Samsung Gear Fit Mobile Price List in India

Samsung is a renowned South Korean firm whose products have already created great sensation in the world market. Ranging from smartphones to other consumer electronic goods, its products always offer something new and unique to the customers. This time also it is no exception and it is quite evident with the launch of new Samsung Gear Fit. This wearable gadget is a perfect combination of smartwatch and a fitness tracker. It provides comfortable gripping to the wrist of the users with decent user friendly interface. It has been designed mainly for the fitness conscious people.

Features and specifications

This beautiful fitness gadget sports a 1.84 inch AMOLED curved screen offering maximum resolutions of 432 x 128 pixels. Inside the hood it is powered by a dual core processor of 1GHz and Samsung Proprietary operating system. It is packed with a battery of 210mAh offering decent talktime and standby durations. You will also find gyroscope, accelerometer, heart rate monitor and Bluetooth. Though this gadget has been developed for exercise purposes, users can also view time like that of a smartwatch and can receive notifications forwarded by third party apps. Other features which are found in other smartwatches are also available here and these include world clock, upcoming appointment schedules and current weather and so on. As a fitness tracker it is packed with options like current step counts, pedometer and so on.

Design and quality

Samsung Gear Fit is the first fitness based product of Samsung which borrows majority of the features from the previous Gear smartwatch versions of the company. The main attraction of this device is its AMOLED touchscreen with the chrome trim in between and so offers a bit of stylish appearance without being tacky or cheap. The screen comprises of vibrant colors with decent viewing angles and users face no problem to track their exercise durations when outdoors. The band attached with this device is rubbery plastic and you can remove this band to replace with a colorful one. Overall it is a sporty looking device which provides comfortable experience to your wrists without causing any strain. You can rotate the screen to any angular position for easy viewing of your exercise durations. But the thin shape of the screen might be a problem on occasions to read any single letter of the text properly. It comprises of only one physical home button which you can use to access any application through double press. On underside of this device you shall find heart rate sensor which measures your pulse displayed on the LED.

OS and tech

This device runs on Samsung Proprietary operating system and the touchscreen of the device enables you to easily swipe between apps and screens. For the major part, the firm has nailed the interface and so you can also re-arrange any icon on the screen. However, there are also certain cumbersome elements because you need to visit Settings menu for finding the information on battery life and the apps that are available here are mostly based on fitness. Once you set up the watch background on this device, a home screen shall greet you to select various pre-set options like appointment schedules, local weather and pedometer and so on. The menus are presented in two options which include apps that revive the functioning of the smart watch and apps that revive the functioning of the tracking the work out durations of the users. The majority of the fitness tracking applications in this device is synchronized and connected with S Health application of software. These apps can track your hiking, biking, running, sleeping habits, daily steps and heart rate as well.

Battery

The device can last for several days with a single charge but the moment the pedometer is turned on for an entire day the battery drains quickly due to lot of incoming notifications. On heavy usage, users have the scope of losing fifteen percent of the overall battery life within few hours. So the battery of this device needs to be improved a lot.

Pros and cons:

Pros:

·         Comfortable fittings.

·         Elegant display screen.

·         Smooth scrolling

Cons

·         Fitness apps do not work properly.

·         Text reading is quite difficult in the screen.

Verdict

Samsung Gear Fit falling within the mid- budget segment is quite ideal for those customers who are regular and serious about their workout progress. However, in spite of certain shortcomings, it can offer stiff competition to other products like Motorola Moto 360 Smartwatch, Sony Smartwatch and so in the market. Presently it has been priced below Rs. 15,000.