Samsung Made A Better Watch Than Google! - Watch4 Classic
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,504 words · ~12 min read
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- (sighs) Smartwatches. Apple's the only one that makes a good one.
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Wear OS? Pfft, pfft.
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Not anymore. Apparently.
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I guess we're gonna find out. What kind of watch is this?
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This is the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic.
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It's a watch from Samsung with an OS made by Google.
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The first Wear OS watch that's not useless to come out in however many years.
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It's not even made by Google, but hopefully it's good.
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I guess we're gonna find out. I am an avid Samsung watch guy, but this is not Wear OS,
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this is using Tizen. This is the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2,
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which is a whole other topic of discussion. The whole naming scheme, it's quite a mess.
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But I currently do use a Samsung watch,
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so this is interesting to me. So I guess let's unbox it.
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There's not a lot to unbox, I don't think. I imagine I'm gonna open this and I might see a watch.
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Whoa, look, a watch! (laughs) - No way! - Oh, there's some other stuff, hold on.
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I think it's literally just a couple pieces of paper. So this device in particular is the Galaxy Watch4 Classic.
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We also have over here, the Galaxy Watch4. (laughs)
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Interestingly enough, they have changed up the naming schemes here.
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On the last generation, the Active watch was the one that got a sort of suffix.
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This one is the Active2, part of the Watch3 series.
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This generation they've changed that, sort of reversed it. The Active looking and feeling version is the Watch4,
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and then the Classic one with the physical dial
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is now the one that has a suffix, and this is called the Galaxy Watch4 Classic.
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Oh man, this black background is not ideal. I think what we're gonna do,
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as much as you should definitely check out lttstore.com and get yourself a mouse pad...
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Oh, oh, it's so much better, Andy. (laughs)
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You can actually see what we're looking at. Oh geez.
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So in the box, usually you would get a little cable like this.
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It's just your standard charging cable, plugs into... Interestingly enough, it's still Type A USB.
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Samsung hasn't jumped off that bridge yet, I guess.
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So it's just a little magnetic guy, clips on like that.
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It feels pretty similar to the previous generation in terms of magnet-ness.
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So in order, we got the previous generation Active2, have the Galaxy Watch4, and the Galaxy Watch4 Classic.
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In terms of the outside aesthetic, we've definitely seen a few updates.
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They have sort of smoothed out the side over the previous generation.
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They've also switched from a circular button to a square on both of them for this side.
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And the profile of the watch, while it looks to be pretty well the same depth overall,
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maybe a tiny bit smaller, they have smoothed out the back.
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You see that, Andy? On the old watch, there was sort of a bump.
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On this one, it's nice and smooth. After wearing it for a couple of days,
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I can definitely say that this watch feels more natural.
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It's smoother. And as somebody that doesn't personally like wearing a watch, I've never really liked it.
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I was able to get used to this, but I almost don't even notice this watch on me.
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There is a lot of versions here, so I'm gonna have to read this off of the paper.
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For the Watch4 there's two versions, a 40 mil or a 44 mil,
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depending on how big your wrists, I think we have the 44. And then for the Watch4 Classic, there's a 42 and 46 mil.
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This is the 46. This is as by the name suggests,
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a classier watch.
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That was a bad joke. All right. As for the rest of the outside,
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they do have a couple new colors, which is cool. The bands feel very similar to before.
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It's kind of like a fancy plastic. I think you can definitely get some other bands. Probably.
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Yeah, looks like the exact same mechanism. So there's just a little pin,
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you pull that down and pop it in place like that.
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Oh wait, oh wow. This one slides entirely. Oh, that is different, actually.
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What the hell? All right, I lied. It's a little different.
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Let's pop this guy on. Seems like the band sizing is the same.
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Man, this is an exceptionally comfortable watch.
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I am a huge fan of this new generation. Will definitely probably be buying one.
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But let's try the Classic. I've never really been a fan of these watches 'cause they are a little kludgier.
