Samsung Electronics Japan has released a domestic version of its new smartwatch Galaxy Watch4 series. Appointments will be made at Amazon and home appliance stores from September 9 and will be available for sale on September 22.
Galaxy Watch4（Galaxy Amazon公式ストア）In addition, au has introduced LTE models that support eSIM. Support for number sharing services that can only be used on Apple Watch so far, even without smartphones, telephone calls and data communications can be carried out separately. This is scheduled to go on sale after late October.
The Galaxy Watch4 series introduces two Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic models with a simple appearance, such as the traditional Active series.
Wear OS and Tizen integrate "Wear OS Powered by Samsung" to support the installation of Google Play applications. This allows you to install Wear OS applications, such as Google Maps, which cannot be used by traditional Galaxy Watch.
In terms of hardware, we are also equipped with new body composition analysis tools. By putting two fingers on the side of the smartwatch, the body fat rate, basic metabolism, muscle mass, water content and so on are measured. The time taken to measure is about 15 seconds. In addition, sleep measurements have been enhanced to support the detection of snoring and the measurement of blood oxygen levels during sleep.
The Galaxy Watch4 is an aluminum shell with sizes of 40 mm and 44 mm. The Galaxy Watch4Classic is a stainless steel housing with 2 models of 42 mm and 46 mm. The SoC is equipped with the Exynos W920 with 5 nm process. CPU is 20% faster than the previous generation SoC 10 times faster than the previous generation GPU. The RAM is 1.5 GB and the storage is 16 GB. Both models support 5 atmospheric pressure waterproofing.
Note that the LTE compatible model for au is only Galaxy Watch4, not classic.
For more information about the product, see the article here.
Source: Samsung (1), (2), au