Samsung’s S Health is now keeping score with your friends

Version 4.8.0085 brings some major feature adds to the S Health app, major enough that you’d think it’d be worth the bump to 5.0. Alas, if you like to compare your bests and literally document your data while keeping your blood sugar in check, you’ve got it in this update.The Android app introduces step count comparisons with your friends and your age range with goal “challenges”. More of your steps will get counted if you don’t happen to be wearing your Gear Fit as ...

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5 reasons the Samsung Gear Fit doesn’t suck as much as your nerd friends say it does

If there’s one thing about us geeks, it’s our capacity to be super-critical about every little thing you can imagine. Sometimes that’s a good thing: it prevents us from being bamboozled by every piece of techno-trash a company tries to shove down our throat, and it prompts the more vocal among us to shout out loud until those firms refine their offerings. Criticism, on the whole, can have a net positive effect.But sometimes it feels like we complain just for the sake of making noise. Publications like ours ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 094: Fitness, Photography, and Fidelity with Myriam Joire!

Nimble hops between short subjects, or longform plumbing of deep depths? We don’t like to make you choose with our podcast, so we occasionally hop across formats between episodes. This here is one of the deeper variety. This week’s special guest is Myriam Joire (aka tnkgrl), Engadget alum and current product evangelist at Pebble. She brings her considerable expertise in optics and audio to a discussion ranging from the best high-end headphones ...

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S Health review: our fitness adventure with Samsung’s Gear Fit, Galaxy S5, and a kayak (Video)

The desk. The keyboard. The chair. If you’re a technology blogger in 2014 (or really any kind of white collar employee) these are very likely the tools which dominate your workday. So when a company like Samsung decides to make fitness a priority with its new flagship smartphone, it can be tough to fully evaluate those features unless you get out from behind that desk. Today, that’s just what we’re doing. While we’ve already given you a glance at Samsung’s S Health suite in our

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