Samsung Galaxy Golf Edition Watch Review | How To Use All The Features On Your Golf GPS Watch By GolfMagic

What's going on guys, it's Alex here from the Goldberg channel back again to bring you another equipment review video today now, if you've been with us a while, you'd have seen the shot scope and the golf body range finding reviews that we did last week. If you haven't been with us a while make sure you hit the subscribe button down below to keep up to date with all of our videos, from equipment, reviews to challenges, to PGA Tour news and much, much more I'll. Give you a few seconds to do that right now before we get into the video okay. So today I have got a different type of video for you, similar to the range findings. But what I'm doing today is reviewing a golf watch. What one is exactly the Samsung Galaxy golf watch, so the Samsung Galaxy golf edition watch, we've been said by Samsung.

So thank you very much for doing that, and we've got it in the 46 millimeter version. Now this watch is packed with so much tech which I will get into in a second. But first, let's do a quick unboxing as to what you get with the product and just how easy it all is to set up. So, as you can see, the box itself is very clear as to what's inside it, the Samsung Galaxy 46 millimeter versions on the side. You can see there are some specifications as to what the watch offers so really helpful.

Just to see what you're going to get into before you open the box on opening the box. As you can see, there is a lot of stuff in here, but the main thing is the watch. The watch itself before turning it on. You can see it's very modern. For me, I've used golf watches a lot.

I've gone through a few Garmin watches, but I'm still quite outdated in terms of the new stuff, so I've got a basic one. Looking at this, you can tell it's modern, and I wouldn't even think of this to be a golf GPS watch at all. It just looks like a smartwatch which, technically it is, you can see as well. It comes with an additional strap and as well as that, the charging port for it is really nice to see with Garmin what I've had to begin with the Garmin s1 s2 and s3 is a clip-on charger which actually broke on my s2. Furthermore, it's a real pain in the ass to actually charge these things, which I don't particularly think is a good feature with this one.

Furthermore, it's very similar to the Apple Watch in which you have a dock that you just put on and charge very easily big plus from me from previous experiences with golf watch. I love that now for this golf watch itself as a smartwatch. You have to pair it with your phone for it to work and get all the features I have an iPhone rather than the Samsung Galaxy phone. That's not a problem at all. All you have to do is download the Samsung Galaxy app, and it works easy as you like, similar to an Apple Watch.

You do have to charge it as soon as you get the product which, for me, I'm thinking. I know it's so little, and I'm probably being very pedantic in saying this, but it's nice to have a fully charged product for when you get it immediately, because I want to use it straight away, whereas with this I'd charge it for three hours and then use it, I don't know how difficult it would be to charge it to begin with. I don't think it's difficult at all, so in the future, if they give a fully charged product, it just makes it so much nicer when you get it at that unboxing to then have the excitement of going straight ahead and using it, but just me being nitpick, not a problem. It instantly prompts you on the phone screen once it's charged for you to set up with the Bluetooth device on your phone, which makes a lot of sense, because then you can get the full access to it that didn't take long at all. I didn't have to sign in to anything.

All I had to do was pair it with my phone and then ready to go on the watch, and you can begin setting it up I'll quickly mention before we get into the golf part of it that it gives you instructions for every type of feature that's available to the watch and how to use it so similar to Apple Watch. It has heart rate, it has steps, it has the time it has notifications paired with your phone that you can turn off and on, so it's basically like you can just look at your notifications, see if you've got a message, an email, a text message anything, and you can alter these and customize these as well. So if you don't like your phone buzzing, if you get consistent messages throughout the day, you can turn it off and then just check when you have time available, which I think is quite a good feature if your phone buzzes every 30 seconds is something you don't really want to have on your wrist. Now before we get into the golf side of this watch, let me give you a quick rundown as to the technology. That's involved in the Samsung Galaxy watch, so the Samsung Galaxy watch comes with a super ammo LED display with a 1.3 inch or 32.9 millimeter display. It comes with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS as well, and it has a ROM size of 4 gigabytes with 1.5 gigabytes of available memory, which, if you write that to computer terms for a little watch on your wrist. It's absolutely phenomenal.

The typical battery time is over 80 hours for typical usage, but low usage time is up to 168 hours. So a lot of work for you there with indoor workout time it goes up to 77 hours and outdoor workout time of GPS up to 23 hours, which is more applicable to us golfers. Here now going on to the golf side of this watch, it's so interesting to see what they've packed into such a small device. This golf watch has a pre-installed smart, caddy app, which is designed to help you with your round and it's so easy to set up and go instantly, whether you're on the golf course or preparing for a round it syncs to your mobile instantly and gives you up to forty thousand course maps worldwide, short yours, tracking and stroke numbers for effortless score, keeping what's really important. There is the shot map which I'll get on to in a little.

So with this watch, I took it on my local course to see how it does, in terms of accuracy, to the pin in comparison to a rangefinder that I have how nice is on the wrist, because I've seen a lot of amateur golfers complaining about how heavy some golf GPS watches are and makes it feel a little unnatural in the swing and just how accurate is on the other features. So, let's head over the course and see how I got on all right. So I have walked around about nine holes now, with this uh Samsung watch just to give a feel of how it would usually play and how I'd use it as an accessory. During a round of golf now I mentioned before that I use a Garmin s2 watch, so a good few years old and all it says, is the front middle and back of the green, so to have a smartwatch that not only offers golf accessibility, but everything else was quite new for me, um going into the actual golf side of it, which is what you're watching for it's so easy to use and set up. It did take a few minutes when I first set it up.

