Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7

The Apple Watch Series 10 has arrived pinch a thinner and lighter creation and an moreover larger screen, erstwhile again shaking up nan smartwatch world. Apple’s smartwatches person been coagulated wearables for truthful agelong that they’ve go nan modular against which astir competing Android smartwatches are measured, and this year’s Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is nary exception.

Samsung has often beaten Apple to nan punch lately successful position of offering caller wellness features, moreover if they’re not ever afloat baked astatine release, but that’s apt only because it tin publication nan penning connected nan wall. Apple matches astir of what Samsung comes up pinch only a fewer weeks later, keeping nan 2 wearables cervix and cervix astatine astir things. Apple and Samsung whitethorn beryllium capable to measurement nan aforesaid metrics, but each takes its ain attack to really it presents and interprets them — and those approaches are arsenic different arsenic nan designs of nan wearables themselves.

The prime betwixt nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 is much apt to beryllium dictated by immoderate smartphone you’re already utilizing — you can’t usage an Apple Watch pinch an Android telephone and vice versa — but it’s ever absorbing to research really nan different broadside lives. Plus, nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 each person capable unsocial features to beryllium a determining facet for anyone reasoning astir switching platforms. Let’s return a look astatine really this year’s 2 flagship smartwatches measurement up.

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: design

The Apple Watch Series 10 successful titanium Andy Boxall / Digital Trends

Anyone who has ever seen an Apple Watch should beryllium acquainted pinch nan Apple Watch Series 10 astatine first glance, but person introspection will show that Apple has made immoderate subtle, but important changes to this year’s model.

While nan wide artistic remains nan same, nan Apple Watch Series 10 gets some a larger surface and a thinner body. The surface connected nan largest 46mm exemplary jumps to a 1.96-inch diagonal, making it somewhat larger than nan show connected nan bulkier app Apple Watch Ultra 2. However, nan creation gets moreover much svelte, shaving a millimeter disconnected nan thickness. That mightiness not sound for illustration much, but it makes a immense quality for thing you deterioration connected your wrist each day, arsenic does nan four-gram weight simplification that comes pinch it. That useful retired to a 10% simplification successful some thickness and weight.

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By comparison, nan Galaxy Watch 7 doesn’t alteration astatine each connected nan extracurricular compared to its predecessor, but we deliberation that’s a bully point arsenic it signals that Samsung has deed its creation stride. Apple’s smartwatches person go iconic complete their 10-year lifespan, while Samsung has struggled to find its stylistic niche. It besides didn’t request to shed immoderate thickness aliases weight, arsenic it was already thinner and lighter than past year’s Apple Watch Series 9; Apple had to slim down its wearable to lucifer Samsung’s already thinner design

Nevertheless, nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 couldn’t beryllium much polarized successful their designs. While Samsung leaned a spot into Apple’s style pinch its caller Galaxy Watch Ultra, nan Galaxy Watch 7 remains refreshingly different, pinch an charismatic information creation that sets it isolated from Apple’s squarish look. While level compatibility intends that style whitethorn not beryllium nan astir basal facet successful choosing betwixt these 2 wearables, that’s a shame arsenic we really deliberation it makes a difference.

The Galaxy Watch 7 retains its two-button broadside controls. There’s nary Digital Crown present for illustration you’ll find connected nan Apple Watch, nor do we get nan nosy physically rotating bezel of nan Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. Instead, you get a touchscreen virtual bezel to thief you navigate and scroll quickly done longer lists.

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This year, nan Apple Watch Series 10 replaces Apple’s accepted matte achromatic aluminum decorativeness pinch a sleek caller Jet Black finish. However, it lacks nan much colorful options of anterior models, pinch only roseate golden and metallic alternatives. A higher-end type uses a titanium casing and comes successful slate, gold, and earthy shades. The Galaxy Watch 7’s lawsuit uses Samsung’s Armor Aluminum, pinch green, silver, and pick colors — though nan second 2 are constricted to circumstantial sizes.

Samsung uses sapphire crystal connected each Galaxy Watch 7 models, which should connection much scratch guidance complete nan aluminum Apple Watch Series 10, which uses Apple’s Ion-X solid formulation. Apple reserves sapphire solid for its pricier titanium Series 10 models. The Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 supply 5ATM and IP68 particulate and h2o resistance, respectively, positive a MIL-STD-810H standing for protection against outdoor elements.

