Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Your Professional Helper In Fitness and Life
Announced alongside the Galaxy Watch 5 and Samsung’s latest foldable models, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is Samsung’s most advanced smart watch to date. Featuring a premium design similar to traditional wristwatches, the Pro smart watch offers impressive durability with a titanium case and display that is 90% stronger than previous generation wearable and unique features designed for outdoor sports.
Design and build
Premium design with impressive durability. The 45mm case means it can be quite bulky on the wrist. The Samsung D-band works great after the initial setup.
The Watch 5 Pro is missing the rotating bezel that has been a staple of the Galaxy Watch collection since its inception. Instead, you’re left with a touchscreen software bezel that activates when you swipe your finger along the raised inner edges of the watch.
Moving beyond the bezel controversy, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has a notably more understated and premium look than its fashion-focused sibling. It starts with a redesigned case that uses titanium instead of Samsung Armor Aluminum, a larger 1.4-inch AMOLED display, and a raised metal edge that gives it a noticeable thickness.
Samsung has paid particular attention to durability in the Watch 5 lineup and the Pro model in particular. The Pro model’s AMOLED display is protected by a sapphire glass lens that Samsung claims is 90% stronger than the Galaxy Watch 4, which is even better compared to a 60% improvement over the standard Galaxy Watch 5.
Health and fitness tracking
The Watch 5 Pro also places an emphasis on outdoor exercise, including running, cycling, and hiking. This rugged design makes more sense now, right? Pro devices feature the Samsung BioActive sensor, a suite of sensors that can measure fairly standard metrics like heart rate, blood oxygen, stress, and sleep monitoring, along with more advanced metrics like body composition, heart electrical signal, blood, and pressure.
This really provides unique insights, especially when it comes to body composition measurements, which can provide accurate readings of water weight, skeletal muscle, and body fat levels.
Sleep tracking is also particularly impressive: after wearing the watch for 7 nights in a row, special sleep training programs are available that aim to improve the duration and quality of your sleep.
Features and software
Using the best of Wear OS 3 and Samsung’s intuitive user interface, working with the software is impressive, applications load instantly, and various menus and gestures respond to touch.
Battery Life
The largest battery in a Samsung wearable. Can comfortably work two days without recharging, and 3 when pressed. Fast charging provides 45% in 30 minutes.
When charging is needed, the magnetic contact charger can provide up to 8 hours of use in just 8 minutes of charging and 45% in 30 minutes, although I found it would still take about 90 minutes to fully charge.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro is the most advanced wearable in Samsung’s collection, offering the same mix of detailed health and fitness metrics including body composition as its standard sibling, as well as outdoor exercise-focused features like backtracking and turns, turn-by-turn navigation, a larger display, and vastly improved multi-day battery life.
Now you know why Samsung Smart Watch 5 Pro should be your next gadget. To get it head to the Samsung UK’s website.
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