Apple Watch Series 5 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 By MW Technology

What's up folks has no know so watch hope you guys are all doing well. The Apple Watch Series 5 has been available now for several weeks, so we got it at launch date and I mean using pretty much non-stop every single day. We're gonna talk about the goods, the bad, the stuff that you should know about. The series 5 will also be testing out. The new active a2 galaxy watch from a Samsung I've, been using both of these two things pretty much every single day. For the past few weeks, tracking my activity levels, Fitness related stuff, as well as just general, every day-to-day Smartwatch I type a use.

So let's see how these two compare against each other and see which one is the best now, the core design of the Apple Watch hasn't really changed much even to this fifth iteration and coming from the series four, it's pretty much identical in every way. It's still a rectangular design with soft, rounded off corners has the digital crown interface. Now, on the other hand, a Samsung has flip-flopped and changed designs from watch to watch over the years now. The galaxy active 2 is pretty much the same overall design as the active that we came across just a few months back. So it's still a circular design which really worked quite well in the previous generation Galaxy watch.

It was actually had a physical rotating bezel that would interface with the Ti zen operating system fairly. Well now, in the recent galaxy watches, you could see that we're missing that physical dial but inactive to Samsung has reintroduced this interface by something called a touch bezel. So essentially you can slide your finger around the perimeter of the watch itself and via the built-in haptic feedback system. You do get the sensation that you're rotating a physical dial, even though it's a virtual system, but it does make navigating through the operating system a little more seamless and less reliant on the directional swipe commands that you're going to do with a one finger, so it definitely makes interfacing with the Ti zen a system a little better, but still doesn't beat that physical dial that we saw in previous generation Galaxy watches now, since the shape of both devices are different, it's hard to do size comparisons, but in terms of a footprint perspective they're, both pretty similar. We have the 44, millimeter versions of both watches in terms a weight difference at the active two is slightly lighter at four two grams, with just the watch itself: no straps versus you're.

Looking about forty-seven point, eight grams on at the Apple Watch Series five, the actual thickness of both devices is also very similar to both ten millimeters. But the Apple Watch is point two millimeters thinner. If that makes a big difference in terms of ruggedness and durability, both have scratch resistant glass at the front and back of the device. Apple Watch specifically uses a sapphire crystal glass, which is definitely more premium glass technology than something like the Corning Gorilla Glass DX, plus that we find on at the Samsung Galaxy watch active two in terms of a water resistant to both the pretty much rated down to about 50 meters, deep, obviously, sweat resistant and have a bunch of different band options depending upon your personal needs and preferences. In terms of case material options, we have stainless steel and aluminum cases available on both platforms, with the exception that the Apple Watch Series five also has the option of both titanium and ceramic case finishing.

So if you do want a little fancier watch, you do have that option, although it doesn't really add anything more in terms of durability. Longevity just mostly bragging rights for the most part, in my opinion. Now, as far as new features on the Apple Watch Series 5 compared to the previous generations, series 4 you're not going to find a huge difference. Besides, the always-on display feature that we'll talk about it a little internally, it's pretty much using the same exact Apple, s4 processor. You do have a little more internal memory of 32 gigabytes versus the previous generation use, 16 gigabytes, as well as the new gyroscope compass feature, but I've met internally.

It's the same as the Apple Watch Series for now, in terms of the main selling feature of the Apple Watch Series, 5 being the always-on display it's using a low temperature, poly crystalline oxide display driver in order to actively adapt and adjust the refresh rate, so it doesn't impact battery life too much. Although the battery life is not stellar compared to the active 2, it is still nice to have that display, always-on and accessible for you to tell the time or get different notification information and things like that in terms of display quality itself, both are using organic LED displays, so they're super bright and very good in terms of black levels. Resolution wise at the Apple Watch, Series five does have the higher native resolution of forty-four eight by three sixty-eight versus you're. Looking at three sixty by three sixty on and the active two, both have a relatively high pixel pinch, and you're not going to be complaining in terms of sharpness for viewing photos and things like that. But, more importantly, in terms of the touch interface I think the Apple Watch has always been a little more responsive, certainly more precise in terms of initiating fine touch commands.

It also has 3d touch which the active two does not and just navigating through the operating system. You definitely have a greater sense of confidence over your commands on the Apple Watch versus it's always been a little finicky on the Samsung side now in terms of physical buttons and dials. As you mentioned before, we have at the touch bezel interface on the active two which replicates the physical dial that they had previously. They also have two physical buttons on the side of the watch. The top one is by default, used to bring up Samsung pay the one at the bottom.

If you double tap, you can bring up a Bigamy, Samsung's, Siri and Alexa assistant, and, if you tap on it once it'll bring you back to the home page or to the previous screen, depending upon the application that you're using now the series five Apple Watch hasn't really changed all too much in terms of control interface. We still have the awesome digital crown interface, which you can press in. You also have added a physical button at the bottom of the digital crown and in terms of navigating through the operating system. It's just well-thought-out and definitely feels a lot more seamless, and you have a greater sense of control with that dial, not to mention and the superior touch display and coming back to the whole shape and four factors of the watch, because it's a square design. It definitely feels more like a miniature version of your smartphone, which is the whole purpose of the Apple Watch and unlike Google and Samsung, and other companies that have been doing circular saw watch designs, which kind of feels like a more traditional watch with a smartphone is elements.

