the VERY BEST SMARTWATCH...

you could hit this thing with a hammer and not break it [Music] [Applause] ready ah today's episode of tech review Tuesday we're gonna be asking one simple question which is which SmartWatch is the best SmartWatch [Music] and I do want to apologize for not having this week's tech review Tuesday intro complete dan who does the intros out of town will get to next week before I get into the specifics of each watch let me a little context so that is the SmartWatch spectrum on one end to be extreme is simply a watch this just tells the time doesn't know anything else they tell me the date just the time on the other end is a fully-fledged wrist computer and then the middle you have like a fitness sports focused watch and then what I think is probably the the best competitor to the Apple watch [Music] that's the spectrum now before I get into the intimacy's of each device there's another major factor to keep in mind as context when considering a SmartWatch and that is how much of a pain in the ass are they for what they give you in return and there is a very literal inversely proportional rationale to how much a SmartWatch can do versus how much you have to well how big of a how much of a pain in the ass it is [Music] so here is how the SmartWatch analysis will be taking place I'll be testing the watches build quality ecosystem capability and battery and this will include a regular watch watch the Garmin Phoenix five plus the Apple watch 444 millimeter and the big size galaxy watch now really the reason why I included a regular watch in this is because it's just sort of axes of control bibble quality first up on build is the Phoenix five plus the build quality is excellent on this thing it does have a crystal face like the Apple watch beyond that all the way around this is it's all stainless steel this is this is my old old one you see it's a little bit T it's a little bit scratched up a little bit weathered but these things are tough so overall they're good build quality on the on the garment now the series for Apple watch this thing is truly stunning like to hold in your hands does feel like you're holding a piece of jewelry look at that action smooth you could tell Johnny Ives just like polish this thing clean very impressed with the build quality of the Apple watch my previous Apple watch this is the generation 3 Apple watch it exploded I mean it literally exploded what I think happened to some salt water got under the screen battery expanded screen popped off but it's shattered these things are not built as tough as say a watch that looks like this the Apple watch is next up is the galaxy watch I will say the new galaxy watch has a certain heft to it it's stainless steel it feels dense compared to the old Galaxy gear watches it has a great weight to it it feels really solid the plat the bottom on this is plastic it does feel a little bit I don't know it feels less jewelry like and more electronics like when you when you feel that but it still has a substantial feel to it and the mechanics on it feel feel great here that the galaxy watch does have the weight of the stainless steel which is beautiful overall I've got to give it to the Phoenix 5 with the best build you can hit this thing with a hammer and not Fraser's just kidding next up is the ecosystem starting with our control watch this is just a watch it doesn't doesn't have an eco system there's no eco system none next up is the Phoenix 5 now you can download new watch faces on the app and I think you maybe download some apps for it and stuff but they're not super robust and a lot of the watch faces you can download are a little bit janky installing them is a little bit complicated so there is some ecosystem not a great ecosystem one thing it does well though for athletes is that the data that this collects does communicate with your other exercise apps like like straw or whatever it does that very well so that's kind of the only plus I would give this when it comes to ecosystem this is an area where the Apple watch really thrives and that ecosystem well it wasn't but after four years the ecosystem is now what you would expect from Apple and when you look to the new like heart rate features that this has the EKG features that this has I imagine that the ecosystem around this will only get more and more robust and the galaxy watch does have an impressive ecosystem this is a watch that's designed mainly for use with Android devices like your like your Galaxy Notes or whatever it is that you use but this doesn't use androids watch OS or whatever the hell it's called this uses a proprietary operating system that is owned by Samsung called Tizen Wow I think the operating system is really amazing on this it is limited in its its ecosystem because the only watches that carry it are these Samsung watches one caveat that I would say there about the Galaxy Watts it's kind of frustrating about the Apple watch is that the Apple watch doesn't allow third-party developers to design watch faces for it so it's pretty limited the galaxy watch does allow third-party developers to make faces for it so there's a broader selection here I don't know why Apple's so that's so limiting [Music] capability this is where I want to spend most of the times I think this is what differentiates these four devices see spoiler alert I don't know that I can say one is better than the other so really depends on what your needs are with that if you don't need a computer strapped to your wrist then you just get a damn watch you never have to think about it Ozzie tells you the time now if you want some smart capabilities well this is why I like the Garmin watch because for me it gives you the bare minimum of what you would kind of want so when you get a phone call it shows up on here you can't answer it on here you can't talk on here same with text messages it shows you the full text message on here beyond that when it comes to athletics I want my heart rate I want my my distance measured I want maps and and this does all of that and does that incredibly well so the capabilities on on this watch are vastly superior to just a regular old dumb watch but they aren't quite as robust is like a full-fledged smart watch this watch is basically a miniaturized iPhone strapped to your wrist and that could be a good thing or that could be a bad thing I will say historically I've gotten almost every I've gotten to I Apple watches before but I've stopped wearing both of them because it just ended up being too much on my wrist more than I wanted to deal with III didn't need all of that there when it was all in my pocket like I don't I don't know why this exists but I love this I can watch my own YouTube videos on this watch now that's a that's a third-party app that probably shouldn't exist but it does exist and I don't know I think that that's cool also for my capabilities perspective the operating system on the Galaxy watch I think is is certainly the best operating system any SmartWatch see because this is a round watch face when you bring up your apps like that you use this dial to navigate your apps and when you want to get into an app you just kind of tap it in the middle now comparing that the Apple watch where you do have a dial but it's this sort of is useful but touching and rotating this tiny little crown isn't quite as intuitive as having one here so judging the capabilities of these devices is very hard because quantity the amount of things it can do is less important to the user and how well it can do the few things that are important to you but the Garmin watch only does a few things but it does them incredibly well the Apple watch does a lot of things but much for how many of those things are going to actually use same with the galaxy watch does a lot of things but how many of those things am I gonna actually use and this really underscores what is kind of my conclusion on this whole thing when it comes to judging which box is best for you the first question is what do you need it for and then last up the easiest is battery life so a regular watch watch a quartz timed battery operated watch batteries last several years we'll just call that ever the single most impressive part about the Garmin is that this thing even though it has a full-color screen that's pretty low resolution and not that bright but a full color screen this battery depending on how much you use the GPS this battery will ask you two weeks if you use the GPS a lot it'll last you like five days the battery in this is incredibly impressive so much so that when I travel I typically don't bring the charger with me the Apple watch they say gets a full day I don't know why they're so modest about this I've only used it for a couple of days but so far I get way more than a full day it's not quite as good as the galaxy watch which gives you four days but I would say it's somewhere between the full day - advertised in the four days that this gives you [Music] so the conclusion here is that it's very very hard to objectively judge something like a SmartWatch because it has a lot less to do with the technical capabilities and far more to do with what exactly are you looking for in something that lives on your wrist I hate having to charge my cell phones every single day and one of the reasons why I've never stuck with the SmartWatch is because I hate having to also charge my watch every single day I also have a tendency to break everything everything I touch so the robustness of a watch is a big priority for me there's been a lot of chatter about the Apple watch I think it's deserving of most of that chatter because it is a very impressive device I do think this is the very best watch you could have on Android even though it doesn't run Android operating system so in conclusion which is best I don't know it really depends on what you want but what is exciting is that they're they're all pretty damn good I wouldn't underestimate these more simple athletic watches if you don't like the square on your wrist I wouldn't underestimate what the galaxy watch can do if you don't like carrying around a cell phone I wouldn't underestimate what a Smart Watch with an LTE chip in it could do I think we've arrived at a very interesting place with wearables and I'm excited about where they go next that is it for this week's tech Tuesday we'll see you back here next Tuesday with a great new intro from Dan mates [Music]

