Samsung unveils Gear Fit, a curved, fitness-oriented wristband

New Delhi: At the Mobile World Congress 2014, Samsung announced a curved wristband for fitness technology enthusiasts. According to Samsung, the screen is the world's first 1.84-inch curved Super AMOLED display. The Gear Fit complements the the Tizen-powered Gear 2 smartwatches that the company announced last week.Available worldwide starting in April, "[t]he Samsung Gear Fit was designed to comfortably contour to consumers' wrists while offering a vivid Super AMOLED display," Samsung said.The Gear Fit is an everyday fitness band, as it counts your steps and monitors your sleep like most of its competitors. The device also has a heart rate sensor built into it, which vibrates whenever your pulse rate drops below some threshold you have set for yourself, so as to warn you to speed up or try harder. The device also has a stopwatch and a timer, which many of its competitors lack.In addition, the Gear Fit also uses Bluetooth to attach back to your smartphone quite like a smartwatch. You can't accept or make a call with the device, the way you can with Samsung's Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches, but you can reject calls, view incoming emails, texts and social media feeds, and control what music is playing back on the phone.The device doesn't run Tizen, but it does have an operating system capable of running apps, meaning that new features could be added to the device over time.The good part about the Gear Fit is that the device can even be popped out of its rubber band, letting you to attach it to your clothes or to a choker so you can wear it around your neck. The device measures in at 23.4 x 57.4 x 11.95 mm (body only) and weighs 27 grams. It is powered by a 210mAh battery which gives a typical usage of 3 to 4 days, and up to 5 days with low usage. The Gear Fit would be available in Black, Grey, and Orange colour variants, apart from different colour and designer straps as well. The device will be compatible with 20 Galaxy devices.