Samsung Galaxy Fit e smartwatch
Design and its Display
- Easy to carry and comfortable
- 0.74-inch black-and-white screen
- Three colors to choose from
At this price point, you probably won’t be looking for a fitness tracker with the most luxurious feel or the best materials. However, the design of the Samsung Galaxy Fit e is better than you might expect.
Even though it’s just a black, white, or yellow rubber band, it feels good to wear even after an hour of 5-a-side football or a morning run along the canal. Most of the time, it won’t bother you or even make you notice it’s there. The way the strap connects is more important than you might think when it comes to how useful a strap is, and the Galaxy Fit e can be fastened and unfastened in a second. It’s not a very slim device, since the heart rate monitor and other sensors add some bulk above your wrist, but it’s not ugly either. You probably won’t be rushing to take it off when you’re with people you want to impress. Put another way, we’ve seen fitness wearables that look a lot worse. If you’re more of a private person, you should choose the black band. You can choose yellow or white if you like bright colors or are more outgoing, but the functions and features are the same for both. One of the features cut from the main Galaxy Fit is wireless charging, so you get – the joy of joys – another strange-looking USB charger. Plug one end into a laptop or a charging station or a mains adaptor (you don’t get one in the box), and the fitness tracker rather awkwardly snaps into the other end. It’s not great and the cable isn’t very long, but it’ll do – and you are only paying £35 for this. And really, that’s the bottom line when you’re considering any aspect of the Samsung Galaxy Fit e, from its design to its accuracy – it’s not expensive at all. The design and feel of the tracker are better than you would expect for the price, and that’s all you can ask for really. Another way you can tell the difference between the Galaxy Fit and the Galaxy Fit e is that this cheaper model goes for a monochrome rather than a color screen. It’s a compromise we think is fine – you’re hardly going to watch Netflix on your fitness tracker – and the display does a good job of showing the time and your essential fitness statistics. The display measures 0.74 inches and isn’t a touchscreen, though you can tap on the device to cycle between stats. It does light up when you lift your wrist, and this works well and consistently – very useful when you’re mid-jog. As you would expect, it’s a struggle to read the display in bright sunshine outdoors, but this isn’t a problem that’s exclusive to the Samsung Galaxy Fit e. Most of the time, the wearable is going to give you exactly the info you need. Overall, you’re unlikely to be disappointed by the fit and the finish of the Galaxy Fit e. It doesn’t scream style and quality, but it’s comfortable and lightweight to wear, and the choice of three colors gives you some flexibility in the design department.
The Samsung Galaxy Fit e Performance
When connected to your phone, the Galaxy Fit e adds heart rate data to workouts you log (either automatically or by hand) in the Samsung Health app. Without a connection, it can only keep track of how many steps you take, how many calories you burn, and how far you travel. If you leave it on at night, it will also keep track of how well you slept.
I thought the Fit e worked well for the things it could do. Compared to my phone, it usually recorded a higher number of steps per day, which makes sense since it was on my wrist (rather than in my pocket). The intensity of the different runs I did with the Fit e matched the heart rate data. Obviously, this information won’t be perfect, but for $35, it’s a good deal.
Better still, sleep tracking is excellent. It accurately picks up times when you are restless, and you don’t have to do anything to start recording. If you forget to wear the band at night, you can also log your sleep manually. Even though it’s not a unique feature—cheaper trackers from Chinese brands do the same thing—still it’s a useful one.
When you use the Galaxy Fit-e
You can raise the screen to wake it up, double-tap it to wake it up, or do both. I thought the device was broken for the first few days because I couldn’t wake it up by tapping it, which was very frustrating. I didn’t know about the option until I looked around in the Galaxy Wearable app. So, double-tapping the screen should be the default way to wake up the screen, and Samsung’s choice to keep it that way doesn’t make sense.
To set up the Galaxy Fit-e, you need to download three apps: Galaxy Wearable (Samsung Gear), Galaxy Fit Plugin, and Samsung Accessory Service. You also need to download the Samsung Health app to track your workouts and sleep patterns.
With the Galaxy Wearable app, you can control the Fit-e and change the way the screen looks by default. The app also lets you add or remove widgets like a calendar, calories, heart rate, steps, and the weather from other screens.
You can also set an alarm through the wearable app, and you can choose to get alerts for apps on your phone. I chose to get alerts for WhatsApp, calls, and SMS, but the only ones I got were for incoming calls.
Keeping tabs on things
When it comes to tracking activities, Galaxy Fit-e automatically keeps track of things like walking. I walk exactly 1 km from the Metro station to my house. When my fitness tracker sees that I’ve been walking for a long time, it tells me to “Keep Going.” However, the steps count is not always accurate. The 1 km mark is somewhere between 650 and 700 meters.
The Galaxy Fit-e keeps track of sleep by watching how the body moves. It says that you are in deep sleep when you don’t move at all during the night. The tracker keeps an eye on your heart rate all the time, and you can see that on the Samsung Health app. If you take off the tracker, the band automatically stops tracking your heart rate so that the battery lasts longer when you’re not using the Fit-e. The wearable app lets you set a time for the brightness to go down at night. Even though this feature is nice, it could have come with a way to set a time for the raise to wake feature.
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Samsung Galaxy Fit- e Battery
The fitness tracker’s 70mAh battery usually lasts two and a half days if you wear it day and night after a full charge. You can get more than three days of time if you put the tracker down while you sleep. Also, to charge, you don’t have to take the tracker’s main body out of the strap. But the Galaxy Fit-e doesn’t let you know when the battery is low. Instead, you have to check the Galaxy Wearables app to see how the battery is doing, which is not very useful.
Samsung Galaxy Fit-e Verdict
Samsung Galaxy Fit-e is a comfortable and light fitness tracker that starts tracking your workouts without you having to tell it to. But many people won’t be able to make it through three days on a single charge. Given the competition, the Galaxy Fit-e is missing a lot of features that are now desirable in a fitness tracker at this price point. These include a scrollable interface and a touch screen panel, which will make it hard for it to stand out.
| pros | Cons |
| Doesn’t cost much | Two apps are needed. |
| accurately tracks your activity | Availability in other countries is limited |
| light and comfortable. | Battery life can vary. |
| product | Expected Price |
| Samsung Galaxy fit-e | Rs 5,295 |
