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Hi all, So I recently bought a Striiv Fusion 2 activity tracker as feature wise it fit what I wanted out of a smart band (Media controls, Notifications and well fitness stuff) but unfortunately found that the band was incompatible with my Huawei P10 Lite, I got the Striiv for $80 and was wondering if there were any alternatives that would work for my phone at around the same pricing? Note: Pricing and Availability must be for New Zealand Cheers, Liam McGill

I'm currently debating whether or not to get a smart watch, specifically an Apple one, as I am an iPhone user. I'm aware of the basic features such as receiving notifications, health monitoring, GPS, etc but my phone can do all of these things regardless. Does anyone that owns a smart watch (not just the Apple variety) find that it has significantly improved your productivity by saving you precious seconds normally spent pulling your phone out of your pocket? I know I sound like I've made up my mind but I'm mainly curious about a largely enthusiast community's opinion on watches. And are there any cheaper options that get the job done that interface well with iOS?

Hi, I am looking to buy a Smartwatch due to the fact that my vibration motor on my android phone is broken. I have small wrists and not a massive budget please help me decide what to get. Please. Thank you.

I'm fully aware of Pebble being devoured and not being an operational company anymore. But I need a new watch and I want something that does slightly more things than a analog/digital watch but I am not looking for a fancy smartwatch for several hundreds of dollars and Fitbits are geared towards the wrong things for me. I'm able to get the Pebble Steel for a reasonable price and I wonder how the functionality is a year after Pebble closed its doors? How is the 3rd party support and is there a good community surrounding it? EDIT: Maybe there's some other device with current support that is very similar to the Pebble Steel?

I lost my go plus and I wanted to get a smartwatch instead of getting another go plus. What is a good smartwatch to play Pokemon go with? I have a Galaxy S7 phone. .

Because I didn't know about this, until I got to my current one after trying several watches, I thought some people may not be aware or forgot about this old tech. So let me repay the community a little by informing about this. (Skip to 3. if you just want to know what a transreflective display is. skip to 4 if you want to know what watches use it) 1. I am a pebble user and most important features of a watch are notifications, more than a day battery and always on display showing time. With these conditions, I started to research and try out different watches in preparation of pebble losing support in the future. Even trying some hybrid watches. The time and battery time part was great but not much on notification side. I left the OLED watches for last as those are expensive and slowly got to an Amazfit Pace. A very cheap in LCD display fitness tracker ($120 on ebay). When pairing it up with my phone, I noticed, that while waiting for connection, it turned off the back light but i could still read what was on it just fine. Ook... Time to do some research to understand this glorious thing. 2. What is a transreflective display? Let's start with types of displays we have today. (Very simplified and I'm pulling this from my head. I might be wrong about some details. Let me know) LED - a bunch of LEDs that light up to show text or image. one LED doesn't have to be a dot/pixel. It can be a different shape like ones in clocks. LCD - a right electric current turns crystals in an element (pixel or as above, any shape) to filter out light. It needs additional light to be readable. OLED - organic LED. Works like LED but an element can be much smaller and thinner. Usually on color displays 3 LEDs make one pixel. E-Paper - an electric current moves capsules into a cluster to create a dark spot. Like pigment on squids. This spot is a pixel. 3. So a transreflective display is an LCD panel, that is on top of a layer that reflects external light back through the LCD panel on your eyes. Making it unnecessary to have a backlight at all times. Here's an image from wiki An example is a simple calculator or a digital casio watch. If you used mobile phones from long before smartphones came. You might remember most of them show time, operator, signal and battery levels at all time. At night you would press a volume button to make it light up but it was not needed most of the day. See? I did say it was an old technology. Nowadays, phones just don't use these anymore because color reproduction is way more important than battery life. Without direct backlight, the colors are just going to be weird and washed out. these types have light under the reflective layer or have a "side" light. 4. For some reason, smartwatches follow the same route. Mostly anyway. There are fortunately some exeptions > A pebble watch is one. They just always marketed it as e-paper. It's not. It's an LCD display. Which is why colors on pebble time were so bad with light on. It had to shine through a reflective layer. > Sony Smartwatch 3 > Weloop Hey 3S > SMA-TIME > And Amazfit Pace I'm using now. > Garmin Fenix watches If anyone know any other, let me know. I'll add to the list After 2 full days (from Thursday morning to Saturday morning) it had 46% of battery left. That was with "backlight on" on wake up, steps tracking, notifications on, several heartbeat measurments and my playing around with its software and settings a lot as I was getting used to it. It's also bigger = bigger numbers. I would say I found a perfect replacement for pebble watches. It shows time, it shows notifications and has some extra features I could use to track my fitness. People with very skinny wrists might find it too big though it's also about 2 mm thicker. Using the pebble to compare display with, the old black and white pebble display still has better contrast, readability is similar to color pebble time but is larger and with higher DPI. Anyways. I hope this helps those in search of a simple smartwatch. This is not a review. I just wanted to inform people that this exists and maybe start a conversation on why are bigger smartwatch makers so invested on power hungry display technologies and leaving out a better alternative. EDIT: added garmin watches to the list

