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Review on Samsung Gear Sport Wi-Fi NFC Smartwatch, black by Masaaki Haruto ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

The product is okay, it's not a waste of money!

In general, a pretty good device. There are shoals, of course, but I think they are unprincipled for most consumers. Well, you need to understand that the main purpose of this watch is to track the activity of the owner. Such a heaped up fitness tracker. Especially for those who are engaged in swimming - there are no special alternatives in this price category. For other purposes, they probably do not make sense (however, this applies to all such devices): nevertheless, their functionality is rather poor and for some active actions you still have to get a smartphone out of your pocket.

Pros
  • - Universal look, looks good with both sportswear and something formal. - Optimal size. - Pretty rich declared functionality and potential. Including normal water resistance. - In general, when they are not buggy, they measure steps, pulse, etc. quite accurately. - Good energy efficiency. Of course, it strongly depends on specific use cases, but for example, with AOD turned off, but with constant heart rate measurement and auto-tracking of workouts, I usually have at least 70% of the charge left by the end of the day. - Built-in SHealth has a fairly rich functionality and works quite well (even the quality of sleep can track). And for tracking swimming training, it’s generally out of competition - it not only tracks the distance quite accurately, but even determines the styles of swimming on segments. - Pretty high-quality "simbiz" with a smartphone (in any case, also Samsung).
Cons
  • - With constant wear, the silicone strap caused a rather severe allergy on the skin. This is despite the fact that I am not prone to allergies and have never suffered from it. - Heart rate measurement periodically suddenly "falls off" (especially during training). Perhaps, of course, the individual characteristics of the organism, but somehow it is strange. - Despite the potentially great functionality, there are very few intelligent applications for watches, especially free ones. All those thousands of applications that are present in the store are for the most part various watch faces and frank trash. - The aforementioned "symbiosis" with a smartphone is already very strong: without a smartphone, it will not be possible to fully use the watch. The same SHealth data can only be viewed normally in the application on a smartphone. And this is just one of the examples. - Again, as one of the manifestations of the previous one: there is no way to connect the watch directly to the PC. Given the presence of free built-in memory into which you can record the same music, this feature would be very useful (you have to do this through a smartphone). - There could be more memory: taking into account the service data, approximately 1.5 GB remains free, which, in general, is neither one nor the other: for third-party applications this is more than enough, but for music it is still not enough. I think that at least an additional 4GB would not affect either the complexity of manufacturing or the price. - a couple of additional buttons for control would not hurt.

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