out of the box default, 4-5 on screen brightness, a healthy amount of notifications from Hangouts, WhatsApp, text, Gmail, Allo etc, workouts with GPS/an exercise selected. I found myself charging every 2.5-3 days and I generally charge my watch once it hits 15-20% battery life so I could possibly squeeze another half to full day! I give the battery life a rating of 8/10. 2.) Durability - So far with working out at the gym, daily life and sleeping with the device I do not see any scratches or visible marks on the body of the watch the clasp has a small scratch only visible in direct light so no big deal. As for the display while I'm sure it's durable I opted for a tempered glass protector as I am OCD about seeing scratches of any kind on my displays. But so far I would say the Galaxy Watch is extremely durable 10/10! 3.) Software - I personally am not too fond of Tizen OS and am particularly and not fond of Bixby especially when compared to Google Assistant. I used to take Google Assistant for granted but after using Bixby a few times I find myself with a new found appreciate for my Google Assistant. The voice to text is noticeably slower, more words are missed, everything you ask of Bixby seems to be slower and Bixby cannot do as much at this time. Hopefully this will improve with time! I highly doubt Bixby will ever reach Google Assistant levels, but hopefully Samsung improves the speed and functionality. The amount of apps pale in comparison to WearOS at this time and doesn't have a lot of the major Android apps that one would want to use. Samsung adds a lot of unnecessary animations that slow things down sadly. Prime offender is when you look at a notification on the watch it takes a few moments before the notification is displayed (just nit picking here not a deal breaker). The fitness tracking is excellent and does a good job of tracking your workouts from calories burned to distance ran/rode etc. Only thing that I notice the software or possibly a hardware limitation? Is when you're tracking your heart rate during high intensity training the watch sometimes has issues keeping up and will take a few moments to display your current heart rate. But overall I would say the heart rate is accurate and comparable to a chest strap monitor under regular usage and non high intensity workouts. But overall the Galaxy Watch does offer a pleasant software experience 7/10. 4.) Aesthetics - I have the 46mm version and "gorgeous" is an understatement here. Even with the default silicone band the watch looks fantastic and exudes class. The larger form factor, the teeth on the rotating bezel, the satisfying clicking the rotating bezel makes and the markings in the inner bezel further compliment the elegance factor of the watch. Also how the silver contrasts with the darker colors perfectly. Even the home and back button add to the overall beauty of this watch! Samsung seems to understand if it's not broken don't fix it when it comes to aesthetics. A way to summarize is "beauty in simplicity" 10/10! If you're looking for a fantastic watch with solid performance and a solid software experience your search is over! At this point you should be adding this watch to your cart and hitting buy! If you're still on the wall and want to give Wear OS another chance with the recent overall and the "new" processor and hardware and can afford to wait another month or so I'd say wait to see some reviews. I personally don't have hope in the Qualcomm 3100 and the coprocessor since the 3100 is an old CPU from 2015 w/ the Adreno 304 GPU (the same one in the Qualcomm 2100 that powers the majority of Wear OS devices). To me it seems as the 3100 + coprocessor was made to appease the fashion brands with the new and improved always on watch displays to make them look "prettier". It's understandable since the fashion brands essentially have been keeping Wear OS alive. I'm always for competition so I hope Qualcomm steps up their game and innovate and build an entire SoC from the ground up vs using some rehashed archaic SoC that is years old. Thanks for reading and hope this helps you with your purchase decision!