With the Galaxy Watch 4, Samsung has made a smartwatch restart that has washed up. With the Galaxy Watch 5, however, the South Korean manufacturer probably has to shift down a gear. Samsung seems to be struggling with a long-awaited feature.
For years, Samsung has cooked its own smartwatch soup and used its own Tizen instead of Wear OS. The Galaxy Watch 4 from last year brought the long-awaited software change. If you were hoping that Samsung would focus more on the hardware after this step, you could be disappointed with the Galaxy Watch 5.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5: Problems measuring body temperature
Contrary to older reports, the new Samsung smartwatch cannot measure body temperature. This is reported by well-connected insider Ming-Chi Kuo on Twitter. According to him, Samsung has problems in designing the right algorithm that compensates for the constantly changing outside temperatures and thus ensures an accurate result when measuring body temperature.
According to Kuo, Apple is also facing this problem, which is why it is questionable whether the new Apple Watch Series 8 will have a clinical thermometer function. The Apple Watch SE could therefore become the cheaper alternative for many price-conscious buyers.
What the current Galaxy Watch 4 has to offer:
Better alternative for smartwatch buyers?
For the Galaxy Watch 5 that would be Abandoning the feature is probably a severe blowbecause apart from a larger battery, the new Samsung smartwatch does not bring any major hardware innovations according to the current state of knowledge.
If this picture is confirmed after the presentation, many potential smartwatch buyers might prefer to use the predecessor. In view of the increasingly aggressive discount campaigns, the Galaxy Watch 4 is almost thrown behind – currently, for example, for around 100 euros effectively.