BP works in other regions now, but initially it was those two and it took like a year to expand and only to a few countries.

Same, my 4 Classic has it as well (NC). The first time I used it I thought it was a heart rate monitor 🤡. It's definitely an ECG.

Yup, set this up last week in Canada. Pretty accurate

That's already a thing. There are Samsung gear apps that link to a continuous glucose monitor

Hmm. I never did any sort of workaround. My 4 Classic just came with ECG out of the box. I live in and purchased it in California.

BP works fine for me in Denmark (Europe), where are you located since you think only US and Korea gets it?

Not since they used a home button.

Do you by chance know the work around? I've been trying but couldn't figure it out.

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I have one of those, and it's great, but it's still not quite "there yet". The corrective algorithm takes extreme precautions against dropping your blood sugar below normal levels, which is understandable, but it means that it's sluggish at dealing with high blood sugar.

But that's the "administering directly" part. The tech for "real-time monitoring" is pretty mature at this point, but it still requires you to inject something under your skin and wear a patch with a Bluetooth transmitter on it. It expires every 10 days and has a 2-hour warmup period where you also can't get readings. In terms of benefit vs. inconvenience, it's still well worth it, but a noninvasive means of measuring blood sugar would still be an improvement.

If watches don’t measure blood pressure what have I been seeing on watches out already? Ex. iHealth? Doesn’t Garmin make one with a BP monitor as well?

If this can accurately monitor my blood sugar, my medical costs would go from $1,000+ every single year to a single watch payment. That’s pretty beneficial to me.

That doesn’t even include that it would take away the process of inserting and removing the thing every few days like I have to with my current device.

It's a US thing. They couldn't get approval from the FDA or something. It's on there. People were using some workaround.

Ehhh…you ever see what Samsung phones looked like before the iPhone? When they got rid of the headphone jack? Overall form factor and style? If your talking about foldable shit sure, but even their watch is a look back at apple’s.

Are they?

I feel like this is definitely not the case. Apple trails pretty much the entire industry in features. They just dominate by holding off until the features actually work well enough to be worth it.

Samsung generally is at the forefront of new features, but they aren't always well known or advertised because Samsung doesn't always have full confidence in their reliability.

Is the voice line to confirm the correct placement of the accessory!

Cool. My bad

He said they’ve been trying to get touchID reworking for half a decade. It’s literally the last sentence of his post.

Referring to blood glucose monitor and not fingerprint reader

And they’re carried over to the supplier, not amazon.

Why even bother talk if you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about?

Yep

They’re all doing it in a hurry to beat Apple. We all know deep inside Apple takes its time to do it right. $am$sung 🤣🤣🤣.

Absolutely zero chance Samsung has that in their watch in the next five years. And even then, I'm sure it'll have a disclosure that it shouldn't be used for medical treatment purposes. They've been talking about putting a blood glucose monitor into a watch forever now. Galaxy watch 4 was supposed to have it and it didn't.

I'd probably get one out of curiosity if it actually works.

No, even if it costs less to clean, refurbish, repackage etc the profit margins are so small that it’s not worth the time so it goes in the trash. There’s plenty of articles about it, the waste is gross.