By Lawrence Bonk
Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Watch 8 at its Unpacked event today. This is a fairly major redesign with some nifty-looking features. It boasts a smaller profile, with the company claiming it's the slimmest smartwatch it has ever made. It's 8.6mm thick, which makes it around 11 percent slimmer than the Watch 7.
It ships with a new test that gauges the levels of antioxidants in the body. This is done by leveraging optical sensors. We gave this feature a try in a hands-on demo and came away fairly shocked, as it gave us a low antioxidant rating. It remains unclear if the data was correct, but it did motivate our tester to eat more vegetables. We'll need more time with an actual review unit to run the feature through its paces.
The Galaxy Watch 8 series includes some other new software tools that we didn't get to try. These give insights into vascular load, guidance when running and bedtime suggestions.
It's also the first Samsung smartwatch to ship with Wear OS 6 and this software im