Sorry if this might seem like a silly question. My wife is running /e/ on fairphone 6, with just a few non-FOSS apps. We need to change her watch, and would like some recommendation on the most privacy-friendly (or less data-leak) smartwatch, compatible with /e/ (if exists) or usable with a desktop.
Our need : 1 heartrate/running monitoring, 2 altitude, because we do a lot of mountaineering
We don’t need all the extra GPS tracking, AI coaching and all these things.
Just a simple watch which could record her BPM and give her the altitude when we need would be fine. Unfortunately there is not a lot of choice nowadays if you want a “non-smart” device, and I found only ones which do the altitude (e.g. suunto core) or the BPM (Polar), but not both of the features. In cas we want both I think we will need a smartwacth, but usually it requires connecting to smartphone, creating an account, etc… and we don’t want to give all her data to big-techs.
I remember looking at this aswell, and found there is a Open source Linux based Smartwatch OS called AsteroidOS and also found one called Open-Smartwatch.
Haven’t gotten far enough to tell how it works or how to install it, have infact not even gotten a smart watch yet…. not sure what features it even includes or if its compatible with /e/. But it exists
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