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No GoogleAssistant No GPay No GoogleFit. Locked in with Samsung. Endless notifications 1 day battery
If you're into the samsung bloatware experience then by all means go for it. There are absolutely no pros about this watch but here are the cons:
1) battery won't last a day
2) Does not work with Wear OS, it will get detected and the progress is stuck. Watch is connected with limited usability
3) requires the full bloatware from Samsung so be prepared to create samsung accounts and have all your vital stats at the mercy of a Korean giant.
4) First install the Samsung Wearable app and make sure you give it ALL the permissions else it will fail and you're get constant notifications even after you;'ve corrected the permissions. Then install the Samsung Watch 4 Plugin app and agains give it all permissions. Then you need to install the Samsung Health app and even that needs access to your phone.
5) After installing 3 Samsung apps and 2 samsung accounts, you will now experience degraded battery life on your phone
6) Samsung Health does not sync with Google Fit. So forget about trying to get that to work without installing another 3rd party app.
7) No Google Assistant on the watch
8) No Google Pay on the watch
So basically nothing Google works on this watch. So what's even the point and all the fuss about?
August 2021 · Electronics