I received the Gear Fit as a Father's Day gift and I have rarely taken it off since. The device is stylish to wear, practical, light weight, and functional.
Pros:
First, I like that this is a watch and not simply a fitness device. I would not wear it if it was not a watch. I like that it is not heavy or bulky and it fits nicely on my wrist. This makes it easy to wear at night in order to track my sleep. Also, once you set up an alarm on your phone, the watch will vibrate on your wrist to wake you up. This is a very effective way to be woken up, and it will not disturb your spouse with any audible noise.
The Gear Fit charges very quickly. I was at 15% battery this morning and the watch gave me a low battery warning. I plugged it in and was fully charged in an hour's time. Furthermore, the my watch will last for 3-4 days on a full charge from being on night and day with average usage.
It functions very well as an overall fitness tracker especially in conjunction with Samsung's S Health app. Together, these can monitor water consumption, sleep habits, heart rate, blood pressure, steps, exercise, sports activities, weight, and many other health factors. Some of these have to be input manually and some sync automatically with S Health through the Gear Fit.
As some reviews have stated, the Gear Fit is not a fully functioning smart watch. It does not function as a phone on your wrist. You can see who is calling and you can reject the call from the Fit but you cannot answer it. However, I do not see this as a con. I do not need a watch to be a phone. I have a phone. The watch acts as an extension of your phone giving a degree of control and functionality over your phone.
The look and style of the Gear Fit is very nice. It has a futuristic look without attracting too much attention. The resin band seems durable yet light weight. It is also very nice that the watch is water dirt resistant. When I am done exercising and sweating I simply rinse it off with mild soap and water.
Initial setup of the watch and the syncing of apps for notifications for texts, emails, phone calls, social media etc. was straight forward.
There are many things you can do to personalize and tweak your Gear Fit to look and behave like you want it to. You can import pictures from your phone to set as your wallpaper, change the color of the wallpaper to match your clothes or mood, turn on or off notifications as your desire. Choose what apps you want notifications from
Cons:
Sometimes the Gear Fit does not automatically sync with the S Health app. At first I wasn't sure how to fix this. Through some tinkering, I figured out that I sometimes need to go to device manager on my phone and close the S Health app. When I reopen it, it syncs immediately with the Gear Fit importing any new data. I don't know why it does this periodically, but the fix is easy enough.
I am not a big guy and do not have a big wrist but I wear the Gear Fit almost near the end. There are only four holes left before it cannot adjust any larger. So I don't think this watch will fit someone with a large wrist.
The Gear Fit is awkward if it is worn like a traditional watch and viewed horizontally. It requires you to turn your wrist at an awkward angle to view anything other than the time. There are two fixes for this: 1) You could wear the Fit on the inside of your wrist. This makes the viewing much easier; or 2) Change the display orientation to vertical. This allows you to wear the watch with the face on top of your wrist and makes viewing and reading the screen much easier.
Overall, I really like the Samsung Gear Fit. It has jump started me on the road back to a healthier lifestyle, it looks cool, and does exactly what I need it to do. And all this without putting a huge dent in the bank account.
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Samsung Gear Fit Smart Watch
The advanced curved Super AMOLED touchscreen display and interchangeable bands of Samsung Gear Fit make you look cool even during the most strenuous of activities.
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Simple InteractionSamsung Gear Fit allows you to easily control basic functions, such as, reject calls with messages, quick reply to messages and control alarms. |
Personalised Fitness MotivatorWith the Heart Rate Sensor, Samsung Gear Fit gives you real time coaching to actively support and motivate you to achieve your fitness goals. Note: Some Samsung Lifestyle / Fitness applications and related services available for Samsung wearable devices may not be compatible with Samsung tablet device. |
24/7 WearableAlways-on activity tracking of Samsung Gear Fit keeps track of your activites throughout the day and is prepared for any adventure with its dust and water resistant protection (IP67). |
Customisable Themes
Samsung Gear Fit offers you a variety of background colours, wallpapers, and clock designs for you to set according to your taste.
