Smart watch for Android/ Google

[Jamescrs]

Morning all,

Full disclosure im not a fan of smart watches myself- hence the lack of knowledge here.

I'm looking for a smart watch for the Mrs for her Birthday. She's not really into fitness but she wants one that counts steps and she can wear swimming in a pool when she takes the kids a few times a week.

So the criteria are fairly simple I think, needs to be waterproof and needs to link to Android (Samsung Galaxy S20).

My two front runners are the Galaxy Watch 4 and something by Fitbit.

Can anyone offer any advice or recommendations one way or the other?

Thanks

[Jamescrs]

David_M said:

My OH has had a few fitbits and likes them - I think a combination of reasonably "stylish" and the various things that they track. I think that the one that she currently has is the Luxe.

Some thoughts:

• Does she want a tracker or a smartwatch? Tracker being smaller screen and couting steps etc but really you need to use the app to see the data or a smartwatch with a big screen so that you can read msgs / play spotify etc?
• The swimming thing is very specific - is it necessary? Having googled quickly the fitbits are all rated 50m, which I have always understood to mean "not really waterproof" although it does say that swimming is ok. It also says that some of them the buttons need to be locked for swimming, so less useful.
• The fitbit app is weirdly cantankerous on Android (or at least was, not 100% sure now but worth checking) in that it would not work on all current android phones and generally connecting it could randomly be a PITA.

Thanks for the reply. She does want a proper smart watch rather than a tracker band.

She currently has a Fosil smart watch of some description which she wears daily and uses it for viewing notifications etc but it's looked quite tired in the 12 months She has had it and not waterproof.

She specif8cally wants to swim in it which Samsung say is OK with the watch 4 upto 5 feet depth for 30 mins. She won't be diving, just lengths so I think that should be OK?