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- What the... - What? - What? - Kludgier?
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- Yeah, you don't think it's kludgy? That's bigger. - [Jono] Oh no, I'm just like, is that a real word?
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- Kludgy? Yeah.
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Oh, this feels so nice.
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- [Jono] ASMR. - All right, I'm gonna start off with the Classic.
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Let's try this out. It's not turning on, so I guess I'll have to tell you
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Oh yeah, cool. Samsung. So it doesn't say Google, which is interesting.
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It did not make my notification... Oh, wow, look at that. You see that?
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"A new device has been detected." I didn't even open the Wearable app yet, so that's cool.
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Editor, why don't you put a time counter to see how long this takes to set this up?
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"For your review, sending of diagnostic data." Yes, take all my anonymized data
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that's really not that anonymous. (bright music)
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Cool. "Getting Google account info. This might take a few minutes."
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Well, it's definitely Google.
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I just wanna spin this dial more. (groans) Oh my God.
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Okay, I think we're connected. We got 44% battery. Take a tour. Start.
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Whoa. Swipe down, swipe up.
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Hey, did you know if you swipe one way, the screen will move that way?
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Who would have thought? So right off the bat,
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I'm gonna say the responsiveness is definitely better.
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You almost don't even notice when it hitches a little bit.
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So we got some new stuff here. There's a body composition,
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I think it's called a BIA sensor, which can measure your body fat index or whatever,
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body mass index. They got some supposedly new sleep stuff.
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Got your calendar there, an ECG which we can't use in Canada
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'cause it's not approved by Health Canada. If I go, "Learn more," it's gonna say,
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"You can't do this in your region." Heart rate. Let's measure our heart rate.
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What are the odds this one works?
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Oh, it's working. Nice, K, cool. My resting heart rate is 79 right now.
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A little bit higher than resting average. Probably 'cause I'm on camera.
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Oh, we can measure my stress. How does that work?
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- [Jono] It knows your heart rate. - [Andy] Are you stressed? - Yeah, but it doesn't have any historical data.
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- [Jono] Your car's being towed. - No! My car's not even here.
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"Breathe." Wait, so I guess I'm not stressed?
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"Breathe." Six cycles. Nope, not doing that. (laughs)
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Oh, Linus will love this. The badminton tracker actually works on the watch now.
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Previously, I could only ever find it on my phone and it wouldn't sync to the watch.
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But now, badminton right there. What else we got here? We've got apps.
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Whoa, this interface is definitely better than the Apple Watch.
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I can't stand the, like, globe.
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Can we just show that? How do I even open it on this? There we go.
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I have always hated this. Apple, this is not...
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I mean, it's not bad, but it's... Okay, it is bad.
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This is not intuitive until you remember the location of all, like, 150 icons here.
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- [Andy] That's why I will never use that. - But this, it's one axis of play.
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I only have one axis I can mess around with.
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It's almost kind of like pages on your smartphone. Oh, here. I'll show you guys what the ring looks like.
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You see, if we twist here, it goes to the right. It's just a way to navigate your watch, basically.
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Go to the bottom. Look at that.
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- [Jono] Andy has like the biggest tan line I've ever seen. - A watch tan line?
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Wow, can you show that on camera? Holy crap. Oh my God, that's horrible.
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- Hey, I have an Apple Watch. - Ugh! Wait, turn your ARM.
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Oh! - Don't tell my wife. - That's a bad watch tan.
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Oh, it's doing... Oh, Bixby. No!
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That's not what I wanted. Can you use Google Assistant on this?
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I really hope you can use Google Assistant on this. "Samsung has said that the AI assistant
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will arrive at a later date, but did not specify when." Okay, cool, so there is hope for this
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running not a (beep) virtual assistant, but we can at least use Bixby.
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Hey, Bixby. Why do you suck so bad?
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- [Bixby] Hmm, I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm always getting better!
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(tragic music) (man laughing)
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- No, you're not. The only thing worse than Bixby is Siri.
