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By paying attention to style, fit, price, and ease of use, Samsung has made the Gear Fit a more mainstream-friendly smart watch than we’ve seen so far. And by focusing on fitness features, the Gear Fit has a more obvious reason to exist than most other smart watches too.
The Fit’s software is in its infancy, though it has a lot of room for growth. Apps that fully utilize the Gear Fit’s accelerometer and display could make an even better hybrid activity monitor-smart watch. We’d like to see apps, similar to RunKeeper, use the Gear Fit as a way to display activity data such as exercise time, lap time, and distance run, and control functionality such as pause and stop.
The heart-rate-monitoring feature works for simple individual readings when fit correctly. But inconsistencies in heart-rate accuracy of a loosely fit Gear Fit and previous infrared heart-rate monitors we’ve tested during active exercise raises concerns that Wrist Infrared Heart Rate Monitor technology may need to be improved.
