so i've ranted and raved about the galaxy fit 2 being one of, if not
the best fitness tracker on the market in 2021 but then along came the honor band 6
which absolutely blew me away so which is my top choice for 2021 stay tuned and let's find out
guys welcome back to tech it easy so the honor band 6 is a hot topic at the moment and a few
of you have asked can i do a comparison comparing it to the galaxy fit 2. so here it is you know me
i live to serve you so this is the galaxy fit 2 versus the honor band 6 which is better now
i will do a heart rate accuracy test and an sp02 test for the honor band 6 later on in the video
using the o2 ring that the guys at well you provided me but before we do that
let's take a look at some of the glaringly obvious differences between the galaxy fit 2 and the honor
band 6. the first being that huge 1.4 inch amoled display on the underband 6 which is considerably
larger than the galaxy fit 2 which comes in at 1.1 inches but as we all know it's not always
about the size it's how you use it at least that's what i tell myself but seriously i always thought
fitness trackers as smaller sleeker design devices for your bare basics of fitness tracking in this
instance the honor band 6 is getting closer to smartwatch territory which has its benefits and
its drawbacks depending on your usage that being said there's no denying that the honor band 6
is much easier to read especially when you're on the move with that much larger screen when
you compare it to the galaxy fit 2. now another physical difference that i have to commend the
unban 6 for is the appearance of a physical button on the side something that's actually missing
on the galaxy fit 2 and a lot of other fitness trackers it was missing on the honor band 5 and
the xiaomi mi band 5. now it might not seem like a big thing but it does make your life a lot easier
for example to turn the galaxy fit on you have to plug in the charger then disconnect it with the
underband 6 you can just hold the button like you would on a smartphone or a smart watch and it will
power on now speaking of charges that brings me on to another winning feature of the honor band 6.
this time they opted to go for a magnetic charger similar to what xiaomi did with the mi band 5.
this was something i picked up on when i did my honor band 5 review and i have to say i just hate
the charger that comes with the galaxy fit too plasticky it feels cheap it's fiddly and it's just
all around not a good user experience now with the addition of this new magnetic charger things are
a lot simpler easier and quicker i seriously hate the fit2 charger and they really need to get rid
of that now the important physical changes are out the way let's take a look at some of the internals
so one of the biggest questions people have is battery life so the honor band 6 you're looking
at between 10 to 14 days and the galaxy fit 2 you're actually going to reach from 15 to 21 days
now that's actually a big gap and one thing i will say from testing is that the galaxy fit 2
does hold true to those numbers however the honor band 6 i do feel like that drains a lot faster
that being said you will definitely get 10 days out of it just after that could be a little bit
of a stretch but i do suppose that is due to the much larger screen in reality though although the
galaxy fit 2 is far ahead in terms of battery life since both of them have well over a week's worth
of battery life it wouldn't make me recommend one over the other i think having a larger screen on
the underband 6 is a good trade-off for a little bit of battery life there is also the argument to
be made which i've mentioned in previous videos for getting a fitness tracker and a smart watch
purely because of the fitness tracker's battery life so you can wear your smart watch during the
day and then use your fitness tracker purely for sleep tracking since they're so cheap and budget
friendly now one thing i commended the galaxy fit 2 on in my review was its user interface
and i have to say i still hold true to my word on that i still love it i still think it's great
for the size of the device i think it works really well and it's super smooth and then we come on
to things like the workout section on the galaxy fit 2 it comes with a similar amount of workouts
pre-loaded as the honor band 6. however once you click the add button it will go to your phone and
in the health app you can add tons of different workouts to your galaxy fit too now this feature
is lacking on the honor band 6 and it was lacking on the honor band 5 is something that i did pick
up on there's not nearly as many workout choices on the underband 6 as there is on the galaxy fit
2. this is frustrating as it is something that could easily be added in in an update but they
didn't do it for the honor band 5. so i'm not sure we're going to see it on the underband 6. that
being said is workouts that important no it might not have the specific workout you're looking for
but really at the end of the day most of them just track your time calories burnt distance and
maybe your speed they're all slightly different variations of each other all things that i'm sure
you could set up manually on either one of the devices now something absent on both devices is
the appearance of gps there is no built-in gps on either of these devices you do have to use your
phone's gps one thing the honor band six does have over the galaxy fit too though is spo2 monitoring
