Galaxy Watch Ultra: In-depth Scientific Review
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:26 Heart Rate Test
11:07 Sleep Stage Test
17:49 GPS Test
21:23 Blood Pressure Test
23:37 FTP Test
26:03 Conclusions
The Galaxy Watch Ultra is both great and disappointing at the same time, at least based on my testing. I tested the heart rate tracking during 76 workouts, the sleep stage tracking for 22 nights and the GPS during 20 bike rides. Oh, and I also tested the blood pressure feature. All of this has left me with mixed feelings on the Galaxy Watch Ultra. As you will see, it does quite well in some areas, but it disappoints in others. Ow, and I will try the new FTP feature with the Galaxy Watch Ultra at the end of this video, but let’s start off by looking at the heart rate tracking performance!
I don’t know about you, but these results confuse me a bit. I’m not surprised that the Galaxy Watch didn’t perform well for weight lifting, almost no device does. What surprises me is that it does relatively well for cycling outside, but in turn doesn’t do very well for indoor cycling. I need to be clear here, the correlations for indoor cycling were very similar to those for outdoor cycling, it’s just that almost all watches have a much higher correlation for indoor cycling than for outdoor cycling, whereas the Galaxy Watch Ultra shows no real difference.
To be clear, to get your FTP you need a power meter, which is likely only true for a small percentage of people getting the Galaxy Watch Ultra. And I expect that anyone who is going to invest in a power meter is fine doing a 20-minute test or ramp test. Still, it is nice Samsung tries to include this feature. The Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is not a bad watch, and if you want to use it for outdoor activities, it might be a good choice. However, it does have its issues. I was disappointed with the heart rate tracking performance for indoor cycling and weight lifting, and I have some doubts about the reliability of some of the extra health metrics like blood pressure and body composition analysis. I do suspect that if you have less extreme intervals for indoor cycling, that the performance of the Galaxy Watch might be better, and in general I recommend checking out other reviewer’s results as well. If you do decide to get a Galaxy Watch Ultra, a Whoop Strap, an Oura Ring, an Eight Sleep Pod 4, another device or anything at all on Amazon for that matter, even something as small as toilet paper, want to potentially save some money and at the same time support the channel, there are different affiliate and non-affiliate links in the description below that do not cost you any extra and some even provide a discount. Given that you watched this whole video on the Galaxy Watch Ultra, check out this video on the new Galaxy Ring, or this video on my top recommendations for sleep tracking. Thank you so much for watching, and catch you in the next video!
