The S Health 3.0 App: Samsung’s New Found Check on Health

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The S Health 3.0 App: Samsung’s New Found Check on Health

Samsung has a reason to bind all its three latest devices: the Samsung S5 smart phone, Gear 2 the smart watch and Gear Fit, the fitness band. One look at the new S Health 3.0 app and it is evident that Samsung is keen on maintenance of health and well-being. The smart phone and watch have other features besides the health app that might anyway attract customers. But the whole functioning of the Gear Fit is based on this app.

Taipei: Even as these devices have been just released for sale, Samsung has updated the S Health 3.0 app, just to show how focused the company is on caring for health and the ecosystem.

All the three devices have a heart rate monitor that measures the user’s heart rate and gives a quick result. If one is using the exercise tracking functions, the heart rate monitoring goes on during the activity. Leaving aside the smart phone, where the health app is positioned impractically, as far as the wearables are concerned, the Gear 2/Gear 2 Neo does everything that the Gear Fit does, both offering pedometer and exercise tracking functions that connect with the S Health app.

Using the heart rate monitor as a guide, the wearables give the user useful feedback and advise regarding health. Each of these three devices has the app, enabling the user to choose which device to use while doing what. Also all the three can be connected and the Gear Fit gathers all the information to give a greater synchronized picture of the user’s fitness.

Gear Fit provides the user with lots of information. Everything from tracing one’s route to tracking elevation and heart rate info, speed, distance etc is all there for one to view in Gear Fit. One can even collect medals or view graphs of one’s achievements and view one’s average heart rate and more.

The app also tracks your weight and food intake. It coaches the user on what has to be done, whether to step up walking, cycling etc all depending on the info gathered by it.

But the crux of the trouble is that one is stuck in Samsung’s system. The S Health 3.0 is a Samsung app for the moment. If one wants to view the info on a desktop device or on an iPhone or Nexus device, the Gear Fit loses all the logging functions.