Upcoming Galaxy Watch 4

 

There is upcoming Samsung Unpacked event in late April.

From release times of the past we know this year there will be some new Samsung Watch.

So far there are candidates

1. Replacement of Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

2. Replacement of Samsung Galaxy Watch 3

3. Some new watch which is not in the series

I am positive Active 3 should take a place this year and be out before holiday season of 2021. There is no immediate need for it but time vise it should. Active 2 shares exact same internals as Galaxy Watch 3 and it's latest and greatest Samsung has to offer. There is not much point in replacing it just software improvements/enhancements would of been fine. Compared to my Gear Sport it's very snappy, comes with speaker, has latest GR/blood pressure/VO etc. capable sensors. Which still not approved for EKG and blood pressure in Canada. So even almost 2 years after lunch watch still have not reached it's full potential. Neither GW3 for that matter. Still i think Active 3 will happen this year.

GW4 is a heavy bet. Samsung used to introduce watches once in 2 years and than switched to yearly doses. Do we need to replace it? Not as much but there are areas of improvement which will come with new watches.

Fist: new SOC (System On Chip).

Exynos 9110 (10 nm) used in all latest Samsung smartwatches built on still good 10nm but 7nm and 5nm are out of the bag and they bring a lot of power sawing and performance. Also Snapdragon 4100 is out of the bag and Samsung should counter it. New CPU will be out. Which model it will use as premier body .. don't know. More RAM, More clock speeds, some new tech... all that jazz.

Second: Samsung was rumoured to build WearOS smartwatch. It should be fairly easy for them. It could be out and it could be that announcement. It will be nice if it will be 4100 based one. From Samsung you may expect 2 things either 4100 or new Exynos. Current non LTE Exynos 9110 have 750 MB RAM and it's not good for Android. They may put out 1.5 GB sans LTE though.

Third and most exciting one: Glucose sensor. Samsung was part of research with MIT in non intrusive laser based glucose sensors based on Raman Spectrograph.

Laser illuminates your capillary and sensor reads glucose level. That will be first and there were rumors about Apple incorporating it into AW7 i think it's very exciting and promising new tech. Both for health and athletic applications. Can't elaborate will it be in this year watches but it will some day.

 

Advanced health monitoring in smartwatches is very exciting subject for me. If done right it has soo much good in store for us!

We may except higher screen resolutions, more titanium, LTE (may be 5G?) and tough model.

 

All Samsung smart watches are MIL810 compatible (not all standard but like Garmin) so by tough i mean something more rugged looking and designed with beating in mind.

 

So that's about it so far. I am positive next event will also hold ARM based Windows Laptop utilizing offspring of Exynos 2100 and ARM X1 architecture. Roasting of Intel will continue. These are as powerful if not more powerful as mid range i5-i7 and in some applications are more powerful. while Intel have not shown anything fundamentally new since 2012. Optimization can go only that far before you have to reinvent the wheel.