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the last time I looked at a smartwatch it was the $70 cmf watch Pro 2 and it

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did a lot of stuff pretty dang well so

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it makes it hard to justify a $300

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Smartwatch from the likes of Samsung but the cmf watch wasn't perfect there's a

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lot of weird software quirks and I'm expecting that Samsung is going to bring

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a far more luxurious and a bit of extra

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experience to the table that cmf just can't provide and just looking at it

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already from the hardware alone you can tell that this is a more premium product

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I think the band with its nice ribbing for my pleasure is uh pretty cool I also

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like these blue and orange kind of

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accents these little tiny little bits of fabric I like them a lot but before I

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get too entice by this let's see what else is in the Box we got a long Samsung

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box and inside we have a charger uh

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classic Wireless this is my preferred type of charging it's a magnetic cradle

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um you can lay on the watch in any direction and it will charge which is

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nice which means that you don't have to Fumble around to try and get it lined up

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exactly how you want on the other side it is a a bunch of oh that's the look

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ain't that just the it's bound it's a bound book it's the cutest little book

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you could read it to your mice friends other than that that's all you get

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outside of that you get the watch 7 the first thing I noticed about it is it's

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missing a fan favorite feature that would be the rotating bezel that they

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got rid of and then they brought back on the six classic now we have a just a

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normal screen bezel that is touch sensitive so you can still kind of do

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the turn the bezel action you can still scroll like that but it doesn't have the

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same physical satisfaction speaking of physical satisfaction we got nice

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buttons on the side that are very clicky as well as actually capacitive if I'm

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not mistaken they can detect if you're just touching like this on the bottom we

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have Optical sensors for tracking stuff like your blood oxygen and your heart rate we have a infrared thermometer

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right there a pressure vent for when

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you're going swimming and stuff like that and then on the side here we got our little microphone it is Aluminum but

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has a nice premium finish the lugs are 20 mm apart and have a standard Mount so

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you don't have to use some sort of weird proprietary connection system you can

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swap this out with any watch band that you might already own and it's going to

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be really easy to find replacements love to see it and on the front we have our

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display behind sapphire glass and it looks pretty dang nice and I'll give you

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description off camera we went through setup nothing to note pretty smooth

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setup and this is the watch face you start with and um I I don't really like

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it that much it's trying to do like a weird interesting like number thing like

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right now it's 2 p.m. or I guess it's almost 3 but this has a two in the

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background it's just not very readable to me um and I also just am not a huge

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fan of the style luckily a lot of these watch faces are like very customizable

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you can change the background color you can change your hands you can change

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your hand color you can change your complications so if I don't want UV on

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the side I can go through a whole host of different ones that they have I will

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say that it's not as flexible as say

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some of the pixel watch faces where you can literally just put like a link to

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any app on your device here the app has to support the Samsung like home screen

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it's not quite as robust luckily just to

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the side you can put various different widgets from all sorts of different apps

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anything that seems relevant to you as well as you can navigate this quickly by

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using that touch sensitive bezel wow when you're moving through

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these you have these dots at the top that indicate your place in the menus

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and it does not like line up in a simple way with the uh bezel so I find it's a

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little imprecise so it doesn't save me much time compared to just swiping like

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that maybe we can fine-tune it I'm not quite sure they have lots of like tons

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of watch faces as well as you can download any watch face you want from the Google Play store or maybe if they

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would prefer they probably want you to go through the Samsung store but who's

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going to use that this is my preferred watch face I like it cuz it has many

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complications on it I can do the weather I can see the forecast step count

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battery speaking of battery this thing

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uh it's pretty good uh I used it for a

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little bit earlier and it got a day about a day and a half on a full charge

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without me kind of stressing too much about it that's including having like

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Health sensors on 24/7 but the always on display was not always on I always saw

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like a movie and stuff like that and I kept it off I would expect that if

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you're like kind of heavily using it and you want tracking on all the time you

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can expect a full day to a day and an overnight sleep tracking session and

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then you're going to need to get this on the charger which is good for me cuz I like to just keep my charger at work

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though it really would be nice if I didn't have to really stretch it through

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the weekend Samsung has been making uh their watch OS for a long time it's

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tried and true it's familiar you get way

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too many included Samsung apps that you just don't want but you do have access

