so samsung were able to get the galaxy watch five pro out to me a little bit ahead of schedule this
year so we're gonna do a quick unboxing go over the setup and take you through all of the features
of the galaxy watch five pro so very similar style box to the galaxy watch for classic actually and
indeed the galaxy watch three sort of copying apple in a way samsung used to give us a more
traditional watch box if you like anyway straight away we've uncovered the galaxy watch five pro
itself i went for the black titanium version i thought the grey looked really nice but as we
saw with my galaxy watch 4 classic transformation video if i get bored i can always change it up a
bit and i felt like the black version was a bit of a safer bet for a starting point now obviously
we have this box at the top with all your manuals and your charger but we're not interested in those
let's talk about the galaxy watch 5 pro design i mean despite missing the rotating bezel it is
quite pleasing on the eye i do love the deep black titanium and the strap is actually quite special
it definitely has a more premium look and feel to it to be honest than the regular galaxy watch 5.
it was a bit fiddly at first but i did get used to it it has a really strong magnetic clasp which
works really well and a very satisfying click to it when you're playing around with it anyway
the watch body itself to me isn't as impressive as the galaxy watch 4 classic in my opinion although
the solid titanium does look and feel pretty nice this year you can only get the galaxy watch 5 pro
in a 45 millimeter version it feels ample big enough in fact i think it's a really nice size
and weirdly without the bezel it does make the watch screen feel a lot bigger so if we just spin
this around obviously we have our fancy sensor at the back i mean like i say it feels pro but at the
moment nothing is exactly particularly blowing my mind about it in comparison to the galaxy watch
4 classic so let's get this baby turned on you look so sexy in that box bang and she's turned
on it will take a little bit of time to load but not as long as i remember with the galaxy watch
4 classic doing despite having exactly the same chipset okay so we're all turned on and set up i
really like the compass watch face on this if you actually go into the settings you can turn this on
i think it really does complement the watch body it was a good default watch face for samsung to
pick so let's have a quick play around here now i've connected my phone it feels pretty responsive
fast and snappy as much as you'd need for a smartwatch and the bezel actually works really
well if you're seeing a bit of lag now that's just because it's getting warmed up and it's been
turned on for the first time it will sort itself out that isn't something you'll usually see now if
you're confused samsung did emit the rotating bezel but this year the galaxy watch 5 pro
does have a touch sensitive one so you can still navigate around in a similar fashion and although
i will keep repeating this i do miss the rotating bezel there is no denying that the haptic feedback
you get when using the touch sensitive dial is just as satisfying as having a real bezel if not
more i will deep dive into some of the features and settings in a future video for you guys
so please do gently pet that subscribe button also i do have a watch face series called watch face
wars i do it once a month where i show off some of the best wear os watch faces for your galaxy watch
so make sure you tune in to that anyway moving on it is worth noting here this year i actually
went for the bluetooth version i've bought the lte version of the galaxy watch every year since
the first gen galaxy watch was released and i just don't use the feature enough especially
not enough to warrant paying slightly more money and usually it does actually drain the battery a
little bit faster so bluetooth will do me nicely nine times out of ten i will have my phone on me
and even if i don't let's say i go for a run for example i'm very unlikely to be answering calls
anyway so i can still preload some of my favorite tracks onto spotify in offline mode and connect
my watch to my earphones so really do consider whether you actually need that lte version i'm
sure a lot of you will be like me usually going for the biggest and best of everything without
giving up too much thought anyway it looks like we're all set up so let's check out some
of the other watch faces preloaded into the watch or in the galaxy wear app i should say
again i'll give you some more suggestions in the upcoming watch face wars episode some decent ones
on here though to be honest really liking the look of some of these with the samsung ones and most
third-party watch faces you can press and hold on a watch face to bring up a menu and then you can
usually change individual elements of the watch face and make it a little bit more personal to you
for example the main watch face you start off with you can enable the compass option like i
said earlier by pressing and holding on the watch face and navigating to the setting you
can also change the colors of the dials if you so desire now next to me i have all the other galaxy
watches actually i do have my galaxy watch for classic for comparison again i'll lightly do a
dedicated comparison between the two in a future video but despite the design which admittedly
i changed anyway on the galaxy watch 4 classic they kind of feel the same it's just the obvious
bezel which is missing on the watch 5 pro there are some internal differences though first being
the battery life we do get a 590 milliamp hour battery on the galaxy watch five pro the largest
smartwatch battery ever for samsung in fact and a vast improvement over the watch for classic but
will it be enough though i will let you know when i release my full dedicated review of the galaxy
watch five pro software wise we are running weroes again thankfully don't get me wrong i liked tizen
but it would drive me crazy if they changed their os again so we're running one ui 4.5 alongside
wear os 3.5 so all the latest and greatest here i can't help but feel though everything feels a lot
more fluid perhaps it's to do with the software updates or it could just be because the watch is
brand new and it doesn't have a million watch faces loaded onto it although the watch 5 pro
does come with an impressive 16 gigabytes of storage which is very handy for doing just
that so if you are new to the galaxy watch this part of the video i'm going to show you
quickly what the watch can do so the first tile by default and you can't change these around if
you like is your daily goals this will be where you can see all your steps of the day time spent
exercising and your calories burned clicking on this will bring up a detailed page so you can see
