![]() ![]() Being able to get this measurement at home and with my own phone felt like a big leap to me fitness tracker or wellness ecosystem capabilities. These measurements have always been performed by a professional, without much accountability, and just felt weird. For various fitness and body composition challenges, as well as a very niche travel story here and there, I’ve used calipers, measuring tapes and the clinical BodPod to measure body fat. I know that the sleep tracking may just be new to me and not to those currently using the latest-gen Oura rings or FitBits, but the body fat data and Movement Health sections are to me the most interesting. The app suggested meditations to support healthy sleep hygiene and after three nights of wearing the Halo View to sleep began my sleep temperature. Despite thoughtful approaches to my fitness, healthy eating and (on and off) meditation practice, I haven’t seen my sleep activity broken down this way and found it helpful. Being an Apple watch user who most of the time is charging my watch at night, this felt new, different and valuable to me. One of my favorite data features of the Halo ecosystem is its ability to track sleep, which includes total time slept, broken down into light, deep and REM sleep cycles. Because some other areas are so personalized, I would like to be able to apply ‘vegan’ and ‘intermediate’ across recipes and fitness classes to make it so that all future recommendations do not contain animal products nor are a beginner class. That said, I really do like that much of Halo’s owned fitness content is functional-fitness focused. For instance, filters must be applied to both fitness classes and recipes each time you perform a search. But other features still have some room to grow in order to catch up to the same feeling of personalized. The personalized data within the Halo mobile app across sleep, movement and weekly activity points are based on personal data, so they of course feel very customized. Overall, I found Halo View’s premium features, made possible by its accompanying app, compelling for my own wellness journey, especially the sleep-data, but feel that the features all-together might be best-suited to someone at the beginning of a wellness journey. I do not regularly use a FitBit and have not used Amazon’s earlier Halo iteration, the screenless-Halo. Most of my Covid-era workouts are guided by the personal-coaching-based Future app and tracked by an Apple watch. Mine is that of a fitness-class junkie with a lapsed personal training certification (really need to top-up those NASM credits) who regularly lifts weights, practices yoga and walks a few days a week for basic, steady-state cardio. I personally find it helpful to know the fitness point of view any reviewer is bringing to the testing of a new device. personalized features courtesy of an accompanying app. ![]() ![]() Halo View is Amazon's new fitness tracker, the first to come with a screen and a bevy of premium. ![]()
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