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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 […]
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 […]
Our Samsung Galaxy Watch Week series is coming to an end, and we saved a couple of battery life tips for last. Samsung Galaxy Watches already have great battery life — they're superior even to Apple Watches — but your mileage with the Galaxy Watch will vary depending on which features you turn ON or […]
Samsung Galaxy Watches running One UI Watch 5 offer a variety of watch faces and Tiles. Watch faces, as we detailed this week, are the main component of the smartwatch UI, akin to a smartphone's home screen. And watch face complications are similar to home screen app shortcuts. The watch face tells the time and, […]
Samsung Galaxy Watches are more than smart timepieces capable of showing notifications and taking phone calls from your wrist. They're clever health and fitness trackers chock-full of sensors. By default, these sensors activate intermittently, but for a more accurate overview of your health and fitness, you can make the Galaxy Watch track continuously. Here's all […]
Yesterday, for the first entry into the Galaxy Watch Week series, we answered some of the most frequently asked questions about the Samsung smartwatch experience. The next step is to explore the Galaxy Watch software and One UI Watch 5. What's the UI structure like? Is using a smartwatch anything like using a smartphone? Is […]
We created our SamMobile Week series to give new and aspiring Galaxy device users general overviews of Samsung apps and services – to offer potential Galaxy device buyers a window into an experience they have not yet had. And, maybe, even to broaden the existing Samsung customer's knowledge a little bit. This week, we're expanding […]
The Galaxy Watch series offers two safety features that allow users to get in touch with emergency contacts or services. The SOS with Home key feature lets users contact emergency contacts by pressing the Home key three or four times in succession, and the hard fall detection feature does the same when the watch detects […]
One of the best advantages a smartwatch has over a classical watch is that you can wear a smartwatch on either wrist and orientate it with the buttons facing outward or inward. Samsung smartwatches, such as the Galaxy Watch 5, can be used in any of the four possible configurations. If you want to wear […]
One of Samsung's goals with the release of the Galaxy Watch 5 series was to improve battery life. And indeed, thanks to bigger batteries, the 2022 smartwatch series has better autonomy than any other recent models. But did you know? There are ways to manage battery life on Samsung's Galaxy Watch series running Wear OS […]
Google Assistant is finally available for the Galaxy Watch 4 series in several key markets. It's been nearly a year since Samsung released its first Wear OS-powered smartwatch duo last August, and after all this time, customers can finally set up and use Google Assistant from their wrist devices. If you have a Galaxy Watch […]
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 […]
Samsung's smartwatches, such as the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 running Wear OS, can seamlessly sync data with a connected Galaxy phone or tablet. For example, once you set up your Galaxy Watch and connect it to your mobile device, your fitness data will be automatically synced with Samsung Health on your smartphone […]
Samsung created its own unique font, but for whatever reason, it is not the default choice for Galaxy phones and smartwatches. It probably should be since it is pretty awesome, and thankfully, users can enable it easily on mobile phones, tablets, and wrist wearables. Samsung Design says that the font, called SamsungOne, is “designed to […]
Samsung DeX, the feature that lets you use Galaxy tablets and high-end Galaxy smartphones like a computer with a desktop UI, is pretty awesome. It's also quite underrated, and, as a result, it tends to fly under the radar for many people. Even those who do know about Samsung DeX may not be aware of […]