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Samsung adds a bunch of new features to the S Health app

Just as Samsung announced the Gear Fit 2 about a month ago, the company has added some new features to the S Health application. Some of these additions are based on the social aspect of fitness, such as competing with your friends and peers, matching the steps count etc. With a new feature called ‘Together', […]

By Valerie R.
8 years ago

S Health integration with Fitbit, Jawbone, Strava and others goes live

The S Health app is supposed to be a central hub for all of your health and fitness tracking data so it's capable of playing nice with other apps and services to pull in their data and provide users with a one-stop destination for all of their health and fitness metrics. S Health has lacked support […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

S Health update lets you compare your step counts with friends

Samsung has been slowly and steadily adding new features to its activity and fitness tracking platform S Health. The last major update to the smartphone app was released a couple of months ago after which it could automatically detect runs and walks. Now, Samsung has released yet another update to the app, which is available […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
8 years ago

Samsung’s own website leaks images of the Gear IconX and the Gear Fit 2

It was only last week that images of the Gear Fit 2 fitness band and the Gear IconX Bluetooth earbuds were leaked online. Samsung released the original Gear Fit some two years ago so it's about time that it came out with a successor. The images we saw last week came from an unofficial source but […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung S Health has more than 150 million users in over 130 countries

Samsung revealed today during the keynote at the Samsung Developer Conference 2016 in San Francisco, California that its S Health platform has rapidly grown its user base. The figures that the company shared during the keynote show that millions of people have opted to use S Health their platform of choice to monitor their health and […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

[Poll] Samsung S Health gets an update with new features

Samsung is pushing out an update to the S Health app for its smartphones over on the Play Store and on the Galaxy Apps store. The update adds some new functionality to make the entire experience more convenient, such as the ability to automatically record walking and running data and get additional help through the […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
8 years ago

Exclusive: Samsung plans to bring almost all its apps to iOS

Samsung already has a bunch of apps on iOS platform. Earlier this month, the firm had revealed its plans to bring iOS support for the Gear S2, but that's not all. We've recently received information from our trusted insiders that Samsung is planning to bring most of its apps (if not all) to Apple's iOS platform later […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
8 years ago

Samsung S Health gets Android 6.0 Marshmallow support in latest update

Samsung recently opened up its S Health app to non-Galaxy smartphones and tablets, and it has now published an update to the app that brings support for Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Android 6.0 is only running on Google's Nexus phones and the HTC One A9, but it seems Samsung wants to be prepared to support the new version […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
8 years ago

Samsung introduces S Health v4.5 worldwide with new features

Samsung's S Health app has been updated to version 4.5 in over 150 countries with support for over 80 local languages. Since the app was launched for non-Samsung devices as well, you can update it right away to improve your health with the numerous tracking capabilities built right into the app by default. You can now install S Health […]

By Octav G.
9 years ago

Samsung’s S Health app now compatible with non-Samsung smartphones and tablets

Samsung has officially ported its health tracking app to every other smartphone device and not just their own with an update. S Health helps you keep track of daily activities, including things like heart rate, stress levels and calorie intake, and it will now work with non-Galaxy smartphones on Android 4.4 and above. This move is […]

By Octav G.
9 years ago

Samsung and Cigna announce a new version of Coach by Cigna health and fitness app

Samsung and Cigna have announced a newer version of the health and fitness app, Coach by Cigna. The app now comes with an updated UI, which follows Material design guidelines, and comes with new features. The app will be available for the Galaxy S6, the Galaxy S6 edge, the Galaxy S5, the Galaxy Note 4, and the Note […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung’s S Health app is now available on the Play Store

In the last year or so, Android manufacturers have taken to putting their proprietary apps on the Google Play Store, as a means of offering quicker updates to these apps instead of making users wait for newer versions through software updates. Samsung hasn't been to active at doing so, but it seems to be rectifying […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Will add-on accessories be the Galaxy S6’s strongest suite?

Samsung's next big thing is right around the corner, and everyone, right from the consumer to the retailer, and wholesaler to accessories maker are on their toes in anticipation. Each time there's a Samsung flagship launch or an iPhone launch, the market is abuzz with all kinds of new accessories. While these accessories for a […]

By Yash G.
9 years ago

Samsung is retiring the Fitness with Gear app, existing data will be integrated into S Health

Samsung's S Health app, which was introduced with the Galaxy S4 to track a user's health and fitness related data, wasn't being managed properly. Unlike the newer devices like the Galaxy Note 4, which runs S Health app v3.5, the app on the older Galaxy devices was stuck on v2.5, making it incompatible with the Gear […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

Samsung S Health app update adds UV and SpO2 measurement features

A new update for the S Health app has been released, and is slowly rolling out throughout the world. The S Health update to v3.5.1 0668 brings weight control, measuring and managing sleep time with compatible wearable devices. The updated also adds ways to measure and manage UV and SpO2 levels. SpO2 is a way to […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
9 years ago

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