Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 now has a feature no-one was asking for

Date:
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:52:53 +0000

Description:
You can now browse the web on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 range, but why would you want to?

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Smartwatches are useful for a lot of things, from tracking your activity and sleep to getting notification alerts and of course checking the time. One thing theyre not so useful for is web browsing, and yet you can now do
exactly that on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic .

Samsung has made its Samsung Internet browser available for its Wear OS smartwatches (meaning the Galaxy Watch 4 range), so you can browse from your wrist on a tiny screen.

In fairness, its not a complete disaster. We tried it on a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and the text on pages is readable, and thanks to gesture controls scrolling around them isnt a complete nightmare. On the Classic model, the rotating bezel means you can scroll through a webpage at speed,
but this physical feature isn't present on the non-Classic watch. These are the best smartwatches Check out the best cheap smartwatches The Google Pixel Watch could land soon

Theres also a zoom mode, which zooms in on the bit of the page youre viewing, and shortcuts to add the page to your bookmarks or open it in Samsung
Internet on your phone.

It is however quite clunky, especially for inputting text, and we cant envisage many scenarios where anyone would want to web-browse on their watch. We suppose if you dont have your phone with you (but are still connected to the internet through Wi-Fi or through having an LTE model) then it could occasionally come in handy, but it definitely seems niche.

Still, its there if you want it, and in fairness you can already get a web browser on Samsungs older Tizen smartwatches, so this isnt a new idea for Samsung. Opinion: keep the features coming

We might have sounded a bit down on the Samsung Internet browser, but while this wont be super useful for most people its nice to see Samsung bringing more features to the Galaxy Watch 4 range post launch.

Wed like to see this continue, so the wearable continues to feel fresh for longer. Especially because Google has a patchy history with adding new features to Wear OS itself, so we might need Samsung to do some of the heavy lifting here.

Plus, as useful as smartwatches now are, they still arent the essential devices that smartphones are, and theres a sense that developers are still trying to get the most out of them. So hopefully Samsung keeps experimenting and keeps adding features. They wont all be hits, but some are sure to be. Want to keep in touch? Sign up for TechRadar's daily newsletter

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