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Fitness Trackers have become one of the must have accessories in the last couple of years, from FitBits, to an entire range of smart watches you can connect to your phone. However the vast range available can cost anywhere from as little as £15 all the way up to £200-£300. But which ones are best or should I say most accurate and which ones are the best value for money. Now seeing as I am paying for this myself, I'm not spending mega-bucks on something that really is just going to monitor my daily life. If I was as athlete it may be a different story and that information would be more useful and helpful with training. So while trawling Amazon for ideas, I came across this tracker.
Antimi Heart Rate Monitor, Activity Tracker, and Smart Bracelet
So why did I buy this first of all. In the last decade or so some members of my family have developed issues with their circulatory systems, whether it be high blood pressures, irregular heartbeats, or in the case of my eldest sister who sadly died due to myocardial fibrosis. Now you must also understand that while everything checks out fine for me, I'm not exactly the fittest person. I don't go out purposely to perform exercise or go to the gym. I would much rather sit and eat junk food and watch some great films or TV shows.However the job that pays my bills, is a job in retail and as a result I am on my feet for pretty much about 11 hours a day before coming home. On average I can do anywhere between 6,000 and 10,000 steps a day in work alone depending upon the length of shift (as measured by the health app on my Galaxy S5).
Recently during a check up, it was discovered that my blood sugar was a little high. Nothing to overly worry about, but something to keep an eye on if it started to creep up. Now this was my first ever blood test and so the result could be MY normal compared to the national average, but who knows. I wanted a tracker just to keep a track of my heart rate, sleep patterns and a pedometer.
So lets see the details of this bracelet from its listing on Amazon...
Cool Fashional Design: combined fashion, sports and business. With 0.86 inch OLED HD Display screen.
USB Connect: The whole display can be pulled out from the band and used as a USB stick. With a USB connector, it's very continent to charge the built-in battery via charger or computer
Long-lasting battery: Just need to charge 1 hours and then you get a 7 days standby fitness tracker.
Compatible With: Android 4.4 or Above Android Smartphones, and IOS 7.1 or Above Apple iPhone& BT 4.0 system. APP---'Veryfit for heart rate'
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm ; 27.2 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 90.7 g
- Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included)
- Manufacturer reference: EIGS
- ASIN: B07B544YX8
Antimi Fitness Tracker
FUNCTIONS
Activities Record: Record daily activities, check daily activities including steps, distance and calorie consumption in the app.
Sleep Monitoring: Device automatically recognisess your state and monitors the whole sleep progress with analysing the deep sleep and light sleep hours.
Notification Alerts: Alarm alert, call alert, sedentary alert, etc. by silent vibration.
Remote Camera Control: Press the screen to remotely take photos.
Device Data Storage: The activity data will be cleared every 0:00am as a cycle, but the device itself can restore 7 days' data, after 7 days the data will be cleared. We suggest user to sync data with app at least one time within 7 days during use.
Packing:
1 x Antimi Smart Bracelet
1 x User Manual
1 x 12-month warranty
Unboxing
On the underside of the unit is the heart rate sensor. I have worn this bracelet with the sensor on both the underside of my wrist and on the top and to be honest there isn't much difference between readings.
Now the unit can connect to your phone via bluetooth and works with an app called VeryFitPro that collates and saves all your data. The unit resets everyday night at midnight but can store up to seven days worth of readings, but it is advised to sync with the app more often to ensure that data is saved. I tend to sync upon waking so I can see the sleep data and then again before sleep to sync the day's data.
The VeryFitPro app is available on the both the android and apple appstore for free and has a relatively small file size. Initial pairing was simple enough, make sure bluetooth is turned on and then open the app and add/pair device. And you're set.
So here we have the three main screens, your pedometer reading with some stats like calories burned, distance travelled and length of activity. Sleep reading shows times of light sleep and deep sleep, and then finally your heart rate with resting, average and highest readings. On the details page you can see trends and progression of previous days and then use these to try and improve your overall health.
And now the review.
So after seven days of wearing this bracelet I can honestly say that once it is on you tend to forget it is there. The heart rate monitor works well with some occasional blips but that is really to be expected. The pedometer function I have discovered is, to be honest, unreliable. The first day I wore it was a Sunday and by the end of my shift at work (8am to 4pm), the tracker said I had done a little over 20,000 steps. Busy shift you may think, however my health app on my phone which was in my trouser pocket all day says I did just under 6,000 steps. BIG difference! The sleep monitoring function seems to be pretty accurate, but I'll have to take its word for it.
