(Pocket-lint) – Samsung makes some pretty great smartwatches, but if you care more about counting steps than downloading apps and making payments from your wrist, then you can save yourself some money and cast an eye at the Samsung Galaxy Fit 2 instead.
This budget option offers those fitness tracking staples, including sleep monitoring, and even offers to squeeze in some smartwatch-style features to make it useful outside of your workout time. There’s no shortage of cheap trackers at this price, so can Samsung’s do enough to stand out from the crowd?
Design
- Weighs: 21g
- Water-resistant up to 50 metres
- 1.1-inch AMOLED display , 126 x 194 resolution
With the Fit 2, you’re getting the main tracking module, which hosts the touchscreen display that’s wrapped up in a flexible silicone strap with a watch-style buckle. You can pop that module out from the strap, but when it’s in place it certainly does not budge.
That strap comes in your pick of scarlet (as pictured) or black, offering something that gives it an undeniably sporty look. As a package, it’s safe for showering and swimming with a water-resistant rating that makes it safe to be submerged in depths to 50 metres.
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There’s no physical buttons here, so you’re getting a streamlined look – further enhanced by the fact the device measures just 11.8mm thick, so it’s similar to a flagship phone in overall thickness terms. That’s also slimmer than the Fitbit Inspire 2 and it’s certainly a pleasingly light and comfortable band to wear all day, both during exercise and when it’s time to get into bed.
All of your interacting time with the Fit 2 is managed via the touchscreen display and a discreetly hidden capacitive button. That capacitive button can be tapped to wake the display and will return you to the main home screen when you’re swiping through the other screens.
Above that button is a 1.1-inch display. It’s a nicely responsive screen, offers strong maximum brightness, vibrant colours, and good visibility both indoors and outdoors. It’s a good quality screen to find on a tracker at this price.
It’s not an always-on display, though, so you’ll need to tap on that capacitive button to wake it up or use the raise-to-wake gesture support, which thankfully is nicely responsive.
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Around the back of the tracker is where you’ll find the optical heart rate sensor and it’s where you’ll clip on the proprietary charging cradle. Thankfully, you don’t need to pull the main unit out of the strap to charge. While we don’t love the fact it’s a proprietary kind of cradle, it’s one that does securely clip onto the back of the top half of the tracker and does stay put.
Features
- 24/7 activity tracking
- Automatic exercise recognition
- Continuous heart rate monitoring
Despite its slim stature, the Fit 2 does still manage to fit in a decent array of features. You’re not going to get Galaxy Watch levels of features here, but there’s enough to make it useful inside and outside of tracking your fitness.
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There’s accelerometer and gyro motion sensors to track daily step counts and enable sleep monitoring. There’s dedicated sports modes for walking, running, cycling, pool swimming – along with a generic workout mode to cover everything else …….
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