.png )
The new Galaxy Watch 7 is a health smartwatch with a futuristic, modern design.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 is a new AI-powered wellness feature and impressively includes detailed sleep insights. Make it one of the top health-tracking Android smartwatches for the modern trendsetters.
Things have been reworked for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 with a new BioActive health sensor, faster processor, upgraded GPS, and greater storage capacity. Galaxy AI also comes to the Galaxy Watch in the form of advanced and genuinely useful health tools and insights, making the smartwatch a more intelligent fitness/holistic tracker than before.
Designed by a futuristic and modern, you can pick up the Galaxy Watch 7 in Green, Silver or Cream depending on the size. The Green option is quite dark, though I'm a bit surprised there's no black or graphite-colored option.
The Galaxy Watch 7 beat the Garmin Forerunner 165 in both GPS connectivity speed and accuracy on a recent bike ride, and was a match with the Apple Watch in terms of both distance and elevation gain data during an urban hike and while biking.
New AI health tracking [smartwatch]
Review on health and sleep tracking
Most of the holistic health-tracking features on the Galaxy Watch 7 are powered by Samsung's BioActive sensor, which is a combined PPG heart rate/ECG/blood oxygen reader and bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) sensor that can analyze body composition.
With the help of an upgraded processor, with three times the speed of its predecessor, data from the newly-upgraded BioActive sensor is accompanied by all sorts of useful wellness insights and tips, whether you're digging into your daily Sleep Score or the device's new (also daily) Energy Score.
The latter takes into account both sleep quality and the previous day/week's workout efforts. Like the Sleep Score, it's on a scale from one to 100. I found both metrics to be good motivational tools for getting myself to bed early and avoiding bad habits, such as late-night indulgences.
Of all the new health features on the Galaxy Watch 7, the sleep analysis data impresses me the most, both in terms of volume and ease of digestion. I also appreciate the fact that you get a full sleep report even after one night of use.
The Samsung Health app on the watch provides only an overview of your sleep data. For the deep dive, you'll need to open the app on a paired Galaxy smartphone. Fortunately, the Watch 7 and Samsung Health smartphone app sync almost instantaneously.
New AI health tracking [smartwatch]
The app provides sleep insights in an easy-to-understand format with a mix of visualizations and numbers to guide you. Insights include details on time spent asleep, sleep cycles, blood oxygen levels, skin temperature, snoring, body movement, heart rate, and respiratory rate.
From these insights and after a full week of tracking, I learned that I tend to fall asleep pretty fast and stay asleep for the majority of the night. I also discovered that my Sleep Score tends to be a tad higher when I wear an airway-opening nasal strip to bed.
As noted, all of the sleep data is accompanied by AI-generated insights and tips to help you better understand your nightly metrics and long-term trends. I found these tips especially useful for the sleep cycle analysis. The Galaxy Watch 7 taught that someone my age should spend an average of 19-27% of their time sleeping in REM each night.
The Galaxy Watch 7 also boasts FDA-authorized sleep apnea detection, a first for an Android wearable. To use the feature, you'll need to manually switch it on from within the Health Monitoring app; it takes two nights of tracking to produce a result.
Sleep apnea is a potentially complex disorder that can increase your risk for heart-related conditions and stroke. By the way, it takes about 90 minutes for the Samsung Health app to process your sleep data each morning.
You can also dig into your metabolic health via the Samsung Health app. A quick measurement involves placing two fingers on the watch's buttons and holding still for about 15 seconds. That simple act, along with adding height and weight info, generates insights into skeletal muscle weight, fat, water weight, and your body mass index.
As I mentioned earlier, you will be impressed with this AI health-tracking smartwatch. Check now …
New AI health tracking [smartwatch]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*The author & Sejira are affiliates of Amazon. “As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.”
