After each session, the app grades your overall “energy” and “positivity” levels.The Amazfit Band 5 is a budget fitness tracker that promises to punch above its weight with a rich array of features. You could describe it sort of like a mood ring, informing you “how you sound to other people.” It does this in real-time during individual sessions, placing you moment-by-moment on a square graph with each corner representing a different category of emotion: excited, happy, sad, and angry. The second feature, Tone, analyzes your voice during conversations. You have to put complete faith and trust in Amazon’s security and privacy protocols.

Amazon claims the images are deleted immediately after processing, but there’s no getting around the creepiness factor. The photos are uploaded to the cloud and processed for the purpose of estimating your body fat and tracking it over the course of your program. They’re called “Body” and “Tone.” The first and more off-putting involves taking full-body photos of yourself with, in the app’s words, minimal clothing on. There are two opt-in features though that I found to be kind of creepy. As long as they aren’t completely ugly, I’m usually fine with defaults. Personally, I don’t mind this, as I’m pretty utilitarian about my tech. You have eleven choices, and only a few look very different from the others. If you like the idea of customizing your watchface, though, prepare to be underwhelmed.

The menu itself is easy enough to navigate, and text messages show up as well as can be expected on a screen this narrow. A single oval button below the screen exists for you to wake the screen, or, when the screen is on, to use as a back button. It has a bright touchscreen that, when set to maximum brightness, is easy to see in the sun.

The Band: Simple Interface, Decent Battery Life Jordan Gloor / How-To Geekįitting the Halo View’s band was easy enough, and the strap is light enough that I generally didn’t notice it was there. The Band: Simple Interface, Decent Battery Life

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