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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room Fitbit is trying to nail that segment in regards to price point offering a screen and utilizing the excellent app that has been with Fitbit since the beginning now when you look at the jawbone up - or the Garmin vivofit competition is tight and not to mention that V will fit three should be released about a month from now now I personally pay for this at the retail price of one hundred and twenty nine dollars as of this video but I'll place my affiliate links in the video description below you guys can click on those and check for the most updated prices so without further ado my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's reading go over the physical features first aesthetically the alter subtle it's very casual but still very modern the band uses snap-on buns which are very stiff to lock into place and I do admit I do prefer a watch stop buckle that's easier to use and easy to put on versus the locking nubs here either way this thing stays on my wrist very well and the entire time of testing and wearing this I never had the band undo on me now one of the biggest things to point out the bands are swappable for various colors or other materials with a very easy to use release lever on the rear but what is more important that I noticed here the brains of the alta is one single unit and it's not physically fixed to the band itself over time we have seen a small handful of fitbit's here where there's gaps exposed the adhesive becomes unglued and other quality issues again it's a very small amount but we have seen it you can do a google search yourself now with the Alta I don't foresee that happening now same regarding the screen has been virtually scratch free with no micro scratches at all so far so good but let's take a look at the screen here and see what is offered the first thing to address unfortunately outdoors on a sunny day the screen is somewhat tough to see though but indoors an initiate of course it looks perfectly fine to turn on the screen there's a very responsive Auto sensing feature just basically turn and twist your wrist here just like you're looking at a watch and the screen turns on automatically or you can always double tap the screen here and it must say I wish the tapping was more sensitive though tapping pretty firm - sometimes even hard was required for me to flip through the screens as you might see here in a demonstration but first up there's five vertical displays that you see in the video here you can see which one you prefer and you can change the orientation through the app and there's another five options here that you can choose from pause the video if you guys need to now first up is your date and time next is the amount of steps you have done so far estimated distance calories burned minutes you were actually active the battery indicator and if you have a vibrating alarm this will show here now regarding the vibrating alarm I know a lot of people ask for this it does work but I did feel it was on a light side compared to other activity bands in the market here so if you're a heavy sleeper I wouldn't really rely on this too much though and last regarding the physical features this is sweat rain and splash proof and you can't wear this well swimming which at this price point most bands even some of the more expensive ones not all of them you can where them in the water anyways now charging the band is very easy to do just use the clamping USB wire here and Fitbit is claiming up to five days of use from my experience surprisingly I've gotten eight days out of one charge here I thought this was a good anomaly but I checked the verge wearable comm as well and several other sites surprisingly their average around seven days so for those who are not aware the average for mainstream activity bands do range anywhere from five to seven days so the Alta is doing great being on the upper end now one of the last physical features the Alta is able to notify you of text messages it displays the phone number of who's calling in or the name of your saved contact and calendar events and alerts to keep in mind the messages shows once and after that it disappears and you can't pause the scrolling to catch up and reread it's more of a light notification system to be honest with you but that's it for the physical features here the physical band is only 50% of the experience compiling all this data to use and understand is as important so let's take a look at the app on the main page it's very simple to read with a huge list of all of your metrics you need to review there's primers shown by numbers with your goals designated on the right side and almost all of your metrics has a color-coded bar here going horizontally changing color as you progress now steps are shown beats per minute would be displayed here but the Alta does not have a built-in heart rate monitor comparing again to the other main competitors the up to and the Garmin vivofit 3 they both don't have HR sensors either and next is an indicator if you have taken at least 250 steps each hour throughout the day more on that a little bit later now moving down distance calories burned active minutes are displayed here track your exercise is where you go to initiate either a walk run or hike and your phone's GPS will track your distance and pace again the Alta doesn't have GPS built in now a supplemental feature is the Alta has this thing called smart track now this will automatically record your specific activity and Auto log it for you now with smart track you do have to do that activity for at least 10 minutes before it's recorded on to the app so just a heads-up on that if you do a workout for less it won't record but the activities that it can detect here or on your screen right now now moving back to the main page you can manually track your weight or use the Fitbit smart scale like the other fib activity bands here this also does automatically detect your sleep and from my experience it has been very accurate for normal use now I did go see a movie this past weekend here and for a brief moment I did believe it did record me as sleeping now it's rare that this happened here and again it's only for unique situations like so but sitting at my desk all day it hasn't been any hasn't shown any problems at all now moving down to the last few parts here you can track your food intake very similar to MyFitnessPal for food logging and last and this is very much underrated you can log in your water intake throughout the day but looking at all these categories here on an individual basis let's take a look at steps for example Fitbit has always provided here so much data for anyone to review and very easy to read bar graph up top to compare your week here and below are your absolute numbers and stars on the right here indicating if you've beaten your goals or not now going back to the main screen about that 250 steps the alter from time to time will remind you to get up and move it will vibrate your wrist as well which is a fantastic feature similar to garments but with Fitbit it does go a bit further insisting that you take at least 250 steps each hour with my chart you can see how active I was through the main part of the day and all this can be adjusted here but it's a nice set of data to help you see if you should be more active or basically see how inactive you are and you can see on this chart on Thursday or Friday here basically I'll just working at my office I didn't get up and move I barely did so I need to fix that obviously but getting back onto the main screen here once again distance calories burned and active minutes looks practically the same but I want to touch base on sleep it's for the most part accurate with basic sleep analysis detailing how long you slept for how many times you woke up in moments you were restless but the data is good for a generic tracker as most tracker displays very similar information but for those who looking for something much deeper looking through the jump up 3 that is or the basis peak now going back again here to the main page Fitbit does offer a good variety of extra features and the menu options that you have challenges you can try to overcome here and earn badges and random accolades backing out if you have friends with fitbit's you can compare your numbers with theirs and basically to have a friendly competition and the only other area that I would really want to show you guys is the silent vibrating alarms this work great and surprisingly some of the other activity bands don't even offer this what I'm talking about you can schedule individual days while other bands you can only set them for maybe just weekdays or just weekends again with Fitbit you do have a little bit more flexibility so with the Alta here I believe it's still future packed some of the main features that I've seen on the charge and a charge HR that is missing is basically the count for floors climbed of course there's no heart rate monitor there's no GPS and we're still not waterproof but being fair here the other bands again the charge charge HR and the surges well the blaze all those corresponds with their price point and offers those features I just mentioned so for the low $100 range comparing through the other competitors I believe it offers very similar features so in my opinion the Alta does well I think the consumer just needs to make the determination do you like the Fitbit app and the Fitbit ecosystem of features and the other factor here is is if you like the physical style other than that this is not groundbreaking but a perfect alternative or option that's available on the market so that's it for this review here please take your time to comment below and tell me what you think about the Fitbit Alta be sure to LIKE and subscribe if you haven't already done so and follow me on Facebook Twitter and or Instagram I'm Jimmy with Jim's Ruby room and my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision you guys take care I'll see you in the next one bye you