The Amazon Halo View Fitness Tracker is available for purchase now and can be on your wrist tomorrow, whenever you live in the USA. You can order the activity tracker on Amazon.com for a one- or couple-day delivery, or visit your nearest four-star Amazon or Amazon Books store.
Amazon introduced Halo View throughout its annual product showcase in September this year. It's a successor to the original Halo Band, but with one huge difference: a gleaming AMOLED screen.
While Halo Band was a passive device that gathered data throughout the day and then integrated it into the Halo smartphone app for processing, Halo View is considerably more like a regular fitness tracker and lets you see details like your current heart rate and its number. of steps on your wrist.
Halo View also removes the built-in microphone from the Halo Band. Multiple other fitness trackers have microphones (Fitbit Sense and Versa three, for example, use theirs for voice commands and snoring detection), plus first-generation Halo's ability to examine your speech along the way. course. The voice was generally considered somewhat gruesome.
Why so cheap?
While it looks a lot like any other fitness tracker, Halo View has a huge difference: cost. It's one of the cheapest fitness trackers out there, costing just € seventy-nine ninety-nine (about € sixty / AU € one hundred and ten). By comparison, the most accessible Fitbit in the company's current lineup, the Fitbit Inspire two, sells for € ninety-nine and ninety-five / € eighty-nine and ninety-nine / AU € fourteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five.
Before you click that "Buy Now" button, though, keep in mind that to take full advantage of Halo View, you'll also need an Amazon Halo Fitness membership.
Non-members will be able to access basic health information, including heart rate, step count, simple sleep statistics and calories burned, plus details such as health information, intensity of sleep activity and the score will only be free for subscribers. Most of these stats are included for free with most activity trackers, making it a huge move for Amazon to help explain why the initial cost of Halo View is so low.
However, it could be a sign of things to come. There is similarly an expensive trend for fitness trackers that offer a set of basic features if you just buy the device, with more data unlocked if you pay an ancillary monthly fee.
Fitbit Premium, for example, is not essential for owners of the company's activity trackers and smartwatches; your key health and fitness data is free without it, but the service is gone. Developed a lot in the last 3 years, and many of Fitbit's newer features (including readiness scoring, snoring tracking, and reclining animals) are for members only.
Also, earlier this year, Oura introduced a subscription plan for its Smart Fitness Tracking Ring that provides a more detailed analysis of your activity, sleep, and other biometric data. Today we test the third generation Oura ring with the subscription plan and will offer you a full review very soon.
At € 99 (roughly € XNUMX / AU € XNUMX) a month, Amazon's fitness service is one of the cheapest fitness subscription services out there, and you'll get a free XNUMX-month trial with your Halo View so you have plenty of time to decide whether to proceed with payments.
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