Samsung Unveils Gear Fit 2 Activity Tracker and IconX Wireless Earbuds (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader writes: At its New York City event today, Samsung unveiled two new wearables: an updated Gear Fit 2 activity tracker and IconX wireless earbuds. The Fit 2 features a thinner design than its predecessor, a curvier 1.5" Super AMOLED display, built-in heart-rate monitor, GPS, 4GB of built-in storage, and auto multi-sport and sleep tracking. Samsung promises three to four days of use on a single charge, and they are offering it in two sizes to appeal to male and female users. It's priced at $179, with in-store availability on June 10th. The IconX is Samsung's first truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds, featuring a built-in heart-rate monitor, and the ability to track one's distance and speed. The earbuds feature 4GB of storage, similar to the Fit 2, and are priced at $199 with a Q3 release date. Samsung notes that fitness bands comprise more than 50 percent of the wrist-worn device market, which is a way for the company to justify releasing new devoted fitness devices in addition to smartwatches.

Comments

Hell ya

[AndyKron]

Golly yes. I want to pay that kind of money so Samsung can track me wherever I go.

Will the wristband...

[CanadianMacFan]

show you ads too?

Wearable?

[fermion]

Why is not connecting the two earbuds with a cord innovative. The only benifit I can see is to Samsung who are going to have increased when people lose one. Are you going to have to buy these in pairs or will they sell replacement singles. Will they sell the replacement case that you need to recharge. It is not like you can just plug a USB cable into the headset like with every other case. No, you need to put the earbuds in the charger every hour.

I appreciate how much power they packed into these earbuds, From an engineering point of view I think they are probably very well designed. They can independently track activity and play music, so they are kind of cool. If this were 20 years ago where we left the house without a phone if would be really useful. But today we are more likely to leave our wallets home that our phones when we go out and play.