Samsung Galaxy Watch Active (40mm) (Bluetooth)

Overall: this has better smart watch features than the Fitbit Versa and the Galaxy Watch, but to me it feels like both the fitness and the smartwatch aspects have been compromised too much. Battery life: Settings: frequent HR monitoring; tilt on display; one of the pre-installed watch faces: Went to bed with 100% battery and tracked sleep--it used up 20% of my battery two nights in a row. Then did my morning run, which used up 25% battery life (indoors, on a treadmill, so no GPS, no music). This was on a weekend, without my usual notifications, calls, and emails coming in from work, so I can't imagine that I will be able to get thru a full day on one charge with this. I have to travel for work at times, and that means finding time to charge this thing before I go to bed and/or during the day if work/notifications get really busy. I have a first generation Huawei that performs just about the same or better than this watch (more on that below), and has to be charged twice a day--so why would I pay $ to have the same charging needs with the Active? Battery charging time so far (on the magnetic charger--I dont have the wireless charger yet)--about 2 hours to go from 0 to full charge. No, you can't charge it on the regular Samsung wireless charging pad--you need the new duo pad. Steps: Undercounts steps--I don't expect perfection, but wow, the Active undercounted by about 2000 steps, per both my Versa and Huawei. Undercounted calories, too, as a result. I'm very active and need at least a halfway reasonable estimation of calories burned. I would expect a sport watch to do much better than this. HR: The HR monitor seems a step up from the Galaxy 46mm--even so, on a simple dog walk, I couldn't get the HR to track--it tracked for the first ten minutes, then never came on again. On my morning runs, I have to wear the watch on the inside of my wrist pretty tightly and then it will track my HR. Sleep tracking: This has been good and it does track my HR at night, so that I can get a read on resting HR (by looking at the HR section of the Samsung health app--HR is not shown in the sleep section--very disappointing, as I'm used to using Sleep as Android, which provides this info). Very lightweight and easy to wear to bed (a plus after wearing the Huawei for sleep tracking). The sleep info on Samsung Health is disappointing compared with FitBit's though--the graphs are harder to read. GPS tracking: GPS tracking worked nicely compared with the Huawei--gave me a much more accurate distance--but then the Active cut the calorie count on my walk in half. Huh??? Screen size and Notifications: Emails, texts, notifications came in nicely. Easy to read. However, the small screen makes it a bit of a pain to reply to things. I don't have large fingers and I keep hitting the wrong 'button' on the screen--so that I accidentally send the wrong autoreply or delete a notification, etc. It's very annoying--particularly if my goal is to use this thing while I'm working out and be able to quickly respond to notifications. Other minor annoyances: Several of the Samsung watch faces offer the option to include the weather--but then the weather on the watch face doesn't update automatically--you have to go into the app (Weather.com) and manually update it to see what the current weather is. ....really??? This seems pretty basic to me, as I have weather on several of the Huawei faces that I use and none of them have this problem. Apps: Fewer than Wear OS, but I don't load up my watches with a lot of apps, anyhow. This pretty much has what I need on it already. I don't like the 'circle' of apps without the rotating bezel--it's very hard to navigate thru each app--you have to tap twice on the app you want to open, and the screen is so small that it's hard to not hit the wrong app, especially if you are on the move and using this. So overall, this is just OK. The smartwatch features are better than the Versa in terms of being able to read full emails on the watch and reply to them by text, voice, autoreply. Plus Bixby will answer basic questions and compose texts/reminders. Versa is far better on fitness and sleep tracking, as well as stand up reminders (get up and move instead of the Active's 'get up and do torso twists,' which it then does not track and so keeps reminding you to do them!) Wear OS on a decent size watch face (first gen Huawei) is still better than on replying to notifications on the Active, because your fingers don't accidentally smash the wrong 'button.' Lack of a loudspeaker on the Active is annoying, but I understand they did it to save space and weight, so I can live with that. Will probably return this. It's just underwhelming.