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One UI 5 Watch officially unveils: Check out new features, Beta and eligible Galaxy watches
The Korean tech giant has announced the introduction of its latest operating system for the Galaxy Watch, known as ‘One UI 5 Watch’, along with its key features. The new system offers enhanced sleep management and fitness features aimed at providing users with a better healthcare experience.
Samsung One UI 5 Watch Beta
Moreover, the system has improved safety features for the users. The beta program for the new operating system will be available for users of the ‘Galaxy Watch 5 Series‘ and ‘Galaxy Watch 4 Series’ through the Samsung Members app in May.
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After the beta program is complete, Samsung Electronics plans to officially install the ‘One UI 5 Watch’ on the new Galaxy Watch, which is scheduled to be unveiled in the latter half of this year.
One UI 5 Watch New Features
Improved sleep management features
Samsung Electronics has highlighted the importance of understanding personal sleep patterns, developing healthy habits, and creating an optimized sleep environment to help users achieve better sleep. To this end, the company has further improved its sleep management function through the ‘One UI 5 Watch’ operating system.
The Galaxy Watch now offers a range of tips for better sleep, which was previously available only on Galaxy smartphones. These tips include suggestions like avoiding caffeine 6 hours before bedtime and getting sunlight in the morning. Moreover, the ‘User Interface’ has been improved for better usability, displaying the user’s sleep score at the top of the screen. This allows users to quickly check their sleep time and quality from the previous night at a glance.
Personalized fitness features
The ‘One UI 5 Watch’ offers a customized workout guide that takes into account the user’s heart rate range. Using the Galaxy Watch, the user can measure their ‘cardipower’, an individual’s cardiovascular fitness level. When the user runs for at least 10 minutes, the system sets their maximum oxygen intake (VO2max) and establishes personalized heart rate intervals for cardio and anaerobic exercises.
Enhanced safety function
The emergency SOS function has also been improved. In an emergency, a feature has been added that will be connected to an emergency number, such as 119, if a user presses the home button on the Galaxy Watch five times in a row and confirms whether to connect to the phone.
In addition, when a rescue request is made to an emergency number, such as 119, a button is provided on the Galaxy Watch screen that provides direct access to the user’s medical information. In order to provide information, the user must register their medical information in advance.
“Samsung Electronics is striving to provide an integrated health experience so that users can achieve their health goals, and we are looking at the start as a good night’s sleep,” said Hon Pak, managing director of the digital health team at Samsung Electronics’ MX division. “We expect to help Galaxy Watch users improve their sleep quality through the new One UI 5 Watch operating system and enjoy a healthy and vibrant daily life.”
Samsung has rolled out the April 2024 security patch update to several units of the Galaxy Tab S9 in many countries, and now the fan edition devices have also started getting the same update and were initially spotted in the US.
Notably, the Galaxy Tab S9 FE is getting updates for both WiFi and 5G variants. More specifically, the 5G variant of the Galaxy Tab S9 FE is receiving the update with the firmware version X518USQS3BXD2. It is spotted on several networks, including Verizon, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, and US Cellular. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi variants of the Galaxy Tab S9 FE and Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ are grabbing the update with the firmware version numbers X510XXS3BXD6 and X518USQS3BXD2, respectively.
The latest update for the Galaxy Tab S9 FE will be the April 2024 security patch, which doesn’t bring any significant changes but will provide some security-related changes that will enhance the overall security mechanism of the devices, so if you are concerned about your device’s security, you should keep your device up-to-date with the latest security patch.
Moreover, the latest update for the device may also bring some more improvements that could enhance the overall performance and stability of the devices. If you faced any issues in the last update, then you should also go for the update; it may fix that issue.
If you are using the Galaxy Tab S9 FE in the US, now you can check the latest update for the device by simply following these steps: Go to the system settings, then select software update. Here, tap on the download and install option and wait until it finishes searching to see if the update is available, then tap on the download button.
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.