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@LinusTech had mentioned a smartwatch not to long ago that was a hybrid watch in a sense. When charged, it had all the fancy smartwatch features, and when the battery died it still showed a working clock, so you still had a watch to get the time from. I was wondering what is it, so anybody know? Thanks for the help!

Hello! I have just set up my Libre Alarm to mesure my glucose through the night, and I need some help... The smartwatch mesures my glucose every 10 minutes in the night, which is what I want, I won't change it, so, please don't tell me to... When I disable the sound on the watch, it disables it on the phone as well, which is not what I want cause the phone needs to alarm me if my glucose goes low... The vibration on the watch, when the watch is on my hand, it is in some point loud and I don't want it to wake me up... Is there any way I could disable all the sounds on the Smartwatch, put NOT on the phone as well? - I am using Sony Smartwatch 3 SWR50, version LCA43, NFC is installed (doesent matter...) Thanks for your help! Please reply as fast as you can when you see this.... I appreciate your help people! Best Regards! Have a nice day!

Hi all, I just bought a Samsung Gear s3 on Black Friday and have been using it for a few days now. The big problem that is annoying me is that, on my celphone (Samsung Galaxy S6), I set a training plan on the Samsung Health app (Baby steps to 5K, don't judge :)). Looks great, it gives me a plan to progress on my running to achieve a goal, all looks fine. BUT this plan is not communicated in ANY way to the gear s3. The Samsung health app on the gear s3 does track running exercises, but they are generic 30min exercises. Worst of all, if I use the Samsung Health app on my cel phone to look up today's exercise and choose to start that exercise, it starts tracking on the cel phone, not the watch. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this (if possible at all)? An alternative I tried was to use UnderArmor's apps. But apart from the clusterf*** that is installing 5 different apps on the phone and the watch, by the end of the day one can only use the training plans if they pay an annual fee.

so my friend has a versa 2 that he bought one and a half weeks ago. he wore it every night for the sleep score and sleep stages but never got to see the results. he slept at 11 pm and woke up at 8 30 am but according to Fitbit he slept for 3 hours 12 to 2 am and 5 to 6 am. this info is also not in sleep stages but in some weird bar graphs and it says above it "see why you didn't get full sleep stages info". I made him wear the watch 2 to 3 fingers width above the wrist bone and also flipped(heartrate sensor facing the inner side of the hand) still it showed these kinds of data. one day I tried his watch and in the morning it worked perfectly for me. whats going on?

Does anyone use this one? (or similiar product) https://www.amazon.com/Tensea-Compatible-Galaxy-Protector-Samsung/dp/B07R1W2FMG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Active+2+case+protector&qid=1575225190&sr=8-1 I have some concerns about it affecting the touch sensitivity.

