Free $50 Gift Card with Fitbit Ionic for $299

For a limited time, you can get a FREE $50 Amazon Gift Card when you purchase the Fitbit Iconic smartwatch for its current price of $299. You have to manually add the $50 gift card to your shopping cart, along with the Fitbit obviously.

Amazon is making us work for our freebies 🙂 The Ionic averages 4.2 out of 5 based on 1460+ customer reviews.

PS: I have began my smartwatch adventures after years of resistance (because I didn’t want to be a frustrated alpha tester) with the Fossil Q Explorist (FTW4004; 3rd Gen).

November 23, 2017 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: , ,

Fossil 2nd Generation Smartwatch and Hybrid sale

The Fossil Q (second generation; aka previous generation) smartwatch is on sale for $123 and among a number of other FOSSIL smartwatches and hybrids that are on sale through Amazon. Note that you can change watchfaces, so the ones you see in the pictures are not the only options. In other words, don’t decide on a watch based on the advertised watchface.

HOWEVER, keep in mind that their second generation watches are NOT running Android Wear 2.0 (the latest version) and a number of them have a flat tire. So unless you are buying at a specific price-point, or don’t want to wait for further sales in the next few weeks/months, you may want to go for the newer models.

I have an in-progress review of their 3rd Generation Explorist running Android Wear 2.0 and without a flat tire. I don’t think I would be a happy camper without those two. Then again, it depends on how you plan on using the watch.

November 13, 2017 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: ,

Saturday: refurbished Samsung Gear S2 for $100

One of the Amazon daily deals running until Sunday 3am ET (10/22/17) is the certified refurbished dark gray Samsung Gear S2 Smartwatch offered for $100 with free shipping, sold by a marketplace seller with the orders fulfilled by Amazon, so Prime members get free 2-day shipping.

This refurbished model averages 3.4 out of 5 based on 360+ customer reviews and has over 180 answered questions. This is a Tizen smartwatch OS device, but works with most Kit Kat and later Android smartphones.

I only recently finally gave in to the temptation to try out smartwatches with the Fossil Q Explorist, model FTW4004, an Android Wear 2.0 device. So far, I found it more useful than I had expected. Which is probably why I resisted for so long until the Watch OS matured more with Android Wear 2.0 🙂

October 21, 2017 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: , ,

New Arrivals: the Fossil Q Explorist Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches

The third generation of FOSSIL’s entry into the Android Wear 2.0 smartwatches is here! Four new models are now in-stock and shipping at at amazon.com, with the initial prices running from $255 to $275. As you can see in the pictures over there, there is a concentrated attempt to make them look more like watches and less like mini smartphones 🙂

If you are curious or interested in this, we have a text and pictures unboxing post for one of them four new models, it is the brown leather strap model, the FTW4004.

October 12, 2017 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: , ,

Pebble Steel Smartwatch (Black Matte) for $100

It’s raining smartwatches and wearables these days. But if you have decided on the Pebble Steel Smartwatch, the Black Matte color scheme is currently on sale for $100 with free shipping at Amazon by Amazon actual. This averages 3.9 out of 5 based on nearly 1000 customer reviews. Note that this is an older model, which is why it sells for 1/2 the price of the newer models. Make sure you also check for compatibility between this and the devices you are planning to use it with. It’s the Wild West of Wearables these days 🙂

July 2, 2016 Filed Under: tech Tagged With: ,