Gadgetory

it's Fitness time you're looking for a fitness band how about baking it into a watch I'm Scott Stein and just last year the winnings activity took the idea of a high-end watch putting a fitness tracker inside of it and creating a sort of a slightly smarter watch a pretty neat idea but it was $450 and now the whiffing is activity pop here on my wrist does it for $150 how's that possible well they did a lot of changes in material design you know there's no sapphire crystal anymore now it's using mineral glass and now it looks a little more like a swatch whereas the last version seemed kinda like a 1960s throwback and this was designed in Switzerland the new one it's not who knows where it's designed but the pop does exactly the same thing as the activity this is also a full-featured fitness tracker meaning that it tracks steps sleep it does not do heartrate but it basically does everything that the old Fitbit and jawbone bands did on a watch you don't have to charge it either it has a eight month battery life with a built in replaceable battery and it's waterproof for swimming or showering that type of thing now with those things in play and the fact that it tells the time it really just feels like an easy lazy solution for tracking your fitness there's really nothing to maintain here and yet it still has bluetooth so this can sync with your phone iPhone for now and Android down the line to put all of your steps and goal information right into a very nice cleanly designed app it also has a vibration alarm built into this that will silently wake you up now it would be nice if it allowed more than one alarm right now it only does one in addition to the minute and the our hands the second dial tells you how far you've come on your daily 10,000 step goal and as far as time zones go this sets itself automatically as soon as it syncs with your phone the pop comes with the silicone band it comes in three different colors this is the blue one there's also gray which is like a black and there's a sand color that's like a white and there are different bands you can remove these in mix-and-match and even use the activity bands too if you find one or have one nobody is going to know that this is smart and that's the smartest thing about the pop it feels like a regular watch until you tell somebody or maybe you tap on this and make the hands dance around that's pretty much the only way you can tell that this does anything and that could be a trend that we see throughout this year we're going to see a lot of watch manufacturers probably building in slightly smarter technology into their watches and alternative to the high powered smartwatches that we're going to see from Apple Google and Samsung the width exact imitate pop is probably my favorite fitness tracker even if it doesn't do heartrate I'm wearing it all the time and it's really fun I'm Scotts Diane with the Withings activity pot it's available now