The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch4) is a

smartwatch A smartwatch is a portable wearable computer that resembles a wristwatch. Most modern smartwatches are operated via a touchscreen, and rely on mobile apps that run on a connected device (such as a smartphone) in order to provide core functions. ...

developed by

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. It is the first Samsung watch to run Google's

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since the

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, and the first watch to run Wear OS 3, co-developed by Samsung and

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. The device largely followed the design language of the preceding

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and

Galaxy Watch 3 The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch3) is a smartwatch developed by Samsung Electronics that was released on August 5, 2020 at Samsung's Unpacked Event alongside the flagships of the Galaxy Note series and Galaxy Z series ...

, but including all new software. The watch also included EKG, body compositional analysis, and blood pressure monitoring via the new Samsung BioActive sensor. It was announced on August 11, 2021, at Samsung's Unpacked Event alongside the

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and

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. The watch was released worldwide on August 27, 2021.

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Software

The smartwatch was the first watch released by

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to use

instead of Samsung's own Tizen OS. This smartwatch is

region locked A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced t ...

in mainland China, unlike past models.

Supported languages and regions

Unlike past Wear OS devices, Wear OS 3 supports a wider variety of languages that the end user can choose from. An ADB command can be used to temporarily change the watch's language to another one, which will reset when the device is reconnected to the phone. Depending on the region where the device was sold from, the language and region options may differ.

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* {{Smartwatch Watch 4 Samsung wearable devices Smartwatches Wear OS devices

Specifications

Software

Supported languages and regions

See also

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