hi everyone welcome to Wesknows tech news and reviews! today i'll be comparing two fitness
trackers which are newbies to the fitness tracker market! so the fitbit inspire 2 has been around
for about a month now, while the samsung fit 2 has only had a couple of weeks on the market.
so i've been using them quite extensively for all this time and i've got quite a few things to say!
so i've done the initial reviews on them but now i want to talk specifically - in depth about how
it is to use them on a day-to-day basis. so let's get into the comparison and review!
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samsung has somehow been able to squeeze the word galaxy into fit 2's tracker name. it just makes it
sound a bit more premium but is it? that's the main question! the price point of 50 bucks does
not promise much but still fit 2 does have some tricks up its sleeve and then of course we've got
the white one here that's the fitbit inspire 2. and wow! i'm not sure if that's a positive
Wow or a negative Wow! it's just i've been using it for the past month and there are some uglies,
there are some goods, let's talk about them as we get into the review but before we get started you
should know that the fitbit inspire 2 does cost 90 quid or 100 bucks while the samsung galaxy Fit 2
is only 50 bucks - so half price. if you are new to these trackers then also please have a look at
the reviews, the initial ones and the in-depth that i've already done and i've put the cards
into the video as well as in the description below the video. let's get into the comparison and talk
about the nuances of these trackers in day-to-day life. as per usual we will kick off with the
design, then we'll get into the display, and then we'll touch upon the features and functionality.
design is key because at the end of the day we still do judge a book by its cover! the galaxy fit
2 is quite bland. it is plastic, it's rectangular and pops out of the rubber strap with ease
so you can either charge it when it's out of strap or you can change the actual straps but
take note that the different color straps are a bit of a nuisance as you can only buy them from
the samsung official store. the fitbit inspire 2 looks quite similar to the original inspire
and inspire hr but now it has a quick release band that makes it much easier to switch to a new look.
plus it's more rounded the case is plastic... not much more to say here, it is feather light though,
like really it's only 8g without the straps and twenty with them. now let's talk clasps! so the
galaxy fit two uses a clasp that's just illogical! it's strange and it's completely frustrating to
use. so you get these moving parts here which don't make sense, they make it such a frustrating
experience! forget about actually putting this tracker on midway during an exercise,
not just actually putting it on you can't even take it off properly.
it's "nyeah"! let me show you how this actually is supposed to work, there is no way you can quickly
take the tracker off nor slip it on midway during an exercise heck it's a whole ordeal!
inspire 2 thankfully goes classic with a watch style clasp that's easy to slip
on take off whatever. so why make something so simple so frustrating?! now to the exciting stuff-
displays! galaxy fit 2 sticks true to the galaxy in its name and gives us a rectangular
1.1 inch amoled display, for trackers this size the 1.1 inch is a good effort. the amoled display
resolution is 126 by 294 pixels, the display is very bright, it offers deep blacks, bright
colors and you can easily see the metrics on the watch face in practically all light conditions
inside or out. the speed of reaction with the fit 2 is great, you flick the wrist and fit 2 greets
you with near instantaneous lightening up of the screen. with the inspire 2 it's different - just
different! it just seems it's got a mind of its own and sometimes it either wants to light up and
sometimes it doesn't.. jokes aside this is very annoying especially if your other hand is busy,
say with carrying a coffee, and you need to see the text that just arrived if the screen doesn't
switch on, with the samsung it's easy, just tap below the screen and you're okay.. now with the
inspire 2 though you have to squeeze the sides of the tracker! size matters, well display size
at least, nowhere on the box or the fitbit website can you find the size of inspire 2 screen. is
it because it's embarrassingly small? as an example i have the honor band 5 with me here,
this model is almost 2 years old costs a quarter of the inspire 2 and has a 0.95 inch screen size.
the inspire 2 screen size looks like it's just over half of honor band 5. it's also black and
white - no colors here! and so finally we get to the features and functions and we can talk about
these two trackers because some of the features work as they should and some simply don't. i think
an important place to start is sleep tracking. both actually monitor three sleep stages,
so your light, your deep and rem sleep. as a way of example i will take my previous night's sleep
and we can work through them in the apps. so we'll see what these two track. I actually recorded i
slept just over eight hours and samsung manages to record it with the nice plot to follow through
mind you there are no sleep scores here to tell you how good or bad you slept which is
a shame really! on the other hand fitbit inspire 2 offers a sleep score, guidance and so much detail,
but there's always a "but", it gets your sleep time wrong because it registers awakenings in the
strangest times during the night! what about sports and activities tracking? well we have
a couple of surprises for you here as well. let's use a real life example. so yesterday,
on sunday, i was in windsor. you know the little town next to london with the windsor castle
where queen elizabeth II actually stays on the weekend? well i was doing a bit of filming for my
new travel channel. i was there since morning till the evening walking around basically crossing up
and down the town, across the river, doing a lot of walking. now these two trackers are supposedly
having auto activity recognition and of course it's at least walking and running. well they've
recorded some very strange things! firstly let's take a look at what samsung has actually recorded.
from the whole day fit 2 picked up only one 20 minute auto activity where i was walking.
now we have to understand that these trackers pick up an activity
after you've been doing it for 10 minutes or more but i know that i've been on at
least four walks where i was walking for about half an hour to 40 minutes.
so samsung just picked up one, fitbit picked up three! considering everything is relative i know
i've done at least four. so four definite ones - samsung picks up one while fitbit picks up three.
well three is better than one! the examples i have shared with you today are indicative
of the overall experience i'm getting with these two trackers over long term use. i know that i'm
being brutally honest about these two trackers but at the end of the day it's about helping you make
the right choice of the tracker that you actually need! by the way thank you to everybody who has
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