Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. In a few days, the evolution of the Smartwatch will be complete. No tiny little rectangle tied to a locked down OS. No more bulky, thick, case with a passing resemblance to a classic high end wristwatch. The Galaxy Watch 4 (I will be getting the Classic version) is a premium regular watch look alike that is a like a computer on the wrist. It will be faster, sleeker, and have more functions than some notebook computers. It will have bio-metric sensors that rival a well equipped medical lab, and, alas, will, among other things, measure the body fat index. I hate that index. In the near future, it will likely measure blood sugar, and the watches already measure heartrate, do a competent ECG, measure blood pressure, and other things. All this in addition to regular text, email, web browsing, telephone calls, and much more. Want to know the population of Katmandu? Just ask. This all comes in a package that costs under $500, and, if you want the phone features, another $10 to $15 a month. I predicted that these wrist computers would go mainstream in the future. The future is now. In a final nod to uniformity, Samsung has merged Tizen and Wear OS into the OneUI Watch OS, which combines the best features of both. The countdown begins.

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