The app lets you change wall papers, watch styles and layout. The Gear Fit Manager is the hub for controlling and customising the Fit. So you wouldnt have to get off the treadmill to do anything. The navigation is also swipe based and not complicated. The touchscreen is extremely good and works even when you have sweaty hands. You can tell the pedometer to keep a tab on what you are up to and the reading is quite accurate. It can measure your heart rate, quantify your workouts whatever you might be doing walking, running on cycling. So there are all activity trackers you will need on the band. Yes, the Fit starts keeping an eye on you after you ask it to. So it knows what you are up to, at least when it is told so. But what this is is a fitness band to the core. It also shows notifications from your Galaxy device like in smart watches and it is very easy to read stuff on this OLED screen despite it being quite small. But it has a watch with weather alerts and you dont need to wear another timepiece with this one on. But the apps appear instantaneously on the band and dont need to pushed there like in the Pebble. However, you need to add the apps on the phone and not the Fit. We tested the Fit with the new Samsung Galaxy S5 and the instructions popping up on the display were good enough for the entire set up to be completed in a couple of minutes. The set-up is amazingly simple and you just need the Gear Fit app to run on your Samsung Galaxy device. Behind the device is a sensor that acts like the heart rate monitor. But the 1.84 Curved Super AMOLED touchscreen display is great too and adds to the functionality of this device.
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This was when I realised the brilliance of the traditional watch face. With a strip-like LCD, I did not know whether to wear it facing me or with the text facing out. My problem with the Fit was the orientation of the screen. It is sleek, light weight and sturdy with a plastic strap that makes it good for use in sweaty conditions. The Gear Fit is not much larger than a ladies watch. Here is what we thought of the Samsung Gear Fit. This year, it has upgraded the watches and launched the new Gear Fit, meant to be used as a smart fitness band that keeps a tab on your health.
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Samsung launched its first Gear smartwatches last year. So those launching smartphones and fitness bands are just testing the waters for what could be the next big disruptor. So much so that they could end up eating into the smartphone segment.