Samsung Gear Fit Review: The Perfect Wearable Dream That Still Needs Time

Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit: Features

First of all, those of you who are planning to strike a comparison between the Gear Fit and the previously released Samsung Gear 2, know that both are different in their own different ways. And moreover, while the Gear 2 was meant for a wide array of features, the Gear Fit is only concerned about your overall health.

Samsung Gear Fit Review: The Perfect Wearable Device

All that being said, the main thing that you will notice is the way notifications are presented via the Gear Fit. The first thing that will indeed impress you is the way SMSs and Emails will be presented to you on the device. And it will be so comfortable that you will actually forget that there's a phone inside your pocket also managing the same.

The Fit also offers a selection of "quick reply" messages that you can make use of instantly, provided you don't have access to your phone at that very moment. Another feature called "Find My Phone" is also quite a nifty little feature that will find your Bluetooth enabled phone from the vicinity.

However, the feature that will attract most is the media controller feature where users can change a specified track or song without even taking the phone out of his or her pocket. And it's quite a treat provided you are jogging hard and suddenly feel the urge to change the music to go with your mood.

Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit: Interface and Fitness Features

It's quite needless to say at this point that the Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit is quite a beautiful and vibrant piece of gear that allows users to even change the device's background per user wish.

Note that in order to make the Gear Fit work, users will need to download the Gear Fit Manager on any of the 18 supported devices. Once done, users will then be able to customize the Fit via the app.

Users will also need to pair the device with Samsung's new fitness app, S Health, and need to enter a few personal health-related personal details such as height, weight and others.

Apart from that, externally, you will notice that it's extremely easy to navigate through the OS and the interface since you will actually glide through it all. If users swipe the device from left right, they will get to experience all the built-in different applications such as Media Controller, Timer, Heart Rate, Sleep (tracking), Pedometer and more.

Moving into the inside of the device, the Fit comes embedded with an accelerometer and a gyroscope, although its biggest feature remains to be its heart-rate monitor. However, in order to measure your heart rate, you have to be perfectly still and give it a bit of time. If you keep moving around while measuring, the device will give you a notification saying you are moving around or clean the sensor and try again. And because of the sensitivity of it all, the device's reading can be quite fluctuating at times and could also make it question the device's levels of accuracy.

There's also a basic pedometer built inside the Fit which you can keep running all day long in the background to track your movement throughout the day. Sadly enough, you will have to take the pain of manually switching it on, though.

While there's also a sleep tracker present in the device, on the Gear Fit, the sleep tracking feature is quite limited, sadly. You'll have to provide it with information on when you're going to sleep and when you wake up. It will then tell you how long you slept for, which is not really something necessary.