Hi everyone! welcome to Wesknows tech news and reviews! as you all know we love doing comparisons
on Wesknows! today we're going to do the ultimate tracker comparison between four of the best budget
fitness trackers of 2020. by budget we mean those track is under $50! finally honor band 6 has been
released and can join the party and so today we'll be comparing honor band 6, Amazfit band 5,
xiaomi mi band 5 and samsung galaxy fit 2. if you are new to wesknows tech news and reviews we talk
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these four trackers have caused waves of excitement upon their releases in 2020,
every single one of them has tons of innovative features, lots of features and functions that
can blow you away! i know what many of you are thinking is that honor band 6 is the best of all
but, hey, just because a tracker has the biggest display - well that's not everything because
there's just so much more to a tracker than just that display! it's all about the features,
the functionality, about the insides of the tracker that's what matters and that's what we're
going to do! we're going to be putting these four trackers in a head-to-head comparison to see what
they can do and what they can't do. before we dive in though let's introduce the contenders. first up
is the honor band 6. the main point to mention it's got a massive 1.5 inch amoled display, it's
got a physical button instead of the capacitive button under the screen, bringing it closer to
a smartwatch. the galaxy fit 2 is brought to us by samsung, one of the most advanced tech giants
in the world! i have to say, that i absolutely love that samsung managed to squeeze the word
"galaxy" into fit 2's name. and here we've got a Amazfit band 5 and it's claim to fame is that it
has access to amazon's alexa to tell you a joke, the weather, directions, set your alarms or record
your shopping list! xiaomi mi band 5 was released to the masses before the aforementioned trackers
and offers the cheapest price. it has a 1.1 inch amoled display, it auto detects two activities
and has 11 sport modes to choose from. now that we've done the recaps i just want to mention that
in this comparison and review we will not be discussing things like timers and alarms. we
will be focusing our interest on the main - on the key features and functions of these four trackers.
and as per usual on wesknow's, we have structured the comparison to first go through the design,
the display and then we're going to go through the features and functions! so let's get going and
kick off with design. i think we can easily break these four trackers into two distinct categories,
so the first category is where we have the pellet-like, the standard trackers of the
past or of today.. however you want to call it. and then of course we've got the honor band 6
which has a huge display and it's basically in a category of its own and that category is closer
to smart watches! the three trackers from amazfit, xiaomi and samsung pop out of their silicon straps
for easy charging or simply to change straps. dimensions of all three are rather similar with
samsung galaxy Fit 2 having 46.6 by 18.6mm and it's only 11.3mm thick and now let's check out
the dimensions on the honor band 6. so it's 43 by 25.4 millimeters and only 10.8 millimeters thick,
so it's shorter, wider and thinner! the straps are interchangeable but attached to the watch case in
a lug-less and sporty design. the heaviest tracker out of the four is samsung galaxy fit 2 at a hefty
24 grams and also as we have already mentioned the honor band 6 actually departs from the capacitive
button under the screen to a button - a physical button on the right side of the watch face. let
me know in the comments below which tracker wins in terms of design! in regards to display
we are kept with the same two distinct categories, so the traditional and the contemporary. Amazfit,
samsung and xiaomi all get 1.1 inch amoled displays and this was considered a huge jump
from the prior generations where 0.95 of an inch was the benchmark. mind you, note the
large black faces on these bands and the tiny looking square or rectangularish amoled displays
sitting in the middle. now in the contemporary camp we have the honor band 6 which manages to
shame the traditional camp! it offers a brim to brim amoled display that is a feast to look at.
the 1.47 inch display on the honor band 6 is 40% larger than any tracker in the traditional camp.
none of the trackers offer auto brightness, they're all broken down into particular
levels. so three of them offer five levels while the galaxy fit 2 actually offers 10
different levels. in my mind display quality is determined by three factors: size, brightness and
contrast! considering all four have amoled screens and pushing out approximately similar brightness
levels of approximately 500 nits, contrast is high on all and the blacks are deep and rich as well.
we are left with size, this is important because even though all of these trackers have plenty
of beautiful downloadable faces the fact is on the traditional displays the values are
minuscule and if i need a value on my run, i need to stop, when i get a text or email i don't even
bother with trying to read those from the screens! the honor band 6 changed all that, i don't need to
reach for my phone now to read a text or to stop to see a value on my watch, such as my heart rate,
my steps, the weather, whatever.. i can see everything clearly because the watch face is
HUGE! i think that in terms of display the clear winner is the honor band 6. it's time to dig into
the features and functions and we do have quite a few things to cover here. we'll begin with sports,
then we'll get onto mindfulness, then sleep and then health and of course we'll finish off
with the cool functionality! all four auto detect activities but the fit2 is the clear leader here,
it auto recognizes five workouts these are rowing, elliptical training, dynamic workouts at the gym
or in the park, walking and running. honor band 6 auto recognizes four activities, the mi band 5 and
Amazfit band 5 auto detect just two activities. in regards to the sport profiles available,
mi band 5 and Amazfit band 5 have 11 and honor has 10. these are a fixed number of profiles
whilst galaxy fit 2 has a huge range of sport modes available from the samsung fit app and you
can store 10 favorite sports on the watch face. by the way all bands are waterproof up to 50 meters.
but just before you think that the galaxy Fit 2 actually has the upper hand in regards to sports,
as a whole, let me tell you something... there is quite a significant disadvantage with the galaxy
fit 2 in regards to sports. let's use an example, so let's say running, the activity has no settings
to identify abnormal heart rate, then there's also no lap size settings! the amazfit and mi
bands offer these but none offer the benefits of goal based workouts! well, i think that goal based
workouts are a great feature and you will see them on most smart watches or the more mature fitness
trackers which do cost quite a bit more than the budget trackers! so it is a welcome addition
to the honor band 6. let's talk about mindfulness. so all four trackers do have stress monitoring
available, now let's touch upon sleep stages. so all trackers except for xiaomi mi band 5 actually
track your light, your deep and rem sleep. but the mi band 5 just tracks your light and deep sleep.
we have actually checked all of these devices for sleep accuracy and i've left the link to that
test and comparison in the description below the video. and now we're left with the health metrics.
the PAI metric actually tracks your cardiovascular health with just a single number. this number
takes into account your steps, your heart rate, your breathing quality and at the end of it all
you get one value! as long as you keep that value over 100.. statistically speaking you're 25% less
prone to getting heart disease! only Amazfit band 5 and the honor band 6 actually offer
spo2 measurement. yes it's on demand, it's on your wrist and it's at a point in time. what's
spo2? well it's blood oxygen saturation levels. this is a crucial addition considering this
medical tech feature can forewarn of respiratory conditions. well, what about the cool features?
in regards to coolness, i think there's just one tracker out of these four which offers the
absolutely coolest feature and that is the amazfit band 5! it actually brings alexa to your wrist,
it can tell you a joke, it can tell you directions, set your alarms or tell you
the weather. do i use it as much? probably not! i think it's more of a gimmick but it's just so
nice to have and it is really a cool feature. now i know there is a lot of info here but i
think that we have covered the most significant variances between these four trackers and now
it's up to you to decide which one of these four trackers actually suits your needs most!
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