As a part of yesterday’s Unpacked event, Samsung introduced the new Galaxy Watch 9 with an updated design, new Qualcomm chip, bigger batteries, and a price that has increased over last year’s model.
Samsung’s Best Galaxy Watch 9 pre-order deal
With prices being higher, we were curious how they’d approach pre-order deals and if they might go big or keep things tame, like they did with the Galaxy S26 launch. As it turns out, they are giving a pretty large trade-in discount that drops the Galaxy Watch 9 to as low as $129.99.
Samsung is running the same $250-off trade-in deal that they are slapping on the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2. Because this watch is so much cheaper, that’s how we get down to $129.99 for the 40mm WiFi model. The same discount applies to 44mm and LTE models too, so doing math there gets us to the following price breakdown:
| Model | Retail Price | Trade-in Price |
| Galaxy Watch 9 (40mm, WiFi) | $379.99 | $129.99 |
| Galaxy Watch 9 (44mm, WiFi) | $409.99 | $159.99 |
| Galaxy Watch 9 (40mm, LTE) | $429.99 | $179.99 |
| Galaxy Watch 9 (44mm, LTE) | $459.99 | $209.99 |
Obviously, you’ll need to trade a Galaxy Watch Ultra to get the full $250 off. Have another watch? You can check your trade value here, but other top values include the Galaxy Watch 8 at $150, Watch 7 at $130, and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro at $100.
Why buy the Galaxy Watch 9?
Because it makes the most sense, unless you need the excessiveness that is the Watch Ultra 2. Look, this thing has Qualcomm’s brand new chip that should be the best smartwatch chip in the industry. The Watch 9 and Ultra 2 are the only watches with this chip.
It also has one of the nicest designs of any smartwatch, holds bigger batteries, tracks every health metric you can think of, runs Wear OS 7 and One UI 9 Watch out of the box, will get 5 years of software support, hits all the durability marks, and can be had for hundreds and hundreds less than most smartwatches.
