Android Smart watch - What do you have?

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What Android smart watch do you okes and ladies have at the moment? Well for those that do own one, any favourite or must have apps?
 
Have the Samsung Gear Fit and the Gear Fit 2 Pro.

The battery on the original one still lasts 2 or 3 days despite being 4 years old. It did mess up my heart rate now and then which prompted me to get the Gear Fit 2 Pro.

The Pro is totally waterproof which is nice. Onboard GPS is great because you can run without your phone and still map everything. The Bluetooth connects seamlessly to my earphones and the watch has limited storage for songs if you don't have your phone with you. However, the battery lasts 2 days if I'm lucky with all of the features turned on. Disabling the WiFi helps.

My stuff is mainly fitness oriented, so I don't mess around with apps much.
 
bromster said:
Have the Samsung Gear Fit and the Gear Fit 2 Pro.

The battery on the original one still lasts 2 or 3 days despite being 4 years old. It did mess up my heart rate now and then which prompted me to get the Gear Fit 2 Pro.

The Pro is totally waterproof which is nice. Onboard GPS is great because you can run without your phone and still map everything. The Bluetooth connects seamlessly to my earphones and the watch has limited storage for songs if you don't have your phone with you. However, the battery lasts 2 days if I'm lucky with all of the features turned on. Disabling the WiFi helps.

My stuff is mainly fitness oriented, so I don't mess around with apps much.
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Nice.. Have a Moto360 2nd Gen but have touch issues, so just waiting on a replacement board to get it working. Had the original Moto360 and an LG G Watch and G Watch R.

I might look at finding another pebble watch again, even though they have discontinued them and no longer support it. It was great for battery life
 
Also have a gear fit 2. Not the pro. And it also serves my purposes. Which are more fitness than smart watch

Also note that samsung watches arent android rather tizen os.

Id consdier the gear sport as an upgrade. That bezel is really the magic of tizen.
 
I'm still using my Sony Smartwatch 3. Battery is about 2 days with everything on
 
Got a Fitbit blaze. Battery was absolutely awesome when I first got it but now about a year and a half in, I am barely lucky if I get a full day out of it with all the settings disabled
 
ISP cash cow said:
Got a Fitbit blaze. Battery was absolutely awesome when I first got it but now about a year and a half in, I am barely lucky if I get a full day out of it with all the settings disabled
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That's pretty bad lol

On my original moto360 I struggled to get a day. 100% at 7am, down to 5% at about 5pm. Granted I got home about that time, so it kind of served its purpose for the time I needed it.


But I'm still a big fan of the Moto360.. Still has one of the nicest screens and also a nice big screen for a watch. I also prefer a round watch face
 
Inzaghi007 said:
Tell me something can you use the cellular part on that frontier watch without your phone near you?
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I had one, a really nice Smart watch just found it a bit big. I stand to be corrected but I believe the ones we have in SA cannot be used separately as you can the Huawei watch 2 which has a sim slot. You do not have an independent cellular signal on the Frontier in SA. In the end I sold mine and got a Gear S2 classic which I prefer size wise overall.

I coach a lot of school hockey and just felt that the Frontier got in the way due to its size.

The rotating bezel on the Samsungs are just great, one of the main reasons I changed from Android wear (Huawei watch 2).
 
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Connor13 said:
I had one, a really nice Smart watch just found it a bit big. I stand to be corrected but I believe the ones we have in SA cannot be used separately as you can the Huawei watch 2 which has a sim slot. You do not have an independent cellular signal on the Frontier in SA. In the end I sold mine and got a Gear S2 classic which I prefer size wise overall.

I coach a lot of school hockey and just felt that the Frontier got in the way due to its size.

The rotating bezel on the Samsungs are just great, one of the main reasons I changed from Android wear (Huawei watch 2).
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And the Gear S3 classic?
 
Icemanbrfc said:
What Android smart watch do you okes and ladies have at the moment? Well for those that do own one, any favourite or must have apps?
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gear s2 classic, it comes in handy as i pretty much always leave my phone on silent.
battery life okish charge it at night , have had 1 or 2 occasions where it died before the end of the day.
honestly after a while you just use the basic apps everything you don't use just gets deleted or ignored. The step counter, heart rate monitor and fitness apps are handy.
i wish it did have better support for non standard messaging apps (like whatsapp) it allows you to reply to a received message (most of the time) but you can't open up a contact and send them a message like you can with sms.
It's more then 2 years old now but still works well even the strap is ok just the loops have started to break so need to get new ones.
and works with pretty much any phone so not stuck using it on a samsung.

Considering i can't wear most normal watches i kind of have to have a smart watch so depends if the SP have any available, i will get a new one but seems far and few between now.
 
isie said:
gear s2 classic, it comes in handy as i pretty much always leave my phone on silent.
battery life okish charge it at night , have had 1 or 2 occasions where it died before the end of the day.
honestly after a while you just use the basic apps everything you don't use just gets deleted or ignored. The step counter, heart rate monitor and fitness apps are handy.
i wish it did have better support for non standard messaging apps (like whatsapp) it allows you to reply to a received message (most of the time) but you can't open up a contact and send them a message like you can with sms.
It's more then 2 years old now but still works well even the strap is ok just the loops have started to break so need to get new ones.
and works with pretty much any phone so not stuck using it on a samsung.

Considering i can't wear most normal watches i kind of have to have a smart watch so depends if the SP have any available, i will get a new one but seems far and few between now.
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Not bad the Gear watches. Is the Gear range of Samsung, Tizen or some Android Wear?
 
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