The Halo is a tracker for fitness with an innovative design. The Halo doesn't come with a screen nor a vibration motor. This makes it an ideal choice for those who don't want distractions on their wrist.
It offers a variety of sessions and workouts to improve your health. It also has a variety of meditation, mindfulness, and tone-focused content.
Tone of Voice analysis - This feature focuses on vocal improvement. It analyses how you sound during public speaking or interviews. 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 look back at your recordings to assess how you sound and make improvement suggestions.
Another important part of the data-centric Halo's approach to fitness tracking is sleep monitoring. This monitors your sleep from beginning to end and assigns scores based on each cycle. It can also measure your body temperature, which is helpful when determining how restful your night's sleep was.
Amazon has pledged to protect privacy for the Halo. The body scan and voicetone analysis features are only available to those who opt in. The company explained that the company stores the body-scan photos in a cloud and then deletes them when they aren't needed. This does raise privacy concerns.
The paired smartphone app will do the body scanning. You'll need to take a photo with your skivvies on (only for those over 18). To get an accurate measurement of your body fat percentage, you will need multiple photos.
This adds complexity to your fitness tracker, since it isn't comparable to traditional metrics like calories burned or steps. However, it does provide a better overall picture of your activity and health over time.
Voice Tone Analysis, on the other hand, utilizes two microphones on your device to listen carefully to your speech to determine how it sounds. 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. To continue using this feature, you'll need a paid subscription that costs $4/around PS3 / AU$5 a monthly after six month.
It also has a Body Composition function, which takes your height and weigh data together with photos to determine your body composition. It is far more advanced than Withings’ bioimpedance based technology. However, it will require photos and may pose privacy concerns.
The Apple Watch and Fitbit have better fitness tracking than the Halo. It will show you how you are doing and if your weekly goals have been met, but it does not offer the same colorful graphics as other fitness trackers. To access the most advanced features like voice tone analysis, body scan, and voice toning, you will need a subscription.