It has some other functions which are quite useful too such as push notifications. You can set up within the app the ability to send social media, SMS, email and call notifications directly to the screen on the bracelet along with a vibration. Now you wont get the full message, but you will get what type of notification it is and a brief description, like the first 30 characters or so. You can set up multiple alarms, you can use the bracelet as a remote for taking pictures (select the option from within the VeryFitPro App and the camera app will open) which could be handy instead of using a timer.
The price of this tracker was £26.99, so not exactly cheap as chips, nor breaking the bank, but I feel that you kind of get what you pay for. Its like a heart rate monitor trying to be a smart watch and in some parts it works and others it doesn't. As I said before, the step counter, is spotty and unreliable at best but as a watch, it tells the time and you can set an alarm so a win there. You get the benefits of notifications if you are away from your phone (within 30ft) and it is on silent, so no more missed calls or messages.
Out of the 3 requirements I had for this fitness tracker bracelet, a pedometer, heart rate monitor and a sleep monitor it, fulfills 2 of them reasonably well and pretty much fails on the last. Would I recommend it to a friend?
Well, maybe... why maybe? Well in my job I work as a baker so I use my hands all day long and with packing multiple items into bags this maybe causing the count errors i am seeing. Sitting here on my day off , Ive done a more respectable 1,200 steps considering Ive only been walking around the house and typing. But if you have an office job orone where you aren't making a lot of hand gestures all day this may be a good cheap alternative to more expensive models and brands.
However I will still be keeping and using this bracelet as it has become quite handy and useful.
I'd give it a 4 to 4.5 out of 5 if I could get the pedometer function to work perfectly all the time, however it is going to have to settle for a 3 out 5 for being over sensitive.
Here is the link to the listing if you want to view it for yourselves.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B544YX8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And as always...
Catch you later!
Now the unit can connect to your phone via bluetooth and works with an app called VeryFitPro that collates and saves all your data. The unit resets everyday night at midnight but can store up to seven days worth of readings, but it is advised to sync with the app more often to ensure that data is saved. I tend to sync upon waking so I can see the sleep data and then again before sleep to sync the day's data.
The VeryFitPro app is available on the both the android and apple appstore for free and has a relatively small file size. Initial pairing was simple enough, make sure bluetooth is turned on and then open the app and add/pair device. And you're set.So here we have the three main screens, your pedometer reading with some stats like calories burned, distance travelled and length of activity. Sleep reading shows times of light sleep and deep sleep, and then finally your heart rate with resting, average and highest readings. On the details page you can see trends and progression of previous days and then use these to try and improve your overall health.
And now the review.
So after seven days of wearing this bracelet I can honestly say that once it is on you tend to forget it is there. The heart rate monitor works well with some occasional blips but that is really to be expected. The pedometer function I have discovered is, to be honest, unreliable. The first day I wore it was a Sunday and by the end of my shift at work (8am to 4pm), the tracker said I had done a little over 20,000 steps. Busy shift you may think, however my health app on my phone which was in my trouser pocket all day says I did just under 6,000 steps. BIG difference! The sleep monitoring function seems to be pretty accurate, but I'll have to take its word for it.
It has some other functions which are quite useful too such as push notifications. You can set up within the app the ability to send social media, SMS, email and call notifications directly to the screen on the bracelet along with a vibration. Now you wont get the full message, but you will get what type of notification it is and a brief description, like the first 30 characters or so. You can set up multiple alarms, you can use the bracelet as a remote for taking pictures (select the option from within the VeryFitPro App and the camera app will open) which could be handy instead of using a timer.
The price of this tracker was £26.99, so not exactly cheap as chips, nor breaking the bank, but I feel that you kind of get what you pay for. Its like a heart rate monitor trying to be a smart watch and in some parts it works and others it doesn't. As I said before, the step counter, is spotty and unreliable at best but as a watch, it tells the time and you can set an alarm so a win there. You get the benefits of notifications if you are away from your phone (within 30ft) and it is on silent, so no more missed calls or messages.
Out of the 3 requirements I had for this fitness tracker bracelet, a pedometer, heart rate monitor and a sleep monitor it, fulfills 2 of them reasonably well and pretty much fails on the last. Would I recommend it to a friend?
Well, maybe... why maybe? Well in my job I work as a baker so I use my hands all day long and with packing multiple items into bags this maybe causing the count errors i am seeing. Sitting here on my day off , Ive done a more respectable 1,200 steps considering Ive only been walking around the house and typing. But if you have an office job orone where you aren't making a lot of hand gestures all day this may be a good cheap alternative to more expensive models and brands.
However I will still be keeping and using this bracelet as it has become quite handy and useful.
I'd give it a 4 to 4.5 out of 5 if I could get the pedometer function to work perfectly all the time, however it is going to have to settle for a 3 out 5 for being over sensitive.
Here is the link to the listing if you want to view it for yourselves.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B544YX8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And as always...
Catch you later!
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