Channel: CaseyNeistat

Views: 3,421,280

Rating: 4.660501 out of 5

Keywords: apple watch, apple watch 4, garmin fenix, fenix 5, fenix 5+, fenix 5 plus, galaxy watch

Id: _GpXYRcBZYc

Length: 13min 0sec (780 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 26 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Armond404]

He’s not even trying

[u/Right_All_The_Time]

This might be one of his worst videos ever...and I've been subscribed since before the vlog.

Just sloppy, lazy, uninspired, poorly executed explained.

Leave the tech reviews to the pros like MKBHD.

[u/laowinner_888]

Watching these tech reviews is pure cringe

[u/seekrco]

why does this feel like a paid review for Samsung... even though I don't think it is?

[u/RiRoRa]

Wait, what's even going on here? We're comparing 'normal watch' vs 'sports tracker' vs 'Smart watch'? Ugh.

"It depends"

Well of course it depends when we're talking about devices designed to do very different things. It's like comparing a bike to a car. Wich is better? Well depends on where you want to go...

[u/[deleted]]

We get it Casey you work for $am$ung

[u/chuckpesos]

I'm over this dude

[u/MyAmazingDiscoveries]

Wow. That was not Casey's best video.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was stoned.

Because normally, his tech reviews are snappy, well-timed and surprisingly well-thought out for not being obviously scripted.

I almost always repost his tech reviews on my blog. Not today.

Yikes!

[u/Asylum1408]

That graph was a mess, added nothing and really just confused it. The joke about Dan and the intro is played. You can't keep saying the same thing and have it be funny. Comedy "rule of three" three times you can throw to the same joke before it's no longer funny.

In the end, he didn't even address the title "which watch is best? Up to you". It's a fair assessment, but his title implies he's got an opinion. It's bait obviously, but ya.

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My thoughts on it, had a hard time NOT scrubbing through it. I scrubbed.