How you getting on with the galaxy?
My buds arrived yesterday. Not quite as good as the ticpods for sound quality, not much in it, but they are so much more comfortable and the touch gestures actually work.
The hardware is great; the dial movement feels really good, the screen is a decent size, the battery should easily last me a couple of days. And the software is smooth. The watch itself looks really good with the black leather strap from my old Fossil analogue watch. I really wanted a watch that looks like a watch (which this does).
Only real grumbles relate to Samsung's ecosystem:
The app store is dire; a small selection of mostly broken apps that would likely be free in the Apple or Google ecosystems.
Monzo don't support Samsung Pay. So I've stuck £100 in my Starling account so I have some cash if I don't have my phone with me.
I've had to swap from Google Fit to Samsung Health. Not a problem so much as a simple inconvenience.
While I can send and receive text messages from the watch, any messages I send don't show up on my phone.
Notifications are, mostly, one way. You can see a news headline, but not the full story. Or the subject line of an email, but can't read the whole email.
I'm happy enough with it. But as soon as there's a Wear OS device that runs as smooth, with the same amount of battery life, I'll likely change over.
. I hardly use it because of how slow it is.