Amazon has made its first steps into the smart wearable global market with its Halo fitness tracker. Much like its Echo and Alexa devices, the Amazon Halo is designed to blend into the background while it seamlessly tracks your health and fitness. The Amazon Halo Review carves out a niche with unique features not seen on other fitness wearables before, but some of these features raise serious privacy concerns. Here are the good and the bad, so you can decide if the Amazon Halo should be your next fitness device or not.
Simple To Wear and Amazing Design
The Amazon Halo has a simple design with a woven fabric band and screenless tracker unit that is reminiscent of the older Fitbits. It has a single button that interacts with the Halo app, two microphones for voice analysis, and an LED indicator. On the bottom are an optical heart rate sensor and a charging area. Keeping with its no-fuss design, you can charge the tracker without removing it from the band.
The tracker unit is slim and mounts underneath the band with the heart rate sensor flush against your skin. The tracker snaps securely onto the band, but it can be removed quickly and easily when you need to swap bands. The sensor unit is waterproof down to 50-meters, so you can swim and shower while wearing it.
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The band is made of a strong mesh with a velcro clasp. The velcro on the Halo is just perfect for everyone. I can pull the velcro as tight as I need and do not have to fuss with the different settings of a buckle. The mesh fabric is not as silky smooth as silicone bands but is still comfortable against your skin even when you are sweaty. If you do not like the mesh, Amazon does sell a sports band with a more rubbery feel.
Amazon Halo Review does not have a screen to grab your attention or a vibrating motor to buzz you constantly. It is incredibly slim and lightweight, too. It’s so unobtrusive that you hardly even felt it on your wrist. You will like that it can be worn and forget the Halo on your wrist, but you will not miss the display, especially when running with it. Users can’t check the time, watch their pace, or monitor heart rate from their wrist as they can with Fitbit or Garmin.
Amazon Halo Review: Track Activities and Stays with the Basics
The Amazon Halo is a more than capable activity tracker with a heart rate sensor and both a gyroscope and accelerometer for tracking movement. It records all the standard metrics for a fitness tracker. It counts steps, compiles calories, and tracks select workouts (walking, running, biking, and more) in real-time. You also can add an activity manually if you forget to start your tracker. One glaring omission is GPS. Most fitness bands have onboard GPS, or at least connect to your smartphone.
The membership includes body composition, tone of voice analysis, sleep and activity tracking, and more, free for 6 months. Auto-renews at $3.99/month plus tax. To manage your membership, visit your Account, go to memberships and Subscriptions.
Activity – Track the intensity and duration of your movement plus sedentary time.
Sleep – Analyze patterns like how often you wake up during the night.
Programs – At-home workouts, guided meditations, sleep sounds, and other ways to stay healthy from experts like Lifesum, SWEAT, and Headspace.
Body Composition – Measure body fat percentage, a better indicator of health than weight or BMI alone.
Tone – Analyze qualities of your voice like energy and positivity to help strengthen communication.
Designed for your privacy – You can download or delete your data anytime. When it comes to your personally identifiable health data, no one will view it without your permission, and we’ll never sell it.
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