Need accessories? Look to the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active and Galaxy Buds

The Galaxy Fit mini-band also should get exercisers who are looking for something to wear all the time locked into their health stats.

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Here are the athletic activities you can track with an Apple Watch Series 3

The HomePod firmware repository strikes again with all the new activities you may be able to track on watchOS 4... and we do mean ALL of them.

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Polar M600 First Look: Serious Fitness meets Android Wear

We constantly get asked for a good Android Wear smartwatch to recommend for fitness activities, and ever since the inception of the wearable operating system, the response has mostly been negative. We’ve seen just a few attempts at serious fitness from Android Wear, with one being just GPS capable, and the other just being a smartwatch for runners. It’s not until now that we finally see an Android Wear smartwatch that addresses all the needs of serious fitness with the new Polar M600. This is not just a GPS capable smartwatch, and it doesn’t just bring the average heart ...

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Withings Steel HR Smartwatch First Look: Subtle and Stylish

Following the acquisition with Nokia, Withings has unveiled an ambitious update to its smartwatch offerings. The original Activité fitness tracker was praised for its simplicity and analog clock face delivery of work out goals. Adding heart rate monitoring though requires a more complete way to deliver information.The Withings Steel HR continues the fitness tracking of previous watches, while adding a heart rate monitor, and a better system for notifications. All in a gadget which will monitor your health stats for up to 25 days on a single replaceable watch battery. Here’s our ...

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AfterShokz Sportz Titanium First Look: Lighter, stronger, open ear headphones

When it comes to fitness tech, good audio is important to many people. Being aware of your surroundings while working out can also be critical. You probably want to hear that bus which is about to turn you into street pizza. AfterShokz solution is to use bone conduction. Sound is transmitted to your brain without having to block your ears.Previous iterations of this technology though have been worn a bit heavy on the head, or felt kind of clunky. This year Aftershokz looks to address some of those criticisms with a shockingly light and durable wired headset. Here’s our first look at ...

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Misfit Shine 2 and Ray Fitness Trackers Quick Look: Subtle and Stylish

Maybe you want basic step an sleep tracking, but you also don’t want to wear something which looks super “tech-Y”. Misfit’s Shine 2 and Ray fitness trackers might be able to help you out there. These devices are designed to look more like jewelry, a bit more discreet than many competing gadgets. Following a trend of being a bit more analog, neither tracker is rechargeable. Both Ray and Shine 2 use replaceable batteries which last for months of data collection.Is this the right mix of style and technology for you? Here’s our first look from IFA 2016!Misfit ...

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Under Armour puts Watson from IBM to its app, UA Record

Under Armour has been making plenty of techie friends lately. HTC, of course, has been churning out the hardware for a box full of fitness wares. But while HTC does make very agreeable Android software, UA’s been looking for something a bit more context-aware and cognizant of what a runner’s or skier’s needs are.So, it came to IBM for some help and got it in the form of ...

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Verizon takes on Moto 360 Sport, Fitbit Blaze

Cellular networks have kept up with some of the smartwatch releases out there, especially the cell-connected variants. It went for the Gear S, the Gear S2 and what was to be the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE … “

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Do you really care about health tracking wearables?

It’s interesting what is going on in the wearables camp. There are two separate factions – fitness bands and smartwatches, both claiming to do just enough of the other to make the other not necessary. FitBits, and Bands, and 360’s abound in the wearables circle. Most of the time, we here at Pocketnow talk about the watches more than the bands, but there is that other camp that keeps hanging around so let’s step aside for a moment and examine.Health and fitness trackers have made a bigger boom in the industry than smartwatches to date. There are a number of factors surrounding that ...

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