If you're looking for a SmartWatch which is small, can be used fitness-tracker hybrid, then the Samsung Gear Fit is an excellent choice. You can track your steps, monitor your heart rate and change music on your phone all while exercising. The Gear Fit is essentially an activity tracker that comes with a few of its SmartWatches cousins' functions. The unique design and easy-to-use interface and touchscreen make the Samsung Gear Fit fun to use.
You obviously need a Samsung device to use Gear Fit like any other wearables made by the Korean giants. For fitness tracking the Gear Fit has the requisite accelerometers to detect movement during exercise and act as a pedometer throughout the day. It also comes with a heart rate sensor, which requires you to manually start it to take a reading .
As a SmartWatch the Gear Fit mimics the capabilities of the Gear 2 and Gear Neo, passing alerts and notifications from your Samsung smartphone to the screen of the Gear Fit. From the screen you can quickly check what has arrived in your phone, and either dismiss it from your watch or select it and have the message brought to the foreground on your smartphone.
Samsung is rightly proud of the curved capacitive screen on the Gear Fit. It makes for a stylish looking watch, and one that doesn’t scream ‘nerdy SmartWatch’ on first glance. The UI can be switched between horizontal and vertical orientation depending on your preference. This is consistent across the built-in apps, and gives the Gear Fit a shallow learning curve.
The Gear Fit runs a different software to the Gear 2 and Gear Neo watches. The latter watches are powered by Samsung’s own Tizen software, and the Gear Fit is marked up as using a Real Time Operating System, RTOS. Given the extra measurements and inputs that the Gear Fit has to contend with, it is right that Samsung choose the correct software for the job.
I know that many people don't like long review articles because only confused themselves. Its hard to find the key points if i am writing a huge review on any gadgets, that's why i always prefer to write my review articles in a way where you only need to look at two/three things. I am going to mention the key features of Samsung Gear Fit, its advantages and disadvantages and that's all. Lets start
Samsung Gear Fit Key Features-
Samsung Gear Fit Disadvantages-
We see the Gear Fit as a successful enough compromise between a SmartWatch - for alerts to appear on your wrist - in a smaller, more compact build, coupled with activity tracking elements. But it has issues. As it's not an out-and-out SmartWatch it lacks the breadth of apps of the other Gear devices, battery life is so-so when using many of the features, there's no auto brightness feature which can render the display redundant in certain conditions and some of the tracking has questionable accuracy.
Overall the Gear Fit is a tricky one to place on the scoreboard. If you're after an activity tracker and less bothered about receiving notifications from your Samsung phone, then you will find some other activity trackers will offer more when it comes to fitness. But in terms of striking a balance, we've found the Fit to deliver what we've wanted the most from it: step tracking and notifications right on our wrist.
You obviously need a Samsung device to use Gear Fit like any other wearables made by the Korean giants. For fitness tracking the Gear Fit has the requisite accelerometers to detect movement during exercise and act as a pedometer throughout the day. It also comes with a heart rate sensor, which requires you to manually start it to take a reading .
As a SmartWatch the Gear Fit mimics the capabilities of the Gear 2 and Gear Neo, passing alerts and notifications from your Samsung smartphone to the screen of the Gear Fit. From the screen you can quickly check what has arrived in your phone, and either dismiss it from your watch or select it and have the message brought to the foreground on your smartphone.
Samsung is rightly proud of the curved capacitive screen on the Gear Fit. It makes for a stylish looking watch, and one that doesn’t scream ‘nerdy SmartWatch’ on first glance. The UI can be switched between horizontal and vertical orientation depending on your preference. This is consistent across the built-in apps, and gives the Gear Fit a shallow learning curve.
The Gear Fit runs a different software to the Gear 2 and Gear Neo watches. The latter watches are powered by Samsung’s own Tizen software, and the Gear Fit is marked up as using a Real Time Operating System, RTOS. Given the extra measurements and inputs that the Gear Fit has to contend with, it is right that Samsung choose the correct software for the job.
I know that many people don't like long review articles because only confused themselves. Its hard to find the key points if i am writing a huge review on any gadgets, that's why i always prefer to write my review articles in a way where you only need to look at two/three things. I am going to mention the key features of Samsung Gear Fit, its advantages and disadvantages and that's all. Lets start
Samsung Gear Fit Key Features-
- 1.84-inch curved Super AMOLED display
- IP67 dust and water resistant
- Inbuilt heart rate sensor
- SmartWatch is built in fitness tracker
- Design is great
- Nice & bright display, just like any other Galaxy S displays
- Dust and water resistant
- Almost perfect combination of fitness tracker and SmartWatch
- Heart rate integration for exercise activities
- Useful media controller
Samsung Gear Fit Disadvantages-
- Poor battery life [3-5 days, i am saying it poor by comparing other fitness tracker battery life]
- Data-logging issues with S Health
- Sleep tracking not very insightful
- Limited fitness features
- Extra charging component
- Compatible with Samsung Galaxy devices only
We see the Gear Fit as a successful enough compromise between a SmartWatch - for alerts to appear on your wrist - in a smaller, more compact build, coupled with activity tracking elements. But it has issues. As it's not an out-and-out SmartWatch it lacks the breadth of apps of the other Gear devices, battery life is so-so when using many of the features, there's no auto brightness feature which can render the display redundant in certain conditions and some of the tracking has questionable accuracy.
Overall the Gear Fit is a tricky one to place on the scoreboard. If you're after an activity tracker and less bothered about receiving notifications from your Samsung phone, then you will find some other activity trackers will offer more when it comes to fitness. But in terms of striking a balance, we've found the Fit to deliver what we've wanted the most from it: step tracking and notifications right on our wrist.
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