FCC filing: Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 will support rapid charging

• FCC filings suggest that Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 range will have faster charging.
• The Galaxy Watch 4 only supports 10W charging, compared to the previous 40W version’s 12W.
• The files also validate the watches’ fundamental connection features, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

If the new watches require daily power-ups, adding quick charging might help Samsung avoid similar concerns, especially given the Galaxy Watch 4 takes approximately two hours to charge from zero to 100%. It’s a feature that many other smartwatches have as well. Fast charging was added to Fossil’s Wear OS watches some years ago, and Apple added it to its Series 7 watch last year.

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Aside from consumer concerns, there are a variety of reasons why Samsung could prioritise a greater battery life. To begin, there’s sleep tracking. Samsung — and Apple — have lagged behind Fitbit and other activity trackers in this area because their smartwatches frequently don’t last the night without a fast charge before bed.

Although sleep monitoring isn’t everyone’s first concern, it is becoming a more popular function and an area in which Samsung appears to be interested. It added a coaching programme to its sleep tracking tools in February. However, it’s difficult to create an impact if your sleep tracker doesn’t make it till the morning.

Another explanation might be the Galaxy Watch 5’s all-but-confirmed “Pro” version. This watch is said to have a 572mAh battery with charging speeds that, by today’s standards, would be turtle-like. This time around, the regular Galaxy Watch 5 versions are also said to have bigger batteries. The Galaxy Watch 4’s two-hour charging period wasn’t great to begin with, and extending it further would be a huge mistake.

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Samsung’s wearables are normally released in late summer, so we won’t have to wait long to learn more about the Galaxy Watch 5 range. It’s critical for Samsung to do this right. Given that the Galaxy Watch 4 was — and still is — the only Wear OS 3 wristwatch available last year, there was some leeway. In a few months, that will not be the case.

Not only is Google likely to release its own Pixel Watch later this autumn (which is said to lack quick charging), but certain existing Wear OS 2 watches are also expected to receive an upgrade to Wear OS 3 before the end of the year. On the wearable front, Android users are set to gain more alternatives than they’ve ever had before. Samsung doesn’t have to nail multi-day battery life, but it can’t afford to fail miserably when it comes to rapid charging. Not if it wants to keep up with the competition.