Sync Your Health: The Dream of Universal Smartwatch Compatibility

With the advent of wearable technology, smartwatches have become the go-to for tracking our everyday lives, our workouts, and our health on a day-to-day basis. But users need to navigate between a multitude of ecosystems, each set up for a particular brand and its three to nine smartwatches. What if your smartwatch could talk to your specialised trackers, too? This article illustrates a possible future integration of smartwatches and fitness trackers. Would your health data be unified, too?

The Convergence of Wearable Tech: A Necessity

SMARTWATCHES: A Fragmented yet Essential Tool for Health Monitoring

Today, people can wear devices on their wrist that provide data about their biological health in real time ('It’s 100 steps into my workout, and my heart rate is 146') for a fraction of what they might have had to pay a generation ago. However, if a smartwatch user decides it’s time to change to a different make and model of device, he or she will likely have to go through a time-consuming period of re-calibrating to the new machine’s particular health and wellness features. This is something doctors rarely if ever have to do, and it is a major obstacle to maintaining a steady interventional biological monitoring routine.

Breakthrough: The Oura Ring & Its Contributions to Health Tracking

Consider the Oura Ring. This is one of the rare examples of a health-tracking device that actually offers data that transcends the device silos. The Oura Ring offers users more detailed trend information about their health; for example, it generates data on heart-rate variability (HRV) over longer periods. Oura’s biofeedback approach to health-tracking scenarios is about consistency and longer-term trends, the opposite of what a smartwatch delivers during exercise.

A Vision for Compatibility: The Oura App on Wear OS

While today it might seem like a stretch to create an Oura app for Wear OS, it signifies an important step toward a true health-data universal: a singular platform that captures all of your health data in one place for everyone … not just the fitness enthusiast, but anybody who wants an all-encompassing health-sensing portrait. If the Oura app could come to Wear OS, and if that data could at least partially flow into health-tracking profiles, it would be an opportunity to allow continuity in users’ data.

Enhancing Usability: From Smart Rings to SMARTWATCHES

So the main limitation with smart rings (despite all their advantages) is that, because they don’t include a display, or any physical input mechanisms, they require users to look at their phone to access and interact with health data on a case-by-case basis. If users were able to link the Oura app to smartwatches, they could access glance-able information and perform interactions much more quickly – and this could revolutionise health tracking.

Target Audience: The Overlap between Smart Ring and Smartwatch Users

Bringing an Oura app to Wear OS would, on one hand, be a technical reality: for most of us, a smart ring works in unison with the Wear OS app. On the other, it would be a statement about user base. Smart ring and smartwatch users often overlap because most of us who wear wearables are seeking pretty granular health-tracking features. I believe there is a huge desire from our end for more inclusive and universally compatible health-tracking sensors, and an Oura app on Wear OS would reflect that.

The Proof Is in the Partnership: Oura and Apple Watch

While Oura’s (current) app for the Apple Watch doesn’t run on the Apple Watch itself, it proves that watch apps can not only be technically possible, but also valuable to improve health-tracking. Most notably, it can present sleep and activity scores right on the watchface of your device, thus illustrating what can be gained from having your health data always accessible. That Oura worked with Apple to pull off such a sweet deal with HealthKit is proof enough that they nailed it. Their app’s functionality could work just as well on Wear OS, which means it could pave the way for any other health app to do so, making Wear OS the democratised health platform, or at least behave most seamlessly on Wear OS devices.

Charting the Future: A Unified Health Tracking Ecosystem

The prospect of a health-tracking interoperable future was a step closer when the Oura app was integrated into Wear OS. Whoever wins out in the struggle between technology giants to dominate the smartphone market, users will no longer be locked into a single device ecosystem. Once manufacturers begin working together to compute, reference, and evaluate health-tracking data, we don’t know what innovations will follow.

Understanding Smartwatches: The Evolution and Future

From its roots as a smartwatch – a ported notification centre for hand functionality to the wrist – these devices are evolving to become standalone applications, including activity trackers, health advisors, and more or less a mirror of your smartphone on your wrist. The ability to use the Oura for hypoglycaemic episodes points to a future where this and similar apps could make smartwatches the gateway of a universal health tracking platform, providing immediate insights.

FAQs about Selling Smartwatches with Gizmogo

How Can I Sell My Smartwatch with Gizmogo?

Preparing Your Device

Prior to listing your smartwatch for sale, you should ensure that it’s in good shape, reset it to factory settings, and erase any identifying data. You don’t want to hand over personally identifiable information on yourself just because you want to sell your used device.

What Types of Smartwatches Does Gizmogo Accept?

A Wide Range of Brands

We pay for most smartwatch models, such as Apple, Samsung and Fitbit watches, as well as for several others. The exact price will depend on the characteristics of your device and its popularity on the marketplace for used goods.

How Do I Determine My Smartwatch's Value?

Evaluation Process

The company Gizmogo has a free ‘instant quote’ widget that provides an online testing tool. You just have to type in all the information about your smartwatch and cross-reference it with several service providers to get a realistic price for it – the true value of your wearable in the marketplace.

What Are the Benefits of Selling My Smartwatch with Gizmogo?

Advantages of Choosing Gizmogo

When it comes time to get rid of your smartwatch, whether that’s now or in a few years, you can rest assured knowing that selling your smartwatch with Gizmogo is an easy way to make some cash while getting rid of a device that will end up being recycled or reconditioned responsibly.

How Does Gizmogo Ensure the Security of My Data?

Data Protection Measures

Gizmogo further reassures sellers that all the personal information on the phones it buys will be removed, protecting a customer’s privacy and data security.

If we harness the power of universal health tracking apps and buy and sell more unused or worn-out devices on resale sites such as Gizmogo, we’ll be that much closer to making it easier – and greener – to keep both healthy and high-tech.