For years, I’ve all the time been unconcerned about my well being since despite the fact that I’m chubby, I’ve by no means as soon as felt something out of the odd. Till I made a decision to have an precise full bodily examination. The outcomes had been all marked in purple—my physique, it seems, was in horrible form. And that received me to begin my health journey—I calorie-counted, eliminated purple meat as a lot as I may from my weight loss plan, added extra greens on my plate, and exercised day by day.
After a yr, my well being began to normalize. My blood sugar, uric acid, and ldl cholesterol depend went down, and I misplaced weight. Nonetheless, I’m nonetheless unhappy with my present weight—a bit over the BMI commonplace—so, I nonetheless train day by day.
I normally alternate between doing static step-up train inside the home and strolling 10,000 steps exterior. With all these, I normally simply use my cellphone to depend my steps and the energy I burn. Fairly restricted, since it will possibly’t actually learn my physique stats like coronary heart price and all that.
That was till I used to be given an opportunity to make use of the Samsung Galaxy Fit3. It simply may be the proper smartwatch that may assist me obtain my desired physique weight. I obtained the Galaxy Fit3 excellent earlier than BG, Child A, and I launched into an eleven-day journey to Baguio Metropolis—the proper place to check it out because it’s gonna be one heck of a walkathon for us.
SPECS & PRICING
The Galaxy Fit3 is primarily a health watch that doubles as a smartwatch. It principally has a lot of the stuff smartwatches have, with options targeted on well being and health. The Samsung Galaxy Fit3 is marketed within the Philippines at a extremely inexpensive value of ₱3,490.00. That is available on the Samsung web site, on-line portals like Lazada and Shopee, and bodily tech shops nationwide.
In contrast with the earlier Samsung Galaxy Fit2, the Fit3 has a Fall Detection and Mild Sensor. Listed here are its primary specs.
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| OFFICIAL SAMSUNG GALAXY FIT3 SPECS FROM THE SAMSUNG WEBSITE |
UNBOXING & SETTING UP
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| GALAXY FIT3 UNBOXING AND SETTING UP |
Samsung’s Galaxy Fit3 is available in a small compact field. Inside is the watch—with wristband related—a fast begin guide information, guarantee card, and a charging cable.
Establishing the Samsung Galaxy Fit3 on an Android cellphone is straightforward. Simply flip in your cellphone’s GPS and Bluetooth, join the Fit3 through Bluetooth, and straightforward directions would then start in your cellphone’s display screen.
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| GALAXY WEARABLE APP AND SAMSUNG HEALTH APP |
To completely combine along with your smartphone, you’ll really must register for a Samsung account and set up 4 apps from the Appstore (for Android customers), the primary three could be required by the Fit3 as you entry it in your cellphone, besides the final one (Samsung Well being), which you must set up by yourself:
Samsung Accent Service
A common Samsung app for connecting equipment along with your cell phone. This app works within the background and though it creates a display screen app icon in your cellphone, there’s actually no want to truly entry it as soon as put in.
Galaxy Fit3 Plugin App
An app that seamlessly join the Galaxy Fit3 and appropriate cellular system. Just like the earlier app, this additionally works within the background and there’s no must entry it.
Galaxy Wearable App
The precise app you employ to hook up with the Galaxy Fit3 to sync, change watch faces, add apps, tiles, fast panels, and settings.
Samsung Well being
The app the place you may observe your well being standing that the Galaxy Fit3 collects. Surprisingly, this isn’t a part of the required apps to put in whenever you first sync the Fit3 to your cellphone, however that is a very powerful app to make use of along with your Fit3.
CHARGING
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| TYPE-C TO MAGNETIC 2-PIN CHARGING CABLE INCLUDED WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
There’s an preliminary cost on the Samsung Galaxy Fit3, however it is strongly recommended that you simply absolutely cost the watch earlier than utilizing it.
