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Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Srootus@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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'Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist'

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago (38 children)

A problem I deftly sidestepped by avoiding "smart" watches altogether.

[–] aramova@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Garmin watches are semi-smart and have great sensors. My Epix 2 Sapphire runs for 11 days on a charge as well.

Tried a Pixel, returned it for refund. Don't use iPhone or Samsung phone so their bespoke software wouldn't work for me.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Garmin Instinct 2 Solar gives me 31 days on a full charge if it doesn't get any sunlight. It is smart enough to vibrate me awake without waking my partner and receive notifications, no matter what Android/iOS phone I use.

What were your main gripes with the Pixel watch?

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now your comment has piqued my curiosity...I never considered a bigger smartwatch, and have kept myselft mostly to the Xiaomi band, which does more or less what I need it to...But I'm now curious how well does a Garmin cover the main points for me: -Read messages from SMS, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc (can I also reply to them, maybe voice-type or similar?) -Obviously tracking fitness, routes, heart rate and sleep etc it is probably way bounds out of the miband's league. -Can it pair to a headphone and use it to play music during a fitness run? Does it have esim support or similar to use data? (these are a clear no-no on the miband, but then again, heh...about 25 bucks it costed me!).

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Can read messages. On Android can reply with canned responses set up in the Connect app
GPS tracking during workouts without having to have phone within range, has heart rate, sleep tracking and more
Instinct can control media (play/pause/skip) when phone is in range, though the Forerunner music can store music to play via Bluetooth headphones
No LTE/eSIM support on any of them that I know of
Best feature for me by far is the time is always visible and in fact is even more visible in direct sunlight

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm the music storage... How does it work? Can you just send an mp3? Or does it need to be from a specific service? Bummer about the esim, I was wanting to rid of the phone while I'm out running.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

So it seems it is specifically those services I found more info here

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Awesome... Thanks! On second thought i think I'll hold out about the esim part. I can control the privacy on my phone decently enough but that would fly out of the window if the smart watch can call home on its own.

[–] eodur@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have mine working with Navidrone without any issues.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I've never heard of that before. It looks awesome and I'm going to look into it!

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