Hey, what's up its week, four Xiaomi fire, and today we're looking at the halo solar, a budget-friendly Smartwatch from the stalls of the Xiaomi ecosystem. But how good is it well, let's find out, let's go in the box. You'll find a watch itself, USB cable for charging, and that's about it. The watch case is 45 by 11 millimeters in height and weighs only 54 grams. The included strap is around 26 centimeters in length and on the inside it's got a 340 million power battery that gives it a 30 day, battery life or 15 days when it's set to full time heart monitoring display is a one-point 28-inch TFT touch display with a 240 by 240 pixel resolution. There's a crown on the side which can serve as a button to navigate back into menus comes up with an optical heart rate, monitor and accelerometer for step, counting and fitness tracking.
It's got Bluetooth, 5 connectivity, — paired with your phone. It's got an IP 68, waterproof rating, which does just kind of allow you to swim and shower with it to set it up. You would need to pair it with the halo fit app. You can find this app in the Apple, App, Store and Android stores, and from this app you can easily pair to watch over Bluetooth to set it up once connected. It will synchronize the heart rate and movement data from the app you can do two usual stuff update the firmware synchronize the step counter, the fitness and heart rate data and also start fitness programs.
If you desired to do that from the app you can also choose which apps that you want to send notifications to the watch. So now that it's installed, let's have a look at the watch itself. It looks pretty good. It's got the looks of a more traditional analog watch. You can set it up to show the watch face when raising up your wrist from the app and when it's active, you can access a Quick Menu when swiping from top to bottom from here, you can use the find my phone function, change the screen, brightness level and able to do not disturb mode, and you'll find a quick access toggle to go to the settings.
You press and hold the watch face. Furthermore, you can change the face. There's not 300 different watch faces to choose from like some of the others that we've seen, but it not really a bad thing. There's some sporty digital looking once, and it's pretty minimalistic and basing looking one which I actually kind of like but swiping from left to right or right to left. You can find a quick views for the step.
Counter heart rate, monitor sleep, tracker, the weather, app and breathing exercise. When swiping up from the watch face screen, you can access the list of all the apps here. You'll find a step counter. Heart rate, monitor weather and sleep app. Your notification lists with notifications that are pushed through from your phone, a music controller which will control the music on your phone, and you can start some fitness tracking programs from this sports menu.
The solar comes with tracking for jogging, walking, cycling, climbing yoga fitness, but also things like basketball, football and rowing into more menu in the main menu you can find a stopwatch and a timer. You can also find my phone options and a breathing exercise and from the settings there's not much that you can do. You can change the brightness. Furthermore, you can power off the watch or reset it to its factory settings. I did do some simple water testing to see if it would hold up seeing I still can't swim with it, because most of the pools are still closed.
It survived it worked. It was just fine, although it does not have an actual ATM rating. You should be able to submerge it in water for 30 minutes width is IP rating and I believe it should be no problem to swim with as long as you're not planning to dive with it. Now. What do I think, and how much does it cost? The held solar came out in a whammy open store in China, and it actually got an international release through to yoking lab website, which is the shell me open, store international website and is now available internationally, where it goes for around 30 for up to 39 US dollars, depending on where you get it.
That's a range of around 31 to 36 euros for those of you that are in euro land I've put down some links below this video. If you want to go and check that out so now what do I think after using this watch for a couple of weeks, I think it's a pretty nice looking watch its design, it's nice! It's pretty classic, doesn't have that many watch faces, but that's not all too bad. Maybe it could have been a few more, but I mean it's fine. It is what it is. The overall brightness and looks of the play is quite good.
It's not the brightest, but most of the time it's good enough. I did notice that the type and icons aren't relatively sharp, but the minimalistic watch face with the hands does show a little of aliasing, which I guess is due to the resolution of the screen, especially when you see this very close-up shot. You can see that individual pixels of the type I mean it's not all that bad, because if I look at the step counter page, it does look quite clean in terms of aliasing. You just got to keep in mind that it is a pretty cheap watch. I just wanted to point it up.
One thing that I personally was not a big fan of is that the watch gets paired with the halo fit app, so it is needing another app to set it up and synchronize. It's not really a big deal, but I really would have loved for all the smartwatches to pair with the media. App so I'm, just using one single app I would really prefer that, but nonetheless, overall it is a decent watch. It definitely got quite a little fitness tracking programs. It's got all the usual stuff, like the heart rate monitoring and the most common apps, like the music controller and the weather, and you'll be able to receive notifications from your phone on your wrist and, first and foremost, it is priced very low for around $35.
You can get a decent and good-looking Smartwatch. That is lightweight. It's got a pretty nice-looking timeless design. So that's about it for the halo solar. What do you guys think of the solar? Is this something you pick up for this price or not? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below this video and don't forget to leave a little like to show me that you like this video and don't forget to subscribe to the channel.
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