Now, as the title said, i need a suggestion for a watch under $200 USD. I'm actually searching for a watch that look identical or at least close to the samsung S gear 2/ S gear 3. But, the one that i am looking for is not a smartwatch, just a normal watch. can anyone suggest me one ? if you don't know any watch that is similar, you can suggest other watches but please be a leather straps and non digital watches. thx

I am thinking about buying a smartwatch that is compatible with my Iphone 6. The apple watch s appealing, but the price is very iffy. Any more suggestions? Or should I stick with the Apple Watch?

Just as the title states, whats your guys opinions. What do you prefer more Android Wear or Pebble OS and why?

Hi so I've found some lightly used SONY SmartWatch 3 SWR50 on ebay for about $100 to $150 CAD but I've also noticed Pebble is about to release there Pebble 2. So my question is should I buy the SONY SmartWatch 3 SWR50 or Pre-Order the Pebble 2.

I have a razer nabu that im selling right now and i am wanting to get a new smart watch. I have seen the pebbles going for about 50ish and the time for 80-85 and i am thinking about getting one. You can also suggest another one under 90. What should i get? please help.

So I'm reallllly hoping that this is in the right section and hopefully that's all good. My issue is that it won't even boot and I'm looking to flash the proper files to it. my problem is that im not exactly sure how to go about doing that. Also as a very important side note, whenever i connect to my PC it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting so I think it needs proper drivers too.

Hey guys, I was recently given a 42mm Apple watch sport yet i do not have an apple device. I have no receipt therefor i can not refund it and i live in hong kong and the apple watch is not very popular here so it will not sell for much at all. What shall i do? What can it do without an iphone? Thankyou

Saw this piece on wearable about Ticwatch saying that it will launch an international version this summer? http://www.wareable.com/smartwatches/ticwatch-2-price-specs-release-date-665

So I currently have a very scratched, and kinda broken (bought it used cheaply), pebble time. I was looking into buying a good used REAL smartwatch from the new gen that have decreased in price. I was looking at the Moto 360 sport, and the Gear S2. The sport is ~140$ on amazon, and the Gear s2 is ~160$. I want to use it for running casually 3-5 times a week (about 10-15 miles a week), and use hr tracking. I know that the sport has GPS which is huge, because I will not be running with my phone, however not having GPS is not a complete dealbreaker. If the regular smartwatch use is much worse on the Moto, than I will happily take the Gear s2 (I have a note 4), but if the difference is very close, than I would probably go with the Moto because of GPS. If anyone has any comments on the watches, and their normal functionality that would be great. To me, the screens are both good, the rotating bezel is kinda cool but not necessary, and the not replaceable straps are annoying but okay. If you could give me you thoughts and opinions that would be great Thanks

Yesterday my original Microsoft band broke after falling down a flight of stairs attached to me so I am looking for a new smartwatch. I have been looking at the pebble time which is on sale at woot and groupon for 79.99 http://www.woot.com/offers/pebble-time-smartwatch-ios-android-compatible-13?ref=w_cnt_gw_dly_tl i have looked and the only other reasonable smartwatch i have seen is the Asus zenwatch 2 for about 120-130 on amazon. I was hoping for some other suggestions. The budget is around or preferably bellow $150 US and i mainly want notifications and music control, I want to pair it with my original droid turbo and heart rate tracking would be a bonus, Thanks!

Does anyone know where to find the official out of the box LG watch bands for the LG watch urbane, I know that you can use 22mm bands, but I really like the originals I can't find them anywhere.

I've recently got some money that I would like to spend on something a little fun. A smartwatch seems to be pretty interesting and I wanted to buy one. Unfortunately, I only want to spend 200 ish dollars CAD. Where I live, the 1st gen moto 360 is around 180 dollars and that seems like a pretty good deal for a fully featured android wear smartwatchm but it is a first gen product and one that had flaws. The latest moto 360 is considerably more expensive, near 400 from the places i've checked and that's way to much for me. What I'm asking is whether the original is still worth buying considering its price point? I'm also open to other suggestions for watches.