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Samson's got a new phone but they've also got a new watch the Samsung Galaxy watch with an unspecified price and release date is here at Samsung's unpacked event now if you've been following Samsung watches there was a gear sport last year and before that other gear watches but there's a name change now and the Samsung Galaxy watch comes in two different sizes 42 and 46 millimeters this I'm wearing the 42 right now and it comes in black it comes in silver and it comes in gold the 46 comes in black and silver now it has kind of the similar dimensions on the front to the gear sport it has water resistance for swimming it also has the ability to play music it has LTE if you want it for a standalone connection and the battery life is supposed to be improved up to several days on a charge through a combination of better battery and a more optimized processor Samsung is already partnering with Spotify and in fact on this watch and it's also on the Samsung Galaxy home speaker and the idea is to integrate that through the phone and have it all work seamlessly there's also a few new health features on here there are 39 different exercise modes and there's also six different auto detect exercises and there's also a stress mode which might be good for me right now that is able to measure my heart rate in general stress level and if there's a lot of situations going on which there probably is it then recommends that I start breathing also like before their sleep tracking now that's not a new feature Samsung's done sleep tracking before but Apple watch doesn't have sleep tracking and Google's wear OS does not have sleep tracking yet as a built-in feature so that's a stand out here Samsung's bixby which is also continually being positioned as an all-in-one assistant across multiple devices will be the go-to assistant on Samsung Galaxy watch as always there's a rotating bezel on top this has been Samsung's most unique quality on its watches and the watch has a nice clean design were easily replaceable watch straps it feels a bit thicker Samsung's newest Galaxy watch arrives August 24 just before Google and app are expected to reveal new watches of the round it costs $330 for the 42 millimeter version and 350 for the 46 millimeter but that's just bluetooth LTE versions would be sold at a later date for an unspecified price smart speaker space is getting pretty crowded Samsung is entering it with the Samsung Galaxy home this device doesn't have a release date or a price but it was shown here at Samsung's event in Brooklyn it looks a little bit larger than the home pod and almost kind of looks like a barbecue kettledrum it's made along with EKG and it has Samsung's bixby assistant onboard for listening and connecting to the rest of your home it has six speakers and eight microphones it's meant to also be able to follow you around the room and direct audio it has Dolby Atmos and it's going to be competing against Apple home pod Google's smart speakers everything from Alexa and Google home and just this growing field of speakers Samsung's will also have Spotify which is a partner service that also works of course on the note 9 but also on Samsung Galaxy watch we're gonna have more on this to come really all you can see here was a demo of the units and seeing them all lined up in a row it's four night four nights hitting Android an open beta in just a matter of days but if you were a Samsung device owner you could download fortnight now and begin playing it and here it is on the samsung galaxy note 9 if you're curious I'm sky diving and by the way I'm absolutely terrible at fortnight but a lot of other people might be better than me it's been available on iOS for a while Android owners are going to get their hands on it and if you happen to get a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 or a tab for you can also get a skin for fortnight if you're into that the screen actually is it's nice to play on a large screen and crash into a tree I think some people have actually been downloading fortnight here even though they weren't originally on the nine phones so we found a unit that has foreign aid on it and we're giving it a play seriously the 6.4 inches this it's much better to play on mobile I would say on a screen that is basically about the same size as a Nintendo switch it goes without saying it's gonna hit Android for everyone so for tonight is not a reason to get a Samsung device but it is available a few days earlier if you're curious