We found portrait a little more comfortable but that’s a personal call.

The screen can be set to either portrait or landscape view and you can choose on which wrist you’re going to wear it.

That’s not technically retina territory but we don’t expect you’ll be looking at the screen from too close up. With a resolution of 432 x 128 at this diagonal the Gear Fit is good for around 244 ppi. The front is reserved for the brilliant 1.84″ Super AMOLED touch-enabled screen. The wristband is changeable so you can get any of the available six colors as an addition to the Gear Fit and we expect more wristbands to hit from third party providers. The second part is a detachable rubber band that holds the Gear Fit onto your wrist. You have the main body which holds the curved Super AMOLED touchscreen, the power button on the right side and on the bottom of it the charging pins and optical heart rate sensor. The Samsung Gear Fit is basically a two part thing. The Gear Fit retails for about $200 which puts it in direct competition with both fitness bands and smartwatches so it’s even more interesting to see where this bold hybrid of a product fits, get it. Unlike the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and recently the original Gear the Gear Fit doesn’t run on Tizen but instead on RTOS (real-time operating system) meaning there are no third party apps available and you’re pretty much stuck with the built-in functionality for now. Samsung has included Fit support for a total of 17 devices which means non-Samsung users are left in the dry with the Gear Fit – not nice. The rest of the specs include Bluetooth 4 low energy that will keep you constantly connected to your Samsung smartphone or tablet and its Gear Fit Manager app without drawing much power.

What there is – a curved 1.84″ Super AMOLED screen that’s simply gorgeous and more intuitive to use. For starters the Fit lacks a microphone and speaker so you won’t be able to take calls on it like you would on the other Gears. It it is closer to the fitness band market than to the fully functional smartwatches. The Samsung Gear Fit is the third smartwatch to come out of this year’s Gear generation but isn’t quite as functional as the Gear 2 and Neo. After our meeting with the Samsung Gear Fit at the Mobile World Congress, we were left wanting for more so when we got it at the office we spent a lot of time with the device on wrist to test its many fitness and smartphone companion features in full.

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