Technicational

Last week I had a Samsung Gear Fit sitting on my desk whispering “review me, review me.” Filled with anticipation I forgot that we were going to do an unboxing video and violated the packaging… oops. Anyhow, this week we bring to you the review of Samsung Gear Fit.

What’s that you’re wearing?

The Gear Fit is a quite attractive and elegantly designed wrist band smart watch. The great thing about it is that the device isn’t too flashy to draw attention from persons in your surroundings. The only shinny surface on the device is the curved touch display which is gorgeous by the way. I have been wearing it for a while now and not once has someone recognized it or approached me to enquire about what I’m wearing. 

 

What can it do?

This device falls in the category of being a smart watch, and smart watches do more than just tell the time. The Gear Fit comes packed with lots of feature to help the average user, but let me get more specific with a list.

Gear Fit Functions

• Device has a stop watch, timer, and can display the current time and date. Yes, they didn’t forget the essentials.  
• Media Controller app to actively control your music on your Samsung phone.  
• Heart Rate monitor. 
• It has a Pedometer that measure the number of steps you make and gives you the distances traveled and the Calories burnt by doing so.  
• Device displays current unread notifications and also gives the option to reply with quick messages that you have predetermined already.
• Lastly, the gear fit has a handy Find My Phone function that rings your phone until you have located it.

Set Up

Ok, if you are interested so far then they are some things you should know before you go out and purchase one. This device currently only can function with Samsung devices running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) and above. The next perquisite is that the Gear Fit Manager that has to be downloaded and installed on the device you are going to pair the Gear Fit with before you can use any of its features. The application should be available in the Samsung App Store… Keyword here is “should.” Since I last checked (9/4/2014) the Gear Fit Manager app was still nowhere to be found in neither the Samsung App store nor the Google Play store. We had to source the Gear Fit Manager app from XDA Developers webpage which made the setup process a bit tedious.

Final Thoughts

The Samsung Gear Fit is a well designed Smart Watch that will become integrated into your life so well that you’ll wonder how lived without it. If the Gear Fit is this good, it makes you wonder just how great the Gear 2 might be with all its features.