Amazfit Band 5 Activity Fitness Tracker with Alexa Built-in, 15-Day Battery Life, Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate, Sleep & Stress Monitoring, 5 ATM Water Resistant, Fitness Watch for Men Women Kids, Black

This replaces the non-display Halo band. I was using a Casio digital watch and didn't want to look like a complete dork wearing two watches. I lost the Casio when I removed it to reset for standard time change. I figured I'd give this a try since it cost only slightly more than the Casio replacement would have.I actually preferred the Halo when the subscription ran out. I didn't use the recipes or health hints and giving points for exercise and sleep was less useful than steps or time. These were reintroduced shortly before I lost my watch and I didn't consider it an improvement. Glad to see that there are no optional, for money add-ons on the Amazfit.Looks like I can comfortably get about three or four days out of the Amazfit although I normally charge every other day. It charges quickly. I'm a light user, basically using it to count sleep and steps as well as using as a watch. Time steps and weather show up on the face of the band. Sleep is listed on app. I seldom change screens and have the simple basic, dark screen to save battery life. I have a separate app that I input steps and exercise converted to calories. I count steps and exercise from research on a university exercise site. This subtracts from a manual calorie counting app. I try to limit myself to 1800 calories a day.The Amazfit counts fewer calories than my computed figures, the Halo counted many more. I suspect the Halo was computing calories burned from simply being alive as opposed to exercise calories. The sleep counter shows that I'm averaging approximately 8 hours sleep, the Halo showed 7. The Halo was more accurate at measuring actual sleep as opposed to simply being still and horizontal. Trips to the bathroom that showed up as fifteen minutes in Halo show up as only a couple of minutes in Amazfit. No big problem.The Amazfit is a more accurate pedometer than the Halo which undercounted steps.On balance I'm very pleased with the Amazfit. I think it's a better buy than the Halo. The range of functions is larger, although I'm not using most of them. Kind of hard to judge a display device with one that's simply a band. I think the Halo looks a bit more expensive than the Amazfit, which is fine because it is. If the Amazfit holds up, I'm happy with it.UPDATE: LOOKS LIKE I CAN COMFORTABLY GET A FULL WEEK ON ONE BATTERY CHARGE. BECAUSE OF THIS I'M INCREASING RATING FROM FOUR TO FIVE STARS.

After Amazon abruptly discontinued the Halo, I found myself in the market for a Smart band/watch.I was primarily looking for something that would track steps and heart rate and also provide me with text notifications.(I'll confess that having additional watch faces and/or the ability to customize watch faces was also important to me - I like being able to put my own spin on things).I'd love to pickup a Wear OS watch, but they are far too expensive and just not worth their price.I abhor Apple and would never get the Apple Watch.I had narrowed my choices down to several of AmazFit's watches around the $100 price point (I was wooed both by their sleak appearance and the offer of voice assistant functionality) or a Samsung Galaxy Gear, when I bumped into this band on sale for less than a quarter of the price.It has almost all the functionality of those more expensive models but in a simpler looking band.For the price, I HAD to pick one up, and I am not regretting it at all.The band was a little tricky to setup, but once setup it works great.The sensors work well and are intuitive to operate.The watch face can be customized within the app (don't be alarmed by the "purchase" header on the customization screen, you're not buying anything - I think this is just a translation error).I get all of my notifications (and unlike on the Halo, I can actually read them all the way through).The data syncs with Google Fit (my preferred fitness tracking program).The Alexa integration is awesome. My home is Google Assistant based (not Alexa), but the Alexa Assistant is more than adequate for setting reminders on the go (it's great not to have to pull out my phone to set a reminder to perform a task while out running errands).Alexa does have a problem listening to JUST my voice on this device. If the TV is going, or if there are a lot of other people talking in the background, then Alexa will try to listen to them as well (and will usually express confusion or otherwise error out). If your surroundings are relatively quiet though, Alexa does great.In short, this watch does everything that I want / need it to.I have no regrets for having purchased it instead of the more expensive options.