The little Android Wear update features important security fixes and some unspecified stability improvements to the two smartwatches, along with some enhancements to
the Moto Body fitness application.
Finally new watch face customization options and designs and a new
Moto Body fitness app are coming to the Moto 360 in updates soon.
Not exact matches
Motorola's health monitoring tools, which used to be separate apps for heartrate, step counting, and general
fitness, have all been rolled into
Moto Body.
There is an exit, however, because
Moto Body will share data with other
fitness platforms.
Motorola provides
fitness software by the name of
Moto Body that does the basics: heart rate, step tracking, and daily activity goals.
Moto Body, Motorola's own
fitness app, tracks steps, heart rate, and active calories burned.
The company is also introducing its own
fitness app, dubbed
Moto Body, that tracks steps, distance, heart - rate and calories burned.
Strava, Fitbit, MapMyRun and more will work «seamlessly», so we're told, with Motorola's own
Moto Body app, pouring
fitness data all over the place, like a clumsy person wrestling with a bottle of isotonic sports drink.
The
fitness portion of the
Moto 360 is slightly improved, with the
Moto Body app that was released in September, though Google Fit is still on hand to use as a backup, or as a primary app.
The
Moto Body app is nice addition to Google Fit since it gives you more choices between
fitness apps.
Similar to Apple Watch's Activity tracker,
Moto Body notifies you of your
fitness progress throughout the day, telling you how close (or far) you are to your set goals.
The addition of
Moto Body is a nice change of pace for
fitness on Android Wear, but users wanting a little more functionality, like what was found in the Sony SmartWatch 3, will want to pay attention to the GPS - packing
Moto 360 Sport.
Of course, like any
fitness tracker, the Sport has a heart rate monitor, which integrates with
Moto Body, Motorola's own
fitness app, as well as other third - party apps.
The heart rate monitor syncs up with the new
Moto Body app, which gives words of encouragement and coaching throughout the day to help you reach your
fitness goals.
The GPS works, the run tracking
Moto Body app works, and the Sport watch face is nice for making sure that you're getting at least a little bit of exercise in your day, but the watch doesn't feel to me to offer enough on top of the standard subset of Android Wear features to really qualify as a true
fitness - focused device.
For
fitness tracking, Google Fit and
Moto Body do try and provide some insight on your step count and lost calories, but these numbers tend to be pretty arbitrary.