Customer Ratings & Reviews

So far I love the watch, the screen has great resolution and works with a lot of apps.

I love the look and features amd the compatibility to my phone and other products

the watch itself is pretty good. however the band could be of a higher quality

It’s hard to navigate and the band or straps really hard to open or close.

Battery life isn't good for being new. Other the battery it seems to be a good phone

Battery life isnt that great, my battery on the galaxy watch was better

Stop working;cant get it fixed was told they stop making this model.just sad a

All around good watch it has everything I need so I am happy with it

A good watch. A little hard to get use to after the S3 watch.

The touch sesitivity sucks and so does the speaker.

Nice watch, Use it for steps. Not the easiest to figure out.

Nice color and comfortable wear. The face is nice as well

So far so good! Easy set up. I would recommend for purchase.

After 10 mos it has developed that notorious reboot loop while recharging. It causes the watch to become unchargeable and ultimately becomes a brick. Sending back.

It got stolen the first day i had gotten it. Suxh a waste

This watch has some utility, but still (like nearly all Samdung products (pun is intentional)) severly falls short of expectations for such an outrageous price!!! Samdung is one of the most prestigious brands available, and I wish they would make more effort to improve their products. I always buy the flagship: tv: qn90b; phone: s22 ultra; tablet: s7 plus; --and all of them severely fall below expectations for such a high price!!! BE WARNED-- THIS WATCH DOES NOT EVEN LOAD ALL YOUR EMAILS, ONLY THE 'FOCUSED' IN OUTOOK! ALSO, EACH EMAIL IS TRUNCATED! iT ALSO WON'T LOAD PICTURES. MOST FUNCTIONS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THE WATCH, BUT REQURE ONE TO DO IT ON THEIR PHONE! Please do better Samdung if you are going to charge such a high price!!!