or blood oxygen monitoring now this is something that put the honor band five slightly ahead of
the galaxy fit too in some instances and it's a real shame that samsung didn't put this in in the
galaxy fit too and i'm really not sure why they didn't because the honor band 6 and the galaxy
fit 2 come out at similar price points that being said i'm yet to test the accuracy of the sp02 so i
think i'm going to cut to a quick test testing the heart rate accuracy of both the fit2 and the honor
band 6 and will also test the spo2 accuracy of the underband 6 as well okay guys let's get stuck
into the spo2 and heart rate tracking so for this test i'm going to be using the o2 ring now well
you provided me this for a previous video i did testing the accuracy of the galaxy watch 3 and the
apple watch series 6. it's a great little device offering medical grade analytics and tracking so
again big thank you to them for sending this out to me so to start off i'm going to do a test for
the spo2 monitoring on the honor band 6. now the first test didn't come out quite how i was
expecting it to the numbers seemed a little bit too off for my liking so i readjusted the band
and moved it a little bit further up my wrist and tightened it in the second test the results came
out a little bit better and what you'll actually notice on the honor band 6 when you do your spo2
monitoring you'll see at the bottom there your heart rate is also displayed and what i did notice
was that the heart rate was actually in line with what the o2 ring was showing at the time on
my phone but i will still do a dedicated heart rate tracking test for the automatics as well
so what you can see on screen there is that the spo2 came out at 98 and then went down to 97
bringing it perfectly in line with what the o2 ring was showing
i also noticed once i did the test the spo2 monitoring seemed to be continuous which is
also another really cool feature so after doing a few off-camera tests i was pretty happy with the
spo2 monitoring so let's move over to the heart rate tracking now on the on the band 6 you don't
need to press a button the heart rate tracking is continuous which is again a really nice feature
to have now straight away they didn't exactly line up with each other the o2 ring and the underband 6
but then later on they did start to show almost the exact same stat occasionally they were one
or two beats out but it's nothing that would make me say the honor band six is not accurate
i'm personally really impressed with the results here i left it going for a good while and there
was never any really big gap so i can confidently say that the honor band 6 is accurate and more
than enough for most people so now we're going to move over to the samsung galaxy fit 2 and see how
that does now unfortunately on this there is no continuous heart rate tracking or at least
none that i've seen there doesn't seem to be any settings on the fitness tracker so i'm just gonna
go with the manual measuring now the first test was way out so i did a little bit of adjusting
and did another test and it came out pretty close to the o2 ring not quite dead on but again nothing
that would make me say that the galaxy fit 2 isn't accurate so as you can see on the screen it came
out at 96 and at the time the o2 ring was showing 98-99 okay so i did a couple more tests for the
samsung galaxy fit 2 just to give it a chance and each time it came out two to three beats out
now again this is no problem at all it's still accurate and one thing i will say is because
it's a manual measuring i think it's actually taking the average heart rate over the duration
of the time it's taking to do the test so yeah all in all nothing to be disappointed about here
having the continuous features on the unmanned six so does give it a leg up over the galaxy fit too
and although i maintain my statement that both of them are accurate i would want to say that the
honor band 6 might be slightly more accurate than the galaxy fit 2 here or at least in my
testing it was very interesting results accuracy wouldn't be something that makes me recommend one
over the other it would just really come down to the continuous heart rate tracking so to conclude
the battle which one comes out best well it would be really difficult for me to recommend the galaxy
fit 2 over the honor band 6 now just in terms of value for money alone there are things i do prefer
about the galaxy fit 2 for example the samsung health app i do still prefer that i do still
really like the ui but it's not enough to make me recommend the galaxy fit 2 over the honor band 6.
the bigger screen and the spo2 monitoring puts it miles ahead of the galaxy fit 2. and then as
the price they basically come out at the same price in fact i think the honor band 6 will be
cheaper when it's officially released so if you want to get as close to a smartwatch experience
without paying the premium price tag i'd go pick up an honor band 6. if you do already
own a galaxy fit 2 don't be upset though it's still a really good fitness tracker and some
people may prefer the slimmer sleeker design there is also the fact that they are pretty
cheap so it's really not going to cost you much if you did want to upgrade to the honor band 6.
so that's it for the honor band 6 vs galaxy fit 2 comparison as always let me know in the comment
section what you thought i still think both are a great option but there is a clear winner here also
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