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Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 now support Peloton fitness app
Samsung Galaxy watches have many features which are very helpful for its users; for a couple of years, the company has introduced several new functionalities in its watches that can be very advantageous for maintaining your health; for instance, you can check out these features like counting steps, it also capable of measuring how many floors you have climbed, it can record sleep cycle and many more. To see all the records, you have to download the Samsung Health app and link it to your smartwatch.
Now Samsung has partnered with Peloton, the popular fitness equipment and content provider. As a result of this collaboration, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch smartwatches will now interact with Peloton’s range of fitness equipment, including treadmills, spin bikes, and multifunction benches.
With the latest announcement from Peloton and Samsung, this trend is only set to continue. Thanks to their partnership, users of Samsung Galaxy Watch4 or Galaxy Watch5 can now download the Peloton app from the Google Play Store and connect their smartwatches to Peloton’s range of gym equipment, including the Peloton Bike, Bike+, Tread, Row, and Guide. This exciting development will appeal to fitness enthusiasts looking for new ways to enhance their workout experience through technology.
What is the Peloton app?
Now Samsung has planned to introduce a new addition to Galaxy smartwatches. The company has partnered with Peloton, and with this, you can experience smart gyming. When you download the Palaton app, your smartwatch will get special access to communicate with Peloton’s Gym equipment like Bike, Tread, Row, and Guide.
How to download Peloton app?
With the Peloton app, you can easily track all your stats and progress if you are using Peloton-supported equipment. If you want to enjoy the app on your Galaxy Watch. You can download the app through the Google Play store. Notably, the app is only supported in that only two latest watches, including Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5. If you have Peloton equipment so you should give it a try; it will surely motivate you to do more exercise.
Note:
- Peloton app requires a subscription sold separately; download app through Google Play to your smartphone and pair with the Galaxy Watch4 or Watch5 series with Peloton equipment by clicking connect when prompted. Available on Wear OS devices. A Wi-Fi connection is required.
- The heart rate software functions are not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease.
- Requires smartphone with Android 8.0 or later, 1.5GB or more RAM and Samsung Health app (free) version 6.22 or later.
Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy Watch 7 is in an actively developing phase and is expected to introduce a new naming system for Galaxy smartwatch processors.
Initially, Samsung switched to WearOS with the Galaxy Watch 4, powered by the Exynos W920 chip. Since then, the giant has also changed the naming scheme for their smartwatch processors. The same chipset, ‘Exynos W920, carried over to the next Galaxy Watch 5 lineup.
The current Galaxy Watch 6 is powered by an upgraded chipset named the Exynos W930, and it is expected that this will carry over to the next-generation Galaxy Watch 7 series as well. Recent reports suggest that an Exynos chip, likely to be named W1000, will power the Galaxy Watch 7. Although this naming scheme could be suitable, the key point is that it would better convince consumers that the new chip is a major upgrade as compared to the previous chip.
Although the model number for this new iteration is yet to come into existence, and usually the simple word is just not a part of the Korean giant, it will be interesting to see what turn this report will take in the future..
On the other hand, previous leaks already revealed the forthcoming Galaxy Watch 7 could offer three variants, including standard, classic, and pro, with hints at monster battery life and more. It is also supposed to be launched at the Galaxy Unpacked event in early July 2024.
Île-de-France Mobilités is in the phase of modernizing transport tickets and is stepping up its efforts to dematerialize them.
This includes new ticket options, pricing, effortless ways to buy tickets online or directly by phone, and updating station equipment to make using these new options smoother. Île-de-France Mobilités dematerialized ticketing solutions are used more and more every month and are now the majority in use.
The aim behind this is just the dematerialization of ticketing and the generalization of this use, which has less environmental impact as compared to magnetic tickets.
Regarding this president of Île-de-France Mobilités and the Île-de-France Region, Valérie Pécresse stated, “The generalization of this service, in partnership with Samsung, is in line with our dematerialization policy initiated in 2016: making the lives of Ile-de-France users simpler, more practical, and more in tune with our times. We will continue to invest and increase our efforts in this direction.”
Back in November 2023, a few testers were able, during a developing phase, to use their Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 lineup as well as newer models to validate their transport tickets. The feedback was positive, highlighting simplicity, fluidity, and the speed of using the service.
Although, since 2019, the Korean giant has been a partner of Île-de-France Mobilités to provide solutions for dematerializing transport tickets to all Ile-de-France residents on their smartphones. Now users can use their Galaxy smartphone for public transport in Île-de-France; this includes validating tickets on a terminal and buying or even reloading them with Samsung Pay.
The two players are going further with this new deployment, which will permit you to buy tickets from a smartphone and validate them just with a flick of the wrist with a connected watch, even in the scenario where it is turned off. This step appears as a move forward to the modernization of Ile-de-France ticketing in a simple way, especially for scenarios when you get late.
Samsung is actively working on expanding its wearable family as it gears up to launch the Galaxy Watch 7 series. Now, the battery for the Pro variant of the Watch 7 series has been spotted on the BIS certification.
The next-generation Galaxy Watch 7 series will be launched at the Galaxy Unpacked event, which is supposed to be held in early July 2024. Samsung could offer three variants of the Galaxy Watch 7 series rumored as standard and classic, and out of those, one could be a ‘Pro’ variant. Reports now indicate that the BIS certification has revealed the battery of the upcoming Galaxy Watch 7 Pro.
By the BIS spotting, it is expected that the Galaxy Watch 7 Pro will feature a 578 mAh battery, which could be advertised as a 600mAh battery. The battery has been spotted with the model number EB-705ABY. The existence spotted on BIS means Samsung is actively working to launch the smartwatch in India.
Another report is reporting that a model number of Samsung’s wearable has been spotted in the Bluetooth SIG database as SM-L305U, which is the Galaxy Watch 7 with a 40mm version and LTE connectivity for the US market. As per the certification, the upcoming Watch 7 will feature Bluetooth 5.3 with LE.
It is expected that Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Watch 7 powered by the Exynos W940 SoC, which will result in 50% more efficiency and 30% faster performance as compared to its predecessor generation at a Galaxy Unpacked event, along with the next-generation foldable devices Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6.
The Galaxy Watch 7 series is expected to run Wear OS 5. It could also feature a new 3nm chip, which is said to offer a 50% increase in power efficiency over the Galaxy Watch 6. This time, the giants could also increase the storage capacity of the Galaxy Watch 7 to 32GB.