Discussion - I love that the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 lasts three days, but Samsung needs to fix charging

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
Arena Master
• 1mo ago
↵AltronLivez51 said:

There are phones here that do have satellite communication capability from both Apple and Samsung. And the service has to simply b3 offered by a carrier, not just having the hardware in the phone.

Check your made up facts. It's easy to Google.

From Google: iPhone 14's, 15's, 16's, Pixel 9's and 10's, S25's, S26's and the latest Fold and Flip models all support Satellite connectivity. It just depends on which carrier you are with.

Try again.

As car as those Huawei devices, they arent sold where I live so they 100% pointless to mention.

Clearly you didn't read what I wrote.

Huawei smartwatches have two-way satellite communication. You can even send voice messages. While Apple and Samsung smartphones have just received two-way satellite communication. Though it's still the easy kind that are only messages, not voice of images.

While Huawei smartphones have gone even further and their phones can do two way voice calls over satellite and send images and so on.

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Chris_Bakke
Chris_Bakke
Arena Apprentice
• 1mo ago

My current watch ultra last 3 working days, granted I don't wear my to bed so I'm not using those hours of the battery. When I get home on Wednesday I throw it on the charger and take it off when it's finished. I can't imagine when I'd be worried about the charging speed.

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dragos281993
dragos281993
Arena Apprentice
• 1mo ago

Samsung cheaping out on fast charging still baffles me. I used a Galaxy Watch 6 Classic and the charging speed was absolutely horrendous. I then used a GW8 Classic and the same thing.

In parralel I used that Galaxy Watch and a Oneplus Watch 3, a Huawei Watch 5 and a Pixel Watch 4 (the most recent). Samsung pales in comparison.

I like to hop in the shower and have the battery close to 90% when I'm out. The 8 Classic is the only pathetic one. You barely get anything in 20 minutes whereas the other watches do pretty good.

Sorry Samsung but you absolutely stink!

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euklidis
euklidis
Arena Apprentice
• 1mo ago
↵AltronLivez51 said:

1st off that Hwawei is a sports watch much like a Garmin. It isnt a smartwatch like an Apple Watch or Galaxy Watch.


It's not our fault you're too dumb to understand the different. Just keep using your toy watch. My Garmin Watch also last about 20ish days, but I would never try to compare the battery-life of it to. Watch that runs a full operating system where I can install apps. How many apps.csn you install on the Watch? None. Right?

People al2ays spend sp stupid trying to diss a product bs another that aren't even in the exact same category.


Enjoy your Garmin wannabe toy watch.

Tell me the Price of the Garming watch again. Who the hell want's a full operating system on 1.5" display, especially when you connect it with BT and have your phone next to you? Unless you wanna flex with a cheap watch, cause these watches are not Rolex.

From the other hand, you have a full OS that you are not gonna use, that causes very short battery life. Oh and Garmin OS sucks big time. It is UGLY

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
Arena Master
• 1mo ago
↵AltronLivez51 said:

So what it takes 3grs to charge. It will last 3 days? You're gonna charge ot when you're sleep, so why do you care how long it takes? When you wake up it will be charged. Most people will likely throw it on the charger every night.


You know the iPhone for many years took as long as 4hrs to charge even when Android were all ready fully charging in just 90 min. How many times did you whine about it? None.


Instead you lied and claimed fast charging degrades batteries which is 100% untrue because batteries design to fast charge don't degrade any faster than batteries that don't fast charge.


Again you can give Samsung props with trying to find some negative thing to say about them all in the same sentence.


You all whine like such little Karen's.



Only people with Apple Watches charges their watch over night. The rest of us, that use smartwatches from Huawei or Honor, recharges maximum once a week. During periods with less exercise I recharge my Huawei Watch 5 Pro once every second week.

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AltronLivez51
AltronLivez51
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• 1mo ago
↵J4D3N said:

But im not going to charge it overnight because then i can't track sleep. Its going to charge for half an hour while I shower. Personally I don't care if it lasts days, again because im going to take it off for at least half an hour every day while I shower so it might as well be on charge then.

Why do you need to track sleep? Just because the device can. You go to sleep at night, you wake up in th3 morning. You was doing it for years with tracking it.

Also you don't have to do it every single night either.

Honestly, all I see is a petty gripe.

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dragos281993
dragos281993
Arena Apprentice
• 1mo ago
↵AltronLivez51 said:

Why do you need to track sleep? Just because the device can. You go to sleep at night, you wake up in th3 morning. You was doing it for years with tracking it.

Also you don't have to do it every single night either.

Honestly, all I see is a petty gripe.

Honestly you don't need any of the health monitoring stuff anyway which means why even bother using a smartwatch at all. Right?

Well, not really. Cause just like you said that about the sleep monitoring, I could say the same about the need to reply to messages on the watch. I find it pretty ridiculous, yet some people enjoy doing that. So in the end the answer to your question is gonna be "Subjectivity" or "Personal taste"

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Fafner76
Fafner76
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• 1mo agoedited

Charging on this smartwatch has proven to be quite erratic so far.

Sometimes it confirms the estimate and it refills in about 1h30. Other times, on the same conditions, it takes one hour more if not even more. The 25W charger isn't enough to get full speed, even if it should be plenty enough looking at the specs.


But compatibility with third party, Ultra 1 compatible charging station is a major issue: pretty much none of them does charge it.


It can't be accepted that Samsung changes geometrics or standards every 2 years, if they aren't able to keep one standard for more than 2 years the'd better to switch to Garmin's approach.

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