Amazon Halo Band is a fitness, mood, and wellness tracker that can be a bit creepy but may find its own niche with its unique spin on wearables and enterprise corporate wellness programs.
I've been taking the Halo for a spin for more than two months and have now entered the obsessive quantified self disorder zone. I'm wearing my usual Garmin Fenix 6 on the left hand and Halo Band on the right.
Oddly enough, this two-pronged device strategy is filling in a few gaps. Whether this quantified self adventure continues remains to be seen, but Halo Band[1] is providing enough insights for me to think that it'll stick around. The device, which was announced in August[2], also has the cost structure and features to be bundled into enterprise wellness programs.
To really decide whether Halo is worth the cost -- $99.99 with a free six-month subscription, but it's $3.95 a month after that -- it's worth considering what the device isn't. Halo Band isn't a multi-purpose smartwatch that'll hit you with notifications. It doesn't have GPS. It doesn't cover multiple sports. And it doesn't compete with Apple Watch or Samsung's devices. Amazon's design modus operandi is to create products that are useful but blend in to the point where you forget about them. Think Kindle and Echo and Alexa. You forget they are there.
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Amazon's Halo Band is a device that may give you some overall wellness data and delve into mindfulness a bit. Halo Band is also a promise from Amazon that a purchase will give you enough technology from the labs to keep you interested as well as solid content offerings. Based on how workouts are being