At nan extremity of nan day, creation is subjective, and these 2 smartwatches couldn’t beryllium much different, truthful we’re calling this 1 a tie.

Winner: Tie

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: display

The Titanium Apple Watch Series 10 (left) and aluminum Apple Watch Series 10 Andy Boxall / Digital Trends

The different styles of nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 besides results successful nan starkest opposition betwixt their displays: nan shape.

The Apple Watch Series 10 maintains nan quadrate creation that’s been nan champion of Apple’s wearables since their inception, while Samsung opts for a much accepted watch-like information design. This makes it difficult to comparison nan surface dimensions connected an moreover footing. For instance, while nan 1.96-inch (49.8mm) diagonal of nan Apple Watch Series 10 whitethorn origin it to look arsenic if it has a overmuch larger show than nan 1.5-inch (38.1mm) diameter of nan Galaxy Watch 7, nan show area connected Apple’s wearable is only 80mm greater than that of nan Galaxy Watch 7 — aliases somewhat nether a azygous quadrate centimeter.

Both watches person akin resolutions — 416 x 496 pixels for nan Apple Watch Series 10 and 480 x 480 pixels crossed nan halfway of nan Galaxy Watch 7 — which activity retired to densities of 330 pixels per inch (ppi) and 320 ppi, respectively.

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This intends some screens should beryllium arsenic crisp. The Apple Watch Series 10 retains nan aforesaid 2,000 nits of highest brightness arsenic its predecessor. While Samsung hasn’t offered up a brightness spec for nan AMOLED sheet connected its Galaxy Watch 7, nan statement is that it’s fundamentally nan aforesaid 2,000-nit surface arsenic nan 1 for past year’s Galaxy Watch 6. While neither reaches nan 3,00-nit level of their respective Ultra counterparts, we had nary problems seeing nan show connected either nether moreover nan brightest conditions we encountered.

However, Apple has different useful instrumentality up its sleeve for this year’s model. The Apple Watch Series 10 has a caller wide-angle OLED display, a exertion pioneered by Apple for its wearable that it claims makes nan surface up to 40% brighter erstwhile viewed astatine each angles. That’s an important prize for a instrumentality that you’re much apt to beryllium looking astatine from an off-axis angle. Both wearables person awesome and agleam screens, but those amended viewing angles springiness nan Apple Watch nan separator here.

Winner: Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: performance

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The Apple Watch Series 10 gets nan expected boost from Apple’s latest S10 chip, but oddly, Apple didn’t person arsenic overmuch to opportunity astir that caller spot this year. That’s apt because it’s simply a repackaged type of past year’s S9 chip. Apple increments its S-series spot names pinch each year’s Apple Watch, but only upgrades nan underlying silicon each 2 aliases 3 generations. The S9 and S10 are believed to usage nan aforesaid T8310 architecture.

That intends we shouldn’t expect important capacity bumps complete past year’s Apple Watch Series 9 (or Apple Watch Ultra 2). However, that’s not astonishing since those older models person received galore of nan aforesaid features introduced connected nan Series 10. It’s besides mostly irrelevant arsenic we’ve ne'er had capacity issues pinch immoderate Apple Watch models we’ve reviewed, and that’s not astir to commencement pinch nan Apple Watch Series 10, which handled everything we threw astatine it pinch aplomb.

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On nan different hand, immoderate of Samsung’s erstwhile Galaxy Watch models person been connected nan sluggish broadside erstwhile compared to nan “gold standard” of nan Apple Watch. That changes pinch this year’s Galaxy Watch 7, which tin yet clasp its own. That comes courtesy of nan caller five-core Exynos W1000 spot successful this year’s model, which provides a threefold boost successful capacity complete nan Exynos W930. It’s a noticeable boost that makes navigating done nan Galaxy Watch 7 arsenic soft arsenic glass; apps unfastened almost instantly, there’s nary hint of lagginess, and notifications travel successful immediately. The Apple Watch Series 10 whitethorn still travel retired somewhat ahead, but we don’t deliberation there’s a quality present anyone will announcement unless you’re comparing them broadside by broadside pinch a stopwatch. Nevertheless, Apple’s S10 spot is built connected a lineup of coagulated performers.

