Samsung’s entry-level Galaxy Watch 7 has returned to its best price to date

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I jumped connected the smartwatch bandwagon a spot late, but present I can’t spell a time without mine. Beyond delivering adjuvant notifications, it’s cleanable for mounting timers, tracking workouts, and monitoring my sleeping habits (which are terrible). If you haven’t yet joined the smartwatch enactment oregon you’re looking to upgrade, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 7 is down to $199.99 ($100 off) successful the 40mm / Bluetooth configuration astatine Amazon and Walmart. If you similar a larger display, the 44mm exemplary is connected merchantability astatine Amazon starting astatine $229.99 ($100 off).

While the Galaxy Watch 7 isn’t arsenic flashy arsenic different Samsung wearables, its much simplistic attack is portion of its charm. It retains the signature circular plan and slim illustration of anterior models, which remains a stark opposition to the adventure-ready Galaxy Watch Ultra. It’s comfy to deterioration portion sleeping and moving retired — arsenic our ain Victoria Song noted successful her review past year — and it comes with a enactment of invited features, including bosom complaint tracking, an Energy Score for gauging recovery, and FDA-approved slumber apnea detection.

One of the caller marquee tools of the Watch 7 is its AI-powered wellness insights, which supply personalized suggestions to assistance you deed your wellness and fittingness goals. There’s besides a 3-in-1 BioActive Sensor that tin measurement metabolic wellness acknowledgment to an experimental precocious glycation extremity products (AGEs) metric, though some features were alternatively deed oregon miss successful our testing. Of course, the wearable besides offers a scope of basal smartwatch features, specified arsenic the quality to watercourse music, nonstop texts, and instrumentality calls erstwhile your telephone is nearby.

Despite its slimmer design, the Watch 7 offers astir 24 hours of artillery beingness with the always-on show enabled, though if you upgrade to the 44mm Watch 7, you tin eke retired a fewer further hours. Samsung’s wearable besides runs Wear OS 5, arsenic of now, though we’re expecting the Gemini-powered Wear OS 6 to get via an update aboriginal this year. All that being said, the timing of these deals could bespeak that a Galaxy Watch 8 is connected the horizon. Samsung typically holds an Unpacked lawsuit successful mid-July, and this twelvemonth it whitethorn present a refreshed lineup of foldable and wearable devices.

Other deals to cheque out

• Amazon’s Fire TV Soundbar Plus is down to an all-time debased of $174.99 ($75 off) astatine Amazon. The 37-inch soundbar features 3 speakers, 3 tweeters, and 2 woofers, providing a bully upgrade implicit your TV’s built-in speakers. Plus, it supports Dolby Atmos for richer, much three-dimensional sound. A dedicated halfway dialog transmission promises you’ll really perceive what radical are saying arsenic well, allowing you to crook disconnected closed captions, portion its comparatively compact size makes it a large enactment for smaller setups.
• The Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe is disposable from Amazon and Anker (with codification WS7DV2DYGOBA) for $103.99 (about $46 off), matching its champion terms to date. The 3-in-1 charger is cleanable if you ain aggregate Apple devices, allowing you to simultaneously complaint an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. The superior wireless pad delivers 15W of power, with an adjustable viewing space of up to 60 degrees. The Apple Watch charger, meanwhile, features a convenient slide-in and slide-out mechanism, portion the AirPods charging pad tin beryllium accessed by angling the main charger. It besides comes with a 30W USB-C charger and a 5-foot USB-C cable, truthful you’re acceptable to spell retired of the box.
• The Soundcore Select 4 Go is backmost down to its all-time debased of $19.98 (about $15 off) astatine Amazon successful prime colors. The diminutive Bluetooth talker is cleanable for listening to your favourite playlist portion relaxing by the pool, astatine the park, oregon successful the bath. It features IP67 waterproofing, allowing it to withstand immersion successful up to 3.3 feet of h2o for up to 30 minutes, frankincense providing bid of caput erstwhile utilized outdoors. A useful lanyard besides lets you connect it to your container oregon your bike’s handlebars, portion the speaker’s 20-hour artillery ensures it tin support the enactment going during all-day events.