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Connected NotificationSamsung Gear Fit equips you with instant notifications of emails, SMS, incoming calls, and 3rd party apps. |
Features- Enjoy comfortable lightweight design with changeable wrist bands. - Choose your favourite background colour, wallpaper and clock style. - See instant notifications and interact with your connected device. - Improve your fitness with the S Health app and heart rate monitor. |
App and Device CompatibilitySamsung Gear Fit is compatible with a number of Galaxy smartphones and tablets plus a variety of 3rd party apps keeps you connected with your devices. Note: Applications and related services available for your Samsung wearable may not be compatible with devices that do not support the Samsung Gear Manager or Gear Fit Manager application.Samsung Gear Manager is available on the Gear, Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo. Gear Fit Manager is available on the Gear Fit. |
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Well, upon opening the box I was instantly disappointed. I paid more for a gear fit that was supposed to be "like new". What I've seen so far: the silver outline around the face is really nicked up, which is fine. The wrist band, however, is filthy- between the ridges and a BUNCH of gunk around where the band is supposed to fasten. It's literally disgusting. The screen has a bunch of white marks/scratches all over it. I'm really hoping that there's just a protector/film (that's really hard to get off..) covering the screen that has the scratches on it, and not the screen itself. Can't speak on the battery right now, as it is charging... which feels like it's taking a while. I bought this to replace the one I had that disappeared. That one was a hand-me-down and was in wayyy better condition than this! Honestly "like new" had better AT LEAST apply to its functionality, because it absolutely DOES NOT apply to its physical appearance. Honestly, I don't know if I can bring myself to keep it. "Like new" is false advertising and I feel so deceived. I LOVE Amazon, but I'm not even sure if I can trust to order another one from y'all. It's been charging for like 45min and it's only gotten to 41%, and I find that concerning. My other one did not take this long to charge, even when it was ON. With everything else I've seen, I would be surprised if there was no issues anywhere on the screen when I do turn it on. I'm really only going to do it out of curiosity at this point. The more I look at it, the more upset I get. Can't believe they thought this was "like new". Pretty good chance that I'm returning this thing. Can I clean it up? Yah, maybe I can get some stuff off. I shouldn't have to scrape gunk or something that's supposed to be "like new", that's the thing. Especially when I paid more for it to be "put of the box new". Super super disappointed </3Update 3/29/19: the white scratches were indeed on a screen protector, which would've been nice to have if it didn't have the white all over it. Had to take it off. The band was still disgusting and I had to scrape everything off it. I noticed with this one, that it will randomly disconnect from my phone. And it is an absolute PAIN to get connected again. I've been sitting here with it RIGHT next to my phone for 5min for it to reconnect, and the Gear Fit manager is just clocking. Still. I can't even leave my room without bringing my phone, for fear it will disconnect and I have to go through this again. My original one would disconnect when out of range, then reconnect automatically once I was close enough. So simple. This one I have to go into the app and forcibly reconnect and it takes forever. This morning, it disconnected for literally no reason, as I haven't had my phone out of range all day. I'm still trying, but it has yet to reconnect. I am really frustrated because it really defeats the purpose of making things easier to have to mess with it all the time when I shouldn't have to. To be honest, I'm only keeping it because at this point I'm afraid of getting one that's worse if I try to exchange. Really sad and disappointed. Probably my worst Amazon experience thus far.Update: 4/5/19 I've been trying to get this thing to reconnect to my phone for 30min! THIRTY. MINUTES. It really defeats the purpose of CONVENIENCE when this happens, which is often. If I leave the room and forget my phone I'm stuck trying to force it to reconnect OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Because of course it won't connect on the first try. I absolutely loved the first one I had, this one is such a complete and utter disappointment. I'm going to have customer service contact me, though I don't know if they can do much for me. If not, it's getting returned. I'm so sick of this.
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