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Samsung brings features and watch faces from its Wear OS Galaxy Watch 4 to older Tizen watches

While Samsung’s attention has clearly shifted over to Wear OS, the company isn’t abandoning its Tizen wearables. Today, alongside the announcement of its One UI 4/Android 12 update, Samsung is launching an update for Tizen smartwatches to bring over features from the Galaxy Watch 4.

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Samsung expands ECG and blood pressure on Galaxy Watch 3, 4, and Active to Australia

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series handles smartwatch tasks well, but it’s also been strong when it comes to health tracking. For the past couple of years, Samsung has been making ECG and blood pressure checks available to Galaxy Watch owners, and now, that functionality is finally coming to Australia.

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[Update: Watch Active 2] Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Watch update brings Wi-Fi and messaging fixes

Samsung is pretty good about supporting its smartphones, and arguably it’s even better when it comes to smartwatches. This week, Samsung has rolled out an update to both its 2020-released Galaxy Watch 3 and the 2018-released Galaxy Watch with some Wi-Fi and other fixes in tow.

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[Update: Rolling out] Samsung expands Galaxy Watch blood pressure, ECG tracking to 31 new countries

Last year Samsung finally got approval to capture ECG results on two of its smartwatches in select countries, and now that functionality is expanding. Soon, the Galaxy Watch 3 and Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 will be able to take ECG and blood pressure readings in over 30 new countries.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, Active 2 can now take ECG readings from your wrist

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Following the Apple Watch a couple of years ago, the ability to take an ECG reading from a smartwatch has been a sort of “holy grail” for health features. Samsung’s past two smartwatch releases, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Galaxy Watch 3, have had the hardware needed for ECG, and today, they’re finally getting the software to take advantage of it.

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YouTube gets an official app for Galaxy Watch Active2, coming to older models

App availability is a fairly common complaint about Samsung’s wearables, but a couple of big names are debuting with the Galaxy Watch Active2. Alongside an official Twitter app, YouTube is also arriving on the Galaxy Watch Active2, and it’s also going to be coming to other Samsung Tizen smartwatches.


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Samsung confirms Galaxy Watch Active2 and Tab S6, reveals start tomorrow [Video]

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The past couple of weeks have seen quite a few leaks of an upcoming watch and tablet from Samsung which we all assumed would debut alongside the Galaxy Note 10. However, that’s not the case, as Samsung has today officially confirmed that the Galaxy Tab S6 and Galaxy Watch Active2 will be revealed this week, starting with the tablet tomorrow.


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Galaxy Watch Active2 apparently replacing the rotating bezel with a touch sensor

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One of the most attractive parts of Samsung’s smartwatches in recent years was the signature rotating bezel for navigation. However, the Galaxy Watch Active which debuted earlier this year ditched that feature. Now, a new report claims that the Galaxy Watch Active2 might just bring back a rotating bezel… sort of.


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