Buy the Samsung Gear Fit now for $204.95 from Amazon Advances in technology have certainly played a big role in making our lives a whole lot easier, but with almost everything now available at the tip of your fingers, it has also been a contributing factor in making us a lot lazier.

Slap on a Pebble, Sony's Smart Watch or one of the many smartwatches that are vying for a place on your wrist, and the inevitable questions follow – "So what exactly does this thing do?" or "Why do you need notifications on your wrist when you can just pull out your phone from your pocket?

Better battery life than the first-gen Gear; good UI and hardware design; comfortable to wear

Tightly tied into Samsung-only devices; no third party apps; charging a pain; heart rate accuracy issues

The Samsung Gear Fit is a lightweight and good looking, but has too many drawbacks, including accuracy issues and the fact that it's only compatible with Samsung Galaxy devices.

The Gear Fit is a superbly designed wearable fitness band and watch, but it is somewhat limited by price and app issues. Smartwatches are one of those categories that, outside the very geeky, still sit in the "waiting to go mainstream" space.

Samsung launched the Gear Fit along with the Gear 2 Smartwatch. The Gear Fit is another wearable device designed for style, comfort and can keep a log of your fitness activities. Gear Fit – as the name suggest is for fitness conscious users.

Got this on a deal when bundled with a GS5. The ONLY reason I bothered with it, is the very low price was too tempting to resist. I read up about it first to see if I could really make use of it. All in all, I'm glad I bought it.

Samsung Gear Fit raises the bar on fitness trackers with its dual utility. It's not just a fitness band. Though not as capable for a Smartwatch as other Gear watches, Gear Fit does half the job of showing all the notifications on its curved screen that you can wear more comfortably during workouts.

Water resistant; Fitness friendly design; Swappable strap

50% of a Smartwatch; Pricey and only for Samsung phones

Don't buy it. For some users access to health metrics and notifications in a $200 package is exactly what they're looking for. For the rest of us, buy a device dedicated to either one or the other.

Smartwatches were slated to be the next big thing, however, after countless releases; they still haven't quite taken off just yet. Then on the other side of the spectrum, we have fitness bands, which are actually doing very well.

Comfortable; Nice and bright curved AMOLED display; Battery life; Easy to use; IP67 certified

Limited functionality; Accuracy; Narrow display is a little awkward; Charger

Got this as a present and seemed like a cool little device. Unfortunately I was not able to download the Gear Fit Manager app for my Nexus 5. Kept getting a message saying "This device does not support Gear Fit". Its a shame the app is only available for newer Samsung handsets.