hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews so on the 12th of april and that's
two days ago uk has finally reopened what that means is that the gyms are finally open
and so i went to one just yesterday so i started off with a run and then i did some weights
and then a bit of a circuit workout just at the end now i didn't do it for too long just under 30
minutes everything and this particular video is a test and comparison of the honor band 6
in the gym as well as the amasfit bipu so we'll be looking at the heart rate as measured by the
optical heart rate sensors on the back of these trackers so this is not just jogging outside
this is not just doing a circuit workout at home this is a full-on gym workout so we've got a bit
of cardio then we've got a bit of weights and then we've got a circuit workout at the end of it all
anyway let's get into it because it's going to be a great comparison if you are new to wesknows tech
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and tricks along the way now before we get into the testing comparison let's talk about these
two trackers i'm not going to say too much about it because obviously you've seen all the reviews
that i've previously done on the channel so if you haven't seen the reviews i'm just going to
leave a couple of links just above me right now anyway so we've got the honor band 6 a 1.47 inch
amoled display it's got 10 sport modes it's just a looker it's a great tracker it's so light and it's
so cheap you can get an aliexpress for under 40 bucks and then of course we've got the amasfit bp
so this is the new generation of the bip 1.43 inch display it's not amoled it's lcd yet it's sharp
it's bright you can just have a look at it at any like conditions also it's got a lot of sport modes
it's got around 60. now none of these trackers actually have inbuilt gps it's all connected gps
but nonetheless lots of sport modes lots of excitement i'm just going to mention this quickly
but there have been a lot of questions in the comments below the videos about these two trackers
like which one is better well it's a tough one right because these two trackers are so different
now if we're going to be talking about the sport profiles and the addition of other
apps apart from the basics like your weather your alarms your stopwatch and your timers
then i would say that the bpu is a more advanced tracker it does have more on it it's got 60 sport
modes as opposed to the 10 on the honor band 6. he's got a pomodoro tracker it's got a world clock
it's got a lot of things on there now but it does have an lcd display so if you want
something that's more lustrous something that is a bit more funky i would say go for the honor band
6 because with its 1.47 inch amoled display it just looks amazing but functionality wise
the bpu does seem to be the better option anyway let's get into the test now so as you know we've
got the two trackers and the benchmark was actually the polar h-10 ecg chest strap
so what we're going to do is we're going to be plotting the polar h-10 plot heart rate plot and
on top of it we're gonna stick the heart rate plots from these two trackers let's get into it
okay so firstly let's take a look at polar h-10 so we've got an average heart rate of 130 beats
per minute and then a max of 155 beats per minute so let's take a look firstly at the amasfit bipu
so this is quite unbelievable we see an average heart rate of 129 beats per minute that is just
amazing it's only one beat per minute off from the average as registered by an ecg heart rate strap
that's a big fat wow now if we take a look at the max the max is 150 beats per minute
so if we actually take a look through the chart we can see that the tracing done by the optical
heart rate sensor on the back of the bpu is very close to a professional grade heart rate sensor
from polar it's only in the last peak that the bpu has actually underestimated
the 150 beats per minute as opposed to the polar's 155 beats per minute so we get a variance of -1
for the average minus five for the peak but that still gives us a variance of the average of just
point seven percent that's wow that's just great anyway so the bpu turns out to be it's
sharp it's good there's not much lag and there's only one point across the three major peaks where
we do see that the peak was underestimated let's take a look now at the honor band 6. now with the
honor band 6 we are seeing some weaker results so with the average we've got 121 beats per minute
so that's an underestimation of 9 or a variance of negative 9 beats per minute for the max we're down
by 8 beats per minute that gives us a variance of six point nine percent for the average and
five point two percent variance for the max and we can see that the problem started as soon as we're
working out so we can see that the honor band six optical heart rate sensor is slightly laggy
and it does lag as opposed to the polar h10 ecg chest strap so if we look at the first 18 to 20
minutes the honor band 6 wasn't doing too bad of a job yup it was slightly laggy but it was
still on par we can see that in the last third of the workout the honor band 6 optical heart rate
sensor just goes pear-shaped and there are huge lags as well as big drops in heart rate recorded
and it doesn't trace the polar h10 closely at all we can see that the average heart rate is much
lower than the one traced by the polar h10 and that does give us this massive variance of 6.9
so there we have it this is a great combination of a test and comparison because what we are seeing
is you at work so i was in the gym first i did my cardio so i got on the treadmill i was going for
a run then i went to the weights then i went to do a simple circuit workout and we can see
that the heart rate plot is all over the show but it's steadily increasing and there are
definitive peaks so this was a great test and what we can see is that the amazfit bp
just nails it it is so sharp being just one beat per minute off from the average as registered by
a professional-grade polar h-10 ecg chest strap anyways i do hope this was a useful test if you
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