Wide somewhat thin smartwatch, SK42, disappointed (p)review

Just got this, that on paper looks nice – but those are lies…

Unfortunately the advertised 7mm thickness is free fantasy in Samsung style…  🙁
It is 9.6mm at the 24mm wide flat back, or should we call it a 0.6mm protrusion? Outside that it is slanted from 9.0mm next to it down to 8.2mm at the edge.

it is ø47.9 mm and a whooping 53.7mm long. And has a ø1.53″ or ø39mm display under a 44.8mm glass with curved edges. So a rather huge 4.45mm bezel ring, of which 2.9mm is under the glass.
The display was advertised as 1.65″, that is a lie too!, it is 1.53″, so 14% lesser area!!. And though that still is a fairly large display, it really isn’t compared to the case size!

Though in general the advertising should be praised for NOT faking the bezels less than they are in the images, as most ads do.

I bought the black one, and it is a rather deep shiny black, so not easy to photograph, but the ad-renderings actually looks really close to reality.
Here a crop for the back

I squeezed it in as number four here, (removing a 2022 watch from the list)

H06 DA09 GX03 SK42 T82024/T8Pro T8mini DW01 MT55/MT56 TN88
Screen coverage 67% 71% 75% 66% 61% 57% 65% 62% 61%
Bezels 3.7mm 3.4mm 3.5mm 4.45mm 4.7mm 4.9mm 4.0mm 4.9mm 5.1mm
Bezel under glass 2.5mm 2.8mm 2.5mm 2.9mm 3.3mm 3.4mm 2.9mm 3.0mm 3.0mm
Display diameter 1.32″ 1.43″ 1.75″ 1.53″ 1.32″ 1.19″ 1.32″ 1.43″ 1.43″
Case diameter 41.0mm 43.1mm 51.4mm 47.9mm 43.0mm 40.0mm 41.6mm 46.2mm 46.5mm
Case length 46.5mm 48.8mm 54.4mm 53.7mm 48.2mm 46.0mm 47.7mm 52.2mm 53.0mm

It claims my wooden table currently has a heart rate of 85bpm, SpO2 of 99% and PB 131/77… so I guess no further testing is really needed…
It’s software reminds a lot of the NX31/NX21 that was far from impressive…

They offer 207 dials, most are very far from my liking, I might have considered one or two of them….

 

Frankly it will be hard to find any reason for it over the GX03… that is 0.7mm or 1% longer, but has an over 30% larger display!!, and is substantially thinner .

It came with four bands (fake-leather, silicone and steel in the box, and an additional outside the box, as well as a small tool for removing links from bands)

But frankly I do not think I will bother even mounting one of them, but lay it to rest in its box, and accept it as $35 wasted money…