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Samsung’s sportier Galaxy Watch Active wants to be your fitness pal

And it's much cheaper than an Apple Watch

Tom Wiggins

If you thought about buying yourself a Galaxy Watch but figured it looked a bit too straight-laced for your gruelling fitness regime, Samsung has just the thing for you. With its sportier design and strap the new Tizen-powered Galaxy Watch Active not only looks more the part, there are improvements underneath too. It can now measure your blood pressure, help you to destress when things get a bit much, plus there’s auto-detection of the most common activities, including running, cycling and rowing. This seems to have come at the expense of the standard Galaxy Watch’s rotating bezel, which is a real shame, but with a price of £229 it’s significantly more affordable than an Apple Watch.

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Stuff's second Tom has been writing for the magazine and website since 2006, when smartphones were only for massive nerds and you could say “Alexa” out loud without a robot answering. Over the years he’s written about everything from MP3s to NFTs, played FIFA with Trent Alexander-Arnold, and amassed a really quite impressive collection of USB sticks.

Areas of expertise

A bit of everything but definitely not cameras.