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I finally found an activity tracker that looks just like a watch now there's other smartwatches out there but if you don't need notifications caller ID and all that cool stuff that makes a SmartWatch two to three hundred dollars and up the winnings activity a pop might be the answer now I personally bought this for testing at the retail price of a hundred and forty nine dollars as of this video making this slightly more expensive than the other fashionable yet simply functioning misfit shine and we'll take a look at how it feels and how it performs to see if this fits your needs so I'm here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's review now the activity path looks almost identical to its bigger brother the four hundred and fifty dollar activity but subtle differences does reflect the price point of this particular model now first off is the watch strap itself offering a silicon material it's ideal for those who are active it offers a traditional buckle to keep the watch tightly around your wrist and it works very well keeping everything snug with an ample amount of notches to fit all sizes and after testing so many bands I do gotta admit though it is slightly stiffer and not as flexible as other brands that I've tested in the past it's still comfortable though but it does feel as it reflects its price point but overall it's super lightweight it looks fashion illegal I think it doesn't snag those long sleeve shirts because it's somewhat of a low profile and the face of the watch isn't gargantuan making this ideal for both males and females but let's take a look at the dial here and see some of its main selling points as you can see the face is a traditional analog screen with a sub dial indicating their activity progress throughout the day now unfortunately the dials do not glow in the dark nor is there any backlight so in pitch black or let's say in the middle of the night you can't see it at all but surprisingly in low lights and bright light situations the contrast of whites and the colors offered makes the hand very visible not as for the mineral glass use it does feel somewhat new plasticky if that's a word to describe it and not a solid piece of glass like an traditional watches at least it doesn't feel like it and when the activity pop first came out with ings in several news outlets did confirm the glass breaks or at least scratches somewhat easily now weddings has addressed that and with all new models including mine here now offers a much durable manufacturing process to prevent those issues a fellow fan and eventually confirming with weddings all new models with a blue dot on the bottom of the packaging indicates this is a band that's good to go as the new manufacturing process intact and today I don't see any fine scratches from normal day-to-day activities and I did bump this pretty bad before and as you can see the glass is still pristine now other features you can't see right away is this band does utilize a cell battery that lasts up to eight months the highly convenient considering most other activity trackers you do have to charge it every five to seven days on average and not to mention once the battery goes bad there's no way to replace them now talking about replacement here it's easy to do with witting supply tool you just basically pry open the back take out the old one and put in the new one and that's basically it now another feature you cannot see is the activity pop has the ability to automatically know when you're sleeping walking and running and even swimming and yes this band is water-resistant for swimming up to 165 feet or basically 50 meters deep and a last feature is the band offering a silent vibrating alarm which does good but I felt stronger vibrations on other bands before now if you're a deep sleeper afraid this might not work for you now everyone's a little bit different though so of course you have to test it out yourself so that's basically it for the band it's very simple it's very basic there's no GPS no heart rate tracking no special screens just a simple classic watch that does offer all-day tracking and it does it all automatically for you but let's take a look at the app and look over all this data that you're collecting and see how it can help you here's the HeartMate app as weddings calls it so with this app this does work on Apple devices with iOS 7 or higher and Android powered devices version 4.3 and up and sorry window phone users out there you're kind of Sol in this case now you don't necessarily need your phone with you all the time the band does save your information and when you're back home or even the next day you can sync at that time to save your information on to the app now one issue that I've personally found so far and this has been acknowledged by weddings and their customer support page there are times the band does not sync when I wanted to turning it on off the settings that is where the resets doesn't seem to help this issue either now it's really after multiple miscellaneous tries that eventually I see the band talk to the app and eventually sync my data together so just a heads up on that and I'm pretty sure weddings is working on getting that fixed now starting with the main page here is your timeline now up top you have your total steps so far the percentage of reaching your step goal which you can customize if needed and the far right is your leaderboard for comparing any peers that are following you and vice versa via this app now you can swipe right to reveal the vibrating alarm settings in which you can select any combination of days which is a huge plus considering some bands only offer weekends or weekdays only now selecting okay and going back onto the screen here the main screen that is one more swipe to the right offers manual entries for your weight that provides a friendly reminder to weigh yourself daily to see if your weight is going up or down now regarding the plus sign here again you can manually enter this information for blood pressure and heart rate to see over time how you're doing in those areas and keep in mind the activity PAP itself doesn't have a heart rate tracker built in now moving down a little bit further here is the meet of the app itself offering previous day's performance charts now clicking on each one here you can break down how active you were throughout your days with a nice bar chart up top now below again our steps taken with a goal meter to the right and below that our elevation changes technically it's there for other devices not for the activity pipe itself now moving on estimated distance travel active calories that were burned off during those active moments and last is a total amount of calories burn for that entire day now on the very bottom if you did go for a run which I did here you'll see an orange that once clicked on will review your total active minutes the estimated distance and also the pace but backing out here as you can see there isn't a card here for that active run that I just showed you the only thing displayed is your sleep and daily step information now opening up sleep it's pretty detailed with indications and how long you are actually in bed for versus the actual total sleep that you achieved and from my experience overall the data collected is very much accurate with minimal to no counts while I'm either typing at my keyboard or driving and a sleep recording does appear to be accurate with times I'm just sitting still let's say at the movie theater or so and it's not recording me as being asleep basically at one last area of the app I wanted to show you is the dashboard which looks very simplistic but there are some helpful features behind the scenes this wellness level butterfly looking icon fills up based on your progress no tapping on it and then tapping a category say activity here since I'm lacking that area gives me app suggestions for example I do personally use RunKeeper and with the Withings here this shares data with my RunKeeper account as well now to mention other popular apps like My Fitness Pal endomondo runtastic met my fitness etc you can see a full list on Withings website but overall those are the main key points the only downfall that I did see what this app though being offered is the history it provides is limited to days and weeks monthly comparisons I could not find and they're basically not available on the app now it's really hard to see if I'm improving in my overall activity over the year as I felt weekly comparisons we're still a bit short for long term health goals and I also did sign into the Withings website and viewed my data there which has some really nice charts there too but again only daily and weekly numbers are available not monthly comparisons but other than that considering its price point considering this product is meant to be a very simple all day and all night tracker and having the looks doesn't hurt either I really do like it I guess the only question now is is it too simple for you or is it just enough let me know in the comments below so hope this video helps you in some way if you do like my work add me gyms review room to Facebook Twitter Instagram or Google+ and you can see behind the scenes pictures and photos and ask me questions on there as well again this is Jimmy with Jim's review room you guys take care now see in the next one