Samsung made a bold step last year by ditching its own Tizen OS for watches and moving over to Google's Wear OS

with its own One UI skin on top. The bet was big, but it seems like it's paying off because the appetite for Galaxy smartwatches

has remained steady. And you get considerably better integration with your Android smartphone.

This year, the company made another bold move - removing the rotating bezel from the Classic model and renaming it to Pro.

Now, the lineup consists of the Galaxy Watch5 and the Watc5 Pro. There's still the virtual bezel control, but the physical one will be missed.

Hardware-wise, there are few changes in place, but they are more than welcome. The Pro modelhas almost twice the battery capacity

compared to its direct predecessor, now 590 mAh. The vanilla Watch5 also gets a bigger battery,

but the upgrade is relatively modest - 410 mAh from 361 mAh - at least as far as the 44mm is concerned.

Another upgrade worth noting is that the new Watch5 series have a sapphire crystal protecting the display and the Watch5 Pro