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Galaxy Watch 3 Adds New Faces and New Sensors
July 12, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is the successor to the original Galaxy Watch, which was released in mid-2018. Samsung has released a few smartwatches in between the Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Watch 3, including the Galaxy Watch Active and the Galaxy Watch Active 2, but they’re skipping over the “Galaxy Watch 2” branding.
Table 1: Galaxy Watch 3 Specifications
July 12, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is the successor to the original Galaxy Watch, which was released in mid-2018. Samsung has released a few smartwatches in between the Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Watch 3, including the Galaxy Watch Active and the Galaxy Watch Active 2, but they’re skipping over the “Galaxy Watch 2” branding.
Table 1: Galaxy Watch 3 Specifications
The firmware dump provided a compilation of the above specification sheet for the two main variants of the Samsung smartwatch. Both smartwatch variants will be powered by the Exynos 9110 SoC, which is the same 10nm chip as found on the original Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Watch Active, and Galaxy Watch Active 2. The 41mm Galaxy Watch 3 should have a 247 mAh battery while the larger 45mm variant should have a 340 mAh battery. While there is a 4mm difference in display size, the display resolution will be the same for both smartwatches at 360×360. Samsung will be using their own OLED panels for the watches, but no mention of LTPO. Both watches will have speakers for voice calls. Internally, both smartwatch models will support NFC but not MST for payments through Samsung Pay. The health sensor being used in the Galaxy Watch 3 is the AFE4930 from Texas Instruments. This is a minor upgrade over the TI AFE4920 sensor used in the Galaxy Watch Active 2.
In the firmware, there were new watch faces a few digital watch faces along with a few analog ones.
Figure 1: Galaxy Watch 3 Faces
In the firmware, there were new watch faces a few digital watch faces along with a few analog ones.
Figure 1: Galaxy Watch 3 Faces
With the watch faces on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, there are new informative digital edges. In the first 3 images, are 4 rounded bars around the outside of the watch. These information edges can be customized with a lot of options; including world clock, voice memo, timer, stopwatch, schedule, reminder, PowerPoint controller, music, messages, email, phone call log, Bixby, barometer, alarm, recent apps, running, walking, cycling, hiking, swimming, swimming outside, treadmill, exercise bike, elliptical, other workouts, women’s health, water, food, breathe, stress, heart rate, sleep, calories, sleep, step count, daily activity, sunset, UV Index, air quality, rainfall probability, feel like temperature, date and weather, weather, monogram, calendar day, battery percentage, or nothing. The informative edges will also have an option for a digital suggestion. The watch face file will automatically switch between steps, battery, heart rate, calories, or weather depending on what the watch software decides is most important at the time.