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to all sorts of apps that you can add yourself um and the nice thing about the

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Samsung watches is that it integrates really well with all of these apps

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basically every app has support for the Samsung watch in some capacity which is

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great because for my main use case for SmartWatches it is the health tracking

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and Samsung does quite a good job their health tracking app is really robust um

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there's tons of stuff in it there's a lot of free uh exercise videos and stuff

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like that if you if that's your speed it honestly does a lot more in a single app

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than anything that Google currently offers I feel like in typical Google

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fashion a lot of their stuff is spread out like between their fit app and then

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there's their Fitbit app and the Fitbit app has been getting a bit better lately

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in terms of kind of bringing all of those tracking features and health

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features into into one single area but

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Samsung feels like they offer a lot more without having to pay a

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subscription uh which I appreciate I also found that heart rate track in

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seems accurate and they actually can measure your body composition with this

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watch which to preface there's not really a good way to measure your body

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composition even the dexa scan which is a current gold standard for measuring

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body composition can be very very inaccurate and varies wildly depending

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on how much water or food you've eaten it's it's hard to do this claims to be

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as good as a dexa scan I don't know if I believe it and I don't really have a

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good way of verifying it but it should be known that this is going to be using bio impedance which is like it'll send a

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small current through the buttons and to the bottom of the watch and it creates a

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circuit and the amount of resistance you get will be roughly what your body

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composition is if that sounds kind of crazy and imprecise that's because it is

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I think it's cool that they offer it because even if something is relatively

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imprecise and is inaccurate you can

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still see a general Trend especially if it's the first thing you do when you

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wake up but take it with a grain of salt I will say that that using the UI is

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really Snappy and really fluid and that's probably thanks to their new exos

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w1000 chipset that they have in here on top of Speedy performance the chip also

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provides you with LTE and GPS so you can

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take this pretty much anywhere in the world including into water because it is

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ip68 water resistant and the casing is rated for up to five atmospheres of

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pressure I also think that the way this thing handles notifications and stuff

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like that is really good it syncs well with the phone at least it's a does a

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great job of syncing well with a Samsung phone Samsung can be a bit annoying when

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it comes to working with devices outside of their ecosystem for example you can't

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use this with an iPhone at all even the

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$70 watch or any Fitbit can be used with

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an iPhone it's dumb it's dumb that they close

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themselves off from that market it really just allows people to kind of funnel into the Apple watch ecosystem

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which is like cool it just seems like a I don't know a bad idea if your Samsung

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to just like let them take it and although it works with any Android phone

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you won't be able to take advantage of the Galaxy AI features on here unless

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you have a new Samsung phone how much are you missing from that tough to say

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depends on how much those AI features matter to you I personally don't care

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but it's just frustrating that they are locking these features and trying to

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pull the same annoying anti-consumer behavior that Apple does when it comes

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to trying to lock you into an ecosystem as opposed to just playing nicely samung

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I just want you to be better than Apple let Apple users use your watch because

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Apple's never going to let us plebians use an Apple Watch right for me the 40mm

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version of this watch is a great size I think it's a great product it feels

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fully fledged I've run into almost no bugs in my time using it it runs super

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smoothly I think the battery life is adequate but it's kind of Overkill at

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its $300 price point for someone like me who is mainly looking for those Health

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tracking features like tracking my heart rate because I have atrial fibrillation

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or tracking my workouts when I'm at the gym especially and and this is a big

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thing is I think for a lot of people you really only need like that $200 $150 fit

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bit to get 90% of what you want they

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don't come with the same premium build and I do I I will say that I think that

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this looks a little bit cooler and a little bit better than say your average

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Fitbit it's a little bit more generic a little bit less sporty so it doesn't look quite like a tracker more like an

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actual watch I think for most people at $300 you should really consider

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something a bit cheaper unless you really want to go full Nomad no phone

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and put a SIM in this thing I love it Samsung knows exactly what they're doing

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when it makes a smartwatch but I wouldn't put my money towards it would

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you let us know in the comments down below thanks for watching ShortCircuit

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if you like this video why don't you check out my last video on the cmf watch

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Pro 2 it's a lot cheaper at $70 and the

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software might be a little bit wonky but it might just be the right fit for you