The trend of wearable fitness trackers is increasing every day. It is no longer just an app for your phone. Watches have become the most used fitness tracker. Two of the fitness tracking watches to look at are the:
Samsung Gear Fit and the Garmin Vivofit.
We took a look at the following categories when considering these two models: 1) overall product size and display size, 2) Battery life and connectivity, 3) Compatible devices, and 4) fun features!
Overall Product Size and Display Size
The overall product size for the Samsung Gear Fit is .92” x 2.26” x .47”. The weight of the product is .95oz.
The Gear Fit screen display is 1.84”, with 128 x 432 pixels. It also features a curved super AMOLED screen display.
The overall product size for the Garmin Vivofit is .83” x 152” (for large wrist) x .41”. The weight of the product is.89 oz.
The Vivofit screen display is 1” x .39”, and features a segmented LCD display resolution.
Battery Life and Connectivity
The Gear Fit runs off of a Li-ion battery and has a typical usage length of 3-4 days. If you are running a low usage amount then it can be up to approximately 5 days.
The connectivity of the Gear Fit is through Bluetooth 4.0.
The Vivofit runs off of two replaceable coin cells and the battery life can last up to a year.
The connectivity of the Vivofit is through Bluetooth and an app called “Garmin Connect”.
Compatible Devices
Compatibility is important when everything is connected to each other these days.
The Samsung Gear Fit is compatible with devises that have the following: Android Jelly Bean or higher, WVGA or higher screen resolution and, 1 GB or higher memory.
The Samsung Gear Fit is specifically NOT compatible with the following devise: 1) Galaxy Mega using Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile, 2) Galaxy S4, Google Play edition, 3) Galaxy S4 Zoom, through AT&T, Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 with Verizon and 4) Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 with Verizon.
The Garmin Vivofit is compatible with any smart device through the Garmin Connect mobile app, available in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Fun Features!!
As with any smart device, there are some pretty awesome fun features to get excited about. Let’s take a look at these two models and find out what fits your needs and personality best!
The Samsung Gear Fit has the following fun features to drool over:
- Heart rate monitor
- Personalized fitness coach (when used with Gear Fit exercise app)
- Track steps
- Tracks distance
- Tracks calories
The Garmin Vivofit has these features to rock your exercise world:
- Learns not only your activity level but assigns a personalized goal to you each day
- Tracks steps
- Tracks calories
- Tracks distances
- Monitors sleep
- Heart rate monitor
- 1 year battery life
- Water resistant up to 50 meters
- Fitness community through Garmin Connect
Recommended Product
After looking through all the technical specifications and the unique fun features for each product, I would have to recommend the Garmin Vivofit as the product of choice.
The Garmin Vivofit has everything that the Samsung Gear Fit, but includes more (such as a fitness community). The feature I especially like is that this device learns your activity level and assigns you a daily goal. For something to motivate me by providing daily goals (because goodness knows I’m not good at assigning my own) automatically puts it at the top of my wish list!
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