hi everybody welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we've got an interesting review
for you we'll be taking a look at a tracker that nobody wanted what was waiting for so
this is the fitbit lux the continuation of the fitbit inspire prodigy now the fitbit inspired 2
was a bit of a nonsensical tracker tiny screen black and white what's the point of it nobody
knows apparently it's stylish but it's so small you can't even see the style well this thing is
very similar to it it's just a small just as tiny but it's got a color display and it's
going to have some functionality like an spo2 monitor coming in later when nobody knows but
they do promise that will be coming later and if with the inspire 2 you had a year's trial of
the premium features with the locks you get it for only 6 months and you get this for only and thirty
dollars or a hundred and thirty pounds what a deal let's get into this initial impressions review
and as with all the fitbits you can't just switch it on you have to connect it that way it will
switch on you have to update it and that usually takes around half an hour at least and here we go
it took a half an hour so we have it charged up we're ready now let's look at this tracker and
just for comparison i've just brought in my huawei band 6 and i put it next to it and you can see
what's a 1.47 inch display edge to edge and this tiny measly little thing which costs
three times as much but hey this is an initial impressions review of the fitbit lux so let's get
into it okay so we'll cover the design then we'll get into the display and then we'll talk about the
features and functions so first up is the design well again it's a tiny tracker it's got a very
soft silicon strap and yes it is very nice to the touch it is but yeah it's nice it's slim it's soft
yep just like any other band that you would see on any other tracker for a fraction of
the price maybe a little bit softer maybe okay let's talk about the actual case so the case
is plastic now you can get this in steel but it will set you back another 40 pounds or 40 bucks
so 180 or 180 pounds for a steel tracker case now i'm not sure i'm willing to do that
so you've got the plastic here and let me just show you something so i dropped this off the
charger onto the actual floor onto the ground and you can see that it's a stone ground here
and we can see that there's a really a small scratch mark on it and this was a fall from
about 50 centimeters or just like one and a half feet off the ground so this thing
i just don't know it's just too gentle but anyway that's the design we can see
the tracker face again it's tiny we're used to the tiny screens on the fitbit inspires
but for this price really but ha frustration is setting in let's talk about the display
so what we've got here is a tiny but very crisp and bright as all the other reviewers are saying
on the net how bright and crisp this display is well really 1.1 inches of an amoled panel
sitting in a plastic fitness tracker case really in 2021 this is almost absurd and for the money
that this thing wants to charge you well it does charge it doesn't want to charge you it
does charge you 130 pounds for a 1.1 inch amoled display let's talk about brightness do you know
that there's only three brightness settings not four not five not ten three dim normal and bright
really there's no auto brightness here because there's no ambient light sensor now that's okay
for the budget segment for the trackers where they cost 30 40 50 but not on a tracker that costs 130
bucks this is just absurd there is no auto light sensor here right i think i've said it all about
the display there's not much to say because there's not much of a display here let's talk
about the features and functions and first of all let's start off with sports we love sports
well that's why we got ourselves a fitness tracker right to get more sporty to get more healthy and
so forth so what does this record do in terms of sport modes well you can get a maximum of
20 sport modes on the fitbit locks but you have to set them up through the app because on the actual
fitness tracker you can only fit six slots of sport modes and you're starting off with
the basics such as the run swim walk um i think cycle and something else but you can change them
from the app now there is an auto track that means that there is auto detection of your sports and we
tested this function on the inspire too and it worked well sometimes it did sometimes it didn't
well it's there but it worked in a mediocre way we'll have to test it how it actually works on
the lux so the fitbit lux does actually monitor your sleep as well and provides you a sleep score
after you have a history of three sleep nights so the sleep score will actually tell you about
your sleep quality and what you can actually do to improve on your sleep quality but this track
also monitors three sleep stages so you light your deep and rem sleep okay so what else what
other features and functions do you get on this very expensive fitness tracker well you get your
breathing modes you get your breathing rate you get your 24 hours of heart rate monitoring that's
excellent you do get your breathing exercises it tracks your stress but in a funny way to me it's
more like golf so you know like with any other sport except for golf you want a higher score but
then in golf you want a lower score well with the stress monitoring in the fitbit locks it does this
funny thing it looks at how you manage stress and the higher the number the closer you get to 100
the better it is well all the other trackers well the lower levels of stress the better it is so i
don't know they they tried to switch things around why would they do that god knows but they did it
might work for somebody let's talk about gps well there's none here all right there's no gps for 130
pounds 130 dollars you do not get in build gps you get connected gps well duh of course you do
all the other trackers you do get connected gps so you need your smartphone to actually track
your distance your speed and so forth because the phone will be actually tracking the gps
distance so this one doesn't get it of course it is swim proof so you can go to the pool or to the
shower with this thing because it is waterproof up to 50 meters i would love to talk about the other
features on this fitness tracker the fact is there are none so it does your menstrual cycle tracking
but so does any other tracker out there um does it have a world clock no doesn't does it have a
time management tool no it doesn't it it's got all the other things like your timer your stopwatch
i think there's a weather widget on there i couldn't see it but i'm sure it's there it does
give you daily stats but again these are all the basic features that we get on most cheaper almost
generic you don't even need a branded one for that sort of thing what an experience so fitbit locks
130 pounds or 130 dollars you can be the next lucky owner of this monster
the luxury component in the fitbit locks as i see it is only the price because everything else is
just as you would see in any other budget fitness tracker so the pluses on this particular tracker
you do get a very soft silicon strap you do get a metal watch clasp which is great um
it's light but just like any other tracker in this category well it's got a bright amoled display
well every tracker has a bright amoled display that's why trackers use amoled because it's
bright and crisp there will be sp02 coming to the fitbit looks sometime in the future
when exactly nobody knows but we hope that it will be quick so again an spo2 monitor
so a monitor that can track your blood oxygen saturation but we can see that in almost any
budget tracker which you can get for as low as 30 or 30 pounds so what makes it so special here but
anyway we're talking about the positives um it's supposed to be stylish well if it's so
small it's very tough to say how stylish it is and why is it any more stylish than any other tracker
i would say that it's not quite stylish for 130 bucks i am getting a plastic case that gets very
easily scratched as i will show further down in the video you get a tiny little display
that is actually not that touch sensitive because i've been pressing on the screen just trying
to light it up and it works on an ad hoc basis anyway if you did enjoy this sarcastic but honest
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