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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room welcome back to another video as you guys probably know I review a lot and I mean a lot of activity bands right here on this channel today is no exception I'm very excited to tell you guys I got the Fitbit blaze here on deck and the reason why I'm excited I did pre-order this via Best Buy and then yesterday morning they said that my order was backordered for an entire month to March 31st which is obviously ridiculous so yesterday I just went out drove everywhere I had to drive to another state and I found one in stock the black was sold out by the time I got there so blue was the only one available and this is in this size large so today what I want to do just real quick here I normally don't do unboxings but because this is such a hot item I just want to go over what's inside the package of course and I'll go briefly over what features are available of course have the full review out probably about a week a week and a half from today I do have to go through the entire battery to see how long it actually lasts and until then that's when I can put out the review for you so let's get into this let's see what's inside I hope you guys are excited as much as I am all right folks so the Fitbit blaze really blurs the lines of being a SmartWatch and an activity tracker many have been asking for something like this but it's either lacking in SmartWatch features and dominate on the fitness side of things and vice versa and I know from my viewers some have been holding off as current trackers are either ugly they feel too bulky and they don't have heart rate readings on the wrists etc and that's why the blaze has been on many people's radars now this offers a SmartWatch light display interchangeable bands and on fitbit's website I have seen them offer a metal band instead of a silicone one or rubber one that I have here and of course this has your notifications like incoming phone call alerts text messages calendar alerts and whatnot now I just need to personally test this and see if the entire message shows up and it's not just a preview like we've seen on some other bands in the past we'll see in my review now I personally bought this for the retail price of 199 dollars but you can always click on the link in my video description below to check for the most updated prices so what we have so far in the box right now is just basically the Fitbit blaze and also the huge charging cradle that we have here but let's take a look at the band real quick see what it looks like alright so like I said earlier I couldn't get the black model I had a succumbed to the blue one the blue one actually still looks pretty decent here I did prefer black but by the time I got to the store it was sold out unfortunately buckle like style like on a traditional watch very secure I always loved this method instead of the snap on buttons regarding the display and I guess it's a little bit of juice in here and just tell me to set up I'll go over try to go over some of the screens later for you guys but overall very very nice build here all aluminum or metal surrounding here buttons are very very clicky love that feature let's see what's at let's see let's look at the back here look at the heart rate sensor and from my experience with a lot of activity bands I noticed the bigger the sensor the bigger the watch that is the more accurate it reads Fitbit I believe it's using some kind of technology called pure pulse heart rate I'm pretty sure is probably trademarked with another company so hopefully it does provide much better heart rate results than originally what I tested on the Fitbit charge HR and also the Fitbit surge just notice this little latch here this is other watches that I've seen you just basically pull this over and you and interchange the bands pretty quickly so we give that a shot right now for you guys but again this video is in real time it's not heavily edited as my reviews just want to try to get this out the way for you guys and there you go that's basically it I just try to kind of get my nail in there because see I don't have too much of a nail to really pull it over all of that just basically put it in I'm sure and there you'll snaps right back in very easily done if you guys need to basically swap out bands maybe get that metal one that I talked about earlier other than that I just felt this pop out a little bit and there you go so this just literally just pops out what leaked out so you can change instead of just changing the band you can change the bezel and you can have the actual activity tracker out of its placement there you go pretty cool let me see if I can snap that back in pretty easily hopefully that goes pretty good I'm a surprise it's actually just held on with basically just snapping it in there I don't think there's any kind of locking mechanism let me see yeah it just snaps in and that's how it stays intact but while it's in here I don't feel any movement I mean it just really really stable of course once you have this on your wrist it shouldn't pop out but again of course that's in my review let me put this on my wrists to try to give you guys what it looks like based on size and also if you guys look at the side profile it's not completely flush I don't think it's completely flat as the garmin vivoactive i'm talk about the current generation that new one is coming up pretty soon I haven't seen that yet or personally touched it but the profile does stick out just a little bit here it's not too bad at all but I'm pretty sure if you compare and I'm wearing the Under Armour band right now doing some tests on those but let me just take this off real quick just do a really quick edit for you guys so here goes both bands side by side the other armor band does look a little bit thicker because just one big straight profile on the side here if you look at the blaze it does look a little bit thinner but if you do put them you know one on top of another and in person I'll be honest with you it does look about literally the same exact size and again the Under Armour band is probably your most traditional size of an activity tracker it's rare that you really see a really fun activity tracker for the time being like I said the one that really just pops up to mind is the garmin vivoactive of course i'm talking with the current generation the profile is thin enough I would say that to still be very comfortable this is still comfortable to me but when you do wear it again this bezel here it does allude to a thinner profile you can't really see the other side which works really well in addition if you look at the bezel itself you can see you can see through it you see my finger kind of peep through there but I do like this really unique style here it does give this kind of like a beveled edge or a beveled look when you do wear it so it does give it a little bit more personality or character and just one more time rotating