The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is stuck in a familiar orbit

I stake you didn’t announcement the squircle that overmuch here. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

If past year's Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 was tried and true, this year's Galaxy Watch 8 is simply a spot much similar tried and fine.

This isn't overtly bad. Most smartwatch newbies volition beryllium delighted by the $349.99 Galaxy Watch 8 - provided they tin tummy the caller squircle design. It's much that if you've been a instrumentality of Samsung smartwatches, it feels similar Samsung has much oregon little been retreading safe, dependable crushed with incremental tweaks since the Galaxy Watch 5. Aside from Gemini, there's not overmuch present that moves Android smartwatches forward. Truly, connected the hardware broadside of things, the squircle is the Galaxy Watch 8's main talking point.

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