So the new Galaxy Watch Ultra and the Galaxy Watch 7 have been making some pretty big waves in the smartwatch space, but many are wondering if they're actually a better choice or if last year's Galaxy Watch 6 or Galaxy Watch 6

Classic are still good options. Furthermore, despite many major upgrades, there's one massive downgrade that Samsung forgot to mention, and for some people, that will make the previous generation a superior buy. That plus the physical rotating bezel and some other features to talk about throughout this

video. So this is going to be a comprehensive comparison between the latest of the Galaxy Watch lineup. Starting off, I want to kind of introduce each watch, talk about the price, a couple key features of the design, and then later in the video, of course, we'll get

into a speed test, an accuracy test for the heart rate, the GPS, and a bunch of other tests to really figure out which is the best Galaxy Watch to buy. So we have four Galaxy Watches on the table right now. The first one, of course, is the Galaxy Watch Ultra. This is $649, so by

far the most expensive one I have on the table, but you are getting a more premium watch with this. A titanium build gives you a nice combination of light and durable. You have an extra button on the side that you can map to, you know, start workouts and timers and basic stuff like

that. There's not a ton you can map that to just yet, but I imagine with some updates in the future, that can be more useful. Already as it is, having a third button is pretty nice, and on the back, we have a new bioactive sensor with 2-in-1

half times as many LEDs as before, so we'll see how that actually affects the accuracy. But speaking of accuracy, something that I know for a fact will definitely improve the accuracy is the Dual Band GPS. So this and the Watch 7 should have better GPS tracking in

mountainous areas, in cities, in any place that is a little more difficult to see the sky. There's also some new features and software on here as well as a newer, faster chip and a better water resistance rating, looking at 10 atmospheres on this while everything

else in the table is only rated for five atmospheres. So that's the Galaxy Watch Ultra. A lot to like about that watch, but essentially the same watch but for basically half the price, if not less than half the price, the Galaxy Watch 7

here comes in two different sizes and it ranges from $299 up to $379. It's not made with titanium, instead it is their armor aluminum build, as you can see, a very minimal looking watch, two buttons on the right side, very familiar. We've seen this for quite a few

generations from Samsung and like I said besides missing the third button and a couple other features on the inside, this is basically the same watch as the Ultra just with a slightly smaller battery. By that I mean we have the same new bioactive sensor, same dual-band GPS, all

like many of the same features, the same improved chip, the same improved storage across the board. This is a killer watch and at like I said less than half the price of the Galaxy Watch Ultra. Going down to last generation, we have two watches like I said, the Galaxy Watch 6

classic I mean this one is if you know you know this is a great watch this is ranging from $329 to $399 so by no means a cheap watch compared to the Galaxy Watch Ultra maybe it is but this has some really big standout features the stainless steel

design of course gives it a nice premium feel and build to it obviously it's a harder metal as well so it's going to be more scratch resistant a little bit heavier and like I said that kind of gives it a nice premium feel and the

biggest one by far is that physical rotating bezel I don't know if you can hear that but it's just so satisfying to use this watch so all of these are running One UI which is based on Wear OS and I think the biggest thing with that UI is that it's really oriented around some type of rotation so this having a physical rotating bezel just makes it feel so much easier to use much more like less intrusive you're not spinning your finger around or swiping a lot as you would be with the other three

watches here while yes they do have a digital rotating bezel your finger still covers the screen whereas this you can grab from the outside and just rotate with two fingers it's just in my opinion a huge win there then going down to the fourth and final watch in this

comparison the Galaxy Watch 6 this one is basically the same as the Galaxy Watch 7 in terms of its build meaning it's aluminum same display same battery just one generation older which means we don't have dual-band GPS we don't have the new BioActive sensor and we have an

older chip and some and like less memory but otherwise very very familiar build very familiar watch in many regards but significantly cheaper starting at $299 for last year's Flagship watch I think that's pretty cheap and going up to $289 if you're maxing it out with the

LTE version and the larger version as well and as a note there are two other watch options you might be commenting right now that I'm not covering in this video the very new Galaxy Watch FE which is $199 essentially just N9 $10 cheaper than the Galaxy Watch 6 but with a

smaller display less RAM smaller battery older specs like it's kind of like the Galaxy Watch 5 or even the four so I don't I don't know for me I would just say get just get the Galaxy Watch 6 I would skip the FE and the second one

that I'm skipping in this video is the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro unfortunately it only has two more years of support it's still selling for $299 it has a smaller display than all of these on this table and really the only benefits I see there are that you

have a titanium build which is very durable and at a fairly affordable price there and you have a longer battery life I think it's a good option for some people but the Watch Ultra is clearly superior and that's why I think I just didn't want to include that in this

video so getting into some fundamental differences between these of course the Watch Ultra the big thing there is going to be the battery life you're looking at 590 milliamp hours compared to 425 on all the other watches I have on this table which by the way the other three

