Galaxy Watch
Here’s One UI Watch 5 features that will come to your Samsung Galaxy Watches
Samsung’s One UI Watch serves as the user interface for their smartwatches, operating on the WearOS platform. Exciting news has emerged as Samsung has officially unveiled the forthcoming iteration of One UI Watch, known as One UI Watch 5. The upcoming One UI Watch 5 will be built upon the foundations of WearOS 4. The company plans to initiate a Beta program in May to facilitate testing and gather feedback. With this new user interface, your Galaxy Watch is set to gain a host of intriguing features and capabilities.
One UI Watch 5 Features
Notably, the WearOS 4-based One UI Watch 5 will only be launched for the Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 5, and the upcoming Watch 6 series members. Out of these, the Galaxy Watch 4 & 5 series will get its Beta update right after the UI’s arrival, and the Watch 6 series will come with it out of the box. Reportedly, the stable One UI Watch 5 will arrive later this year. It is said the UI will focus on three things – sleep, safety, and smarter fitness tools.
Strong focus on fitness
As being used in a wearable, One UI Watch 5 must have some reliable and amazing fitness-related tools and features in it. And there is no doubt that the Galaxy Watches lineup owns a great number of fitness features. With the new UI as well, the Galaxy Watches will get some improvements in its fitness-freak abilities. The first noticeable improvement will be Heart Rate Zone Mode. With this mode, one can view more data from, for example, interval training.
The new UI will also have some different levels that you can choose for training. Finally, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro devices will be able to lock GPX routes via the Samsung Health application.
Better insights for Sleeping Behavior
Sleep is a crucial action for living beings. However, some actions many times ruin our sleep cycle, which is incredibly harmful to one’s health. With this new software, you can check how you slept. The good thing is the new UI will also determine when the wearer is on REM sleep. It will also let you view data regarding your snoring or blood oxygen level at night. The most appreciable ability of One UI Watch 5 will be the sleep coach that can be easily and quickly activated from your Galaxy Watch.
Safety is the most important element
Now safety and security are things nobody can compromise with. The main and final pillar of the upcoming One UI Watch 5 will be security. Let us tell you, the new Galaxy Watch UI will let the wearer quickly share their location or forward their medical status with the emergency contacts. Not only that, but it also activates the fall detection mode in case the wearer is 55 years or older.
These are some novelties, or we can say abilities, that we can expect from the upcoming One UI Watch 5 software. It will be interesting to see how this new UI will work with the well-admired Galaxy Watch members.
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.