Hi everyone, welcome to "wesknows tech news and reviews"! today we'll be comparing sleep stages
otherwise known as sleep tracking across four fitness trackers. these are all 2020 models,
in fact two of them were released less than a month ago! we have the all-new "galaxy fit 2",
"xiaomi mi band 5", "fitbit inspire 2" and the "honor watch ES"! let's see which one of these
you can trust with your sleep! now as with any experiment we need to know the rules. well,
i have recorded the time i went to sleep and that was 2 20 am, i know... quite late, i woke up
finally at 7:40am but there is a trick question or basically a loaded question. the fact is,
i had a false awakening at 6:15 am because i set my alarm and i put it just out of reach
so i would have to actually wake up to switch off the alarm and then go back to sleep until
7:40 am! as with any experiment you do need a benchmark, you need something that you are sure
will produce the accurate results and something that you can test against or benchmark against.
and guess which tracker i used for that?! well, i actually used the honor watch ES for that,
the trusleep technology is medically certified by the harvard medical school and as we get through
this comparison you will see why you can trust this technology! if you are new to wesknows tech
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hacks and tricks along the way so make sure to hit that subscribe button and bell notification so you
don't miss out! and as expected the honor watch ES did not disappoint - it recorded the most accurate
readings of the times i fell asleep and woke up and it even managed to record my awakening at 6:15
and falling back asleep until 7:40am, my final waking up. bringing the total sleep time to 5
hours and 18 min. bringing the total time bringing the total sleep time to 5 hours and 18 minutes
but as we get into the comparison and analyze as we get into the analysis and the comparison
we're not just going to be talking about total sleep time, the fall asleep time and
the awakening time, we'll actually be talking about the recommendations, the sleep scores that
these trackers give you to ensure you improve on your sleep quality! now just before we kick off,
we do have to mention that it's only the honor watch es as well as the fitbit inspire 2 which
actually show you the slept time on the watch face. now funnily enough, on honor Watch ES that's
not an issue, let me show this to you! you get the sleep time right here, it's loud and clear..
now with the fitbit inspire two for some reason it tells me "no data". why is that? god knows,
but as we have noticed with fitbit inspire it just gets hiccups all the time. okay, so now
it's time to dive in and actually analyze and compare the data that we got on the four bands.
samsung galaxy fit 2 measured total sleep of 4 hours and 2 minutes. it got the falling asleep
time quite accurate at 2:19am but stumbled with the wake up time. it says i woke up at
6:21 and did not go back to sleep. well we know that i did and i slept for just over an hour.
on the positive note though you do get total sleep time, light deep and rem sleep stages.
you also get calories burned during sleep but note that there is no sleep score nor explanations of
your sleep stages and there's no recommendations made as to how you can improve your sleep. let's
go on to the xiaomi mi band 5. it also showed that i fell asleep at 2:25, well quite close,
woke up at 7:38 bringing total sleep time to 5 hours and 10 minutes it recorded my waking up
at 6:15 to switch off the first alarm and kept on recording the second half of the sleep. so
that's quite good tracking! but the only problem here is that with the mi band 5 you only get to
see two sleep stages: your light and deep sleep, missing out on the REM sleep stage.
what i do like is the sleep quality analysis, it basically tells me that i went to sleep too late
and recommends the optimal time i should fall asleep, it tells me if i've had enough sleep to
fully restore and gives me an analysis of deep sleep. now let's talk about fitbit inspire 2.
so it measured total sleep of 4 hours and 40 minutes, it got the falling asleep time quite
accurate at 2:22am but recorded the awaking 10 minutes early at 7 29 not 7 40. the tracker
picked up my awakening to switch off the alarm at 6:15 am but it also considered all my tosses
and turns during the night as awakenings, just look at those pink dashes on the chart,
that's obviously not right! and it's a bit too sensitive. the positives are in the detail of
the analysis you're given at the total time slept level, you get a detailed breakdown of the three
sleep stages, the charts are well designed for clarity, the explanations provided are detailed
and insightful. honor watch ES has provided the most accurate measurement with plentiful details
of the three sleep stages, the sleep quality score provided is insightful and notice the
medical research reference below the explanations. now to me that represents science-backed results,
also you get a breathing quality breakdown which is key for a healthy sleep.
as you can see the results are quite varied but the honor watch es with its "trusleep technology"
does shine most! the mi band 5 is a runner-up because it tracks the time you slept quite well
and very accurately, the only problem here is that you only get two sleep stages: your light and deep
sleep, you miss out on rem sleep. in third place we've got the fitbit inspire 2 - not bad but it
just seems that it's overly sensitive to waking up so basically it takes you tosses and turns during
the night and considers them to be awakenings. that obviously reduces your total sleep time
and thus your total sleep score. in last place we've got the samsung galaxy fit 2. it actually
disappoints with lack of accuracy and then of course there's just no breakdown, nor analysis,
nor scoring of how you slept during the night. by the way thank you to everybody who has
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