The Watch Series 7 and 6 Classic are all the larger variants of the two. They all have a smaller version as well, with, of course, a smaller battery. But like I said, the Watch Ultra has a longer battery life, claiming 100 hours when

you're in power saving mode. I don't personally like going in power saving mode all that often. You get a nice watch like this, I want to have always on display and stuff like that, and that kicks you down to probably about a 48

hour battery, something like that. Whereas all the others in this table are going to be like a 20-ish hour battery life. It'll get you through a day but not to the extent that like a OnePlus watch or Huawei or Xiaomi, like those watches

sometimes last a bit longer. As far as sizes and configurations go, you wouldn't expect this, but the Ultra has the fewest configurations out of all of these. It only comes in one configuration, it's always an LTE enabled version, which is nice, and it's always 47 mm. So if you

have a smaller wrist, this is not going to be your watch. It does come in three different colors though, and on the back we have a new, uh, what they're calling Dynamic lug, a different way to set up your watch strap. So you push a button and the entire strap comes off, whereas

the older ones have that classic 20 or 22 mm two pin setup, uh, so you just kind of pull a little pin. It's a very common watch strap. The Ultra, I find it's easy to get them off, it's not my favorite, it's not my favorite way to put it back.

on I was worried that there wouldn't be a lot of third-party support at launch. There actually was a decent amount on Amazon that I saw for like $5 to $20. You can get a lot of different watch straps, but you can't reuse your old ones from

the Watch 6, 5, 4, all the way back. Like I don't know, I'm not really happy that Samsung swapped out the Watch Ultra strap going to the Watch 7. Like I said, very common strap size here, like tons of options. It also comes in two different

variants, so 40 or 44 mm and within each of those, LTE or non-LTE, and there are three different colors available. The Watch 6 is the same as the Watch 7 where you have two sizes, same two sizes, LTE, non-LTE, and it also comes in three

different colors. And then the Watch 6 Classic is a little bit larger than the 6 and the 7, coming at 43 or 47 mm. So again, I think this is probably more ideal for a lot of wrist sizes. I think 47 just feels like the right size on my

wrist. 43 works pretty well on smaller wrists as well. And this also comes in LTE or non-LTE with two different colors available. Now we'll get to the downgrades of the newer watches in just a second. I think those are pretty significant for a lot of people

but first, let's kind of focus a little bit more on the upgrades, specifically the accuracy for the fitness tracking. So let's get into a test of the heart rate and the GPS accuracy. So taking a look at the heart rate accuracy, we have three lines here. The black line is the Polar

h10 known accurate heart rate strap. You can see in the beginning the red line, which is the Watch 6, started off a little bit lower and then up here it overshot the peak. In general, looking at this entire graph, you can tell for sure they're both accurate in the middle, but

during those intervals, the Watch 6 was significantly less accurate than the Galaxy Watch 7. For example, on this first peak, you can see the Watch 7 is almost exactly on par with the with the Polar h10 whereas the Watch 6 was

significantly lower. They both caught the bottom very well, but those highest parts of the peaks, if you're doing intervals training stuff like that, uh, it just completely misses it with the Galaxy Watch 6. You'll notice that there was, however, a break in the blue line on the

third peak. There were a couple of gaps in the data, but for some reason, I noticed the Watch 7 occasionally does miss some data now. Looking at the GPS, we have four lines here. The fourth one is the Garmin Epix Pro Gen 2, a very accurate GPS, uh,

the black line here is tracked with a Galaxy S24 Ultra and you can see honestly these all did a really good job. This was not a particularly difficult environment. It was an open trail, not a lot of buildings around, not a lot of mountains around, but you'll see looking

at this little turn right here, this is the first point of difficulty, and I would say out of all of them, uh, the the Galaxy Watch 6 probably caught that or cut the corner a little bit more than the other ones, but like I said, generally

You know, very strong performance here again on the second one. It kind of took a wider turn than the other ones, so maybe that balanced out in the end. They all did have, or both watches did have the same distance, so I can't say one was significantly more or less accurate. You

can see a little bit more wandering here on the red line throughout the entire trail. It wasn't tightly grouped with the other two, and then for the back half of this run, I'm actually just going to disable the S24 Ultra. I don't think that's the best reference here, and it

does wander a little bit, but looking at the other three, uh, again they kind of are grouped fairly similarly. I didn't see anything that was a major deviation here. There was a slight deviation for some reason for the Watch 7, but I'm really not sure exactly why that

happened right there. You can see these little squiggly portions were where I was walking. The straight portions was where I was doing more of a sprint. Uh, I walked around a little gate right here, so those all caught that actually quite well, and then up here again it actually

tracked like very well. I can't really complain about the GPS on either of these devices. However, if you're in a place with, you know, tall buildings or mountains around you, I would expect the Watch 7 to pull ahead in that environment. Next, I mentioned there is a

newer chip on here. A lot of times that's like a kind of handwavy thing to talk about, like, oh, it's a faster chip, you'll notice, and a lot of people might not notice. So I think the best way to do this here is just a general kind of UI

comparison here opening different apps but in essence we have a newer faster chip on the Watch 7 and the Watch Ultra it's the Exynos W1000 which is a 5 core 3 nanometer chip compared to last year the six and the 6 Classic both have the Exynos

