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I miss when the Galaxy Watch ran Tizen instead of Android. I still have the original Galaxy Watch and the battery life is just unbeatable. Likely because it's not constantly phoning home about the most benign metrics.

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Telorandreply
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What do you use your watch for? I've sometimes considered getting one, but I don't really know if it would be worth the cost.

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benreply
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Mostly heart rate tracking and scheduling reminders so I don't forget things. Also good for step tracking and stuff, realistically I'll just get a Garmin next time cause I still want the long battery life and that's not really a thing with Android based smart watches.

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Telorandreply
reddthat.com

Interesting. Yeah, notifications would probably be huge for me. I utilize a lot of them to get things done, but I sometimes miss important ones on my phone.

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I love using it as an mp3 player at the gym or while running and keeping my phone in my locker. If you deal with a lot of authentication texts or apps for work software, I find it makes me slightly less angry to authenticate with my watch. Rapid weather and calender checks are convenient too.

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Wear OS is pitiable. My previous GW 4 40mm had 247 mAh battery and barely lasted a day with AOD on. Plus the charging was so slow. Even with Samsung's latest Galaxy Watch Ultra, it has lesser endurance that what Tizen based Frontier had.

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