The Halo is a tracker for fitness with an innovative design. It doesn’t have a display or a vibration motor. This makes the Halo a great choice for people who want their wrist to be clear of distractions.
It provides a range of workouts and sessions to help users improve their overall health. It also has a variety of meditation, mindfulness, and tone-focused content.
Tone of Voice Analysis, which focuses on improving vocals, analyzes how you sound when speaking in public or during interviews, is its best feature. You can also use it to take a voice selfie that measures your overall tone as well as clarity.
That's a surprisingly useful feature, especially for interviews where it can be hard to get your voice right. You can also review your recordings to hear how you sound, and make any necessary improvements.
The Halo's datacentric approach to fitness monitoring includes sleep monitoring. This allows you to track your sleep from start-to-finish and calculate scores based off each cycle. It can also measure body temperature. This helps determine how restful your night's sleeping habits.
Amazon has committed to privacy with the Halo's body scan and voice tone analysis features. The company explains that it processes the body-scan photos in the cloud and automatically deletes them when they're no longer used. This does raise privacy concerns.
The paired mobile app takes a picture of you wearing skivvies. To get a precise reading of your body's fat percentage, multiple photos will be required.
This does add a new level of complexity to your fitness tracking, as it can't be compared to more traditional metrics like steps or calories burned. It does, however, provide a better overall picture about your activity and your health over time.
The voice tonal analysis, for instance, uses two microphones to listen and analyze your speech. This is a useful feature that anyone can use to project a positive image at work or with their friends.
One important thing to note, however: this feature is only available with a paid subscription. You'll need to pay $4/around PS3 / AU$5 a month after six months to continue using it.
The Body Composition feature is another notable feature. It uses data from height and weight, along with photos of your body, to calculate your body composition. Although it's more advanced than Withings' bioimpedance technology for measuring body fat, you will need to submit photos. This may also raise privacy concerns.
The Apple Watch and Fitbit offer more fitness tracking options than the Halo, but it doesn't have much to offer in the way of Halo. While you can see how your week is going, and whether you're meeting your goals, the information provided by the Halo doesn't offer as much color options as those devices. You will need to subscribe for access to the best features such as voice tone analysis and body scanning.