I recently had open heart surgery in January at age 44! I was in need of a good fitness tracker with a heart monitor, the monitor being my main reason for buying this. I looked at Fitbit, heard many complaints about skin rashes...Polar, Garmin...looked at them all...except Samsung. I go to my local Best Buy and start looking. The fitness trackers were right by the SAMSUNG display and the guy suggests the Gear Fit2. I never thought of Samsung for this! I looked at it, immediately loved the display! Very colorful and easy to read. Great features AND they said it was the best for a heart monitor. It was reasonably priced..$179.00 plus tax. I also got the 2 year protection for $30. Not bad. So, I leave the store, constantly checking my heart rate. I go to my doctor for a check up and show them. We tested it by doing it manually....I tested my rate on the watch...spot on! I was shocked! The watch is very comfortable and if you don't use the bluetooth or wifi features, you'll easily get 3 days off one charge.I usually turn on the bluetooth when I drive to get notifications without having to look at my phone. You can select how many apps you want forwarded to the watch. I didn't want a smartwatch because of the poor battery life. You can also stream music through bluetooth to the watch, then to a bluetooth headset or speaker. I've heard this will really drain the battery, but haven't tried it yet.I'm extremely happy with this product. Cool watch faces, calories burned, steps walked, it even asks you how you slept if you wear it to bed. Very cool! If you have any questions, email me and I'll be glad to help!

This has come along ways via updateds. While at 1st I disliked it due to short battery life, but with updates overtime the battery life has been well improved. The strap is terrible, eaily fixed with a replacement purchased elsewhere. I now use this for work (constructiin) and my gear fit2 pro, for after work daily use and excersise. Both work great with bluetooth earbuds for music during excersisng.

I like the sleek design and that this version keeps water log, caffeine intake, GPS and measures flights of floors. I would like the battery to last longer though.

Hi, I picked up Samsung Gear Fit2 at Bestbuy about a month ago. I wanted to use it for a month before writing the review so that it will be useful. Maily, I use the Gear Fit2 for activity tracking like Running/Walking with GPS, steps, heart rate, and also for sleep tracking. 1) Running/Walking: I used Gear fit2 with and without phone while running/walking to GPS track my workouts. I have noticed that when I go for a run longer than an hour, the Fit2 will stop tracking my running and becomes very slow for any touches. As an example, I have enclosed two photo...In one photo that says "Gear2 stopped tracking my run", I went for a 7 mile run and Gear 2 stopped tracking aftre 6.31 miles and became very slow for any touch responses. I was very upset to see such SW issues from Samsung. As a test, during my next 7 mile run, I power cycled the Fit2 before going for a run...The SW freeze didn't occur and fit2 tracked the whole 7 mile run. You can see it in my photo with caption "Gear2 tracking run". 2) Steps: The tracked steps are over estimated compared to Fitbit2 as well as my own counting of steps. 3) Heart rate: Measurement of heart rate either fails are not accurate unless you really tighten the wrist strap to a point that it will start to hurt you. 4) Sleep tracking: I have lot of issue with sleep tracking feature...First of all Fit2 screen gets turned on many times during the night when I turn from side to side. This is very annoying and my wife is very upset about the screen turning on and disturbing her otherwise in a dark room. I have to put Fit2 in "do not disturb" mode to force it not turn on. Sleep tracking is a joke...If I wake up in the night for a bathroom break, the sleep tracking stops and says that I am doing light workout. Also, in morning in the sleep tracking graph, it will show empty saying I didn't sleep during the bathroom break but had a light workout. JOKE! 5) Wrist Strap: The wrist strap started to hurt me at times that I had to move the Fit2 from one wrist to another to stop the hurting. Looks like the wrist strap material is irritating the skin around my wrist. Last but not least, it is not even a month but Fit2 started to chip the matallic paint by the display area. It is cosmatic at this time but I am sure the chipped paint will start to become bigger and noticable. Over all it is an OK with lot of issues that I hope Samsung will address/fix...Otherwise, I will not be recommending this product to a friend and won't be buying any more revisions of this product in the future. Thanks!

Pros - Easy to use - Good battery life - Good when you have a samsung phone - Nice design and easy to use Cons - No calendar - No speaker to talk after receiving calls - Floor climb reading is inconsistent