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by rjzzleep 1933 days ago
On the other hand I have a Samsung Active 2 watch which is IPX68 rated and has a swimming mode for a pool swim yesterday, in which it died. It lasted a total of 1 year and 4 months.

It also has an ECG sensor that died for most people(myself included) before Samsung released the ECG mode(one year later).

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Oh, I also have that, I shower with it and took it swimming a few times, no problem.

So it's still working and I can fully enjoy the zero apps it has, because no one cares about Tizen, the continuous heartbeat measurement that stopped measuring after the last big update and the ongoing lack of ECG mode that I'm not allowed to use because I don't own a Samsung phone.

And people wonder why Apple owns the high-end smartwatch market.

If you want a laugh go and download the tizen SDK and you will soon understand why nobody develops for it.
I was actually thinking of developing a little app for my GF and me when we both got our GA2, but noped out of it very quickly.