W930 which is a dual core so instead of five it's only two cores and it's a 5 nanometer instead of 3 nanometer smaller is going to be better so the newer one should be a lot faster and a bit more efficient as well uh and as you can see

I mean just opening apps and stuff it does seem to be doing a bit better they all have 2 GB of RAM seems to be sufficient for pretty much everything I'm doing but we have a major storage upgrade on all of the newer watches regardless of the size like the 7 the 40

44 millimeter doesn't matter and the Ultra they all have 32 GB of storage whereas all the old ones had 16 GB of storage so for some people that's completely meaningless for me I download a ton of music from Spotify I like to have a lot

on my watch a lot of apps and everything and having extra storage can go a long way the difference between downloading like just one playlist at a time for running and downloading my entire library that I can listen to anytime I do anything so I think that's kind of

significant but again not everyone's going to care about that not everyone runs without their phone and just connects earbuds to their watch I do I like that but speaking of Bluetooth earbuds the Bluetooth is also upgraded on the newer watches kind of subtle

Bluetooth 5.3 versus 5.2, not a huge difference there, but again a little bit more future-proof now. Getting into the negatives, this is a big one. I think a lot of people deciding between these watches normally, like without this, you

would just say get the Watch 7, get the Ultra, it's going to make sense. But the Watch Ultra and the Watch 7 have this really weird, I don't know what Samsung was doing. I don't know if it's a hardware difference or if they just kind of

messed up the software, and I didn't tear these watches down. I don't know if the coils are there, but they do not have Qi wireless charging, which means you cannot charge it on the back of a Samsung phone. Such a core feature in the ecosystem

that Samsung users love, like I charge my earbuds on the back when I'm traveling. I don't want to bring a watch charger. I charge my watch on the back of my phone, but you now cannot do that with the Watch Ultra or the Watch 7. Now I think

just it's very kind of mind-boggling to me, and like I said, I don't know if the hardware is there, and maybe there's going to be a firmware update where they do enable that in the future. But it seems as of right now, you just you can't

do that, and I don't know why Samsung made that change. So that's going to be a pretty big drawback for a lot of people that may push you to say, hey, you know what, maybe the Watch 6 Classic is actually the watch for you. Also the

watch Ultra, as I mentioned earlier, has those different lugs, so you're going to not be able to use your older watch straps in addition to any newer ones. You kind of have a more limited selection on which ones you can get. There are some cool metal ones, and Samsung came out

with three of their own, but again, having to buy all new watch straps if you get the Ultra is a little bit of a burden in my opinion. All right, let's get into to uh the category that I'm not a huge fan of. I kind of hate when watches do this

and all brands do this. Apple does it too. Everyone does this. They come out with new watches with new software features that could very easily be rolled out to the previous generation, but they're not. Uh, some of these I think will roll out, but at least right now talking about

what the newest features are that we're seeing really with the Watch 7 and the Watch Ultra, we have an energy score on there, which is kind of equivalent to Garmin's body battery, just a holistic view of your entire health, like, hey, you slept well, you worked out two days

ago, you took a rest day. You have a high energy score today. You can probably push yourself and do a longer run than you are currently planning on doing, or the opposite. Hey, you didn't sleep well, maybe you're coming down with a cold. Take it a

little bit easier on your workout today. Your energy score is lower. Try to recover, and you'll feel better tomorrow. Also, we have AI smart replies. This is a big one in my opinion, where it's context-aware based on your conversation in in uh text messages, for example, if you

instead of just like yes maybe no whatever uh you can actually have some more context where replies based on the Galaxy AI there we also have Wellness tips we have some more advanced sleep coaching on here sleep apnea detection as well and specifically on the Galaxy

Watch Ultra we have some cool new fitness modes that you don't see on the other ones one is race mode so you can go and and do like a like the same route over and over again and you can race yourself see how your pace compares at

different times a little bit like Strava segments but only for yourself so kind of a cool feature if you find yourself running on the same route very frequently also there's multiport mode so triathlons with the longer battery life it makes sense you're able to do

this now um you cannot do that on the watch 7 but if you go into your workouts you can actually make a workout routine and you can add the three things of a triathlon in there so I already did that and it's kind of like a de facto

workaround here for for Triathlon on the watch 7 where you're able to say like hey uh you know Swim Bike Run as a as a workout routine and it it totally works basically as the same exact thing thing the ultra also has maximum cycling

sustained power or FTP can be measured in I think about 10 minutes so fairly quick for that measurement and I think all the watches have this rolled out as an update but the first thing I noticed on the seven and the ultra when