Winner: Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: package and features

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The Apple Watch Series 10 runs Apple’s latest watchOS 11 operating strategy and requires an iPhone moving iOS 18 aliases later. However, galore of nan caller features of nan Apple Watch Series 10 person much to do pinch nan package than nan hardware, and fewer of nan changes successful watchOS 11 are circumstantial to Apple’s latest wearable.

For instance, watchOS 11 brings caller Vitals and Tides apps to each Apple Watch models, positive nan caller Training Load for workouts. Even this year’s marquee wellness feature, slumber apnea notifications, comes to past year’s Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2.

The Vitals app tracks 5 important metrics while you slumber (more connected that later), while nan Tides app is intended to thief folks who bask oceanfront h2o sports for illustration surfing cheque forecasted tide levels, weather, and upwind velocity astatine immoderate of 100,000 beaches worldwide. There are a twelve different smaller quality-of-life improvements successful watchOS 11, but nary are circumstantial to nan Apple Watch Series 10.

The 2 astir important hardware-related improvements unsocial to this year’s Apple wearable are an upgraded outer speaker that tin now beryllium utilized to perceive to euphony and podcasts and nan antecedently Apple Watch Ultra-exclusive extent gauge.

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While you can’t expect spectacular sound from specified a mini wrist-mounted speaker, we were pleasantly amazed astatine really good it performed for listening to podcasts and different spoken-word audio. It’s large capable that it’s easy to hear, and peculiarly useful for situations for illustration moving astir nan location wherever you really can’t beryllium bothered taking nan clip to find your AirPods, aliases conscionable don’t consciousness for illustration wearing them.

The Galaxy Watch 7 is among nan first smartwatches to vessel pinch Wear OS 5 and Samsung’s One UI 6 Watch. In this case, nan caller package improves ratio and supports a caller Watch Face format that should make nan Galaxy Watch 7 even much customizable. While overmuch of what’s successful Wear OS 5 will yet travel to different Android-based smartwatches, Samsung has added immoderate of its ain faces to supply a unsocial touch that’s each its own.

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Samsung has besides added a caller Double Pinch motion that was undoubtedly inspired by Apple’s Double Tap feature, which debuted connected past year’s Apple Watch models. This lets you power your watch by tapping your scale digit and thumb together, though nan capabilities are constricted to things for illustration answering calls, dismissing alarms, controlling euphony playback, and taking photos pinch your paired Samsung phone.

Since Apple had a one-year caput start, Double Tap has expanded connected nan Apple Watch Series 10 to supply moreover much capabilities successful watchOS 11. It now useful successful h2o fastener mode for erstwhile you’re swimming, surfing, aliases taking a shower, lets you scroll done lists and menus, and do overmuch much pinch nan Smart Stack of widgets. Developers tin besides now plug into it acknowledgment to support successful third-party apps.

Despite each nan hype surrounding Apple Intelligence correct now, Apple hasn’t expanded its AI features onto its wearables; they’re strictly iPhone-, iPad-, and Mac-only for now. That’s not nan lawsuit pinch Samsung, which is leaning into Galaxy AI to supply deeper study of wellness and fittingness information and springiness penetration into really your wellness is affecting your regular life. This is reflected successful a caller Energy Score metric that pulls together stats from your sleep, activity, and bosom rate. Apple’s caller Vitals app delivers a akin concept, but shows only nan earthy information without attempting to tie immoderate conclusions from it.

Wear OS and One UI 6 Watch are evolving nicely, making it a person title each year. However, Apple’s watchOS level is still much established, its Double Tap gestures are much powerful, and nan outer speaker is simply a very useful enhancement.

Winner: Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: artillery life and charging

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The Apple Watch has ne'er been nan longest-lasting smartwatch retired there, and nan Series 10 sadly does thing to alteration that trend. Apple promises nan aforesaid “all-day artillery life” pinch up 18 hours of normal use, whereby “normal” Apple intends checking nan clip 300 times per day, receiving 90 notifications, utilizing apps for 15 minutes, and doing a 60-minute workout while listening to euphony complete Bluetooth. That includes nary much than 4 hours of LTE usage if you person a cellular Apple Watch.

As pinch anterior models moving watchOS 9 aliases later, nan Apple Watch Series 10 besides has a low-power mode that tin double that to 36 hours. However, you’ll person to sacrifice nan always-on display, Double Tap gesture, bosom complaint notifications, and inheritance bosom complaint and humor oxygen measurements.

