The watch comes with a high quality silicone strap, and takes standard 20mm watch bands. The Active 2 is water-resistant to a depth of 50 metres, and has a special water mode for preventing accidental activation and clearing the speaker of liquid when you come out.
Taps, swipes, a physical back button and an apps button take care of the rest. It’s a simple and effective control scheme that is well integrated into the whole of the system unlike digital crowns in Wear OS. Slide your finger around the edge to scroll through lists, between screens or adjust numbers, with little vibration clicks for each increment.
The thin bezel around the edge of the screen has a neat trick: it is touch sensitive and acts like a rotary controller similar to the spinning bezels on previous Samsung smartwatches.
SAMSUNG ACTIVE TIMER PLUS
It has a large, crisp and bright OLED screen that’s easily readable outdoors, plus an excellent selection of digital and analogue watch faces, and a large store of third-party offerings too. The 44mm version weighs just 30g without the strap, which is 6.5g lighter than the aluminium 44mm Apple Watch Series 5 and just one-third the weight of the Fossil Gen 5. The Active 2 comes in 40mm and 44mm sizes, both measuring 10.9mm thick. The Active 2 will easily slip under shirt cuffs and is fairly small and discreet for a smartwatch despite the large screen.