to the back to give you guys probably a better look or a better angle of what this looks like there you go so let me update the software out here and give you an idea of what the screen looks like and just go through some of the menus and that should basically finish up this unboxing all right give me a second all right so it just paired the glaze over with my phone it's telling me that there's a firmware update so this takes a little bit of time here fitbit's climbing up to 10 minutes for this to be completed so that's the only thing I'm waiting on for now we'll see alright folks so the update just finished for me of course results would vary but for me personally sharing my personal experience this had taken a little over 38 minutes to finish which was of course a lot more than what Fitbit was claiming again just showing you guys just in case you guys run into this as well alright folks so the first thing I noticed here if you lift up your wrist the displays should turn on automatically just like other smartwatches very convenient if you lift up your wrist the timer should show so just like a Astro clock here the display of course turns off when your wrist is to the side here to save battery and then we lift up the screen should come on and it looks like it works you know pretty well here so far again full test during the review but the display here looks a little bit darker I'm pretty sure that we can split change the display styles here and get different dials and whatnot but you can see these steps counters up there and of course your current heart rate or heart beat now with Fitbit from what I'm aware they don't sample it in real time when you're not in an activity during activity of course it's real time but right now it probably samples or takes your heart Beate once every minute or once every three minutes or so but don't quote me on that I have to double-check out put that again in the review for you guys I know it's not in real time that's all I'm just saying so swiping left nothing here swiping let's see notifications around the bottom if you swipe up let's see if you swipe down you can turn off turn on and off notifications again you got music controls you have to play back and forward buttons right there I know if you guys can see it it's a little bit dark here for the time being swiping right is today's numbers I guess let me see yep so the amount of steps literally I just put this on here resting a heart rate which is always an awesome plus here for those you know basically trying to get into fitness just to see what your heart health is like over on a daily basis distance and estimated calories burn of course calories have been burned somewhat here of course the body naturally burns off calories over time and of course this has flights indicated or how many flights of stairs that you've climbed so far so really cool on that let me see if there's anything else here just double check nothing and so you left to right so I have to push the button to get back swiping right one more time because you're exercising profiles tap on that you got run of course biking weights treadmill elliptical and just general workout now keep in mind I did find out that this does not have GPS so I'm very confident this does not replace the Fitbit surge there's no GPS built-in which is very unfortunate I was hoping for something like this this will have been killer even if this was priced at $250 with GPS on here you don't need to carry your phone that would have been great but this does pair with your phone your phone would be the GPS carrier so when you do run if you do need GPS you do need to carry your phone and a watch at the same time but you don't have to but again of course it's always more accurate if you have GPS enabled I'm just click on the sprocket here let's see what that offers run cues mark laps based on your Fitbit app settings I can use your phone GPS secondary stats it left's time and that's basically it all right backing up one more time here next screen fifth star from what I understand is coached workouts so here was a seven minute workout ten-minute ABS let's just do a warm up real quick here tap that play and fitstar basically demonstrates and it shows this female here on her your knees and hands and whatnot basically simulating a warm-up for you guys so press play and it would basically give you a minute to basically do that to warm your body or neck up here and let's say can I skip it skip that let's see what the next exercise is real quick here reversed shoulder rolls and again it's nice that it actually offers you a slight animation of what it looks like or how to perform it and of course that time is counting down and it should start automatically for you and there goes your warmup so pretty cool on that if you guys are into coaching or need coaching in general so that's fitstar that's a new on fitbit a timer what kind of timers do we have and it whoops that it look like it started a little bit there just noticed so there's a stopwatch and there's a countdown for you guys I know a lot of personal fitness trainers and whatnot they do prefer that I really like that feature all arms there are silent alarms on here whoops and no alarm set create alarms using the fitbit website or the app so i can't set it up on here but there is a silent vibrating alarm which is cool and settings let's see quick view so that's if I raise my wrist the screen will turn on brightness sorry about that a little sensitive so brightness is on auto right now let me see how I can get this for you guys normal and here goes maximum brightness and we will go back to that front page really soon Bluetooth classic heartrate let me see what kind of options we have for heart right here that little air is low it's kind of hard to tap here there we go so it's off on and autumn okay that's basically about it let's see if there's anything else besides settings I highly doubt it and basically back to alarms so look at the animations here I'm surprised I saw that little stutter again it could be just the device is still very new maybe it's catching up or trying to get its you know stuff together and whatnot but again that's the of course that doesn't look too promising on that here goes the very impressions what this looks like and see hopefully that stutter doesn't come back here but looks like it's flowing pretty much smoother now there we go so there's the screen on maximum brightness so it is a little bit more visible again during the test I'll test it in full sunlight just make sure we can see this when we're outdoors but other than that that is it for this unboxing I know it's been very very I guess you could say raw it's you know it's me without narrative I know this is isn't as polished as my reviews but other than that I present to you guys the Fitbit blaze if you can like subscribe follow me on Facebook Twitter in or Instagram and I'll see you guys on the next video you guys take 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