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Jun 23, 2023

Samsung has announced the latest in its Galaxy Watch family, and you can now pre-order them, and take advantage of some added benefits.

It's been a couple of long years since we last saw a Samsung smartwatch with a rotating bezel around the display, but with the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, the manufacturer has brought back the fan favourite feature. Samsung opened up pre-orders for the new watches as soon as the Unpacked presentation lifted, meaning you can place your order now and get your watch in time for launch. And - in classic Samsung style - there are some tempting freebies and trade-in offers available on its new products.

If you want to get the Galaxy Watch 6 or Watch 6 Classic in time for the 11 August launch date, the best way is by heading on over to Samsung.com and pre-ordering from there.

The Galaxy Watch 6 is available to pre-order now and will ship by 11 August, plus you can get a free fabric band if you put your order in early.

Whether you order the regular Galaxy Watch 6 or Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, Samsung is offering early adopters a free additional fabric watch strap when they place their pre-orders, plus up to $250 off if you trade in your existing smartwatch.

Pre-order the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic and you'll get a free additional fabric strap when included when it's shipped to you on 11 August.

There are a few changes from previous versions of the Galaxy Watch, but the biggest - and most obvious - is the display. Whether you get the small or large model of Galaxy Watch 6 or Watch 6 Classic, you're getting a larger display with skinnier bezels. Place them side-by-side with the Galaxy Watch 5 models, and it's the change that stands out the most.

Both versions have the latest BioActive sensor system that can monitor heart-rate, Sp02, ECG and feature advanced sleep tracking and coaching for those who struggle to get consistent, deep sleep. The temperature sensor has been activated too, offering insights into your basal body temperature and helping track menstrual cycles and can advise on when you're ovulating and when your fertile window is. Of course, you get GPS for route-tracking, motion sensors for pace and running posture/performance, and a body composition sensor to inform you of your fat, muscle and water breakdown.

Samsung has also enabled a custom heart-rate zone feature so that you can ensure that its training advice and guidance is based on your personal heart-rate limits, and not based on a pre-set scale that may not be accurate or relevant to your efforts or training.

What's great for this year is that - regardless of whether you buy the regular or classic - there's a small model and a large model. In the case of the regular version that's either 40mm or 44mm, and with the Classic it's 43mm or 47mm.

Both models feature all the same performance, hardware and fitness capabilities, so when choosing between them you're really just choosing whether you want the simpler, sportier-looking watch or the model that looks more like a traditional timepiece and has that rotating bezel around the outside of the display.

With prices starting from $299 in the US, and with some tempting pre-order freebies and decent trade-in prices, there's a lot to like about the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and plenty of reasons to order it early.

Cam has worked in online tech reporting since 2010. His responsibilities at Pocket-lint include producing and hosting quality, personable and informative YouTube videos on our growing channel as well as writing reviews and features. Prior to Pocket-lint he honed his video skills at PhoneDog, and wrote for 9to5Google.Other roles have seen him start projects from zero and grow their audience - covering Google, Apple and T-Mobile in depth. In that time, his areas of focus and expertise have mostly been smartphones and wearables, but he has a musician’s ear and is equally adept at judging headphones and audio products. He’s a graduate in Film and TV Production, and in his spare time, he’s usually running, playing the guitar, doing yoga or training in the arts of movie and coffee snobbery.