

There are two elements of health-tracking wristbands that are most often the source of doubt around accuracy: sleep tracking and heart rate monitoring from the wrist. If you’re doing outdoor sports that utilize GPS, you can see a map of your workout right on the wristband. For example, there’s a 24-hour timeline view of all of your activity, which reminds me a little bit of the Moves app that was acquired by Facebook two years ago. Samsung has also tried to display the data in an interesting way on the band itself, so you don’t have to open the mobile app for everything. Gear fit 2 tracks pretty much every activity except swimming The band will automatically recognize some activities, too, which is an increasingly common feature in activity tracking devices. An "other" tile will let you record other types of activity that might not be categorized. So what exactly does the Gear Fit 2 track? Well, it isn’t fully waterproof, so it can’t track swimming, but it does virtually everything else: records daily steps, running, walking, hiking, cycling, stair stepping, stationary biking, elliptical training, treadmill running, rowing, lunges, crunches, squats, pilates, and yoga. The wristband itself is made of a flexible polymer, and has a railroad-style strap you see on a lot of wearables. On the underside are optical heart rate sensors. The tracking part of the band has two physical buttons: a power / home button, and a back button. But the Gear Fit 2 is comfortable, which matters a lot when it comes to things like sleep tracking.