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You know, for a really small interface, this Google Play Store on Wear OS is,
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it's pretty functional. Are these games? Oh my God.
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I can play 2048. Why?
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What, like, can you play COD Mobile on a watch? (laughs)
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Hey, look. Look at my little catto. He's so cute.
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Oh. Oh, that's cool. If I have my phone playing audio,
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like say if I had this plugged into some speakers,
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I can use this to adjust the volume. That's cool.
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Oh! (bright music)
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It's got a little dial up number thing.
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Okay, it's there. Jono Tan, there we go. We're calling. Hi.
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- [Jono] Hello, hey. - [Jake] Can you hear me? - [Jono] Yeah, I can hear you.
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- It's kind of quiet, honestly. Hey, I'm talking about stuff and things.
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How do I sound? I sound good? - [Jono] Yeah, it sounds fine.
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It's not like as good as a phone. But how about me? I'll just, I'll count.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
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7, 8, 9. - It sounds not bad.
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Oh, there we go. Oh, there. I turned the volume up. Okay, let me just try switching it to my phone
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really quick before you hang up. Switch to phone.
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Hi. - [Jono] Hey. - That was really seamless. Let's try switching back.
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Hello. - [Jono] Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the same.
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- Wow, all right. I hung up on him, I didn't even say bye.
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I'm just a bad guy. So clearly this watch can do a lot of things.
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We can make phone calls, we can control the music on our phone.
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It seems to serve a lot of purposes. For me, my watch is mostly there
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just as a way to check notifications without having to take my phone out of my pocket.
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I even sort of like filter them just so I only get priority notifications on the watch,
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which is nice. I definitely wanna change this watch face because it is so ugly.
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Oh, they're all ugly. I don't know. You know what? I'm gonna be a bear.
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I'm a bear now. Oh, look. Oh, he's got a friend.
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That's cute. Can I customize him? Who is this bear?
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We're watching a movie.
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You see that? Bear and dude are watching a movie.
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Ooh, here's a thing to note. This watch, a lot better
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at the raising your ARM awareness if you're not using always on display.
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I have a lot of problems with my Galaxy Watch Active2
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with not registering. It seems like they have tuned this watch
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to be a lot more aggro about it. But if you even just barely lift your ARM up,
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like if I just go...
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Let me put it on my ARM, we've got to get a side-by-side here. All right, we got both watches.
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Oh. Oh, there we go.
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Got one without it that time. In terms of daily driving them, with this specific watch,
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I don't think there was a single instance of me being like, "Come on, activate!"
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Whereas I get that daily with my previous gen Active2.
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The new versions are using an OLED screen like the previous generation. But this time around,
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they have Corning Gorilla Glass DX+, which is the same sort of glass
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that they use on a lot of their camera lenses. So that's interesting.
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You got a little bit higher display resolution. So it's 450 on the large and 396 by 396
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on the smaller version. They also have more storage. You're going from 4 gigabytes on the Active2
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to 16 on these newer models. They have the same amount of RAM, I think.
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All the new ones are 1 1/2 gigs of RAM. And then the battery is also technically a little bit bigger
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than the Active2. This is 340 and the new ones are 361,
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at least for the larger size, and 247 on the smaller size.
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So overall, I'm pretty impressed. The look and feel of these new devices,
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I'm gonna say that the previous device was pretty good, but they have definitely improved on the comfort factor,
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they've definitely improved on the looks factor. It seems like they've improved on the usability factor,
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which is impressive given that they've completely switched to a new operating system.
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I'm excited to see improvements in the space, and I think I'm gonna pick one of these up.
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If you think this watch is just as cool as I do, because, mm, pretty cool,
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you can look at the link in the description where you can actually buy one. And then on top of that,
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you should get subscribed while you're down there, like the video, and why not check out
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another one of our ShortCircuit unboxings and overviews, like on the Linus did on the TicWatch.
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That was a pretty cool watch. Goodbye.
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(bright music)