Hands on: Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic review

When the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 launched it wasn’t joined by the Watch Active 4, as we’d expected, but rather the Watch 4 Classic, which uses the same software as its sibling, but has a more premium design, and a higher price.

The main reason you’d choose this watch over the non-Classic version is its rotating physical bezel, which you can use to scroll smoothly through menus to navigate the watch; the standard-issue Watch 4 has a haptic version of this feature which doesn’t work nearly as well.

The Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic also debut a new version of Wear OS, Google’s smartwatch operating system, which Samsung had a hand in designing.

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