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samsung's new gear fit to has just about everything I look for in a fitness tracker there's all day tracking heartrate GPS for tracking pace and distance smartphone notifications and automatic exercise detection there's even four gigs of space to store your favorite songs right on the device I'm also a huge fan of the design the curved AMOLED screen is beautiful to look at and actually pretty comfortable to wear but what really excites me is the price at $179 it's cheaper than both the Microsoft band two garments new vivosmart HR plus and the Fitbit surge all of which also have GPS so based on all of this you would think I really like the fit too but that's not the case battery life is extremely short I got about two and a half days and that was with only 30 minutes of GPS with no GPS it lasted a little longer at about three days so sure it's better than the Apple watch but a lot worse than product from Fitbit and Garmin one of the features Samsung highlighted was spotify integration it actually sounded really cool but in reality it requires a phone connected and is pretty much just a glorified remote control it would have been a real game-changer if you were able to actually load your Spotify playlist right on the device for offline listening and then when it came time to work out that fit to continue to fust rate me the heart rate sensor wasn't very accurate on runs and the GPS signal took a long time to lock on it's also annoying that each screen has a different data point so I wasn't able to view pace and distance at the same time instead I had to swipe over to a new screen which got really difficult as my fingers got sweaty err this may be fine for an extremely casual runner but you could just be better off saving your money and using your smart phone as a fitness and sleep tracker it's actually not bad but I just can't get over that poor battery life and its really shame since I really like the look and feel for more information on the gear fit to be sure to check out my full review over at Zenith com