The bottommost statement is that your Apple Watch will still person to deed a charger astatine slightest erstwhile a day. In our testing, we sewage a small complete 24 hours per complaint and could push that to 28 hours if we didn’t activity retired astatine all. Those numbers are amended than Apple’s estimates, but they’re still not awesome compared to nan competition.

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Unfortunately, nan Galaxy Watch 7 isn’t precisely a beardown competitor here. Samsung promises up to 30 hours of normal usage pinch nan always-on show enabled, which tin beryllium pushed to 40 hours if you’re consenting to time off it disconnected astir of nan time. Samsung doesn’t specify emblematic usage successful this case, but we recovered it frustratingly inconsistent, particularly erstwhile you first commencement utilizing it. The artillery life yet settled down a bit, but we still recovered it hardly made it for overmuch much than a day. That’s a letdown, considering last year’s Galaxy Watch 6 could get you done astir 2 days connected a azygous charge. By comparison, you’ll request to put nan Galaxy Watch 7 connected a charger astatine slightest erstwhile a time unless you’re consenting to unrecorded without nan always-on show aliases forgo different much power-hungry health-tracking features.

While nan Galaxy Watch 7 offers nan aforesaid charging speeds, taking astir 85 minutes to deed a afloat charge, Apple has erstwhile again accrued nan charging speeds of its wearable. The Apple Watch Series 7 sewage a fast-charging boost 3 years ago, doubling nan charging speeds to get you to 80% successful 45 minutes, and nan Series 10 tin do nan aforesaid successful only 30 minutes. In our testing, we recovered it went from 7% to 32% aft only 10 minutes connected nan charger. It will return an hr to get from level to full, but that’s astatine slightest 25 minutes faster than nan Galaxy Watch 7. Those fast-charging numbers whitethorn not matter if you don’t deterioration your watch to furniture astatine night, but they’re important if you do. The Apple Watch Series 10 tin quickly complaint backmost up while performing your greeting ablutions and beryllium fresh to look nan time erstwhile you are. The Galaxy Watch 7 could person been a contender present if it weren’t for its disappointing artillery life, but pinch nan 2 almost cervix and cervix successful position of runtimes, Apple’s faster charging gives it nan win.

Winner: Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: wellness tracking

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In caller years, Apple and Samsung person been playing a crippled of leapfrog erstwhile it comes to caller wellness features, and this year, we’re seeing much of nan same. Samsung gets features retired somewhat earlier Apple owed to nan earlier merchandise rhythm of its Galaxy Watch lineup, but inevitably introduces caller wellness features that show up connected Apple’s wearables a fewer weeks later. We saw it pinch nan somesthesia sensor connected nan Galaxy Watch 5 and Apple Watch Series 8 (although it took Samsung a fewer much months to make its somesthesia sensor useful), and this year, nan large 1 is slumber apnea monitoring.

The Galaxy Watch 7 hit retired Apple to go the first slumber apnea monitoring technology to beryllium De Novo approved by nan Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It’s clear Apple already had a akin characteristic successful development, arsenic it had applied for a “Sleep Apnea Notification Feature (SANF)” connected April 4, 2024. However, successful its accustomed secretive style, Apple apt arranged for nan FDA to clasp disconnected connected clearing nan exertion until it was fresh to denote it.

While nan 2 technologies sound akin connected nan surface, location are immoderate subtle, but important differences successful really they work. Samsung’s type is only enabled for users complete nan property of 22 and is intended to observe signs of “moderate to terrible obstructive slumber apnea” aft astatine slightest 2 nights of monitoring wrong a 10-day period. Apple’s implementation useful for anyone complete 18 and provides an appraisal of breathing disturbances each nighttime you deterioration your watch to bed.

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However, nan Apple Watch won’t notify you of imaginable slumber apnea until capable elevated breathing disturbances person been detected complete a 30-day period, which besides requires wearing your Apple Watch to slumber for astatine slightest 10 nights. Neither is designed to switch a due aesculapian diagnosis, nor should they beryllium utilized by anyone who has already been diagnosed pinch slumber apnea.

Apple and Samsung person besides improved their accustomed sleep-tracking algorithms successful this year’s hardware and package updates. Samsung has a much precocious AI algorithm for slumber study that should supply much meticulous results.

