GW is not that locked as many thinks. For example, sleep tracking is not locked, ECG can be unlocked, and “etc” is mostly minor features which other watches do not have at all.

This is the most complete list of Samsung phone only features I managed to collect: https://medium.com/@mrgelberhut/galaxy-watch-4-5-features-which-require-a-samsung-phone-df574998b817

In the future? It is a fremium service since yars. But free tier is powerful enough for many.

Basically yes, GW and pixel. Some people like new mobvoi, but it is huge, seconds screen is a questionable aesthetic, materials are not that great, and mobvoi had a or fiasco with promising and not delivering wearos for their previous models. Gw6 will be presented in 20 days.

The most complete list of Samsung phone only features I was able to collect is here: https://medium.com/@mrgelberhut/galaxy-watch-4-5-features-which-require-a-samsung-phone-df574998b817

Galaxywatch Lemmy community is here: [email protected]

Until there is US, until there is android, until there is google, until there are laws…

I like m gw4 and use it a lot. In Sport area it is not even close to Garmin, if this is noticeable for you -friends on your needs. Google map, Google keep, nice watchfaces and complications, possibility to take and make calls, communicate with notifications (like mark a task as “completed”, coming soon WhatsApp, kommot and gymrun - a good package for me.

There are people who discovered and treated early enough some heart related issues using ECG feature.

great!

Skipping pre-installed apps, like a timer:

• GymRun
• Google Weather
• Google Maps
• Komoot

BTW, everyone is welcome to Lemmy GalaxyWatch community - https://feddit.de/c/galaxywatch

EU laws (btw, afaik, India has similar requirement now) is one of the reasons which will make disabling alternative installation option very complicated if Google would want to.

I do not think it will want to do this, though.

No. This will conflict with EU laws.

Got you you now. Thanks!

Got you you now. Thanks!

You can subscribe to them all via your home instance (if your and target instances are not federated). I.e. you, most probably, do not need any multisub feature at all.

Thank you for this great news!

I also do not understand this. Actually, if web versions were available for Samsung apps I would more likely to lock myself with Samsung apps deeper.

But since I need access to my notes also from work laptops sometimes and want to be sure that I do not lose access to them, I keep using Google keep. And stay more Samsung indipended as a side effect.