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everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room Under Armour didn't introduce just an activity band to the market but a complete health system the idea of having an activity tracker a smart scale and a chest heartrate monitor in one box creates a truly holistic approach under armours and it's really a genius idea that other companies surprisingly haven't offered in one complete official package now the entire set cost four hundred dollars which is up there I'll admit that but I'll test and see if there's value that justifies the price tag you can purchase the UA band separately for $180 these smart scale also comes in at a very high price of a hundred and eighty when you compare this with other competitors and the chest strap comes in at $80 which is equivalent to the h7 chest strap from polar and ten dollars more than the Garmin model so without further ado my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to Jim's review room going over the activity tracker first the UA band is smooth it's comfortable to wear and it offers a smaller additional strap for those with smaller wrists and although this utilizes snap buns to hold the band in place while working outs running and basic home movements never did the band undo on me now the only thing and I didn't mind this at all though I could never get the exact hose to ensure that it was a firm fit the band for the most part was always worn relaxed during over the physical features there's just one button on the band with good firm feedback rotating to the rear there is a heart rate reader however it's not on 24/7 and it doesn't track your heart rate while working out that's what these supplied chest strap is for however the band uses the sensor to read your resting heart rate randomly at night and you can track the results in the app which I'll show you later now during the time of me testing I did notice a day or two where didn't read my resting heart rate at all however it did register my sleep for that particular night so just being a lookout for that the other feature the wrist HR sensor provides is if you need to check your heartbeat at any given time you can do so from my testing it's been very accurate and testing this against several other products that's proven to work well so and then despite not being a risk a charm monitor at least Under Armour gives you resting heart rate and a chest strap for more accurate heart rate readings during your workouts so really in my opinion it's basically the best of both worlds but last on the inside there is a charging port for Under Armour's proprietary cable and early on finding the correct orientation was a slight nuisance and the magnetic connection itself is not as strong to keep things staying in place again this happened for the first time when I first used the product but over time after a small learning or habit curve you'll get it right afterwards regarding better life UA claims up to five days of life from my test I achieved four days 22 hours in 34 minutes to be precise compared to other bands on the market and for those who are not aware most activity bands on average lasts anywhere from 5 to 7 days with a few with 14 days of life and some even longer but again the average is typically 5 to 7 days for most trackers regarding recharging this is very very impressive here from a dead battery to 99% foam this had only taken 33 minutes but then it stayed at 99% and reached a full 100% by a total of 55 minutes and 38 seconds either way the battery recharging is still very impressive and less moving on to the screen and what this has to offer the display reminds me of the original garmin vivosmart white LEDs a present displaying your time first here swiping right details your steps and a percentage of how close you are to your goal and pressing these small arrow to the right or left here provides more information like distance and another tap details calories burned swiping right one more time offers the amount of sleep from the night prior with the arrow allowing you to manually log in your sleep tapping right from the sleep screen activates the HR reader as we discussed earlier and then moving right one more time allows you to track either running cycling weightlifting or walking now when you activate let's say running since it's the most popular activity here estimated pace is providing calories burned distance ran and how long you have been running for now if you are wearing that chest strap your beats per minute is displayed and moving down one more time there's heart rate zones which you can monitor now one of the other features while you do have the chest strap paired there's an additional colored LED on the side of the band that glows pretty nicely with different colors indicating which heart rate zone you're actually in back on the screen and still accessible while in an activity is your willpower Under Armour gives you an idea of based on your current performance and heart rate data to detail how much intensity you're currently putting into your workout now backing out one more time you're back at the main display tapping on the right arrow once again you have media controls which I confirmed works for the likes of pandora iheartradio slacker radio and other similar apps in pausing playing and skipping songs still in the additional options menu there is your settings that confirms if your band is paired you can adjust brightness from settings of low medium to high and during my testing and bright sunlight outdoors here I do admit it is somewhat hard to see even at the brightest settings now indoors or out of direct sunlight display isn't very much readable going back to the additional options menu airplane mode is available in the option to turn off the band in general going back to the main options area the clock icon offers a calendar detailing your events for today and tomorrow and an alarm feature which provides a silent vibrating alarm and from my test in this feature here using this every night this is indeed one of these stronger vibrations that I've experienced versus many other bands on the market now the only caveat I can't set this up to ring just Monday through Friday or only certain days of the week this will vibrate everyday unless you turn it off moving back there is a stopwatch feature on the band which I know many ask for and there is a countdown timer included but backing out and finishing up the display there is a battery indicator and the last feature before I forget to mention this is rated at 280 m for water resistance in turn meaning this is splash sweat and rain resistant but actually you can't wear this while swimming the last feature is the band's ability to display text messages caller ID and calendar notifications right on the wrist the text messages do work but sadly this doesn't display an entire message to read like the garmin vivosmart HR so that's it for the Under Armour band let's make that transition over to the Under Armour's smart scale and see