the galaxy watch 3 has just received a new update finally enabling the promised ecg
and blood pressure features so we're going to take a look at what's new on the galaxy watch
3 and see how it's doing in general several months on after its initial release stay tuned
guys welcome back to tech it easy so we finally got the much anticipated ecg and blood pressure
features so we're going to take a look at those well actually we're not because my first gripe
with this update is that the blood pressure feature needs to be calibrated with an actual
blood pressure machine which sort of defeats the object doesn't it anyway more on that in a bit
so if you want to find these new features head over to the galaxy wearables app select the galaxy
watch 3 if you have other devices on there then go to the home tab and right at the bottom you'll
have the watch software update tap that and let it do its thing so once the update is installed
head over to your galaxy watch 3 go to apps then it will most likely be right at the end you'll see
a new brightly colored icon this is a new samsung health monitoring app inside there you'll see
both the ecg and blood pressure options now one thing i was wondering was why didn't they just
add this into the samsung health app did they really need a whole new app for this
i'm not too sure anyway this is where you'll find the new features so going back to what i
said earlier about the blood pressure feature once you tap it it will actually tell you to follow the
instructions on your phone you then open the new app on your phone and it tells you that you need a
cuff based blood pressure monitor which is super annoying for me and it's not really something i
have lying around the house i can see how the feature may be useful for people with issues in
that department having a blood pressure monitor on your wrist could be super handy and people in that
position will most likely have a blood pressure monitor lying around the house but for a lot of
us we won't so unless we go and buy another device to calibrate it it's kind of useless and it sort
of defeats the object for us now we move on to the ecg feature which i'm a lot more impressed
with to say the least that seemed to work fine the results look very similar to an actual ecg
and i've had many of those done over the past few years it does apparently check for symptoms
of certain things and it will show you that at the bottom of the ecg if it detects anything now this
is a pretty cool feature as in theory it could potentially be life-saving or at the very least
prompt an appointment with your gp to prevent any further damage so those are the two main features
that came with the update i believe the active 2 also got the same features which is pretty nice
so yeah i'm sorry i can't test the blood pressure monitor out right now but as soon as i'm able to i
will post a video it is worth noting as well that the ecg feature does not search for heart attacks
and i really think these features are more for crude monitoring throughout the day not something
to bet your life on at the end of the day if you're feeling rough contact your gp as i said
earlier what it could do is prompt an appointment with your doctor and prevent any further damage
from happening so that's the update covered so how is the galaxy watch 3 doing in 2021 there's
already rumors surfacing about the galaxy watch for so is it a good time to buy a galaxy watch 3
right now or should you wait for the galaxy watch 4 or is the first gen galaxy watch still a great
buy um well yes and no to all of those questions really so let's start with the galaxy watch 4
rumors so apparently samsung will be dropping the tizen os in favor of google's wear os on the
galaxy watch 4. this was confirmed not too long ago by ice universe on twitter still take that
with a pinch of salt but he's usually pretty spot on now i'm not going to lie that has concerned me
a bit there is a lot to love about tizen os for me it's always sat between google wear os
then at the top there we have the apple watch os i hate admitting it but it is a lot more fluid
than tizen and google wear os that being said i've always praised the simplicity of tizen os
especially for newer users but yeah i really don't have anything good to say about the google wear os
i tried it on the skagen smartwatch and it was just an all-round miserable experience our best
hope is that samsung and google work together to improve wear os maybe that could work out quite
nicely so that really makes me want to say be cautious if you're holding out for the galaxy
watch four i think we need a little bit more info before we make decisions on that so then we come
to the galaxy watch three and yeah it's been great it hasn't slowed down at all since i got it and
i filled this thing with apps and watch faces as you well know it's been an all-around great device
but one thing that has begun to annoy me is the battery life now weirdly the galaxy watch 3 had
less battery life than the first generation galaxy watch and that is really starting to show now
i've always been impressed and well happy with the galaxy watch 3 but never really blown away with it
i think it was a little bit lazy to use the same internals as a first generation galaxy watch with
such a big price bump that being said i do much prefer the less bulky more modern design
and having a much brighter screen is also really nice to have especially when you're out running
now recently i have done some tests on the heart rate monitoring and the spo2 monitoring accuracy
on the galaxy watch 3. the galaxy watch 3 was accurate but i couldn't help but think that
there was room for improvement especially when it comes to consistency if you do want to see those
results you can click the link in the top right hand corner or go and find the video on my channel
after the video i'll also post it in the comment section aside from that everything else has worked
great with the galaxy watch 3. i particularly enjoyed using strava to track my runs that's an
app to try out if you haven't already then there's things like the stand-up reminders i really
appreciate those i downloaded a water reminder app to track my water intake having a rough idea
of how many calories i've burned is also great and i genuinely believe the galaxy watch three
has helped me to become a little bit healthier especially through the pandemic when i've been
working at home now for the first gen galaxy watch now i've done a few videos saying why i think it's
still a great buy in 2021 and i did one for 2020 as well and i hold true to my word on that yes i
don't miss the bulky design smaller screen or even the darker screen for that matter but really it
just works and if you want something to get your emails calls texts and more on something to track
your heart rate calories and other bits then it works perfectly maybe it's slightly slower than
the galaxy watch three but it won't ruin your experience by any means and for almost a 200
pounds difference it's still a great buy there really wasn't much in it apart from the modern
look of the galaxy watch 3. until this new update was released now the galaxy watch 3 does have the
ecg and blood pressure features that the galaxy watch will not get but i'll leave you to decide
whether those two features are worth 200 pounds and even more if you don't have a blood pressure
monitor lying around the house because you're gonna have to go and buy a separate device to
calibrate the galaxy watch 3. so that was a quick look at the new features on the galaxy watch 3 and
how to find them and just a general updated review of the galaxy watch 3 and the other galaxy watches
in 2021 my conclusion although the first galaxy watch is getting old now it's still a great buy
and it will work fine for what most people will need it for but admittedly its age might be a
good reason to wait for some more information on the galaxy watch 4 because whether that's a good
device or not the galaxy watch 3 will most likely drop down in price making that a better value buy
then you can enjoy a slightly slimmer and slightly snappier watch anyway guys as always let me know
in the comment section what your thoughts are and hopefully i'll see you in the next one
you