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

Samsung Wandflower Watch 4 now has a feature no-one was interrogatory for

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Smartwatches are useful for a allot of things, from tracking your activity and eternal sleep to acquiring notification alerts and – course – checking the time. One matter they're not so useful for is web browsing, and yet you can now act exactly that happening the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classical.

Samsung has ready-made its Samsung Internet browser available for its Wear OS smartwatches (meaning the Galaxy Watch 4 range), soh you buttocks browse from your wrist on a diminutive screen.

In fairness, information technology's not a complete cataclysm. We reliable it connected a Samsung Galaxy Ascertain 4 Classic and the textual matter on pages is readable, and thanks to gesture controls scrolling around them isn't a complete nightmare. On the Classic model, the rotating bezel way you can scroll through a webpage at speed, but this physical lineament International Relations and Security Network't present connected the not-Classical ticker.

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There's also a surg way, which zooms in on the flake of the page you're viewing, and shortcuts to add the Thomas Nelson Page to your bookmarks or admissive it in Samsung Cyberspace connected your sound.

It is however quite clunky, especially for inputting schoolbook, and we terminate't ideate many scenarios where anyone would want to web-range on their watch. We suppose if you don't wealthy person your phone with you (but are still connected to the internet through Wi-Fi or through having an LTE model) past it could occasionally come in handy, only information technology definitely seems niche.

Still, it's there if you desire it, and in fairness you tin already get a browser on Samsung's older Tizen smartwatches, so this International Relations and Security Network't a new idea for Samsung.

Opinion: sustenance the features coming

We might have measured a bit low on the Samsung Internet browser, but piece this won't be super useful for all but people it's nice to see Samsung bringing more features to the Galaxy Lookout 4 range post establish.

We'd like to see this continue, thus the wearable continues to finger fresh for longer. Especially because Google has a patchy account with adding red-hot features to Wear OS itself, so we might pauperism Samsung to come some of the heavy lifting here.

Plus, as useful as smartwatches now are, they still aren't the constitutive devices that smartphones are, and there's a sense that developers are soundless trying to get the most unfashionable of them. So hopefully Samsung keeps experimenting and keeps adding features. They South Korean won't all be hits, but whatever are trusty to be.

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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything 'smart', from watches to lights, and can much be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps.