Samsung Unveils Gear Fit

Samsung is off an running when it comes to health and fitness, with the new Gear Fit fitness watch. Features a 1.8 inch AMOLED curved display, a water-resistant design, and three to four days of battery life on a single charge. The fitness oriented device has fitness coaching, can count your steps, and measure your heart rate. 

The device has sleep-tracking functionality and rudimentary features such as viewing notifications and calls from a connected smartphone. The operating system is proprietary to the device not Android or Tizen. No pricing details are available Samsung has given an April release.

Jawbone Brings UP Fitness Bracelet To Android

Android users can now, finally, get Up.

Jawbone’s Up, the fitness tracking wristband that has both a troubled past and a bright future, is now compatible with devices running Google’s mobile operating system thanks to a new Up Android app that hit Google Play on Tuesday night.

The Up previously only worked with Apple’s iOS, and as owners of both the $130 bracelet and an iPhone know, the wearable can be used to track steps and physical movement to calculate an estimate of calories burned throughout the day. If you wear the Up to bed, it’ll track how much sleep you got, and it can even determine how much of that was a deep sleep or light sleep. Like the iOS app, the Android app will include extra features, such as a bar-code scanner to help track the healthiness of what you’re eating and optional notifications that suggest going for a walk if you’ve been stuck at your desk too long.

The Google-friendly Up by Jawbone app, which runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or newer, is free, just as it was in Apple’s App store. Along with the new Android compatibility, a Jawbone rep told Wired on Tuesday that the Up is now on sale in Europe, and that it will hit Asia, Australia and the Middle East in April. And the iOS version of the Up by Jawbone app has been updated to support 11 new languages.



Source: Google Play Store

Motorola's MotoACTV App Updated With Support For Android 2.1

Motorola today announced an update for the MotoACTV application that accompanies its MotoACTV smart watch. The new version of the MotoACTV app now supports all Android devices running Android 2.1 and up. The application also adds some features. With it, Android uses can plan workouts from their phone, launch workouts from the MotoACTV, and see the workout data back on the phone. It also tracks the progress of personal fitness goals, and can be used to set up Wi-Fi networks for the MotoACTV watch. The updated application is free and will be pushed out starting today.