The Samsung Gear Fit is a fitness wristband made by Samsung Electronics, and forms part of their Samsung Gear family of smartwatch devices. It features a curved AMOLED display. Its design was developed to appeal to people interested in fitness and style. The included applications facilitate monitoring fitness activities:
17-547: Samsung stated that their Gear Fit is the "world's first" wearable device with a curved Super AMOLED touch display. It is smaller and lighter than the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches, and is focused on health. It features a 1.84-inch Super AMOLED display with a 432x128 pixel resolution. The Gear Fit comes with a pedometer, heart rate monitor, and a sleep monitor. A 210mAh battery powers the Samsung Gear Fit, which gives
34-464: A typical usage of 3 to 4 days and up to 5 days with low usage. The watch body measures 23.4 mm × 57.4 mm × 11.95 mm (0.92 in × 2.26 in × 0.47 in) and it weighs 27 g (0.95 oz). Samsung introduced the Gear Fit to the market on April 11, 2014. In June 2016, Samsung announced its new Samsung Gear Fit 2 . The activity tracker is the follow-up to
51-579: Is primarily supplied pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets, and Galaxy Watch wearables. It requires a Samsung account to be used. The Galaxy Store has its origins in a mobile developer program launched in 2008, Samsung Mobile Innovator. Samsung Mobile Applications, an app store powered by Handango launched at Mobile World Congress 2009 providing software for Windows Mobile , Symbian , and (from August) Java ME . The services had been established in China and several European countries by
68-667: The Gear 2 line is a successor to the Samsung Galaxy Gear . In comparison to the Galaxy Gear, the most significant change made to the Gear 2 line was the replacement of Android with the Samsung-developed Tizen operating system, promising improved functionality (such as Samsung's S Health software and an integrated music player) and battery life. The design of the device itself was also refreshed with
85-504: The Gear's screen when received, use Smart Relay to automatically open the relevant app for the notification on their smartphone or tablet, use S Voice for dictation and voice commands, place and answer phone calls, and locate the host phone or tablet, or vice versa with the "Find My Device" tool. Notable new apps added on the Gear 2 include the fitness app S Health, WatchOn—a remote control app which integrates with its infrared blaster, and an integrated music player which can store songs on
102-617: The best developers, called Best of Galaxy Store Awards. At the inaugural award at the Samsung Developer Ceremony, Booking.com was awarded 'Best App' and Wrist Camera the 'Best Watch App', amongst others. In early 2019, soon after the introduction of One UI , Galaxy Apps was rebranded to Galaxy Store. The store was redesigned in October 2020 with an increased focus on games . The Galaxy Store features reward points given to users who purchase games. The awards of
119-522: The device to be a "much, much better attempt at making the smartwatch more relevant", with particular praise towards the streamlined design and ability to use custom watch straps, and its improved battery life, but panned the high cost of the device and its "convoluted" user interface. Samsung Apps The Galaxy Store ( Korean : 갤럭시 스토어 ) is an app store offering apps, games and exclusive themes and other customizations for mobile devices manufactured by Samsung Electronics . The service
136-494: The device's internal storage. As with the Galaxy Gear, an updated Gear Manager app is installed on the Galaxy device to coordinate communications, customize the watch and download apps from Samsung Apps . The Gear 2's Gear Manager adds the ability to customize which apps the watch displays notifications from, upload a custom wallpaper, and perform backups. The Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo received mixed reviews. TechRadar considered
153-662: The latest edition of 2022 were given to: The following is a list of apps and utilities provided by Samsung itself on the Galaxy Store. (as of September 2023) Some third-party apps are also available on the Galaxy Store, despite Galaxy devices running on the Google Mobile Services platform which features the Play Store. These apps include the likes of Firefox , Microsoft 365 , Misplaced Pages , and Clip Studio Paint . Some Android games have been exclusive on
170-487: The move of its camera from the watchband to the watch itself (allowing users to replace their own bands), along with the addition of an infrared blaster and optical heart rate sensor. Its successor, the Samsung Gear S , was released on November 7, 2014. The Gear 2 retains a similar hardware design to the original Galaxy Gear, although a Home button has been added below the screen, and the device's 2-megapixel camera
187-453: The original Gear Fit, released in 2014. The new wristband has an updated design, built-in GPS, and the ability to automatically recognize certain activities, an increasingly common feature in fitness bands and watches. Samsung Gear 2 The Samsung Gear 2 and Samsung Gear 2 Neo are smartwatches produced by Samsung Electronics . Unveiled on February 22, 2014 at Mobile World Congress ,
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#1732798287277204-425: The previous model, the device itself does not contain a charging port and must be placed inside a special Micro USB -equipped charging case. Unlike the original Galaxy Gear, which ran Android , the Gear 2 runs Tizen , a Linux -based operating system co-developed by Samsung. The Gear 2 uses a similar user interface to the Galaxy Gear, allowing users to synchronize notifications from a host device and display them
221-672: The third quarter of 2009. On 14 September 2009, Samsung Apps launched initially in western Europe, providing software for the Samsung Omnia (i900) and Samsung Omnia HD (i8910) smartphones with more devices added later. In 2010 it started offering apps for the Bada platform, which the Samsung Wave runs on. There were 10 million app downloads by September 2010 in Europe, made up of Java , Windows Mobile and Bada apps. There
238-551: Was also a Samsung Apps TV for smart TVs , which had gotten 10 million downloads by October 2011. Samsung also held a developer challenge called Free the TV Challenge , which was won by WeDraw in 2010, an application that could draw on mobile and display on the TV screen. In March 2011 Samsung Apps was launched for the Galaxy line, running Android. Samsung Apps had 40,000 applications by its second anniversary in 2011. The store
255-470: Was also offered on Samsung Gear wearables and Samsung REX feature phones. A feature called S Suggest (app and www.ssuggest.com) was launched in 2013 that would suggest apps from the store to users. This service was closed in 2014. In July 2014, with the Galaxy line mostly consolidating Samsung's mobile offerings, Samsung Apps was rebranded to Galaxy Apps . In 2018, Samsung began an annual award for
272-418: Was moved from the strap to the top of the watch itself, alongside a newly added infrared blaster. This particular design change allows the strap to be user-replaceable. Two models of the Gear 2 were released, the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo; the Gear 2 has a steel exterior and includes a camera, while the Gear 2 Neo is made from plastic and excludes the camera. They are otherwise identical. The device's processor
289-475: Was upgraded to a 1.0 GHz dual-core Exynos 3250 system-on-chip. As with the Galaxy Gear, the Gear 2 has a 1.63-inch, 320 pixel-wide square-shaped Super AMOLED touchscreen , 512 MB of RAM, and 4 GB of internal storage. An optical heart rate monitor is located on the bottom of the device. Despite having a smaller, 300 mAh battery, the Gear 2 has increased battery life over its predecessor, with Samsung rating it for 2–3 days of normal use. As with
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