The cable included is an RU3 quick charging dock cable, which is one thing new for me. One finish of the cable, which you mount to the watch, is Samsung’s proprietary magnetic 2-pin cable, and the tip that you simply plug on the charging head is a Sort-C connector.
And because the Galaxy Fit3 doesn’t embrace a charging head, I used to be initially confused on how I can use the cable to cost the watch—since a lot of the charging heads in our home solely has the standard USB slot. Luckily, one in all our powerbanks has a Sort-C slot which works with the cable.
Apparently, the Galaxy Fit3 may also be charged utilizing a smartphone with a Sort-C charging slot—good for cases the place you run out of batteries when exterior figuring out.
If you wish to plug the Galaxy Fit3 on a wall socket, Sort-C or USB-C charging heads will be purchased from on-line shops for as little as ₱40.00 (generic) to ₱1,190.00 (official Samsung).
Charging time is sort of quick, from 0 to 65% in half-hour, and full cost in about an hour. Samsung claims that the cost can last as long as 13 days, however that’s most likely if you happen to’re not utilizing it that a lot. In my expertise, it normally lasts as much as 4 to 5 days earlier than I must recharge. Awake Labs advocate that customers cost their Galaxy Fit3 nightly—most likely not in a single day, however simply earlier than you sleep so you may nonetheless use it to trace your sleep sample.
DESIGN & ACTUAL WEAR
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| USING THE GALAXY FIT3 ON MY DAILY WORKOUTS |
The Samsung Galaxy Fit3 is mild and comfy to put on. I don’t normally put on a watch at dwelling, however since I need to observe my day by day actions, I really put on it all through the day and even in my sleep. For a non-watch-wearing-at-home individual, it’s aluminum physique and comfortable silicone band by no means as soon as irritated or bothered me sufficient for me to truly take it off—it’s so snug I typically overlook that I’m carrying a watch. I additionally like that it’s mud and waterproof, no must take it off when washing fingers and even the dishes.
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| THE WIFE WITH THE WHITE BAND GALAXY FIT3 |
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| MY THIRD-PARTY ARMY LEATHER BAND FOR MY GALAXY FIT3 |
The Galaxy Fit3 is available in pink gold, darkish grey, and silver sports activities band colours—these, nevertheless, can simply be modified and there are tons of of variants obtainable on-line. I used to be given a Fit3 with a white band, and whereas it doesn’t actually match my fashion, it really works completely with my spouse’s aesthetic. To maintain the band on my wrist, and never my spouse’s—she’s really fairly enamored by it, lol—I purchased a few military inexperienced bands; a silicone band for figuring out and leather-based band for going out. An official Samsung Galaxy Fit3 Sport Band is priced at ₱899.00 (Darkish Inexperienced & Orange solely), whereas third-party ones discovered on-line go as little as ₱80.00 every.
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| WHITE ISN’T REALLY MY COLOR, BUT IT DOES WORK TOO, EH? |
The watch face can also be sized excellent, with about 1 x 1.5 inches 256×402 decision AMOLED display screen, and has a transparent and readable display screen even on a brightly lit outside setting. It’s additionally fairly responsive, with its auto-on flick-of-the-wrist-towards-its-user perform and clean touchscreen use.
FEATURES
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| I LIKE THE FEEL OF GALAXY FIT3 |
As small and light-weight as it’s, the Samsung Galaxy Fit3 packs a punch with regards to options. Granted, it might not have all of the bells and whistles as with Samsung’s Galaxy Watch5 and Watch 6, however with its value, it’s undoubtedly a bang-for-the-buck smartwatch.
