I'm considering a smart watch for exercise with streaming music and heart monitor without my phone, but have no idea how they work. Do smart watches have their own app store? Is there an f-droid for them?

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The modern Pebble has no heart rate sensor, and generally no useful exercise monitoring.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The Pebble Time 2 has a heart rate monitor. I can't say if the rest of your statement is correct or not.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, but it isn't available (yet). The pebble 2 duo does not, but it has already shipped. I don't know how many are still available and/or will be made.

Currently the app also has zero support for anything health-related, including sleep. If that will be fixed by the time the pt2 is shipping, who knows. This is probably not a huge problem for op, as he's explicitly searching for a watch without smartphone reliance.

Even in the old app and on the old pebble watches, anything health related was an afterthought at best, and it also isn't a focus of it officially. The new ones are using the same OS, so are incredibly similar. Which is generally a good thing, but also includes the lack of features related to anything "health".