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Samsung Electronics Galaxy Watch ActiveSamsung Electronics SM-R825USSAXAR
Title Samsung Galaxy Watch Active (40mm, GPS, Bluetooth), Black (US Version)Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 (44mm, GPS, Bluetooth, Unlocked LTE), Silver - (US Version)
Model Samsung Electronics
Galaxy Watch Active
Samsung Electronics
SM-R825USSAXAR

Basic Info

Suggested Price $169.00$379.00
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Release Jul 2019Nov 2019

Overview

DescriptionReach fitness goals with this Samsung Galaxy Watch Active smart watch. Featuring advanced workout tracking, this smart watch helps optimize workouts and monitors your progress by tracking up to 40 exercises. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Active smart watch monitors your heart and sends real-time alerts in the event of irregular activity.Get smarter about fitness with this Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 smartwatch. Advanced sensors monitor your heart rate and track exercises, and the intuitive interface provides easy access to a variety of helpful fitness apps. This Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 smartwatch has a rugged construction that stands up to accidental drops and rough treatment.
Top Features
  • Track your way to real results: Automatically detects up to 6 exercises, while tracking up to 39 more, right from your wrist
  • Resolve to rest better; Helps you analyze your sleep patterns and encourages you to wind down to keep you refreshed and at your best; Compatible devices: Samsung Smartphone, Non Samsung Android Smartphone(Android OS 5.0 and above RAM 1.5GB and above), iOS 9.0 and above iPhone 5 and above
  • Sends you real time alerts if ever detecting a high or low heart rate, so you can be more proactive about your heart health
  • Expand your Galaxy; Sync with your phone to stream your playlist, get notifications and more, right on your wrist
  • Thin; Light; Durable a thin, lightweight and durable swim ready design comes in a variety of colors and interchangeable bands
  • Lasts for days: Go non stop with a long lasting battery that lasts for days on a single charge
  • Lte Unlocked (carrier agnostic) - With LTE connectivity, you can leave your phone behind
  • Samsung Galaxy watches feature the Tien OS. Samsung’s proprietary OS is flexible. If your organization has a mix of Android and non-android smartphones, The tizen-equipped Samsung watches will be compatible with all devices. Ch Active2. Its advanced sensors keep your pace to help you better achieve your run goals.
  • Comfortably sleek the Galaxy Watch Active2 is light enough to wear anywhere comfortably. It comes in aluminum casing and with a variety of faces, bands and finishes so it goes with anything.
  • Keep your beat. You can see if your heart rate is where you want it with Galaxy Watch Active2. Get automatically alerted if your watch detects a high or a low heart rate. This device and related software are not intended for use in the diagnosis of disease
  • Battery built for endurance; The Galaxy Watch active2’s long-lasting battery can go for more than a 5 day on a single charge, and you can always get a quick boost from your compatible Galaxy phone with wireless power share. Works with Qi compatible Samsung

Reviews

Walmart Rating3.7 (out of 23 reviews)3.5 (out of 14 reviews)
BestBuy Rating4.5 (out of 5890 reviews)4.5 (out of 218 reviews)
Latest Reviews

samsung active watch
Rating: 5
Great watch my wife loves it. She is still figuring a few things out but over all she rely loves all the functions of it
by Freddie on 2020-04-30T17:00:00


Rating: 5

by Keisha on 2020-08-07T17:00:00

Love this watch!
Rating: 5
I always wanted to upgrade to a real smartwatch from a basic fitness tracker I had gotten for free a while back. So, when I had the option to get one with my S20 Ultra pre-order, I jumped at the chance! I'm really happy with it. The size is great for me at 40mm. I went with the rose gold option as I really like rose gold jewelry. It not only looks great but works great. I have no issues with it connecting to my phone or using it. I really like all the watch face options as well as all the apps I can use. I love how I can get notified from the apps on my phone on my watch. I have A LOT of trouble sleeping and being able to track my sleep is a great thing. The fitness options are great too. I love how customizable it is. I'm still getting the hang of it but I'm very happy with it so far!
by LindsayDD on 2020-03-19T17:00:00

Gift
Rating: 5
My mother absolutely loves her new watch! Great features, reasonable price.
by Ashley on 2020-08-17T17:00:00


Rating: 4
I love how easy it was to set the watch up. its very customizable. I can get a lot of different watch faces and also add widgets. It synced effortlessly to my Note 9 and its light on my wrist. The only thing I dont like is not being able to make or receive calls on it.
by Tameli on 2019-03-29T17:00:00

Like it a lot
Rating: 4
i wish a smaller face size was available. 40mm is a little big for my liking but that is just my preference. the only negative is the battery life. it needs to be charged every day and a half to 2 days. devices i've had in the past have usually lasted twice as long on a charge.
by Brellas mom on 2020-08-02T17:00:00

Rear glass plate came off completely
Rating: 1
today i woke up and found that the rear glass plate of my galaxy watch active came off exposing the internals of the watch. i'm very careful with my devices, i never washed my hands with the watch on it. i'm extremely disappointed because the warranty has expired recently.
by reaver2006 on 2020-07-31T17:00:00

