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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.”
The Korean brand ‘Samsung’ introduces smartwatches along with the software gap between promise and premium! Now, deep down, it is gearing up to expand its smart wearable family by introducing a brand new Galaxy Smartwatch lineup within the next few months.
Galaxy smartwatch enthusiasts, the giants are cooking something new for you all, as Samsung is expected to release a new Galaxy Watch lineup or at least one in the upcoming weeks. However, a premium smartwatch model might not be the answer to each query that’s holding Galaxy Watches back.
It’s possible that a premium smartwatch with a more polished design could be a blessing or a curse for the Korean giants. Samsung Galaxy Watches, such as non-classic ones, can look like playthings, whereas the software also doesn’t give an experience like a high-end One UI, which it should.
One UI Watch performance appears unexciting, and the UI can sometimes falter or even lag extremely, especially after reconnecting to a mobile device. Even after spending a lot, in the end, somehow you realize that almost every UI element and widget often feels and doesn’t look ready to use or release. Most of the things appear to be in the early access phase. In many ways, it’s reminiscent of the old Android phone experience.
Now it is expected that Samsung’s forthcoming premium Galaxy Watch could solve the external design issue and make smartwatches a bit more appealing and less playful. Also, a more premium smartwatch paired with not-so-premium software will likely accentuate the undercooked One UI/Wear OS experience.
Somewhere, premium Samsung Galaxy smartwatches have software issues such as limited applications, watch faces, and a clumsy UI holding back Galaxy watches. A premium design would only be enough until the brand improved the software experience to feel as smooth and integrated as their smartphones.
Apart from this, the Galaxy Watch 7series is next in line, which should debut at the Galaxy Unpacked event in July. It is also expected that Samsung will release a new rectangular-shaped smartwatch by the end of this year.
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 6 series is running on Wear OS 4 onboard; now, to add a major layer of upgrade, the brand is gearing up to deliver a new update in the form of Wear OS 5.
Wear OS 5 for Galaxy Watches is under processing
The Korean giant has already started developing a new firmware version for the Galaxy Watch 6, which appears as R965USQU1BXD8. A tipster has revealed that Samsung is working on a new firmware version for the carrier-locked Galaxy Watch 6 smartwatch for the US market, leading to speculation.
This new firmware version indicates a major One UI version change, and it could be One UI Watch 6 based on Wear OS 5. On the other hand, Google has already revealed via @MatthewReiter05 that it will disclose Wear OS 5 and its features at the forthcoming Google I/O 2024 event on May 14, 2024.
A couple of months after the announcement, Wear OS 5 will probably be available in stable form, and Samsung could soon release a stable One UI Watch 6 based on that platform. However, it’s yet to be clear what new features and UI design improvements Google plans to bring with the Wear OS 5 update. It is expected to improve integration with Android-based smartphones, tablets, and TVs.
With the revelation of the financial revenue statistics in Q1 2024, Samsung has confirmed that the brand is going to up its ante again by significantly improving the wearables sales, unveiling new devices along with certain prominent aspects like the Galaxy Ring, while also officially claiming to launch some more advanced premium Galaxy Watch lineups.
Samsung wishes to offer a more advanced yet premium experience to its Galaxy Watch users:
With the latest announcement, Samsung significantly aims to offer a highly interactive yet advanced wearable experience to its users and plans on powering the Galaxy smartwatch ecosystem by introducing the most significant Galaxy watch models that should include certain essential aspects, like the Galaxy Ring.
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Moreover, the Galaxy Watch 7 Ultra variant could feature the next Galaxy smartwatch lineup, the Galaxy Watch 7, which might sport a square-shaped display screen rather than a circular display. Meanwhile, reports further revealed that the upcoming Galaxy Watch 7 might have 32GB of internal storage; the smartwatch could be powered by a 3nm Exynos chip; a square-shaped screen; an elegant look; and a premium finish would rather give a serious rivalry to the Apple Watch Ultra 2.
Samsung clearly stated that the brand is significantly focused on spreading a more advanced Galaxy smartwatch ecosystem for its Galaxy watch users by introducing a premium Galaxy Watch lineup that could feature some impressive features and aspects that would significantly offer a better yet premium experience to the users.