What it’s essential to know
- WinFuture claims that the Galaxy Watch 8 will price as much as €50 extra in Germany, whereas the Watch 8 Basic will even bounce about €50.
- The Galaxy Watch Extremely (2025) will stay at €699 like final yr’s mannequin.
- For context, the Galaxy Watch 7 price $299 / £289 / €319, whereas the Watch 6 Basic 47mm price $429/ £399 / €449.
Data from European retailers means that the Galaxy Watch 8 is about to get the primary sequence worth enhance in two years, bringing it nearer in step with rivals like Apple and Google.
In line with WinFuture, the Galaxy Watch 8 40mm and 44mm fashions will price “round €40-50 greater than earlier than,” with this estimate “transformed from overseas costs.”
On condition that 40 euros at present equates to about $47, we may see a good bounce in worth from the $299 Galaxy Watch 7, diversified by area. Previously, the Galaxy Watch 5 price $30 greater than the Watch 4, whereas the Watch 6 price $20 greater than the Watch 5. Value inflation is not unusual on this lineup.
The leaked data additionally means that the Galaxy Watch 8 Basic will price “slightly below €500,” a few €50 bounce over the Watch 6 Basic 47mm. Nevertheless, the Galaxy Watch Extremely (2025) is claimed to have an unchanged price ticket of €699, or $649 within the U.S.
Leaked renders of the Galaxy Watch 8 sequence in latest weeks have proven a major redesign for the sequence, with a extra square-shaped case throughout the lineup. However this report appears to recommend the case sizing will stay the identical as final yr, and that the Watch 8 can have doubled storage (64GB). Different specs stay a thriller, for now.
Why a Galaxy Watch 8 worth enhance appears doubtless
This report would not affirm that the Watch 8 will get a worth enhance, however it appears doubtless given the present financial local weather. Samsung’s newest earnings name referenced its challenges coping with U.S. tariffs, and Samsung’s peripheral gross sales may have to choose up the slack if Galaxy telephones are hit with a 25% tax.
Rising these costs additionally makes the returning Galaxy Watch Extremely with its unchanged worth look barely much less costly. If the Watch 8 Basic prices about $450–500, the bounce to $650 for the Extremely would possibly look much less onerous to some patrons than it did from $300.
Samsung may additionally attempt to append a Samsung Well being subscription on high of the Galaxy Watch 8; a Samsung senior VP of well being mentioned final week that it was “exploring” placing “superior teaching options” behind a premium paywall. This may increasingly not occur anytime quickly, however it’ll make Samsung Well being extra like Fitbit Premium or Apple Health Plus.
In the end, Samsung is aware of that the Galaxy Watch 8 will nonetheless price lower than the $399 Apple Watch Sequence 10, regardless of this alleged worth hike. The $349 Google Pixel Watch 3 and OnePlus Watch 3 are its greatest Put on OS rivals, so it is doable that Samsung will match them or barely undercut them.
We’ll discover out for sure at Summer season Galaxy Unpacked 2025, which is formally scheduled for July 9 at 10 a.m. ET. We additionally count on to see the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 7 on the occasion, together with the long-teased Undertaking Moohan headset and new Galaxy Buds.