Terrible battery life
Rating: 1
After many tries at adjusting various features to reduce battery usage it was evident it came no where close to the advertised 80 hour battery life for even the basic functions. I even tried contacting Samsung for help on this issue which was pretty much useless. The reason I bought it was to replace my Fitbit, and mainly so I could listen to Spotify when running. It was between this watch and the new Fitbit equivalent but since I had a Samsung S9 I thought the they would be more compatible and it would be a seamless type of experience. Quite the opposite. The Bluetooth keeps cutting out and has to reconnect. If I keep the watch 1 or 2 feet from my ear pods it is OK, anything further it keeps dropping the connection. I bought because I thought they would be good fit with my Samsung phone. I am now turned off by everything that's Samsung. I am ditching their phone and TV's for better quality and customer service. Be warned people, their products and quality as well as their customer service has really taken a turn for the worst anymore, look somewhere else.
by Mark on 2020-08-15T17:00:00

Battery
Rating: 1
The battery absolutely sucks on the watch ,it also drains the battery on my phone , I closed out as many as as I could and didn't help, won't even make a full day on a single charge, most likely I'll be returning
by Jilly on 2020-01-11T16:00:00

Glossy coating on the band starts peeling!
Rating: 1
I bought this 1 month ago and the glossy coating on the original Samsung silicone band started peeling. I raised my concern to Samsung, and their response was its normal "wear and tear". It's extremely ugly to look at. Huge design flaw on the strap. Should not have the glossy coating on silicone, now it just looks bad.
by Penguin on 2019-12-18T16:00:00

14 months later & I still LOVE the Samsung Active
Rating: 5
It was back in early 2019 that I purchased the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active, months later the Active 2 was released. I sold my Active and Purchased the Active 2. Months later, November 2019, I purchased my first Active 2 LTE and then sold my Active 2. Yeah, the Active 2 LTE has been my favorite smartwatch in the last five years!!! Here's my YouTube channel in which I have tested the watch and added VLOG style posts.
by PHdigital on 2020-03-03T16:00:00

Better than my Apple watch 3
Rating: 5
Im in love with this smart watch! Is way better than my apple watch 3. If you are going to buy the Galaxy watch active 2 invest the extra $150 for the LTE version, I bought the regular watch and end up changing it for the LTE version which is PREMIUM in ALL the sense of the word.
by Jason on 2019-12-06T16:00:00

Great device!!
Rating: 4
Is too comfortable, light and beautiful my expectations were met and I am happy with the day to day operation
by Emibarrtol on 2019-12-12T16:00:00

Cool Watch!
Rating: 4
Great watch. It has a lot going on. I only hope that an update will eventually allow it to support a trail hiking gps map system. That will make it "whole for me". That was the main reason for me purchasing it. The name "Active 2" made me assume that it would support more gps aps.
by Steve on 2019-11-22T16:00:00

Galaxy Active 2 Needs Improvment
Rating: 3
Samsung really makes Good Hardware, But software I don't think so. But Samsung Active 2 Hardware is very Nicely Design, But Software wise is Behind Google Wear OS, I don't like the Tizen Software lacks of Pure Android Apps and the Samsung App Store is really Bad., I come from a Fossil 5G with Wear OS and it had most Android stock apps Like Google Play Music, and a lot of Stock Android Apps, Samsung Needs to End TIZEN and BITZY, and add better specs to its Samsung Smart Watch, Samsung should dedicate making Hardware not Software.
by Angelo on 2020-01-08T16:00:00

Limited
Rating: 3
I bought this 2 weeks ago with the understanding that it is a standalone device. Unfortunately, even if you purchase the LTE version you will still be tethered to your phone by the short range leash of bluetooth if you're on certain carrier networks. I've learned this the hard way. No one tells you this till you find out your watch keeps going out of range and becomes useless as a standalone device, as advertised. My carrier is Sprint and they only fessed up after I spoke with Samsung. Doesn't always track steps if your arms are not in a certain position and motion. Disconnects from WIFI and network thorough out the day.
by Luvoomom on 2019-11-27T16:00:00

Hard to Sync!!!!!!
Rating: 2
I bought the Gold 44m. On 12-26-19. And could not get it to sync to my Note 9. So I am returning it back to the store for another one. If this does not work Samsung you all need to try it again. It should not be this hard to sync a Samsung device to another Samsung device.
by MM2M on 2019-12-30T16:00:00