A built-in side is a lot more comfort and, more importantly, in terms of applications and adapting and developing applications. Navigational perspective leads to all sorts of problems compared to the more square interface and beyond that. Watch OS in its sixth iteration is just far superior. It's so much easier to use than the Ti zen interface that's currently available on, and the active two at this stage of the game from a software and hardware perspective. Apple is definitely leaps and bounds ahead of Samsung, as well as Google in terms of at the Smartwatch game.

Now, in terms of the price point, the Samsung Galaxy watch act of two has always been a little more aggressively priced we're looking at about a hundred and thirty dollar difference on both the forty and forty-four millimeter versions. Compared to the baseline configuration on the Apple Watch Series. Five will throw up this chart over here that I'll give you the pricing for the cellular versions, as well as the standard Wi-Fi GPS Bluetooth versions as well. If you remember last year, the series four introduced the whole ECG EKG, reading capabilities with the digital crown interface, and obviously we have that on this series, five Apple Watch and I can actually test it now in Canada, which is nice via the health app on the iPhone side. Now we also have the same capabilities to read, ECG's or EKG son the active two, but it's going to be released on a later software update in 2020 I definitely think that having the ability to read ECG's are really important.

These days on a Smartwatch due to the fact that there's actually been a number of scenarios in the US where people have detected irregular, heartbeats notified their doctor and found out that they actually have a heart issue or condition that they have to address. So definitely an important feature for I think everyone to have access to for the more one thing. That's getting real popular these days is actually sleep tracking, which is going to be important for recovery and just general health. We have a sleep tracking built in to the active two versus you're, going to need to use a third-party application. Like sleep watch to enable that on the Apple Watch, for whatever reason, Apple does not have a sleep tracking ability built-in to the watch OS at this point of the game, I'm sure they going to have it later.

But it's definitely another important feature to have one caveat of sleep tracking is the fact that you do have to have these huge things on your wrist, which is definitely not too comfortable. Based on my experience now, probably one of the biggest reasons why I use a Smartwatch specifically is for fitness and activity tracking. Obviously, both will track steps and calories, and things like that in terms of what you burn, but in terms of what I do specifically, which is a ton of indoor and outdoor cardio decent, mount a barbell strength, training, resistance, style, I'll work throughout the week and both will do a good job in terms of tracking those different styles of fitness activities. One thing that I have found is in terms of the calorie burning measurements. The Apple Watch has always been a little too generous and liberal in terms of giving you more calories burned than in actual real life.

For example, I did an hour of a stair climbing session and in the exact same scenario, with the same exact heart rate I burned about around 800 calories using at the Apple Watch and the active two indicated around 600 calories. I've done that same session for a number of years and based on the duration and intensity I know I'm burning around 600 calories based on my weight, specifically right now, so the Apple Watch is definitely lying to you in terms of giving you more calories burned. In order to make you feel better about yourself, so just be careful of that in terms of app integration for third-party applications, I use my Fitness Pal a lot to track my calories and macronutrient, and just the app integration is so much better thought out. It's a lot more useful on the Apple Watch. Now with that being said, there is a big downside to the Apple Watch and certainly its biggest trade-off is battery life.

Now, with the LT PIO display that actively changes the refresh rate in turn to maximize battery life, and we do have a slightly larger battery than the series for we're looking about 296 William hours, although it's only like 1.4 percent larger than the series 4, which isn't going to give you too much more and the active to definitely has the larger battery capacity at 340 William hours. Now, based on a couple of weeks of usage and a bunch of different scenarios. The variability on the Apple Watch in terms of a full charge lasted anywhere between 10 and 12 hours. In my experience, and there's actually been a couple of days when I couldn't get the full day's use out of it, which was a huge bummer and I had to go into reserve power mode versus you can easily get a full day and even two days on the active ? on average I varied between 18 and 25 hours on my usage profile with the galaxy watch active -. So, in terms of battery life, definitely the Samsung is ahead, and even if you have the always-on feature enabled on the Samsung is a lot more efficient in terms of its battery life and since it does have the slightly larger battery, more importantly, you're going to get that better battery performance and that's definitely a big bummer.

On this thing, it's pretty much going to be had to be charged every single night and if you're, using it vigorously on a couple of different long-duration sessions, you might struggle to even get throughout the day, so probably its biggest weakness, thus far right now. But besides that guys, that's really it. If you have any specific questions, let me know we're. Going to have a couple of different Smartwatch videos coming out in the next few weeks, so definitely make sure you stay tuned for the channel for the best smartwatches that are currently available right now, and if you like this video, please give us a thumbs up check out the description for more details, and we'll see you real soon in the next video take care.

Source : MW Technology