The fabric bands will cost $19.99 and the sport bands will be $15.99.Īmazon intends for users to leave the Halo Band on all the time: the battery should last a full week and the sensor is water resistant up to 5ATM.
There will of course be a series of optional bands so you can choose one to match your style - and all of them bear no small resemblance to popular Apple Watch bands. The three main band colors that will be sold are onyx (black), mineral (light blue), and rose gold (pink-ish).
It communicates with your phone via Bluetooth, and it should work equally well with both iPhones and Android phones. There is explicitly no Alexa integration. The microphones are not for speaking to Alexa, by the way, they’re there for the voice tone feature. It has an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a heart rate monitor, two microphones, an LED indicator light, and a button to turn the microphones on or off. The band lacks increasingly standard options like GPS, Wi-Fi, or a cellular radio, another sign that it’s meant to be a more laid-back kind of tracker. Image: Amazon Amazon will sell lots of different band styles and colors. The three color options for the Halo Band. As such, it hasn’t submitted the device to the FDA for any sort of approval, including the lighter-touch “ FDA clearance” that so many other fitness bands have used. The Halo Band “is not a medical device,” Amazon tells me. They’re short challenges designed to improve your health habits - like meditation, improving your sleep habits, or starting up basic exercise routines. Alongside cardio, sleep, body fat, and voice tone tracking, a Halo subscription will offer a suite of “labs” developed by partners. The lack of a screen on the Halo Band is the first indicator that Amazon is trying to carve out a niche for itself that’s focused a little less on sports and exercise and a little more on lifestyle changes. The Halo service is a separate product that isn’t part of Amazon Prime. Amazon is launching it as an invite-only early access program today with an introductory price of $64.99 that includes six months of the service for free. The Halo Band will cost $99.99 and the service (which is required for Halo’s more advanced features) costs $3.99 per month. The app that goes along with it comes with the usual set of fitness tracking features along with two innovative - and potentially troubling - ideas: using your camera to create 3D scans for body fat and listening for the emotion in your voice. Unlike the Apple Watch or even most basic Fitbits, the Amazon Halo Band doesn’t have a screen. Isolated storing: Sometimes, apps store data in Google Fit without letting other connected apps see it.Amazon is getting into the health gadget market with a new fitness band and subscription service called Halo.Collaborative sharing: Usually, apps let other connected apps view the fitness data they've stored in Google Fit.
If you give an app permission to connect to Google Fit on one device, you can download that app on a second device and it’ll automatically connect to your Google Fit account.Īpps connected to Google Fit share and use your info in one of two ways: