The Fit itself doesn’t work as a media player, but it can be used as a shortcut for controlling whatever is playing on your phone or tablet. We also found the Fit, being somewhat more bulky than most health wristbands, could be noticeable while we were trying to sleep. Happily, putting the Gear Fit into sleep mode automatically mutes notifications and alerts, though you need to remember to manually enable and disable it when you go to bed and then get up in the morning. Neither can you set sleep-phase linked alarms, which on other wearables promise to wake you at the optimum time. There’s no tracking of light and deep phase sleep through the night, and no suggestions as to what you might want to do to improve the quality of your sleep overall. It’s also considerably more rudimentary than what we’ve seen on dedicated fitness bands like UP24, effectively showing you how long you were asleep for, and how much of the time you were lying still. Sleep tracking is a more recent addition to the Gear Fit, landing in the latest firmware update.
A coaching service triggered through S Health prompts you to stay in the optimum exercise zone with alerts and vibrations on Fit, though since it’s based in part on the heart-rate sensor it sometimes got confused. Similarly, GPS is used for tracking runs and hikes.Īctually making sense of those logs is more cumbersome than, say, the apps Fitbit and Jawbone offer, and there’s minimal context made of the numbers to actually encourage behavioral change to make you more healthy. You can also switch it into cycling mode, though since that relies on GPS – from the tethered phone – to track your movement it’s no use if you’re on a stationary bike at the gym. S Health collates the pedometer count from the Gear Fit, as well as pulse, and then allows you to manually log your diet. There are various presets to choose between – controlled by Samsung’s Gear Fit Manager app, which also allows you to adjust the order of the menu structure, pick a weather location, and change sync frequency.īy now many of us have a near-Pavlovian reaction to our smartphone beeping or buzzing, so there’s something liberating about being able to spring into action from our wrist. Samsung’s default wallpaper shows off the AMOLED panel well, though we quickly switched over to a slightly more subdued black background. Swipe through, and you find menus for fitness functionality, notifications, media control, settings, Find My Device, and finally the timer, stopwatch, and sleep mode. Usually, you get the current time and date, as well as the weather, though a count of steps or the next entries in your calendar can be optionally shown instead.
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Although Samsung originally showed it with only a horizontal UI, and swiftly came in for criticism because of it, a subsequent firmware update added a vertical mode, which is far easier to read while on the wrist. Navigation through the menu structure is by a combination of taps and swipes, with the Fit usually showing a single row of icons that are sized well for a fingertip. That arguably makes it the feature-phone of wearables, though out of the box there’s still a fair amount you can do.
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That means, while third-party developers can already download the Tizen SDK and start building apps for Gear 2, they can’t do the same for Gear Fit. Whereas the smartwatches each run Tizen, the Fit has a proprietary OS pared down to maximize battery life. We said the Gear Fit was less flexible than its Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo siblings, and the most conspicuous reason is its OS. Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy S4 mini, Galaxy Mega 6.3, Galaxy Mega 5.8, Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition), Galaxy NotePRO (12.2), and Galaxy TabPRO (12.2/10.1/8.4). At the moment, that list comprises the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Grand 2, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 3 Neo, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3. So far, the Bluetooth-tethered Gear Fit will only work with a selection of Samsung phones and tablets. We found this was particularly useful to get notifications while in the shower. Like the Samsung Galaxy S5, the Gear Fit meets IP67 standards for resilience to water and dust, capable of being submerged at up to a meter in water for as long as thirty minutes.
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