Like. but not what I wanted. I wanted 45mm not 44mm

Good but I miss my 4, The functionality was perfect

It's called the Galaxy Watch5 Pro, but I feel like it's a marketing gimmick to broaden the potential market for it. Using Samsung's own naming conventions, I would call it the Galaxy Watch 5 Plus, or Galaxy Watch5 Ultra if I'm being generous. Battery Its standout feature for the average user is its larger battery, which delivers on battery life. With Always On Display on, Wi-Fi on, Bluetooth on, heart rate measured every 10 minutes, An hour of streaming video played via the Samsung Internet app, Internet browsing, notifications, sleep tracking with snore detection on, using the flashlight a few times, several hours of GPS use (if I had to guess I'd say 3 hours), and 1 hour of working out on the elliptical, I got 2 days and 10 hours of battery life, enough to get 3 nights of sleep tracking because I started wearing it in the evening that I got the watch. So that was night 1. Then I was able to sleep with it for the next 2 nights. The 3rd night was a close call because the watch warned me that my watch won't last the night to sleep track. It was wrong. With normal use: Always On Display off, Wi-Fi on, Bluetooth on, heart rate measured every 10 minutes, no streaming video, light internet browsing (checking up on US Open scores), GPS use (about 3 hours), and 1 hour of working out on the elliptical, I got 2 days and 23 hours. So I would say it's safe to use intensively to still last you the day without the slightest worry of needing a charge. Charging the watch takes a little over one hour using the stock charging puck. However, charging it with the Samsung Duo charger takes about 4 hours. Evidently, the Duo charger doesn't take advantage of the Watch5 Pro's fast charging. My Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's reverse charging also charges at the pace of 4 hours for a full charge. Unfortunately, the Watch5 Pro's included watch band, the sports D-band, doesn't play nice with wide/long chargers because of its no-gap style that won't allow the watch to lay flat near the Watch5 Pro itself. The D-band also doesn't opento expose the bottom of the watch like a traditional band. Think of a Rolex watch band. It only opens via the clasp. You can't really push the band aside to expose the bottom of the watch to charge because the material is too stiff. Style and comfort It looks a lot like the Galaxy Watch5 (and Watch4 for that matter) expect that it's thicker, with a raised capacitive bezel. It kind of reminds me of a wrist compass. I think if you're comfortable with wearing G-Shock watches, the thickness of the Galaxy Watch5 Pro will be no problem for you whatsoever. It looks worse in pictures than it actually is on your wrist, however it's going to look awkward on small wrists. Surprisingly, it doesn't feel as heavy as you'd think it would. Opting for titanium over stainless steel surely helped with that. I added a plastic case over the Watch5 Pro and it still doesn't feel that heavy to me. I had no issues sleeping with it like others have, so your mileage may vary. I found the sports D-band too bulky and restrictive to my liking. It feels comfortable, but I guess the magnet adds weight, and it's very inconvenient to adjust the size on the fly since it's designed to set it up to a fixed size similar to the typical d-band style watch band with metal links. Fortunately, you can replace the watch band with most 20mm watch bands. Durability Unlike the regular Watch5 which has an aluminum body, the Watch5 Pro uses a titanium body so it's more durable. I accidentally brushed my Watch5 Pro against the metal door handle at a Planet Fitness as I was exiting and I panicked. But when I checked my watch, there were no scratches. So it survived that test. Like the regular Watch5, it also uses a sapphire crystal display. After a week's use I haven't found any scratches on it. The raised bezel prevents it from being a point of accidental contact. I have found the display to be kind of a fingerprint magnet though. Software The Watch 5 Pro comes with One UI version 4.5 which is based on WearOS 3.5, the latest iteration of both. Google Assistant comes preinstalled, but Samsung's own Bixby is still available. You can configure the top button's press and hold function to be assigned to either. Google Maps can give you turn-by-turn navigation but only via driving, walking, or cycling. Transit directions are still notably absent and will need to be done from your phone to appear on the Watch5 Pro. Many watchfaces allow the use of "complications" which are like widgets. For example, I use Samsung's My Photo+ watchface where not only do I use my own pictures, but I have the Battery %, Timer, Date and Weather, and Alarm complications set up. If I want to start a timer, I tap on the timer complication on my watchface and set the timer. Then on my watchface I can see the timer counting down in real time. The same goes with my alarm. I can set it up from my watchface then see the countdown from my watchface. It's extremely convenient. Health tracking It has everything the Watch 4 had: ECG, Stress, Body Composition. And it also still doesn't have blood pressure in the US. It can track your heart rate continously, where you can see what your current heart rate is in real time from the watch's heart rate panel, but you can't see the real time measurements graphed in the Samsung Health app. Instead it will show the range of your heart rate over a period of time. There is a temperature sensor on the Watch 5 series, but it hasn't been enabled yet. There is no word or even the slightest hint of when this feature will be enabled. It may be enabled close to the release of the Galaxy Watch 5's successor, the way Google Assistant became available on the Watch 4 short months before the announcement of the Watch 5. "Pro" features So aside from the larger battery, the features Samsung sets aside exclusively for the Watch 5 Pro to label it "Pro" are: -Routes: where you upload a GPX file of your route for turn-by-turn navigation. It explains the easiest way to upload a GPX file, which is to get it from your previous hikes or cycling tracked exercises from the Samsung Health app. So you will have to have gone through the route previously. But there are other ways to get a GPX file. You'll want to research that on your own because I won't have enough space in this review to explain them. -Track back: which is basically an extension of Routes. It's only available on the Hiking and Cycling exercises, and accessible from the exercise's options (gear icon) after you start the exercise. You won't want to start Track back until you reach the point in your route where it's time for you to turn back to your starting point. My issue with this is that it's like the crumbs of Hansel and Gretel, it will give you the same route you took to get there but in reverse. So if you were cycling in one-way traffic, this feature can be useless. And that's it. These are very niche features, and for the more seasoned adventurer, these Pro features may be lacking compared to the competition that were designed for the outdoors with longer battery life than the Watch 5 Pro. There's just way too little from the Watch 5 Pro to differentiate itself to be called a "Pro". Everything I love about the Watch5 Pro is available on the regular version. The biggest distinguisable feature is the longer lasting battery. It all comes down to your use case. If battery life was a problem for you with a smartwatch, the Watch5 Pro is definitely for you, and if you don't mind its thicker look, you'll love it. But for everyone else skip the Watch5 Pro. The Watch6 should have the worthy features to differentiate it from the standard Watch5 because the Watch5 Pro doesn't.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 carries over the simplified yet attractive appearance of the Watch 4 (non-Classic), while making incremental yet valuable improvements where it counts Externally, the lightweight aluminum body features a simple design with a flat, round face, just 2 buttons on the right side, and a common lug design giving you access to a plethora of bands. The included band, made of fluoroelastomer, has a soft touch and is quite comfortable. The 44mm display features the same 450x450 resolution as the Watch 4 and has plenty of brightness, making it easily visible in broad daylight. However, this year the screen is protected by Sapphire glass which should bring a significant improvement in protection. On the back of the watch, the sensor array includes the familiar heart rate, ECG, and blood-oxygen sensors but has been expanded this year to include a new IR temperature sensor. In the future, this new sensor could be used to help with things like sickness tracking. Internally, the watch continues to rely on the same Exynos W920 processor as the Watch 4 as well as carrying over the same 1.5GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The battery, however, has been upgraded to a new, larger 410mAh unit with an advertised 50hr of usage. Charging is also improved with 10W WPC (Wireless Power Consortium) charging that can give you enough juice to get through a work day with only 8 minutes on the magnetic USB-C puck. Software wise, the watch is running Wear OS 3.5 with Samsung's One UI Watch 4.5 sitting on top. The merger of Samsung and Android Wear continues to be a match made in heaven. Gone are the days where, if you paired a Samsung watch with a non-Samsung phone, you were unable to use things like NFC payments. Now, with access to the whole Google Play ecosystem, you have a much broader pool of apps available. Specs and numbers aside, the watch performs beautifully. Setup is easy to step through both with Samsung phones (tested with a Galaxy S21) as well as non-Samsung phones (tested with a Pixel 6). Flipping through tiles is smooth and stutter free. Notifications appear instantly and offer a lot of customizability for what does and doesn’t appear. Battery life has more than easily gotten through a day, which is all I honestly need as I charge every night. Health features like step counting and heart rate are comparable to that of the Fossil Gen 6 I was using beforehand. If I have any complaint here at all, its that the bulge of the sensor array on the back of the watch is…awkward. The phone really ends up sitting high on my wrist and can collect dust and dirt between my arm and the watch when doing things like working outside. At the end of the day, if you’re currently sporting a Watch 4, the incremental improvements to the Watch 5 mean you can probably skip this update. But if you’re looking for your first smartwatch or upgrading something older, you really can’t go wrong with this watch. With almost exclusive (currently) access to Wear OS 3, the larger battery, faster charging, and the stronger Sapphire glass display, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 is not just the best Galaxy Watch to date but probably the best Android Wear OS watch ever.