what that has to offer looking at the scale omit this rumba looking machine looks very nice it's a beautiful glossy top a display is very easy to read with bright LEDs and from my testing across three other scales it's as accurate as any other digital scale with very minor variations when you do those back-to-back readings now this uses four triple-a batteries which are included in the box and they do go of course on the underside of the scale now the features besides reading your weight this can differentiate up to eight different people and record their weight into their own Under Armor app this also has Wi-Fi built in which works great step on this and there's no need to pair it with your phone the data is being directly to Under Armor and then it comes to your phone instantly that last is the scales ability to use bio impedance basically using a low passing current and this basically can read your estimated body fat so that's really it for the scale here however as convenient and as streamlined as it is if Under Armour keeps it at the hundred and eighty dollar price point this is seriously an expensive scale considering Withings has there's retail for $150 and can display and measure everything mentioned so far with Under Armour but it also includes body mass index heart rate readings and other miscellaneous features like local weather and somehow it can read the air quality in the room now granted weddings doesn't have a strong ecosystem like Under Armour is presenting in very less of what comes in the box is the chest strap chest straps has always been the most accurate and consistent over time regardless of what kind of brand that you choose chart numbers shows my first run and don't mind a slight dip on the polar there as I adjusted the band while running in that first minute but as you can see with the data collected this performed like any other chest strap basically spot-on a second set of charts the same thing with deviations maybe one heartbeat from each other very very close but now what I want to do is show you the app experience is the data easy to understand yet is the app exciting enough to make you look at it and use we'll find out so you a record is available for both Apple and Android devices on the main page you have a wheel that resembles the smart scale with steps on the top left and then there's nutrition at the top right which pairs and syncs with My Fitness Pal a highly recommended app that I personally use to track my food intake but oddly this did not work on either one of my Android phones however it was working for my Apple device so just a heads up on that the bottom run is sleep tracking which again is automated and accurate from the time I started sleeping to the time that I woke up and the bottom left is your fitness goal and any progress that you've made for that particular day tapping down steps to show what this has to offer here total steps is available and compares into what you did to the day prior your goal which you can adjust here and as you can see on the bar graph below I very much work at my desk most of the day so there's not too much activity but swiping down is total distance and down even further our trends which I absolutely love when apps in general offers this kind of data but not only is there a linear graph but moving down your steps averages are provided and you can get a great baseline when you first start but backing out nutrition is pretty basic that's not too much information as most of your breakdown of sugars fats and proteins are tracked and even MyFitnessPal app but at least it's on here though and you get the basic math that tells you how much calories you have left to consume or how much you went over now going back here bottom right of the main screen sleep is recorded with similar information up top moving down as a bar graph which I was hoping to be a little bit more detail considering the job went up three can provide some really deep analysis at a similar price point for the band moving further down and line graph giving you an overall quick outlook for the week which I absolutely love here and on the very bottom is your resting heart rate - which is very important as you can see over time if your heart health is improving with your daytime efforts last is the fitness portion of the app which surprisingly breaks down a good bit of information at the top again very similar to the other health aspects of the app like duration a comparison with the day prior your goal but moving down further you receive your basics like distance duration and calories burned but I wish there was a bit more detail for runners in general like pace information and a trend on how we're comparing today versus maybe a month later or so unfortunately it's not here now moving down however provides some very good information though with heart rate information from your workout and seeing this easy-to-read bar chart you can tell which areas where you were focusing on either toning or fat burning to heart health or heart training now we're turning onto the main screen once again moving down is the how do you fuel bar here that you can change daily but moving down again a nice chart detailing your week's progress they can overlay data and see if there's any kind of correlation and further down on the main page resting heart rate is shown here now one thing I do admit with the UI app despite this is really under first time getting into an activity band as you can see on screen the UAF pairs with a lot of other services with a lot of other competitor devices so to finish this video here at first glance the health box that seemed pretty basic but after testing other armorer has a very capable product but I can say for sure it's nothing revolutionary I know many will say it's not worth the price and I agree with you guys from a consumer standpoint and especially when I throw up a chart like this on the screen now I do have to give credit where credit is due for what it offers it does great and the app experience surprisingly offers a lot of good data for a mid-range tracker but most of the features seen are offered on many other bands already it's just under armour was able to put what they think are the right ones or the best ones together for the consumer and truly this might be a perfect combination of features for someone out there but the price differences are pretty staggering now I'm sure when or if Under Armour decides to lower its prices down a bit or if they do somehow make a gps-enabled band with a package like this I think we'll have a lot more consumers onboard so that's it for this review please help support the channel by liking and subscribing if you haven't done so already again to check for updated prices I did place my affiliate links in the video description below click on that you can see what the most updated prices are today or decide to purchase them if you decide to do so I'm Jimmy when Jim's review room here to help you make a purchase decision you guys take care I'll see you in the next one bye