I first got them was the pre-workout screens, it it's just a massive update that I think is a huge win. So in the past, every single workout by default was a countdown, 3, 2, 1, start. And if you are going for a run, you might not be locked

in on GPS yet and you might run for a minute or two before that GPS is actually locked in, which means your entire distance, your pace, everything is completely inaccurate. And you had to go into settings to change it to a manual start, and then like, and people didn't

remember to do that for every specific workout. Now it feels so much more thought out where a lot of workouts are still countdown, like a walk, I don't care if you track the first minute of my walk, so starting a walk, I don't want to wait

for GPS, countdown's awesome, but manual start is the default for things like run or cycling or different things where you really want to lock in on GPS. Also, we have some other new features that Samsung really kind of focused on during their launch, including the double pinch

gesture, uh, the fall detection that's actually been around for a while. Knock knock, so you can just flex your wrist down twice to like, I have it opening up, uh, like my workouts, for example. Uh, you could have it do all kinds of different things, an emergency siren on the Galaxy

Watch Ultra that you're not seeing on the others. Um, and of course, other things like trackback, but yeah, the gestures you can expect on basically all these watches among other things as well. There are really a big number of similarities between all these watches.

you'll notice I didn't mention the display on any of them yet that is because they all have the same display they all have sapphire crystal covers on the front uh they all have like within the same size at least the Ultra and the seven and the six and the six classic

same exact size display same everything display also the six and the Seven are the same weight the same materials the same dimensions the same strap connections and all of these have IP68 water resistance except like I said the Ultra has a little bit extra the the 10

atmospheres versus five atmospheres but like I said there's a lot of similarities between these watches so kind of in conclusion here which is the best one to get well I have to say this is a very tricky comparison they're all great options for the right buyer so

starting off with the Galaxy Watch Ultra I think this is going to be for anyone who's less budget conscious if you have the money to spend objectively it is probably the best watch on this table you have the most features you have like everything on there the newest the

fastest chip on here extra storage you've got a titanium build overall a really nice very impressive watch probably the best Galaxy Watch I've ever used the only thing it's missing is something that rotates a rotating Crown would be just fine a rotating bezel

would be amazing they didn't add that on here uh so I think that's the only drawback but otherwise it is definitely the best watch on this table the Watch 7 however is probably the best for most people out there especially if you capitalize on promotions and trade-in

that I'll have like I'll have links to all these down below check out the trade-ins on them and and the and the promotions that Samsung runs but this watch is basically the watch Ultra with a couple things trimmed off that I think many people might not even really care

that much about it's the most futureproof watch at the best price with tons of great features and a very slim familiar validated design with two different sizes so smaller wrists would be very happy using this watch as well then the watch six is for more of a thrifty

crowd who still wants almost everything from the Galaxy watch 7 but with a few core exceptions that maybe they don't care as much about dual band GPS a newer bioactive sensor and maybe some of the other newer energy score style features perhaps these features may roll out in

the future but for the most part you're saving $100 and I think that's a good choice for a lot of people also because the watch 7 didn't have a major breakthrough in battery life or anything like that if you don't care about the

newer AI features The Watch is still a fantastic buy and still a really solid watch I think for Android users it's a great purchase and then finally the Galaxy watch 6 classic in some ways the true flagship of the Samsung lineup particularly for non-athletes I mean look

at it it's a better-looking watch you have a physical rotating bezel a stainless steel design you still have Qi wireless charging so you can charge it on the back of your phone and like sure you're not getting the newer things like energy score dual band GPS some

other health features, but let's be honest, this is a classy smartwatch. Nobody's buying this to train for a marathon; people are buying this to have a smart watch, an extension of their phone for notifications and stuff like that. And for all of that, this is

arguably the best watch on the table. Specifically, like I said, if you're not an athlete, you're not focusing on that stuff. Mentioning those other two watches that I talked about early in the video, the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is the best for anyone who is looking to save more money

who loves the Samsung ecosystem and they still want that longer battery life. I wouldn't say it's really the best for athletes. Any athletes on a budget, just go look for like a an entry-level Garmin maybe, and then the Galaxy Watch FE, honestly, I think you're better off

spending the extra $10 for the Galaxy Watch 6. It's a better watch in basically every way. So you can decide for yourself which bin you actually fit in. But be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you think about all these different

watches. Since you enjoyed the video, consider subscribing. I'm Michael Bran, thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.

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