It had an error message to begin with, which was a bit strange, but I assume it's just doubt to do with brand-new piece of equipment. Furthermore, it'll probably take quite a lot of time, just to get bearings and everything, but once that got set up, it instantly gave you so many options that I have not ever seen before. With a standard golf watch with a big touch screen, it's very easy to use. If you've got choppy fingers like me, it takes a bit of getting used to, but you can change the unit, so first we'll set up in meters, which I changed to yards as a front middle and back, but then what's fascinating is what I don't have with my original watch here is that you can go on and have the map feature, which I usually see on the actual Garmin massive device themselves and not the watches. I know they're doing the new ones, but I've never used one of those.

Before with that, you can basically have all the options of a rangefinder. Is the golf watch, so what I did on the eighth hole is you could go over the trees if you're in here at a pretty decent distance? I never actually know how far that is with the rangefinder. You can't actually check because it's over some pine trees with the watch. What I did was, I had a look, and it was about 283 yards to go over the trees onto the fairway, which is such a helpful tool to have for a watch that I wouldn't really ever think of what should have. I always think: that's the rangefinder's job or something like that, but with this watch there's so many features that you can use for it, as you can see, there's also where you can track your score and to yardages as well, which I'll get onto when I get back to the studio, but there's so many features and options that you can use for it for such a decent price that it's it.

It's amazed me as to how many options there are, so what I'll do is I'll continue walking around now I'll show you a yardage accuracy test, and then we'll jump back to the studio and just give it some final thoughts on this device. Let's go right, so let's do an accuracy test on this GPS device. As you can see, I've got it on right now, I'm on the eighth hole here at my local club. I've got with me the shot scope pro l1 rangefinder, which I know is pretty accurate once you get the exact yardages. So what I'm going to do is have a look at my watch and just see what it says to begin with, so I've got 112 yards to the middle of the flag, which to me looks pretty accurate, but let's have a go on the shot, scope and see what it compares interesting.

Okay, so I'm getting 110.7 yards with the shot scope, so disparity of 1.3 yards there for a watch and a rangefinder, I'm saying that's pretty bang on for both devices, so yeah top marks for me for that one. So guys, as you can see, I'm back in the studio now with the Samsung watch still on my wrist, and I will give you my final thoughts as to what I think of this product after actually using it for a few days now, the previous videos that you saw I've now taken out for just a few more walks and rounds as well just to see how it feels and see how I've got on with it. I think it's important for a golf watch to have a good design and that's aesthetically, but also practicality, and that's if a watch is comfortable and light as well when playing golf. Although golf isn't the most active of sports to have an item on, you can dispel that comfortability that you have with swinging a golf club and with golf watches, there's no exception there, because if you've got a heavy clunky thing on your left wrist or your right wrist, it could mess up your balance a little, and I've definitely had that in the past. But this watch is perfect, with design being aesthetically pleasing.

It's also really easy to swing a golf club, and you don't feel like there's balance on one side of your wrist compared to the other. It's not uncomfortable to wear, and it really is an optimal design for playing golf I've, given so many positives. So far there should be some negatives. You probably think, and the only negative that I would give to this is the price is quite steep. I kind of expect that, because this is a premium product, it's a smartwatch that goes well beyond just a golf GPS watch, so the rap is 329 pounds and 99 pence here in the UK a bit on the steep side.

I don't think that negates any of the quality that goes into this product as well as that there are some amazing deals right now with this product, where you can get it at just over 200 pounds, so keep an eye out for the deals going around for the Samsung Galaxy golf watch. If you can get some top class deals right now. Still, though, for 329.99, it's still a pretty good product, and you get so much technology and features packed into this, but I would think even at that price it is worth it. This product is definitely for the golfer, who does more than just golf for a GPS watch, it's amazing, but the amount of features that it has outside of golf as well. I think it'll be wasted if you just use it as a GPS watch.

I've had it on for a few days now, and I've used it for much more than just golf. Furthermore, I've used it for walking around outdoor indoor exercise for my phone externally, so I can get notifications and so much more, so it will be perfect and a perfect Christmas present for that golfer. Who does more than just golf, which is the majority of us, going back to goal for the features that are available, and I have used our top quality from the map feature where you can see a flyover from every single hole to the feature I didn't actually use where you can track your score? It says on every single how many over par you are, and you can also get yardages for each club that you hit by the GPS features that you use throughout the round. I didn't use that for the times I walked around the course. What you can do is just use a third party app, it's really simple sign up, and you get it straight away, so I'd recommend trying that out.

If you were to purchase this watch, I hope you guys enjoyed this video today. It was a lot of fun and I put a lot of time into using this Samsung Galaxy golf watch in 46, millimeters there's so many features available that for me just to test it for half an hour, probably wouldn't be able to give an accurate review. So I put a lot of time into this and I hope by this video you guys can give an accurate judgment and decide if you want to purchase this golf GPS watch for Christmas or in the future. If you guys are thinking of purchasing this Samsung Galaxy golf watch, let me know down in the comments and if you have any other questions in regarding the comparisons I've done in this video between this and the rangefinder. Let me know I'm happy to answer any questions.

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