Way too buggy and was pointless to get LTE model
Rating: 1
I purchased this mainly for the sleep tracking, but I was hoping to use it for a lot more. Unfortunately, it has far too many bugs and has proven to be completely unreliable. For instance, it will miss entire nights sleep, will count time on the charger as being asleep, and oddly enough, it will correctly detect that I'm awake in the sleep tracking (for some reason, "awake" is one category of sleep that it uses), but will still count that as time "asleep", so even when it correctly (believably?) detects my sleep it still gives an inflated amount. Also, its heart tracking is horrendous! It often has me at 30-50 extra bpm when I use the tracking. The only way I've found to get it to correct itself is to change it back to manual, then do a handful of manual readings. Each reading will be roughly 10-15 bpm less until it gets down to the (hopefully) accurate value. My biggest complaint though is that I paid for the LTE version so that I could use it independently of my cell phone. This only works as intended if it's in frequent range of my cell and my cell is turned on. If my phone shuts down or restarts for any reason (low power, etc), the watch software stops it from being usable for ANYTHING other than the watch face itself. You can't even adjust the watch brightness or mute it without having to go to your phone, charge it, power it back on, and unlock your phone. So don't even think about hoping to use this in AN EMERGENCY... There have been a lot of other issues, but those are ones that make it amount to little more than an expensive fashion piece. I wish I'd gotten a different brand. Can't mention any other brands in reviews per their guidelines, but sounds like (don't) 'get this'.
by Savroy on 2020-01-20T16:00:00

This watch absolutely sucks.
Rating: 1
i got the watch to use on my workouts and record my runs more accurately but the battery dies with little to no use. i charged the device to 100% and 4 hours later its completely dead, the power save mode doesn't help much either.
by Burrbag on 2020-06-20T17:00:00

BLACK SCREEN - UNRESPONSIVE- NO FIX
Rating: 1
BLACK SCREEN - After owning for two weeks, I didnt want to wear it without a protective cover, so I waited another week for it to arrive. Once it arrived I was anxious to put it to use. The watch was charged to 89% as indicated by the Wearable app on my phone. I turned it on, I could feel the haptic response when moving my finger around the bezel...no screen response. Tried all options noted by other customers. Reboot, hold power button, hold both buttons 15 seconds...nothing. Black screen. Samsung rep stated no other customers have experienced this. Not true. Even though there are responses from their technicians on their website, the tech still denied anyone else had the same issue. So...either mail back for repair and wait or return for a refund. Disappointed for sure.
by LL on 2020-06-23T17:00:00

All Features

Built-In MicrophoneYesYes
Band MaterialFluoroelastomerLeather
Clasp TypeBuckleBuckle
Battery Strength IndicatorYesYes
Charging Interface(s)WirelessWireless
Voice ActivatedYesYes
Screen Resolution360 x 360
Model FamilyGalaxy Watch ActiveGalaxy Watch Active2
Ingress Protection (IP) RatingIP68
Voice Assistant Built-inOtherBixby
Color CategoryBlackSilver
Model NumberSM-R500NZKAXARSM-R825USSAXAR
Mobile Payment Service SupportedSamsung PaySamsung Pay
Multi-Sport TrackingYesYes
Internal Memory Capacity4 gigabytes
Battery TypeLithium-ionOther
Wi-Fi CompatibilityWireless BWireless B
Screen Size40 millimeters44 millimeters
Form FactorWristwatchWristwatch
Metrics MeasuredActivity vs. inactivityActivity vs. inactivity
Case Thickness0.41 inches0.43 inches
Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor1 Year1 Year
Customizable Watch FacesYesYes
Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts1 Year1 Year
Dust ResistantYesNo
Additional Accessories IncludedAdditional straps; wireless charging padWireless charging pad, leather band
Product TypeSmartwatchSmartwatch
Global PositioningGPSGPS
Touch ScreenYesYes
Band ColorBlackSilver
Replaceable BatteryNo
Color DisplayYesYes
Screen MaterialGorilla Glass
Case ShapeRoundRound
Data Plan RequiredNoNo
Band Width20 millimeters
Music PlayerYesYes
SensorsAccelerometerAltimeter
Display TypeAMOLEDSuper AMOLED
Backlit DisplayNoYes
Case Width1.56 inches1.73 inches
System Memory (RAM)0.75 gigabytes
Bluetooth EnabledYesYes
RechargeableYesYes
Maximum Height of Shock Resistance4.9 feet
Operating System CompatibilityAndroidAndroid
Adjustable Band LengthYes
Shock ResistantYesNo
Charging Time120 minutes
Bluetooth Version4.2
Mobile NotificationsYesYes
Water ResistantYesYes
Band TypeFluoroelastomer band
Case MaterialAluminumStainless steel
Display ScreenYesYes
Processor Speed1.15 gigahertz
Product Depth0.41 inches1.73 inches
Vibration AlertYesYes
Silent AlarmNoNo
Alert TypeVibrationVibration
Product Weight0.88 ounces1.76 ounces
NFC TechnologyYesYes
Clock DisplayYesYes
Operating SystemTizenOther
Maximum Depth of Water Resistance164 feet164 feet
SeriesGalaxy WatchGalaxy Watch Active2
Integrated CameraNoNo
Adjustable BrightnessNoNo
Number of Sensors4
Usage Time45 hours
Battery Capacity230 milliampere hours340 milliampere hours
releaseJul 2019Nov 2019
ColorBlackSilver
Product NameGalaxy Watch Active Smartwatch 40mm AluminumGalaxy Watch Active2 Smartwatch 44mm Stainless Steel LTE (Unlocked)
BrandSamsungSamsung
Works WithBixby
Product Width1.73 inches
Case Size44 millimeters
CarrierUnlocked
Product Height0.43 inches

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