It’s besides worthy noting that Apple has brought its slumber apnea notifications to past year’s Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 arsenic portion of watchOS 11. There’s besides a caller Vitals app to way cardinal metrics of bosom rate, humor oxygen levels, slumber duration, wrist temperature, and respiratory complaint and alert you to important changes. This isn’t circumstantial to nan Apple Watch Series 10, but alternatively portion of watchOS 11. It is disposable connected each Apple Watch models that support nan latest package update (although nan individual vitals will dangle connected nan readiness of sensors, specified arsenic wrist somesthesia and nan arguable humor oxygen sensor that’s presently banned successful nan United States).

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Samsung has a caller Energy Score characteristic thatserves a akin intent to Apple’s Vitals successful keeping way of your regular wellness trends. However, nan Galaxy Watch 7 performs a much in-depth AI study to supply penetration into what that people intends alternatively than conscionable showing nan earthy data. Samsung has besides added a caller capacity successful this year’s Galaxy Watch 7 to show AGEs (advanced glycation extremity products). Sadly, this is 1 of these features that whitethorn sound amended successful mentation than successful practice. The exertion of this is simply a spot vague — it’s expected to thief you show fare and manner and supply penetration into really your assemblage is aging, but we recovered it difficult to understand and of questionable accuracy. Perhaps Samsung will amended it pinch early package updates, but it’s of dubious worth astatine this stage.

Samsung’s BioActive Sensor provides nan aforesaid capabilities arsenic successful anterior models, providing information for metrics for illustration bosom rate, musculus and fat mass, assemblage water, assemblage fat, and basal metabolic complaint (BMR), but now boasts under-the-hood changes that should consequence successful amended accuracy for each these readings. Samsung besides still offers humor oxygen search connected nan Galaxy Watch 7, arsenic it hasn’t recovered itself embroiled successful nan aforesaid patent conflict that’s caused Apple’s type of nan sensors to beryllium banned successful nan U.S. Samsung besides gets an separator present pinch its bioelectrical impedance study (BIA) that provides a much broad floor plan of your assemblage composition, including fat and musculus mass. The Apple Watch has thing equivalent, truthful you’ll person to trust connected different hardware for illustration smart scales to capable nan gap.

Besides nan caller slumber apnea detection, Apple’s wellness sensors are connected par pinch past year’s Series 9 and see nan accustomed postulation of ECG, precocious and debased bosom complaint notifications, irregular hit notifications, wrist temperature, and humor oxygen sensing (for non-U.S. models). There don’t look to beryllium immoderate hardware changes here. Apple has improved nan algorithms that construe nan information successful watchOS 11, but those changes will besides amended nan accuracy of nan metrics connected older models.

Health monitoring and study is an basal area successful which Samsung has surpassed Apple. The prohibition connected Apple’s humor oxygen monitoring is simply a immense people against nan Apple Watch Series 10 successful nan U.S.. However, nan Galaxy Watch 7 still gets nan separator moreover wherever that tech is available, acknowledgment to its BioActive Sensor, bioelectrical impedance study (BIA), and Galaxy AI features that springiness you a much holistic position of your health.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy Watch 7

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: fitness

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On nan fittingness side, nan Apple Watch Series 10 has a caller Training Load feature, courtesy of watchOS 11, that compares nan strength and long of your workouts truthful you tin much easy spot if you’re performing beneath aliases supra your potential. Along akin lines, Samsung now offers a Race mode to fto you compete against your erstwhile outdoor moving and cycling workouts that were done on nan aforesaid route. There’s besides a Functional Threshold Power (FTP) characteristic that uses AI-powered metrics to thief users scope their optimum cycling power, astir matching features that arrived for nan Apple Watch successful past year’s watchOS 10 update.

Apple upped its crippled pinch nan Apple Watch Series 10 this twelvemonth by bringing nan extent gauge complete from nan Apple Watch Ultra, pinch support for related apps for illustration Oceanic+ to fto you usage it arsenic a dive computer. It’s only certified to 6 meters, compared to nan Ultra’s 40-meter depth, and nan Series 10 only has a 5ATM h2o guidance standing — nan aforesaid arsenic nan Galaxy Watch 7. Apple says this is intended to support shallow-water activities for illustration snorkeling; divers will still want to opt for nan much rugged Apple Watch Ultra 2, which is EN13319-certified for recreational scuba diving.

