Samsung Brings Back The Classic Version For The Watch8 Series

Samsung launched nan Galaxy Watch8 smartwatch coming astatine its Unpacked July 2025 event, on pinch nan Galaxy Watch8 Classic type pinch a rotating bezel, which made a comeback aft a year’s gap. Both watches person undergone a creation overhaul and now lucifer nan Galaxy Watch Ultra, launched past year, which had a squarish lawsuit astir a information bezel.

The Galaxy Watch8 gets a surface upgrade pinch a brighter show that tin person a highest brightness of 3,000 nits arsenic compared to 2,000 nits connected nan Watch7. This allows you to usage nan smartwatch amended successful brighter conditions.

The Watch retains to Exynos W1000 spot and a BioActive Sensor, which measures bosom rate, EKGs, and assemblage creation analysis.

The smartwatch comes pinch different features Samsung rolled retired past month, including Bedtime Guidance, which gives you suggestions for nan champion clip for you to slumber based connected erstwhile sleep-tracking data; Vascular Load, which measures accent connected your vascular strategy while you are sleeping and gives you manner tweak suggestions; a Running Coach, which lays retired nan optimum gait for your runs; and Antioxidant index, which measures carotenoids — a type of antioxidents recovered successful rootlike aliases fruits. Most of these features presume a batch of factors astir a user’s wellness and usage calculations to supply a people and suggestions, which mightiness not beryllium very useful successful existent life.

Both nan watches tally One UI 8 Watch based connected Wear OS 6. With this package release, Google is making Gemini disposable connected watches, truthful you tin inquire questions without typing. Gemini is integrated pinch Samsung Health, Calendar, Reminder, and Clock apps.

While Samsung is not making immoderate changes to nan Galaxy Watch Ultra, it is releasing a caller Titanium Blue colorway astatine $650.

The Galaxy Watch8 starts astatine $350, $50 much than nan erstwhile gen watch, for nan Bluetooth model, and astatine $400 for nan LTE model. The caller Watch comes successful 40mm and 44mm sizes successful graphite and metallic colors. The Galaxy Watch8 Classic is priced astatine $500 for nan Bluetooth type and $550 for nan LTE version, and it comes successful a 46mm size.

Pre-orders for each nan watches commencement today, and nan devices will go mostly disposable successful nan U.S. connected July 25.