The best smart watch Samsung has made. The new OS if much improved. Battery life better but still needs to be improved. Classic Hybrid Band is very comfortable. The watch is quick and display in great. I can even use the watch speakers to listen to Spotify (if room is quite). Think the design is to big and still heavy. Also the sensors at night are to bright. If you compare to watch 7 which sucked, this watch is a homerun.
Caution, the bands run rather small... other than that the watch is much more substantial than last years model, with alot more functions that are user friendly.
Switching over from Watch 6 Classic was seamless. So far, everything I'm used to using is available; however, things like using the timer during workouts, it does not stay on top, where I can see the countdown, even with Always on Display enabled. The timer keeps hiding in the background. If this is a user or setting error, I am open to figuring out how to keep the timer visible on the screen while in use. Also, the supplied sports band is uncomfortable. For some reason, I am conscious of it and thought because I have a smaller wrist and selected the smaller band, perhaps that was the issue; however, even increasing the band makes it too loose and still annoys me. So essentially this is Watch 6 awesome with Watch 8 annoyances.