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I paid £49 in April of 2022. With the incoming Galaxy Fit3 as of November 2023, it's not worth the price.
It's pretty standard modern day fitness tracker affair, except Samsung have made it more of a rounded rectangle instead of a pill. It's got a 1.1-inch AMOLED display and a small, capacitive button underneath it, only denoted by the rounded square where the sensor is.
The tracker is all black with a piano black face. The two charging pins are on the bottom, which is also where the heart rate sensor is. Its band is matte black when you first take it out of the box.
The Galaxy Fit2 weighs next to nothing in my hand, and really the band weighs more than it does - and that's really odd to me. It's made of plastic all around, but I can't confirm what the lens above the screen is made of. I would assume plastic or acrylic at the price point.
The strap is made of silicone, but my original is no longer with me due to it quite literally snapping in half under a year into its use life. This was very disappointing, and Samsung seemingly doesn't sell replacement OEM straps, so I had to get a cheap one off of Amazon.
The original strap began to sort of stiffen up and lose its flexibility, leading it to snap in the area where it was stressed the most, around the underside of my wrist. Don't expect it to last forever if you get or have one of these.
So this is the first 'smart' device I've 'reviewed' here, so I've got more to talk about than usual.
It's nice and responsive, being able to navigate the menus quickly and easily. Swiping down from the top, there's an option for Night Mode, which dims the display and silences vibrations except for the alarms. There's also a brightness control, music playback, vibration control, some sort of 'wet' mode to stop erroneous touch inputs, and options to restart or factory reset the band. Those two are concerning, because I actually managed to reset it instead of restarting it once. The icons don't have labels and don't really tell you what does what very well. Some are very straightforward (e.g. brightness) but some are not.
There's options to show the weather, step count, heart rate, options for exercises, how much water you've drunk (along with the buttons to add or remove 250ml units) and the notification area.
Notifications live in their own little world to the left of the main face, and you can pick and choose what applications can send notifications to it. If one comes through while night mode is disabled, the band will vibrate twice each second for two seconds.
Step tracking seemed accurate enough for £49, though I am suspicious of the heart rate, as it didn't seem to move all that much that often. Sleep tracking was almost spot on, but it definitely does struggle understanding when you wake up. Many many times I have been in bed laying awake for an hour and it hasn't recognised that, and thinks I'm still asleep. Only when I get out of bed does it notice.
It has auto workout detection, but it takes a while to kick in, at least in my experience. It's possible this is by design. When it does measure workouts, such as running or cycling, it has to use your phone's GPS, as it does not have a built-in GPS unit. Again, it seemed accurate enough in measuring the distance I walked often enough.
I've had a few days where it absolutely goes nuts and thinks I've done 3000 steps despite arriving in school only a few hours earlier. Those days have since come and gone, and I haven't had another in about four months. It's impossible to know when it will severely overestimate your number of steps.
Because it's a smart device, it relies on your phone and, oddly, two apps. These are Galaxy Wear (with the Fit2 plugin) and Samsung Health. Again, because this is a smart device, you require a Samsung account in order to use it. This drives me insane, but you simply cannot escape it with these fitness trackers. You can at least choose to sync your health data to the 'cloud' or not.
The Galaxy Fit2 is a nice, cheap little fitness tracker that is good for people who care about the basics, like step count and sleep tracking. If you want a good heart rate monitor this one may not be for you.
As the Galaxy Fit3 seems to be right around the corner, I'd hold off on this one if you're looking for a cheap fitness tracker.
I can't find any Argos or Amazon links - it appears it's discontinued.