there's a 24-hour timeline of your activity and below that your calories burnt for today and your
distance while active i did notice a bit of a bug here though at the time of writing this script my
watch was showing that i had burnt 1002 calories which i think was just absolutely impossible i've
done a fair few trips up and down the stairs to refill my coffee cup and i am right-handed so
perhaps an early release bug there uh let me know if you've had similar problems so the next tile
is your workouts tab now this is very familiar for those of you who've used a galaxy watch before the
galaxy watch 5 pro will pick up some workouts like running and walking automatically but here you can
pick out things like rowing strength training swimming cycling and much more one thing i'd
really recommend is the running coach personally i've really enjoyed that on the last galaxy watch
it genuinely helped me pace myself so much better and actually get to the end of my workout so upon
starting a workout you'll get a dynamic countdown screen then your watch will give you the duration
pace distance and your heart rate of course this will be slightly different for each workout
now another thing it will do is auto pause your workout this will help you get more
accurate results when you do eventually finish up and lastly from this screen if you swipe in
from the right you can quickly access your music and get to your volume play slash pause and you'll
skip back and forwards controls again very handy if you're on the run to exit this tile you just
want to press the bottom button on the side of the watch this will allow you to pause your workout
yourself if you need to be and adjust any settings and finally finish the workout moving on to the
next one we have your roots again more directed at cyclists runners and hikers little difficult
to show this one off while i'm standing still at my desk but we will move on to the next one which
is your body composition tile now this was a new feature that was brought in on the galaxy watch 4
last year actually and what it will do is measure your body fat skeletal muscle
and much more samsung claims it's accurate i really can't comment on the accuracy as i'm
really not sure how i can test this but i will say i felt this feature at the very least helped me
get off the starting line when i started my weight loss journey around about four to five months ago
i've actually lost getting on 25 kilos now but what i was finding that was happening was despite
exercising eating really well some weeks i'd be sat at the same weight and others i'd even
go up despite me exercising and keeping an eye on what i'm eating it was really demotivating if
i'm honest but when i started using the bodycomp feature and discovered that my body fat was still
going down and in fact my muscle was going up it really helped keep me motivated and realized that
i am actually still reaching my goals so i think mentally this feature is fantastic for anyone
on a big weight loss journey so use it you stand still and place your fingers on the side buttons
raise your arms slightly i will analyze from there you will need to know your weight before
you do it though and your height again though take the accuracy with a pinch of salt despite
letting myself go over lockdown i'm quite an experienced gym goer really into my fitness
and i personally feel at the moment i'm a way less body fat than it's actually telling me but i have
to admit i think that's a combination of me being a shorter guy and quite muscular so that might
throw off the results a little anyway the next tab is your sleep i won't go too much into this again
it's not something i can demonstrate now however i did do a detailed video on this for the galaxy
watch for classic and all its sleep features last year or earlier this year i should say so feel
free to watch that it's exactly the same as the galaxy watch 5 pro there will be a link in the top
right corner now if you want to load that video up ready clicking on the tail will bring up a page
telling you how much sleep you got and you can get a much more detailed look at all this through the
samsung health app the next tab is your weather pretty self-explanatory tapping on this will give
you a really detailed outlook on what's going to be happening in the day and then the tab after
that is your calendar and then you have your blood pressure you do need a blood pressure machine to
calibrate it which is a little annoying but most people can just pop down to their local pharmacy
and get that done for you nice and easy ecg on the next tile however does not require any calibration
but you will need a separate app on your phone called samsung health monitor again i intend to
jump into all this stuff in depth in a future video so we will move on to the next tab which
is your heart rate feature does what it says on the tin in the past i've done tests on all the
galaxy watches and found it to be fairly accurate actually better than most smart watches at least
and that's the same for the spo2 or blood oxygen monitoring there isn't a tile for this by default
but you will have to add this manually i'll show you how to do this after our last default tile
which is stress now this one i've always felt is a bit of a gimmick i do get stressed a lot don't
get me wrong but not as much as my galaxy watches claimed in the past it always seems to put me in
the red and on days when i do genuinely feel like i'm ripping my hair out it says i'm absolutely
fine so not having tested the galaxy watch five extensively perhaps improvements have been made
but when i was scripting this i did do a little test and well it put me in the maximum bracket for
stress and i mean i was just sat in bed i didn't feel stressed at all i was on my laptop typing out
this script listening to some music so i'm not hopeful improvements have actually been made to
that anyway as promised there are more tiles to explore including the spo2 tile you can add this
by swiping to the very end tapping the plus option and you'll get loads of options including media
controllers galaxy bud controls steps water period tracking and a world clock so i don't really want
to go any further with the galaxy watch 5 pro i want a little bit of time to play with it i
will be coming back within the next week or two with a detailed review of the new galaxy
watch 5 pro do let me know down in the comments what you think of the latest galaxy watch from
samsung also click the link in the top right hand corner now to watch the latest episode of watch
face wars and be in with the chance of winning a playstore voucher for now though i've been alex
this has been take it easy thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in the next one