Good Watch
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| THE GALAXY FIT3 AS A SMART WATCH |
• Waterproof and Dustproof IP68 water-resistant as much as 50 meters for 10 minutes, 1.5 meters for half-hour for freshwater at 5ATM score, not appropriate for diving although
• Watch Face Simply interchangeable Watch Face with tons of of preset choices—together with one customizable Watch Face (which could be very restricted, by the best way)
• Time, Date, Climate
• Instantaneous Message Notifications For SMS and messaging apps like FB Messenger. You may’t kind replies, nevertheless it has pre-existing phrases you may immediately use. It additionally notifies for calls, however it will possibly’t take one because it has no microphone
• Calendar
• Calculator
• Media Participant Management Works with offline music gamers and streaming apps like Spotify
• Photograph Snapper Photograph distant for Samsung Galaxy telephones with One UI 5.1+ working system
• Discover My Cellphone Make your cellphone ring utilizing the Galaxy Fit3, it’s a must to be beforehand related for this to work
Day by day Exercise
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| TRACKING MY DAILY ACTIVITY ON THE GALAXY FIT3 |
• Step Depend Appears extra correct than my cellphone’s
• Exercise Time Counts in minutes the time you’re energetic
• Burned Energy
Train Tracker
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| TRACKING A SPECIFIC EXERCISE USING THE GALAXY FIT3 |
• Exercises Monitor particular exercises utilizing greater than 100 Galaxy Fit3 presets, from strolling to biking, boxing to basketball, or rowing to swimming. In case your exercise is unlisted, merely select Different Exercise.
• Auto Monitor Simply in case you forgot to change in your exercise tracker, the Fit3 can routinely detect what you’re doing. Additionally works nice for holding observe of your walks.
Sleep Tracker
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| MY SLEEP ANIMAL, ACCORDING TO GALAXY FIT3’S SLEEP TRACKER |
• Sleep Monitoring Displays your sleep patterns, waking hours, REMs, sleep phases, loud night breathing, and blood oxygen.
• Sleep Rating Get a sleep rating primarily based on animal characters—are you an Exhausted Shark with little sleep or an Unconcerned Lion who has greater than his share of eight hours plus of sleep.
• Sleep Teaching When you full a seven-day steady sleep file, the Fit3 would begin recommending methods so that you can enhance your sleep behavior.
Well being Trackers
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| THE GALAXY FIT3 CAN ALSO TRACK VARIOUS HEALTH STATUSES |
• Coronary heart Fee
• Stress
• Blood Oxygen
• Cycle Tracker For monitoring girls’s menstrual durations
• Fall Detection Particularly useful for the elderlies, the Fit3 detects unintentional falls. Customers can then press the House button 5 occasions to inform emergency contacts. Pre-registered medical information will even be displayed on the lock display screen as soon as assist arrives.
REAL WORLD USE ON A TRIP
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| USING THE GALAXY FIT3 DURING OUR BAGUIO TRIP |
I used the Samsung Galaxy Fit3 on an 11-day trip in Baguio Metropolis, utilizing it primarily to trace how a lot strolling we had been doing in a single day, and likewise testing a few of its capabilities and options along with the Samsung Well being app.
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| IT ACTUALLY TRACKED THE SLOPING ROADS OF BAGUIO CITY IN FLOOR UNITS DURING OUR WALKS |
Monitoring our day by day walks required nothing, I merely walked—on flat and hilly areas—and the Fit3 recorded how a lot steps I took and the way excessive I climbed (measured in flooring). I averaged at 16,000++ steps, climbing 26++ flooring, and burning 472 kilocalories a day. We had been fairly the energetic bunch, largely strolling alongside Baguio and infrequently taking a taxi.
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| HIKING THE TRAILS OF CAMP JOHN HAY WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
We additionally did a hike alongside Camp John Hay’s Apache Path and Baguio Eco Path. It could’ve been good for the Mountaineering Tracker the Fit3 has, however I used to be unaware on the time that such a exercise existed so I merely used the Strolling exercise as a substitute. Pft.
When the urge hit me, I additionally did brisk morning walks all the best way from our lodging in Barangay Guisad Central to Burnham Park. Utilizing the Strolling exercise, I like the way it motivates me after I hit particular targets like getting a kilometer in or hitting a selected train time.
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| MORNING WALK IN BAGUIO CITY WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
The Fit3 not solely tracks my steps, but additionally the length of my exercise, distance, energy spent, pace, tempo, coronary heart price, and my common cadence. My solely want is that it will possibly additionally observe my routes. Which, I later came upon, will be accomplished if I join the Fit3—which has no GPS in itself—to my location-enabled cellphone throughout my precise exercise.
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| TRACKING THE WEATHER AND TEMP WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
In addition to the workout routines, I used to be additionally capable of make the most of the Fit3 in checking the climate and the temperature—it does get actually chilly in Baguio even in the course of the summer time months—so it helps in making ready me if I ought to be bringing a jacket with me or not.
REAL WORLD USE AT HOME
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| MORNING WALK IN QUEZON CITY WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
Again dwelling, I used the Samsung Galaxy Fit3 to additionally observe my walks, as I normally achieve this throughout weekends, and my day by day step-up workout routines.
The step-up train—the place I’m going up and down on a single step—isn’t listed on the Fit3’s preset exercises, so I normally use the Different Exercise possibility. And it does file my exercise fairly effectively, measuring my common coronary heart price (together with coronary heart price zones—low depth to most), exercise length, and energy spent.
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| DOING LAPS ON THE POOL WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
I used to be additionally capable of strive the Fit3 on doing laps on a swimming pool. I initially can not discover the correct exercise on the preset, so I initially selected Open Water Swim. It was solely on my second swim that I discovered the Pool Swim exercise. I like the way it tracked what number of laps I made, the gap I coated, the energy I burnt, and surprisingly the kind of swim I did and its length.
It was simply unlucky that my swim information was worn out together with the information for the day resulting from a sync situation. Which brings me to…
ISSUES ENCOUNTERED
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| SYNC ISSUE ENCOUNTERED WITH THE GALAXY FIT3 |
Truthfully, I encountered nearly no points with the Samsung Galaxy Fit3 apart from its cellphone syncing. The Fit3 is appropriate with Android units utilizing Android 10 and up working system. I’m at the moment utilizing a Huawei P30 Lite smartphone, and because it’s utilizing an EMUI 12 OS, there ought to be no downside in utilizing it with the Fit3.
I initially encountered the difficulty the Galaxy Fit3 proper after establishing the watch with my cellphone. It merely received’t sync once more after the setup. So, I reset my cellphone and watch, and it labored. I encountered it once more just a few occasions after, with a cellphone and watch restart fixing the difficulty. Nonetheless, this resulted in shedding my information for that exact day.
I’ve searched on-line concerning the situation and never just a few are additionally experiencing Fit3’s sync situation—not solely on non-Galaxy telephones, but additionally on Samsung telephones. The Fit3 was launched in February, which is pretty latest, so we will most likely anticipate just a few glitches like these, and extra importantly, a repair coming through replace patch quickly.
FINAL WORD
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| WOULD I RECOMMEND THE GALAXY FIT3? IT’S A YES FOR ME. |
The Samsung Galaxy Fit3 is a good-looking, simple to put on, and feature-packed smartwatch with a premium on monitoring and enhancing your well being. It does include a little bit of a sync glitch, which I suppose, can simply be patched through future updates, nevertheless it’s foremost promoting level is its surprisingly inexpensive value. For ₱3,490.00, would I like to recommend the Samsung Galaxy Fit3? As soon as an replace to repair its sync situation is fastened, undoubtedly sure. However if you happen to merely desire a chic-looking smartwatch from a good model and don’t care a lot about monitoring your well being stats in your cellphone and with out breaking the financial institution, then completely sure—sync points or not.
~ SAMSUNG PHILIPPINES PROVIDED THE UNIT I REVIEWED. VIEWS & OPINIONS ARE ALL MINE.
