(NEW) Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra Smart Watch (2024) [GPS + Cellular] $344.99

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Newly released ultra2 was available from Samsung EDU/EPP for this price last week and I believe it will be soon again during black friday

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aephix

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Just an FYI. If you don't have a Samsung phone, not all the features on the watch will work.

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Byron33

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Byron33Yesterday 1:12 PM

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Quote from aephix

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Just an FYI. If you don't have a Samsung phone, not all the features on the watch will work.

Which sucks. It's unfortunate that Samsung is going the Apple route by having a walled-garden in Android. It makes me less likely to get their products. That being said, I have this phone and, paired with Google Fi, I can leave my phone at home when going for a run. I love it.

Edit: I meant to say I have this watch.

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Enceladus

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Quote from Byron33

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Which sucks. It's unfortunate that Samsung is going the Apple route by having a walled-garden in Android. It makes me less likely to get their products. That being said, I have this phone and, paired with Google Fi, I can leave my phone at home when going for a run. I love it.

Truth be told, all of them, including Google play this game. Apple is doing this specifically for ecosystem lock (I find it mind boggling that they manage to evade any monopoly accusation year after year), while both Samsung and Google mostly do it to offload processing and complexity to the phone thus extending the battery life.

I do have to say though that I switched to Pixel phone several months ago and my experience of using a Samsung watch w/ Pixel phone was pretty poor. Notifications would arrive somewhat erratically (my #1 use case for having a smart watch in the first place) , sleep mode would turn on arbitrarily, a bunch of other annoyances. 2 days ago I threw in the towel and went back to a Samsung phone.

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Quote from Enceladus

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Truth be told, all of them, including Google play this game. Apple is doing this specifically for ecosystem lock (I find it mind boggling that they manage to evade any monopoly accusation year after year), while both Samsung and Google mostly do it to offload processing and complexity to the phone thus extending the battery life.

I do have to say though that I switched to Pixel phone several months ago and my experience of using a Samsung watch w/ Pixel phone was pretty poor. Notifications would arrive somewhat erratically (my #1 use case for having a smart watch in the first place) , sleep mode would turn on arbitrarily, a bunch of other annoyances. 2 days ago I threw in the towel and went back to a Samsung phone.

Sorry, I meant to say I have the watch. I, too, have a Pixel phone with the Galaxy Watch Ultra. You're right, they don't really work together well at all. Truth be told, the watch experience sucks as well because, every time I go for a run, I have to clear the data and re-sign in from the phone, then turn off the phone, in order for my Pandora stations to properly play in cellular mode. It's incredibly annoying but it's a price I'm willing to pay in order not to have to take my phone with me anymore when running. I also use the watch to pay for transit. I treat the phone and the watch as two separate products.

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