AIBU to spend £200 on a fancy smart watch (Samsung Galaxy Active2)?

[ShinyMe]

Over the last month I've joined a gym and been swimming and exercising a lot, and am keen to keep that up. Not currently using any fitness tracker at all.

I had a Fitbit previously and while it was ok, I didn't like how it looked, or how chunky it was on my wrist, and then it stopped working a couple of months after it was out of guarantee. I was going to buy a cheap non-Fitbit tracker of some kind.

However, they all look really ugly and chunky, and one of the reasons I ended up never wearing the fitbit is that I didn't like how it felt, and that it didn't look like a proper watch.

I'm now looking at what to me is the ridiculously expensive Samsung Active watch 2, because it looks like a nice watch - I'd get the pink 40mm one I think, as i have small wrists.
This is the one I'm considering:www.argos.co.uk/product/2065885?clickPR=plp:1:200

Does anyone else have this? Is it really worth paying 4 times as much as a chunky black tracker?

If you are wanting it to track your workout then I'd choose something else. Although it tracks your heart rate it doesn't use those details to calculate your calorie burn during your workout so it just bases your calorie burn on your height/weight, etc and what an average calorie burn would be.

It gives me the same calorie burn for body combat as it does for body balance! It gives me a calorie burn of 197 for every 30 minutes no matter what sort of workout I have chosen. My fitbit gives a more accurate figure as it calculates using your heart rate.

Polar watch has a round face

I have small wrists, and the 40mm will definitely look large and clunky.

I'm not particularly bothered about calories, more about active time and tracking whether I'm active through the working day I suppose, step count, that sort of thing. Also how many lengths etc for swimming.
I'd like a sleep tracker, and the blood pressure monitor on this is appealing as I've had high blood pressure too.

I refuse to get another fitbit, the last one was hard work in the last year, kept getting faulty and having to be rebooted. I'll investigate this Polar one...

I have an Active2, love it. I don't use it much for fitness tracking really so I can't comment on that side of it. I use the smart parts of it more. Can take calls on it, read/reply to messages, reminders, get Ring notifications etc. Samsung Pay is great as well, can pay for things using the watch.

You still need to calibrate the heart rate monitor on the watch monthly by using an actual heart rate monitor so if you didn't have one you'd need to buy one.

I do have a blood pressure monitor, if that's what it needs? I just don't get it out often because it's a faff.

I've got one of these and it's not as good as the Fitbit.

@ShinyMe

I do have a blood pressure monitor, if that's what it needs? I just don't get it out often because it's a faff.

You'd need to calibrate the watch monthly - needs 3 blood pressure readings each time

I have one as well and don't think the benefits outweigh the downsides. I now have a fitbit on one wrist and the Samsung on the other wrist. I wouldn't buy another Samsung once this one breaks unless they improve the fitness tracking

Hm... I bloody hated that fitbit, it was rubbish. In what ways is this worse than a fitbit?

I've realised I think want this one, as I'm not wanting people to tell me it's not worth it. Which makes me think I should just not bother and stick with my actual watch, (which is a sweet little gold watch I got for my 18th) and not bother with tracking my exercise at all.

Battery life isn't good on the Samsung either. Needs charging most days
What did you not like about the fitbit? The one I have (charge 2) isn't waterproof unfortunately but I like it apart from that

With the fitbit, I found the sleep tracking really poor - it never reflected my actual sleep, and frequently tracked nothing at all.
In the last year, the thing needed rebooting at least once a week, because it kept just blanking out totally and dying. It often just stopped charging mid-charge, so I'd plug it in, check it was charging, come back an hour later to find it dead.
I could never see the screen in sunshine or outdoors, and I hated how chunky it was, how high it stood out from my wrist - I kept catching it on things.

I'm trying to remember what I had... maybe an Alta HR?

I don't mind charging something every day - I have to do that with my phone anyway.