Galaxy Watch 4 gets an exclusive Walkie Talkie app

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Samsung has a more complete smartwatch experience than any other Wear OS watch that has ever hit the market, and now that it’s available for purchase, that experience is only expanding. This week, Samsung launched a new “Walkie Talkie” app for the Galaxy Watch 4 which is now available for download.

Released via the Play Store as it’s a Wear OS app, Samsung’s new “Walkie Talkie” app is a pretty straightforward offering. Once installed, the app asks for permissions including your contacts and microphone access, then asks you to invite a friend. You can use your contact list, which Samsung will automatically filter to find who else is registered in the app or search for anyone around you who is using the app.

Specifically, this app requires a SIM card in the phone and uses the phone number on that device to function and search for contacts.

If you actually have someone to talk to, the app will allow you to tap on their name and then tap and hold to send a message. Incoming messages are also played through the app, presumably as soon as the message arrives.

The Walkie-Talkie app is an exclusive app for the Galaxy Watch, which allows two or more users to have instant conversations, just as if they were using a walkie-talkie. Create an instant Walkie-Talkie channel on your Galaxy Watch and instantly enjoy instant conversations with friends, colleagues or family who are in your contacts and use the watch.

The app, of course, was inspired by Apple’s similar “Walkie-Talkie” app on the Apple Watch. This feature was launched in 2019.

Unfortunately, the app doesn’t work on any other Wear OS device. It can only be installed on the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic via the Play Store with other Wear OS devices marked as incompatible. The app is likely to have the same Android 11+ requirements as Maps and YouTube Music. Of course, the app would be considerably more useful if it were also available on older Wear OS and Tizen smartwatches, but it also looks pretty the way it is.

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