Introduced a few months ago, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch is aimed at making you more efficient at work, help manage incoming notifications better, and improve your workout among some of its benefits. But besides basic functions for tracking your fitness and reducing the number of times you have to pick up your smartphone, the Watch also lets you be entertained in a number of ways.
Let’s start by taking a look at some of the engaging games available for Samsung Gear devices and the Galaxy Watch.
If your urge of excelling at shooting games like PUBG is keeping you awake and anxious almost every night, you can offer your heart some respite by playing this harmless and easy-to-play game.
Richly inspired by the iconic game Flappy Birds, this game could be really addictive. All you need to do is tap the screen repeatedly to keep the bird in air, dodge obstacles in the form of walls, and (hopefully) make your way to freedom.
3. Snake Circle
The chance that you have not played the historically celebrated Snake game on an old phone is very lean. Now, using the Galaxy Watch, you can relive moments of nostalgia but with a spin.
Almost every child who grew up before smartphones took over the world must remember filling back pages of their notebooks with tic tac toe. With the upsurge of touch displays, games like tic tac toe have been immensely popular for their basic gameplay but Gear Tac Toe takes it a notch further.
Gear Tac Toe is available for Galaxy Watch and lets you play against the computer or any other player in grids of 3×3 or 5×5. Further, you can choose a difficulty level of easy, medium, or hard, and get ready to embrace the spirit of Christmas with wreaths and candy canes.
As a game meant to keep you engaged in feeding a monkey, this game can be viewed metaphorically on many different levels. The idea of the game is to evade obstacles and keep the monkey well fed while climbing up an endlessly long tree trunk.
Tetris, the landmark brick matching game, has been adapted for a variety of systems and display, and Gear Bricks is its adaptation for the Galaxy Watch. To move the tiles left or right, you can use the circular dial on the Galaxy Watch and turn the block at 90 degrees by tapping on it.
Besides these gripping games which we saw above, the Galaxy watch also supports several useful apps which allow you to accomplish much without pulling the phone out of your pocket. Let’s take a look at some of the best and free-of-cost apps you can find for the Galaxy Watch.
The self-explanatory name is adequate to inform you that Player4Youtube is designed to let you play YouTube videos directly on your wrist. Using the T9 keyboard, you can look up for your any videos, and the app finds the right fit based on your search keywords.
You don’t need to sign in with your Google account, and the app only lets you search and play videos without any option to seek them. But you can tap on the YouTube icon when the video is being played and it launches a web version of YouTube, bringing controls like play/pause, seek bar, and playback volume.
If you’re hungry for some urgent news or want to search something vague but momentarily important on Google – or other regionally dominant search engines, the Gear Browser app could be an ideal solution for your curiosity.
One caveat here is that while the dial can be used to zoom in or out on the opened webpage, it cannot be used for scrolling the page. Nonetheless, I find the app immensely useful and handy, especially when my smartphone is on charging and I have to search something urgently.
Uber offers an official companion app for Samsung Gear smartwatches and the Galaxy Watch. You will be required to You can set a group of favorite destinations like your home, work, or favorite shopping destination using a dedicated Android app.
4. Wrist Flashlight
This one is the most convenient apps available for Samsung smartwatches including the Galaxy Watch. The purpose of the app is to give you ample light to find your way through the home without bumping your pinky toe.
Lately, there have been several concerns about the quality of air, especially in the NCR region. Air365 is an app which lets users be aware of the existing air quality index (AQI), which is a number indicative of how safe or hazardous is the air outside.
With Air365, Galaxy Watch gives you an easy preview of the AQI based on the GPS location of your smartwatch. You can also determine the quality of air using a map view and add favorite locations. Lastly, you also get an option to activate daily alerts so that the app informs you of the breathability of the air around you before you step out of the house.
Specially designed for shutterbugs and selfie enthusiasts, this app allows using the Galaxy Watch as a wireless camera controller. Using Camera One, you can peek at what’s shown in the viewfinder, switch between the front and the rear camera, use only the watch to take pictures or videos.
To be able to use the full version, you’ll be required to buy the full version for Rs 149.
In my recent review of the Galaxy Watch, I have come to admire its functionality, considering that its user interface is very smooth and the overall experience is pleasant. This is especially valid while using the Galaxy Watch with a Samsung smartphone.
