I liked the Fossil Neutra and then saw it’s from Texas, so… My research started. A quick glace through a search engine didn’t return anything… Hence, I’m asking you

  • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    7 days ago

    Depending on budget and preferences.

    The closest to your Fossil is probably Withings (French)

    The two most serious brands for sport watches Polar and Suunto (both Finnish)

    Of you want something more affordable that looks reasonable, you can look at Nothing/CMF.

    At least some of the Withings and Nothing CMF are compatible with Gadgebridge, an open source alternative to the manufacturer’s apps.

      • ijon_the_human@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 days ago

        Thanks for bringing it up, Suunto still gets mentioned a lot.

        I wouldn’t mind a bot commenting basic info on companies’ whenever they’re mentioned. It’s a lot of work to spread the same info from thread to thread.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      2·
      7 days ago

      Withings, sadly has absolutely horrific heart rate tracking. This guy does correlation tests with the Polar H10 (skip to the graphs).

      And I say this whenever this comes up in this sub.

      Nothing is European in name only. They only have UK marketing. They have american investors, a shady CEO with a history of lying about his companies (oneplus “starup” BBK controversy anyone?) and everything is designed, coded, manufactured, tested, etc… in China.

      They have started to maybe hire some people to possibly take over a bit of the phone design in the future in London, but the smartwatch is 100% a Chinese product. It even looks exactly like the standard ODM smart watches from the dozen Chinese companies that make all of the generic smart watches that get rebranded.