Anyone have a "Smart Watch."

[KevDen2005]

My wife has a Samsung phone and wants a smart watch. Does anyone have one or make a recommendation?

Looking at the FitBit Surge or the Samsung Gear Fit as my main two options

[ray1970]

I’m no help. I have an iPhone so when I decided to get a smart watch I went with the Apple Watch because I knew it would be compatible. Maybe Samsung offers something you could check into?

[Irving]

Hurley is the resident SmartWatch guy.

[hurley842002]

Hurley is the resident SmartWatch guy.

I probably was at one point, that ship has sailed for the meantime.

Here is the link to a thread I posted almost a year ago, with info on the newest Gear S3 smart watch, and some of my experience/opinions of said watch:

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/160973-...alaxy+frontier

To sum it up, I loved many of the features the watch had, but it was seriously lacking in fitness/heart rate tracking, and so I dumped it in favor of a dedicated fitness tracker. There were several of us Gear watch users that were begging for software updates for the heart rate portion of the watch, so there is a chance Samsung listened, and the watch is up to par now, but who knows. If fitness tracking is not high on your priority list of functions, the watch would likely serve you well. Currently I'm looking at the Garmin Fenix 5, but will likely wait for the price to come down a bit, because $500 is just a bit out of my price range.

[KevDen2005]

So I know that my wife likes the fitbit stuff for heart rate and distance tracking while running and walking, but she also wants something connected to her phone for text messaging.

After reading the reviews on a few items in depth it seems that people love or hate the Fitbit Surge. I try to look through enough reviews to find out what the main issue was and for many it seemed like the watch band as well as customer service were lacking.

[mindfold]

I probably was at one point, that ship has sailed for the meantime.

Here is the link to a thread I posted almost a year ago, with info on the newest Gear S3 smart watch, and some of my experience/opinions of said watch:

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/160973-...alaxy+frontier

To sum it up, I loved many of the features the watch had, but it was seriously lacking in fitness/heart rate tracking, and so I dumped it in favor of a dedicated fitness tracker. There were several of us Gear watch users that were begging for software updates for the heart rate portion of the watch, so there is a chance Samsung listened, and the watch is up to par now, but who knows. If fitness tracking is not high on your priority list of functions, the watch would likely serve you well. Currently I'm looking at the Garmin Fenix 5, but will likely wait for the price to come down a bit, because $500 is just a bit out of my price range.

Did you ever upgrade? I am looking into something to track fitness and also use for hiking, hunting GPS functions. I am also looking at the Fenix models.


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[Martinjmpr]

Hmmm...my wife wants one, too. Until I started searching I didn't realize how many "smart watches" are out there! It's bewildering.

I need something that will work with an iPhone 6, and something that will allow her to either read texts or at the very least be alerted that she has one.

[hurley842002]

Did you ever upgrade? I am looking into something to track fitness and also use for hiking, hunting GPS functions. I am also looking at the Fenix models.


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I did get a new smart watch for my birthday last week, I went with the Huawei watch 2 sport, and a week later I'm loving it. I'm off the next couple days, if I get a chance, I'll do a quick review on my first week impressions, and what I think of Android Wear VS Samsung's OS.

A couple of the watch faces I've been using.

[KevDen2005]

I did get a new smart watch for my birthday last week, I went with the Huawei watch 2 sport, and a week later I'm loving it. I'm off the next couple days, if I get a chance, I'll do a quick review on my first week impressions, and what I think of Android Wear VS Samsung's OS.

A couple of the watch faces I've been using.

That's pretty sweet.

I ended up going with a Fitbit smart watch that integrates with my wife's phone. Honestly I'm not into this type of stuff, but I am super happy that I got it for her. She never answers her phone or texts for hours. Her entire family is that way. I would get so irritated that I am spending a crap load on phone service for her to take pictures with it. Now she answers instantaneously. It has worked out better than planned.

[DOC]

I have had the Samsung Gear s and the S2 and they are totally different from each other. They are cheap at Pawn Shops. Most smart watches are. I deleted the health stuff from my phone and watch, because I got tired of it monitoring me and telling me to be active when I was driving. Very distracting. However, being able to read texts on my watch without digging out my phone was helpful. Being a truck driver looking at my watch isn't as bad as texting if a cop saw me.