Galaxy Watches replace transport tickets in Île-de-France

Samsung and Île-de-France Mobilités have been working together to dematerialize public transport tickets and allow people to validate digital tickets using their smartwatches. These efforts to reduce waste by lowering the use of magnetic tickets are now paying off. Samsung and Île-de-France Mobilités have announced that the smartwatch-based ticket validation system is now being deployed […]

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Galaxy Watches can now tell the time on different planets

Samsung has launched a new watch face for Galaxy Watch users who like to look up to the sky and wonder about our solar system. Samsung is doing justice to the ‘Galaxy’ moniker with the release of this new watch face, which was developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). This new release […]

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March 2024 security update for Galaxy Watch 4 in India brings new features

Last week, Samsung released a new software update to the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic in Korea. It brought the March 2024 security patch and a new health-related feature to the two smartwatches. Now, the company is rolling out the same software update to the Galaxy Watch 4 series in India. […]

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Google Maps on Galaxy Watch now shows public transit options

At MWC 2024, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps for Wear OS. This feature shows you public transit options to reach a location. The company reiterated the feature in the March 2024 Pixel Feature Drop. Now, it has finally started rolling out the feature. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google is […]

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Google Maps on Galaxy Watch now shows public transit options

At MWC 2024, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps for Wear OS. This feature shows you public transit options to reach a location. The company reiterated the feature in the March 2024 Pixel Feature Drop. Now, it has finally started rolling out the feature. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google is […]

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Google Maps on Galaxy Watch now shows public transit options

At MWC 2024, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps for Wear OS. This feature shows you public transit options to reach a location. The company reiterated the feature in the March 2024 Pixel Feature Drop. Now, it has finally started rolling out the feature. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google is […]

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Apple Watch Series 10 could borrow old Galaxy Watch feature

Apple Watches have always been ahead of Samsung Galaxy Watches in many aspects, including performance, software experience, connectivity options, and ruggedness. However, Apple Watches lack one feature that Galaxy Watches offer, and that is blood pressure monitoring. But that might be changing soon. According to Mark Gurman in the Bloomberg Power On newsletter, the upcoming […]

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New Galaxy Watch 4 update brings workout integration for Samsung TV

Samsung is rolling out a new software update to the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. It bumps the firmware version of the Watch 4 to R860XXU1HXB7 and of the Watch 4 Classic to R870XXU1HXB7 and brings three changes. First, it offers the March 2024 security patch which fixes more than a dozen […]

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Samsung brings Bluetooth Auracast to Galaxy phones and 360 Audio to its TVs

Earlier this year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S24 series with several new features. Some of those features are now coming to more phones and even other device categories. Enhanced Bluetooth Auracast compatibility debuted with the Galaxy S24, and that feature is coming to older phones soon. Samsung is also bringing 360 Audio to its high-end […]

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Turn the Galaxy Watch into a remote for your Samsung smart TV

One advantage to having a Samsung smart TV and a Galaxy smartphone is that the two devices can communicate through SmartThings. As a result, you can do things such as using your smartphone as a TV remote controller, whether from the SmartThings mobile app or the lock screen. Another neat party trick you can keep […]

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Galaxy Watches get Sleep Apnea Detection feature in the USA

Samsung has announced that Galaxy Watches can now detect Sleep Apnea in the USA. The Samsung Health Monitor app has received the De Novo certification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This feature detects signs of Sleep Apnea, which is among the most common sleep-related issues. Galaxy Watches to get Sleep Apnea Detection […]

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Samsung might rerelease Galaxy Watch 4 and Tab S6 Lite in 2024

Although Samsung has plenty of new and exciting devices planned for 2024, not to mention the already-released Galaxy S24 flagship series, the company might also refresh some of its older devices and rerelease them before the end of the year. We’re talking about products such as the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Tab S6 Lite […]

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Samsung may launch refreshed versions of Galaxy Watch 4, Tab S6 Lite

Samsung switched from Tizen to Wear OS for the Galaxy Watch 4 and newer smartwatches. It was a huge change, and the first Galaxy Watch 4 is still being sold at heavily discounted prices. After launching two newer generation smartwatches, one might think that Samsung will retire the Galaxy Watch 4 series, but they could […]

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Samsung could release Wear OS 5 update for Galaxy Watches this year

Three years ago, Google and Samsung developed Wear OS 3 together and breathed new life into the Wear OS smartwatch segment. Since then, they’ve released the Wear OS 4 update, and they could be close to releasing a new Wear OS update. Apparently, the companies are already working on Wear OS 5, which could be […]

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Samsung races Apple to develop noninvasive blood sugar monitor

In an ambition to zoom past all the other tech giants in the healthcare race, Samsung Electronics is looking for options to develop noninvasive blood sugar monitors and continuous blood pressure checking. Samsung aims to introduce these health features in a wide range of its products, including smartwatches and the recently announced Galaxy Ring. As […]

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Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 5 get blood pressure and ECG features in India!

Samsung has finally made the Samsung Health Monitor app available in India (via @YashRathoreX). With this release, all the smartwatches from the company that feature blood pressure measurement and ECG on a hardware level should get the feature activated soon. The Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 5 are among the first smartwatches from […]

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Use the Samsung Galaxy Watch while wearing gloves

Unless you live in the southern hemisphere, it’s the middle of the winter. And as long as you are in the northern hemisphere, you’re likely experiencing the cold season with gloves on. Fortunately, modern touchscreens are sensitive enough that you can use them while wearing gloves. You don’t have to abandon your mobile device in […]

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Samsung talks preventative healthcare solutions enabled by the Galaxy Watch

Back in October 2022, Samsung announced the Privileged Health SDK program, which would allow leaders in the medical industry to leverage real-time data from Galaxy smartwatches to design preventative healthcare solutions. This week, in a press release on the Samsung Newsroom, the company has detailed some of those solutions and how data from the Galaxy […]

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Galaxy Watch 4 gets new security update

Samsung has released a new security update to its oldest Wear OS smartwatch series. The Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic have started getting the new update, and it likely brings the December 2023 security update. This is the first software update after the watches received the Wear OS 4-based One UI […]

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Everything about Water Lock on your Samsung Galaxy Watch

The Galaxy Watch is the perfect smartwatch for Samsung phone users, thanks to the synergy between the One UI and One UI Watch interfaces. Most Galaxy phone users have a sense of familiarity when they use a Watch for the first time, but they will also encounter new Watch-specific features they’ve never seen on their […]

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