SAMSUNG Galaxy FIT 3 [2024] 1.6″ AMOLED Display | 14 Days Battery Life | 100+ Watchfaces | 100+ Exercise Modes | International Model – (Black)

The fitbit killer
My wife and I have been fitbit fans since the Charge 2 (2016).  Before the google purchase, fitbit was a strong leader in lower cost fitness trackers.  It did concern us that our fitbits would die frequently (nearly each one we had died within a year from the Charge 2, 3, 4). However after talking with customer service they would send us replacement.  So, ok, we can deal with that.  (Even though in the past few years you had to provide a ton of documentation including, IIRC, your drivers license.)I had a fitbit 6 that I got for Christmas 2024.  Wow, a color screen.  LOL.  I needed a replacement as the screen on my Charge 5 kept getting dimmer, and dimmer, to the point when I could not read it outdoors and barely indoors.  So I was gifted the Charge 6 and it was big step up.  But it took me a few months until I realized that the floors option was gone, not just not working, but removed, to make space for other features I could care less about.  So I looked around in late June and discovered the Fit 3.  So I bought one.  I am SO GLAD I did.  What do I need?  Step counter, heart rate, floors, distance, calories.  Oh, and the kicker for me was AIRPLANE MODE.  I study various energetic sciences including BioGeometry and the EMF coming from our devices is not benign.  I don’t wear a tracker to sleep, don’t want anything live, and keep my blue tooth turned off unless I am actively syncing.This is what I see comparing Fit 3 to Fitbit Charge 6.   What the Fit 3 has as an advantage:  Larger screen, airplane mode, beautiful faces, much cleaner UI on the watch and in the android app(s) (I am using this with a Pixel 7 phone).  The ability to sync only turning on bluetooth.  A few years ago fitbit/google basically said we aren’t syncing your fitbit unless you have both location/GPS and bluetooth turned on.  Sometimes you could get the fitbit to sync with location off but this was tricky/spotty.What advantages did the Charge 6 have for me, personally.   None really.  It cost about 3x the amount for the Charge 6 compared to the Fit 3.  That’s ridiculous.In a head to head comparsion of measurements this is what I see.   Fitbit Charge is often slower to start your step counts and the Fit 3 is quicker on that.  So you steps counts are going to go up and perhaps the Fit 3 does count some arm motions as steps when it should not.  But the Fit 3 is still very close (within 1-3%) with the Charge 6.  The Fit 3 tends to undercount calories compared to the Charge 6, I can’t tell which is more accurate.  On the Charge 6 bluetooth syncing was always a laborious pain taking sometimes minutes to get the past few days of data and often having to turn bluetooth off/on and/or restarts to get it to sync.  The Fit 3 is very fast *most* of the time.  I did have one instance where the Fit 3 was not syncing in the Health App and I had to open the Wearable app and trigger a sync from there, which worked.The big thing is battery life.  I have automatic activity tracking turned on and except when syncing in the evening I keep it on airplane mode.  I charged it overnight last Thursday/Friday before I first put it on.  It’s now Wednesday evening, nearing 6 complete days of use and my battery level is at 55%.  That frugal energy use is really good and is on par with the earlier monochrome fitbits.I am very pleased with my Fit 3 purchase.  Back in the early to mid 2000’s I was very excited about Timex was doing just in digital watches (Iron Man, etc).  The Fit 3 harkens back to those kind of days for me when you could get a very full functionality wrist device that looked good, worked great, and was a good deal.  This is definitely worth a close look if you don’t need an higher priced fitness/communication device that is emitting EMFs into your pericardium meridian 24×7.  Well done.

Comfortable to wear and great battery life.
I bought this watch because I was looking for a smaller watch to wear to bed and around the house to keep an eye on my sleep and Heart Rate and so on. On that note it seems to do great at tracking my HR and sleep. I have tried quite a few other watches and just could not find one that worked for me but this one is small enough that it’s comfortable to wear at all times and even great to wear when sleeping. I have not had any issues with it’s phone connection it seems to stay connected the only time it looses connection is when I walk across to the other side of my house but as soon as I get back within range it instantly reconnects to my phone with no issues.It’s nice because I can keep track of the battery level of my phone (Galaxy Flip 6) and watch using my watch.I do wish it had a speaker just for receiving notifications, phone calls and alarms but the vibration does a good enough job of letting me know.I can usually get about 5-6 days of battery life out of it and the battery charges quite quickly.One of the only complaints I have so far for this watch is the band has a connection system that requires you to buy an adaptor if you want to use another type of watch band. But they are usually quite cheap and easy to come by so it’s not to big of an issue.

This budget watch is so good, tons of watch faces, shows my sleep pattern and scores it pretty detailed more than I was expecting, step counts good, same with distance. The battery life is decent, charging is pretty quick, I tried it on a 65 watt fast charger but it didn’t work, then I put it on a normal charger and worked fine. The watch is comfortable to wear I barely notice it when sleepingWhen I first started the watch it was in Malaysian language but because my s22 ultra is in English it didn’t matter as I was able to set it up on my phone without having to change the language, once the setup and updates completed the language on the watch changed to English which was good.Haven’t had any issues with it, but I’ve been using it for about a week.

Loved it and got it for the best price display size is amazing, light weight, does all the work which I was looking for – exercise monitoring, BPM, email notification (Outlook), call notification, disconnect alert. Since my phone is big I can’t carry it all the time hence this is my perfect gadget. Looks and quality is also amazing.

Decent fitness band better than re branded chinese smart watches