On the sidelines of the IFA trade show in Berlin on Wednesday, Samsung[1] unveiled the Gear Sport smartwatch, Gear Fit2 Pro fitness tracker, and its Apple AirPods[2] rival IconX 2018 wireless earbuds, furthering its commitment to making waves in what is still nascent wearable market. The Gear Sport as well as the Gear Fit2 Pro run Tizen[3], company's homegrown mobile operating system, which itself is trying to find significant traction.
To ensure the current generation Samsung Gear Sport and Fit2 Pro perform well, the company is betting on offline music support through Spotify[4], a capability that its predecessor Gear S3[5] was also supposed to have but never did. Much of the other design choices and capabilities remain the same.
Available in black and blue colour models, the Samsung Gear Sport smartwatch has a circular AMOLED display with diameter of 1.2-inch and screen resolution of 360x360. You can charge the 300mAh battery on the smartwatch wirelessly, the company said. You can still rotate the bezel to navigate, a feature that several users have appreciated in the past Gear smartwatch models.
The Samsung Fit2 Pro, the existence and features of which the company accidentally announced last week[6], sports a larger, 1.5-inch AMOLED[7] display with a screen resolution of 216 x 432. It houses a 200mAh battery, which you will have to charge using a cable. It comes in two colour options as well: black and red. The touchscreen display will allow you to read and skim through real-time updates and notifications, the company said.
Aside from this, both the devices have similar innards. They are both powered by a 1.0GHz dual-core processor (of an...