Product Comparison: Fitbit Ionic vs Samsung Gear S3 Frontier

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Fitbit Ionic Charcoal/Smoke Gray, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

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General Specifications

About the Product

Get a watch that gives you more with Fitbit Ionic—a motivating timepiece packed with fitness guidance, health insights, music storage, apps & more.

With Under Armour Connected Fitness on your Samsung Gear, you now have more fitness tracking options at your fingertips. And when you download the MapMyRun, MyFitnessPal, or Endomondo apps on your Samsung Gear, you will receive one year of premium app membership for free, with additional tools to help you reach your goals.

Brand

Fitbit

Samsung

Model

Ionic

Gear S3 Frontier

Origin

China

Vietnam

Key Specs

Operating System

fitbitOS

Tizen 2.3.2

Display Size

1.42 in.

1.3 in.

Internal Memory

2.5 GB

4 GB

Band Material

Elastomer

Active silicon

GPS Enabled

Yes

What customers say about "Key Specs"

Fitbit Ionic Charcoal/Smoke Gray, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

Apps that are available are actually pretty good! Doesn't include everything though.
They're really good at building fitness tracking hardware, and developing an incredibly solid app interface. Expanding to building a full operating system and managing an app store just seems like a bad move.
The current (rollout) features are very good, and I only expect them to get better as the system matures.
The band is quite stiff though but perhaps I have to break it in.
I also like that Fitbit included two different sizes of watch bands instead of wasting everybody's time measuring their wrists.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch

So far this watch has been great, love the design and features that it has. All and all a great watch.
The frontier s3 feels like a luxury watch and looks like one while being able to do so much more.
This is a great product. It has a lot of functionality for everyday life.
First one had a charging issue but easily exchanged. New one shows no problem so far and I love the design and performance.
Nice band for my watch, also purchased the screen protectors for it makes me feel safer to know that my watch is protected. Overall I am quite satisfied with my purchase.

Size & Weight

Height

1.55 in.

1.93 in.

Width

1.52 in.

1.81 in.

Depth

0.49 in.

0.51 in.

Weight

1.76 oz.

2.22 oz.

Display

Display Type

Color LCD

Super AMOLED

Screen Resolution

348 x 250

360 x 360

Display Type

What customers say about "Display"

Fitbit Ionic Charcoal/Smoke Gray, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

The display is easy to read while running and you can customize the displayed stats.
The screen display is bright and sensitive, and the watch itself was extremely intuitive to setup.
I switched from my old Fitbit Surge to the new Ionic and I absolutely love it! I find the display so much easier to read.
Screen saver timeout is not currently adjustable and only stays on for 2-3 seconds.
Only "run" activities are displayed in the Strava app on the Ionic. I do other activities too, it would be nice if they were displayed as well.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch

Great looking display, very bright & it's great to be able to change the faces.
I liked the round face and the color display is awesome. I got home and started setting it up but came to find out that I wasn't Able to reply to text either.
Love the display, easy to use, pairs with phone in seconds!
Love this smart watch. It has an amazing vibrant display!
Still learning but I love it great display just amazing.

Features

Color

Charcoal/Smoke Gray

Black

Design

Classic

Processor Speed

0.12 GHz

1.0 GHz

Protection Class

IP67

IP68

Customizable Watch Faces

Yes

Built-In Microphone

Yes

Vibration Alert

Yes

Sensors

3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, Optical heart rate monitor, Altimeter, Ambient light sensor

3-axis accelerometer, Gyrometer, Optical heart rate monitor, Barometer

What customers say about "Features"

Fitbit Ionic Charcoal/Smoke Gray, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

Automatic sleep tracking - and, it can shut off notifications once sleep is detected.
Sleep tracking is pretty good! Definitely better than an app you can get on Apple/Android watch.
The features are easy to use and access, A few trial and error and you will get how it works. Often use functions are just a few tabs away. You will familiar with it almost instantly.
Slow performance from time to time.
Can't connect to WiFi, any WiFi, Home, work, with or without password. Any firmware update needs to be done over Bluetooth and it takes 30 minutes to 1 hour. It is ridiculous.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch

Excellent the sensors to detect the different activities like running, moving, or sleeping.
I really like the features on the Samsung watch. My Fitbit was nice but it seemed outdated. The auto exercise could activate a little sooner to match the treadmill numbers.
Enjoy wearing it daily and using all the many features.
The features available pass competitors not only with clarity of picture but also when using watch for phone calls and texts.
Nice features able to answer phone calls and texts and biometrics. Much better than the fitbit surge.

Connectivity

Bluetooth Version

4.0

4.2

Wi-Fi Compatibility

Yes

NFC Technology

Yes

Power

Charging Interface

Magnetic Connector

Wireless charging

Battery Life

120 hours

72 hours

Battery Capacity

380 mAh

Battery Life

What customers say about "Power"

Fitbit Ionic Charcoal/Smoke Gray, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

Great battery life (4 days), very fast battery charging, reasonably accurate GPS, monitors your sleep, you can easily swap out third party watch bands, and recognizes when you go up stairs.
Long battery life - I made it from Tuesday to Saturday before it needed a charge.
Excellent battery life. Without GPS tracking, I left everything enabled and still charge every 6 days. All notifications are active.
In terms of battery life, it seems on par with my Blaze. Today is day 4 of owning the Ionic and it is still on the initial charge it came with (with notifications off).
I have a nice, convenient metal surface where I can stick the charger for easy retrieval.

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Smartwatch

Great that it can hold a charge for almost 3 days were others can only last 1 or 2 days.
Very good on battery usage. Once it is charged to 100% it status charged for at least 2 days!
The battery life is good, charges very fast too.
Husband loves it. The charge time is awesome and it runs smoothly.
After about three weeks the watch failed to charge. I touched it and it was hot to touch. I returned it and got a Garmin.
I like the watch, but it needs charged more then my Fitbit blaze did.

Warranty / Certifications

Manufacturer Warranty

1 year(s)

Certifications

Other Information

Manual

Download

Manufacturer

Link