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Samsung announced a trio of wearable devices alongside the Galaxy S5 at Mobile World Congress 2014. Apart from the two new Gear smartwatches Samsung also launched the Gear Fit activity tracker. However this wearable device does much more, it’s essentially a smartwatch-cum-activity tracker. Its certainly an attractive device and the Gear Fit appears to be doing very well for itself if reports are accurate. Apparently the initial 250,000 unit stock has been sold out.

MK, a Korean publication, claims that out of the 250,000 units that were sold in just ten days, 25,000 units were sold in South Korea alone. Samsung is now said to have increased production of this wearable device which has apparently put pressure on Samsung Display and Samsung SDI, the two sole suppliers for the Gear Fit.

With a $199 price tag, Gear Fit touts a 1.84-inch curved Super AMOLED display with 432×128 pixel resolution. Its powered by Samsung’s homegrown Real Time OS. The battery, developed by Samsung SDI, can last for three to five days on a single charge, making the Gear Fit a much more attractive choice as opposed to conventional smartwatches which don’t offer similar battery life. Samsung’s new activity tracker is compatible with 20 existing smartphones and tablets.

The Gear Fit went on sale on April 11, alongside the two new smartwatches and the Galaxy S5.

Samsung Gear Fit Initial Stock Reportedly Sold Out , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gadgets, gear fit, Samsung, Wearable Tech,

Samsung’s Gear Fit had every chance to be by far the best activity tracker you could own. It isn’t. Not by a long shot. And there’s nothing sadder than unrealized potential.

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Back in February, at the Mobile World Congress 2014, Samsung unveiled a trio of wearable devices. Apart from two smartwatches, the company also launched an activity tracker called Gear Fit. Apart from the fact that it also tells the time, the Gear Fit’s simple yet stunning AMOLED display gives users access to a wide variety of fitness related information. There was one caveat though that bugged people who played around with the tracker. The display would only be displayed horizontally regardless of where the tracker was on the wrist. It looks like Samsung has removed this limitation.

We have heard multiple reports that through a software update, the Gear Fit’s display gets vertical orientation as well. This should help make prolonged usage of the tracker more convenient. It is not known when Samsung intends to roll out this software update, though Gear Fit units with vertical orientation have already been seen in Samsung’s official stores at home in Korea.

Samsung’s new wearable devices will be released alongside the Galaxy S5 come April 11th. Presumably soon after the company may release this software update, which is immediately going to eliminate the pain for all customers who received their brand new activity trackers from Samsung next week.

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Samsung has released some pricing information on its Gear 2 and Gear Fit smartwatch devices, and the news should be welcome considering they’re both priced cheaper than the original Galaxy Gear smartwatch: The Gear 2 will be $295, and the Gear Fit will be $197 when they go on sale in April, Samsung revealed at an official announcement in Taiwan. The announcement, reported by Sammobile and… Read More

Back in February during MWC 2014, Samsung took the wraps off their brand new Galaxy S5 handset which was unusual given that Samsung typically favors announcements at their own events. They also revealed a handful of new wearables such as the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and the Gear Fit.

Now the good news for those who want to learn more about the handset and the wearables is that Samsung has since posted a couple of new videos in which the company gives you a rather comprehensive tour of their new products. (more…)

Official Samsung Galaxy S5, Gear 2, Gear Fit Hands-On Videos Released original content from Ubergizmo.