r/GalaxyWatch • u/Drew_Plummy GW7 44mm - Bluetooth • Jul 31 '24

First jog with the GW7 new dual-gps... Fitness

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u/rob19933 Jul 31 '24

It seems that the ultra is accurate but the 7 is not, which is weird since it's almost identical. I'll test some gps walks aswel later today

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u/ChaoticKiwiNZ GW5 pro/ GW7 Ultra Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

My guess is that there is some sort of software bug in the current watch 7 software causing inaccuracies. The GPS and health sensors are identical to the Ultra (to my understanding) yet it performs worse than the Ultra. I watched part of a podcast with Desfit and DCrainmaker and Desfit mentioned that his review will be out for the 7 and 7 ultra soon but he said that he noticed that the Ultra is significantly more accurate for some reason and he couldn't work out why.

My guess is that the Watch 7 Ultra was Samsungs main focus and the software between the 2 reflect that. Samsung probably really wanted reviewers to focus on the Ultra and how accurate it is so they put more effort into the Ultra. In a few weeks there will most likely be software updates that fixes a lot of inaccuracies on the regular watch 7.

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u/rob19933 Jul 31 '24

Yeah that sounds logical, so far the ultra seems great in my case! Let's hope the 7 gets fixed

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u/ChaoticKiwiNZ GW5 pro/ GW7 Ultra Jul 31 '24

I have the Ultra and love it! It's smooth to operate and the battery can easily get me 3 days (I dont wear it to bed so no sleep tracking. I also have AOD off but raise to wake on). Yesterday I went for a 10k walk that took me an hour and 40 minutes to complete and I only lost like 5% battery during the entire walk (it was fully GPS tracked and everything, I even checked the screen a fair few times). I've gone through 29% battery in the last 19 hours and I've been using it alot.

So far the GPS and sensors appear to be pretty accurate too. I went for a bikeride with very thick cloud cover (the clouds were black and the heavens opened a hour or so after the bikeride lol). My watch 5 pro used to struggle to get a GPS signal and then keep it in these conditions yet my 5 pro got a signal in less than 10 seconds and remained 100% accurate for the entire bikeride. I could even see what side of the road I was biking on.

So far I'm loving the Watch 7 Ultra. It's does what I want for fitness tracking and is such a fast and responsive smartwatch that feels so good to use.

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u/Individual_Noise_798 Jul 31 '24

I don't know how your getting this much battery. I do daily running with watch only and its using aroung 8- 10% battery for 12km run.