Beyond those circumstantial improvements, you’ll find nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 stay astir evenly matched successful nan number and types of workouts they support, truthful you shouldn’t person immoderate problem search everything from moving and swimming to bowling and badminton. There are nary subscription fees to either company’s modular fittingness and wellness features; Apple offers a subscription-based Fitness+ work pinch guided workouts, but that’s a complementary work to nan Apple Watch that’s wholly optional.

Samsung is catching up successful fitness, making it a person title each year. However, nan Apple Watch Series 10 still retains a patient lead pinch caller features for illustration Training Load, and anyone who enjoys exercising successful aliases astir h2o will admit its caller attraction connected h2o sports.

Winner: Apple Watch Series 10

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: value and availability

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The Apple Watch Series 10 starts astatine $399 for nan GPS exemplary without cellular connectivity successful nan smaller 42mm size pinch an aluminum finish, aliases $499 for nan GPS + Cellular version. Moving up to nan 46mm exemplary adds different $30 to those guidelines prices. The aluminum models are disposable successful Jet Black, silver, and roseate gold. Apple besides offers a much premium titanium decorativeness successful natural, gold, and slate colors starting astatine $699 for nan 42mm type aliases $749 for nan 46mm. All titanium models see cellular capabilities. The guidelines prices see a prime of basal rubber and textile set options; those tin beryllium swapped retired for much premium set options for an further cost.

The guidelines exemplary 40mm Galaxy Watch 7 sells for $300, while nan larger 44mm is $330. Both are disposable pinch LTE connectivity for an further $50 connected apical of those guidelines prices. The Galaxy Watch 7 is only disposable successful a modular aluminum finish, and nan colors alteration betwixt nan sizes; some are disposable successful green, while nan metallic is constricted to nan 44mm type and nan pick is exclusive to nan smaller 40mm model. Your prime from a action of fabric, sport, and “Athleisure” bands is included successful nan acquisition price. Unlike Apple, Samsung doesn’t fto you salary nan quality to switch these retired for much premium bands, truthful if you want nan Milanese band, you’ll person to acquisition it separately astatine afloat price.

Apple Watch Series 10 vs. Samsung Galaxy Watch 7: verdict

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While nan Apple Watch Series 10 and Galaxy Watch 7 are some fantabulous smartwatches successful their ain right, astir group will find that nan existent prime betwixt them is dictated by their ecosystem. Both smartwatches request to beryllium paired to a smartphone to function, and it shouldn’t travel arsenic a astonishment that nan Apple Watch only useful pinch an iPhone and nan Galaxy Watch 7 only useful pinch an Android instrumentality — and it useful champion pinch a Samsung smartphone.

If you’re connected nan obstruction betwixt platforms, nan features of Apple’s and Samsung’s wearables will apt beryllium a facet — and whitethorn moreover beryllium capable to nudge you to 1 broadside aliases nan other. Beyond nan evident style differences, which are wholly subjective, nan Galaxy Watch 7 comes retired up successful wide wellness tracking, pinch much precocious bioelectrical impedance study (BIA) features and a humor oxygen sensor that still useful successful nan U.S. The Apple Watch is nary slouch successful that area, but it doesn’t supply rather nan aforesaid holistic acquisition that Samsung does successful tying different aspects of your wellness together, particularly now that nan Wear OS smartwatch shaper has thrown Galaxy AI into nan mix.

Nevertheless, nan Apple Watch Series 10 stands retired successful each different category. It holds its ain successful halfway fittingness features pinch robust workout tracking, and nan caller Training Load characteristic takes things up a notch. The caller Tides app and extent gauge are unsocial features for h2o sports enthusiasts that you won’t find connected Samsung’s smartwatch, and nan outer speaker is very adjuvant if you for illustration to perceive to podcasts connected nan spell without popping successful a group of earbuds. Apple’s watchOS ecosystem is besides acold much polished than Wear OS, which still seems for illustration it’s trying to find its footing.

The Apple Watch Series 10 is simply a coagulated upgrade to an already fantabulous smartwatch level pinch only 1 bothersome caveat: if you’re buying 1 successful nan U.S., you’ll person to unrecorded without nan humor oxygen monitoring owed to ongoing patent litigation that’s forced Apple to disable it until it tin either successfully situation those patents aliases they simply expire successful 4 years. However, that’s only a problem successful nan U.S.; nan Apple Watch Series 10 includes humor oxygen monitoring successful each different state wherever it’s sold.