![]() ![]() A lot of labs and partners, but no Google or Apple integrationĪ Labs section of Amazon Halo looks similar to what's on Fitbit's Premium service, with a lot of multiweek health and fitness goals to opt into, and partners lined up from OrangeTheory to Weight Watchers. Much like Fitbit and its Premium service, this looks to be continuing a trend of fitness devices that expect a subscription model as part of the package. The entire picture of exercise, sedentary time and active time is combined into one tally.Īmazon's sleep and activity scores and other AI tools will require an Amazon Halo subscription otherwise, the band will default to more basic tracking data. And it doesn't keep a daily tally of your activity, your score is based on the points you accrued during the entire week. It rewards you for any type of movement or activity, but gives more points for more intense workouts and subtracts points for sedentary time. It can automatically track walks and runs, but you'll have to go into the app and tag any other workouts manually. Halo also does basic fitness tracking based on the information from the band. The activity app is based on a weekly point system. Amazon's Halo team is pursuing research for COVID-19 symptom detection on its wearables, much like other health wearable companies, but no specific studies or plans have been laid out yet. Temperature has become a trending wearable metric in the COVID-19 era: The Oura Ring has one and Fitbit's newest Sense watch has one too. The Halo band won't provide a specific body temperature, similar to the way other temperature wearable devices like the ![]() It then charts your average temperature each night relative to your baseline to help you identify variations that could affect your health and the quality of your sleep. It also goes beyond the basics by keeping track of your overall body temperature during sleep and creating a baseline for each person. The app provides a comprehensive sleep analysis with a breakdown of the different stages of sleep and overall sleep score, much like other fitness trackers. The sleep analysis includes a body temperature to detect variations that may impact sleep. It's a very odd thing to put on a fitness band, and we have no idea what this is like to use yet.Īmazon promises that Tone voice samples are encrypted and stored only on a wearer's phone (shared from the band via Bluetooth with the encrypted key), are deleted after analysis and won't be shared to the cloud or used to build machine-learning models. It will be limited to the band's microphone, but Amazon sounds open to exploring the idea on other devices, depending on how the early access response goes from first-wave wearers. And according to Amazon, the Tone feature is only available on the Halo band for now. ![]() It isn't intended as a form of psychological analysis, but it seems awfully hard to draw the line on a concept like this.Īmazon's been exploring the idea of emotional tone-sensing since at least 2018, but this is the first time it's approached the idea in any device. The idea, according to Amazon, is to help guide you to deliver better tones of voice and speaking styles, like a vocal form of good posture. The voice scanning pulls out the wearer's specific voice in conversations and delivers analysis with related emotional-tone words (like "happy," or "concerned" in the Halo app). ![]()
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