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The accuracy is up for debate (during the long 32 mile run, the Samsung Gear S3 gave a reading that was WAY in excess of the other watches, despite having the same data) but being able to see how your sleep, sedentary periods of the day, active sessions and even walks to work all add up feels like a really rounded way of checking out how active you are. This data does help build a good picture of your day though, and we love the overall calorie counter each day. What kind of repetitive motion was it seeing that, combined with the insane speeds, told it that cycling was the obvious activity happening? It's a really nice feature and works flawlessly - except for the fact the watch through, time and again, that we were cycling when driving at over 50 miles per hour. If you're running, cycling, walking or doing something dynamic (like weights or just the general housework) it'll begin to monitor you after 10 minutes, and estimate your calorie burn. The Samsung Gear S3 has another key feature that we like: automatic workout detection. It's not an easy way to do things, but at least your data isn't locked away like it is on Apple's timepiece.). (One great thing Samsung does: letting you download your GPX file so you can plug that into online sources.

Given the lack of decent running apps though it's hard to recommend this as a running watch, despite the pleasant interface when scrutinising said run on the S Health app of your smartphone. Over time, the heart rate accuracy will snap back into place, but it's not dependable in any way, so you'll need to connect a chest strap instead. Even being used on a 'good arm', which should have more blood flow and a good contact zone for checking, saw random results fall out.ДЄt no point did we have a heart rate of 240+ beats per minute. It's the embodiment of stupidity on a wrist, with so many false readings falling out. One of the good ways to see how fit you are is through the heart rate monitor - and we feel bad for criticising Apple's version now, given how bad Samsung's is.

There were constant commands to slow down or speed up, but with no easy way to track your fitness levels it was hard to see how accurate and useful these could be, or to get explanation on how they worked. You can tap to change what's on the screen pretty well, but you canвЂ™t choose the order of what's being shown, so you'll have to make do with what's there and learn how many times you'll need to swipe to see your heart rate data or distance.ДЄnd there are training programs designed to help you increase speed or endurance.

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However, it'll sometimes take a second to update the screen with the current information, so you'll look down and panic that you've only done a couple of miles before it suddenly bounces up to four, and you can breathe a (very rapid) sigh of relief. The 'lift to wake' accuracy is strong, with every flick of the wrist showing the time, distance or pace instantly. The screen is large and bright though, so seeing what you're doing isn't too hard. This wasn't regular, but combined with no way of knowing at the start if you've got a GPS lock (we assume in the same way as the Apple Watch, where it'll fill in the data with the accelerometer until it gets a GPS lock) it's hard to trust this watch as a proper running tracker. Over the long run distance, things were OK - only 0.1 miles out over a 32 mile distance, which gave us high confidence in the Gear S3 as a running watch.Д«ut SO MANY times the run was erratic and inaccurate, with things like a random mile adding onto the distance for no reason or suddenly failing to track me for a short time.

When it comes to the run accuracy, that was middling too. It's perfectly possible to count how many star jumps one is doing, but Samsung's watch doesn't. However lunges, crunches and star jumps were all just utterly, utterly useless, with nothing being checked off properly, so the workout was redundant.Д¬ompare that to a fitness tracker like the Moov Now, and you'll see how poorly this performs. Squats were perfect, with each on tracked properly. Trying the bodyweight options, the accuracy was thoroughly mixed.

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