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there are a lot of wearable devices out there and they're all looking to take over your wrist you've got fitness bands and you've got smartwatches the Samsung gear fit looks to be the best of both worlds by combining a fitness features of a band but still making it a fully capable SmartWatch I'm Scott Stein and this is the Samsung gear fit what the gear fit is is really kind of a hybrid between a Nike FuelBand type device and something like the pebble smartwatch it can get notifications from your phone it can tell you anything from Facebook to Twitter to incoming phone calls and ping you about what's coming in but it also acts as a full-fledged Fitness band and we're not just talking about pedometer we're also talking about heartrate because on the back of the gear fit is a heartrate monitor and this is able to measure standing heartrate but also in action heartrate and works with a coaching aid when you're running or when you're cycling telling you when to speed up or slow down so you can set your exercise mode right from the gear fit and you can pick a goal based on the amount of time you run or the amount of estimated calories or by the distance so I'm going to try running here set the goal distance for I don't know one mile and you can actually set the heartrate to be displayed and also be able to set whether you want coaching which tells you whether speed up or slow down based on your heart rate now I'm not on a treadmill right now but I'm going to give this a try right here it's going to start by measuring the heart rate getting a ping and then it's going to give me a three-to-one to start working out so three two one and I get a buzz I should start working start running let's see how it's going it says speed up so I'm going to speed up now I just keep doing this it actually didn't tell me to keep the pace sometimes it tells you to keep the pace even if you're standing still if your heart rate is high so a little up and down in terms of how the coaching is going and you don't know whether if it's buzzing to tell you to speed up or slow down or whether you're buzzing because you got a facebook notification it all depends all right it says I still have to speed up okay it's hard now unfortunately as both a watch and a band the gear fit leaves a little bit to be desired it does have a pretty forward-looking design and a gorgeous-looking AMOLED display that is curved you've never seen anything like this before and you swipe it and it's got a variety of colors and watch faces and it actually pops out of this plastic key band so you can change out the band and pick something else it's a pretty cool design but it's a little bulky bulkier than you might think so it's not the super curved around your wrist feel has a little bit of a bulbous top and when it comes to that curved screen it's hard to read messages the battery life is really only functionally about two days before a recharge based on what I was using it for using it for heart rate monitoring and always being connected plus the gear fit only works with Samsung phones that brings up the point that if you're buying a fitness band a lot of those work on both iOS and Android with the exception of a few so if you're buying this you're really closing yourself out of a lot of flexibility and this needs to tie into s health which is Samsung's own health application which has been expanded now to add heart rate monitoring and in the future sleep monitoring - all through the gear fit or actually through your phone because the Samsung Galaxy s5 also has heart rate monitoring but at $1.99 this comes in at the same price as the gear 2 neo which is a more full-featured watch which counts against Samsung they've created a competing product out there which you might want to pick instead all that stuff with the cool display that costs you on battery I feel like this is a half step forward into the future something that does fuse fitness and watch but is not the best at either it's something I like showing off but I'm not sure I'd always want to use I'm Scott Simon C net and that's the Samsung gear fit in a nutshell you