[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Accessories] 74Marek:
You are right about innacuracy of HR monitor, I am the same opinion. But honestly, would you rather have calculation with innacurate HR monitor (with variance even 25%) or without, where are counted only time and average calorie consumption?

Try to imagine two examples:

1. You are a new fitness rookie. You want to do something with your health. You buy fitness tracker from Samsung and you want to balance your calorie intake according your calorie expenditure. You do excercise, at the end of day, you get result of burned calories from band. Next day, the same result, etc. At the end of month you find out that you burned similar amount of calories each day, you adapt your diet according that. But you cant lose weight and do not know why. Calorie intake (calculation from food) and expenditure (from band) in balance.... but no visible result !!! You want to try something others, you buy other band with HR monitor consideration and result will be other, Picture below:

Calorie expenditure per day

[IMG="Calorie expenditure"]http://imageshack.com/a/img923/5624/qYUyIA.jpg[/IMG]

And excercise reports like this:

You start investigate and you see, if you work hard, you burn twise as much calories at same time as you are going with some lazy movement (you are tired/lazy, or do recovery training). So not in every excercise 640 Calories were burnt (and I can easy eat one Big Mac), but vary:

[IMG="Slow tempo"]http://imageshack.com/a/img924/3892/jIKg4f.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="...and little harder"]http://imageshack.com/a/img923/8103/tj8ccJ.jpg[/IMG]

Wow, so now I adapt my excercise to burn calories harder, or adapt my diet according more real calorie expenditure (even there is inaccuracy of HR sensor 25%, it is twice more accurate as without HR consideration)

2. Two guys with Samsung band from different countries want to compete (e.g. cycling). Results they will share in some network (but without HR consideration).

Results example:

First one:

Duration : 1hour

Calorie expenditure: 640 Kcal

Distance: 22 km (you can have also GPS result, map)

Avg speed: 22km/h

Second one:

Duration : 1hour

Calorie expenditure: 640 Kcal

Distance: 32 km (you can have also GPS result, map)

Avg speed: 32km/h

Theoretically according band, both burned same calorie amount, even one run 10 km more. Who is winner? Theoretically nr. 2 (more kilometers). Next time you use other band with HR consideration. Result:

First one:

Duration : 1hour

Calorie expenditure: 400 Kcal

Distance: 22 km (you can have also GPS result, map)

Avg speed: 22km/h

Second one:

Duration : 1hour

Calorie expenditure: 72 Kcal

Distance: 32 km (you can have also GPS result, map)

Avg speed: 32km/h

Now...Who is the winner? Nr 2? (More km) Or Nr 1 , more burned calories? Later investigation will show, that second one was cheating and went by car, therefore calm HR (GPS doesnt know it) :laugh:

Result for choosing band I let at users. I will not say Samsung band is wrong, I like it (I have band, handy, TV from Samsung), I want say Samsung is more image as fitness due to his SW and they should take example from e.g. Polar by SW devolopment.

---------- Post added at 08:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:54 AM ----------

:laugh: Similar opinion. As I wrote in other thread -It looks like an empty promise. It depends if you are an optimist (you believe, they update it) or pesimist (they fu.. at us). I have 2 month goods reclaim service payed, so I wait 2 month. If they do not update (for me it is a critical SW failture, I bought it due to fitness reasons, not handy notifications etc.) , I will take other band.