So what are your needs for? A smart watch let’s talk about it Music good morning, everyone kenneth here and today we’re reviewing the halo ls02 smartwatch, which i’ve been using for the past few months. Actually, but yes, finally, my first ever smartwatch review. I really hope you guys learned some useful things, as i always try to put as much information as i can in a video. So if you appreciate that leave a thumbs up please and subscribe if you haven’t, okay as a background, i’ve had an apple watch for as long as it exists. So around five years now, and with that experience i’m going to talk about why this may or may not be a good purchase for you as a quick, disclaimer halo did send this unit to me free of charge. But everything said in this: video is my own honest opinion. No talking points, no money involved. So if you want to support what i’m doing consider using the links in the description every time, you want to buy any stuff, as i may get a small commission at no extra cost to you, just have to go to the ecommerce website through those links. Thank you for your support and let’s start with the unboxing. What you get inside the box is a watch itself, a proprietary charging cable, a user manual, and that is it very, very straightforward. If we take a closer look at the design and the build quality for the price, it is actually a very nicely built.
Smart watch but you’ll have to know that this is a common design that other companies may use so don’t be surprised if you see other familiar brands, selling a smartwatch with exactly the same design. I’Ve warned you, though i can definitely say that it is made from high quality materials, starting with the front. The screen is covered with a 2.5 d class, which is a flat glass that curves towards the edges. I’Ve been using this without any screen protector and so far no scratches yet, which is great, though granted i have grown a habit of not bumping. My watch onto stuff i’d say it’s as strong as a regular tempered glass screen protector. You install on your phone, so yeah there’s that now the screen itself is a touch sensitive 1.4 inch 320 by 320 square lcd. That has quite some bezel, especially in the top and the bottom, and because this is an lcd screen, not an oled. You will notice the bezels most of the time, except when you’re looking at it straight from the top. The sides are covered by space gray, aluminum, with only one button on the right side. This button needs quite a bit more force to push it, but just like the entire watch, it feels high quality. The purpose of this button is to turn on the watch, turn it back off or as a back button in menus and as someone coming from the apple watch i’m so used to tapping on the screen to turn it on and slamming the screen.
With my palm to turn it off, but none of it works here, so you got ta press that button now onto the back side. This part is plastic and more plastic. So yes, the heart rate sensor is not covered by glass. But how do i know you might ask? Actually, you can see it from how it reflects light, just check it out later. If you get one a straight light will look kind of bendy here, which is a sign of plastic so for the heart rate, sensor i’d recommend you to not put it directly on tables like this, but try to cover it with the wrist, then you’ll. Thank me later in a year or two because you’ll see much less scratches there also there’s that charging contact pins and magnets up top, but just to let you know, these are not reversible. Moving on to the wrist strap, this is again very high quality. It is comfortable to wear and with a small tab here, you can easily detach it and swap it with a third party. Strap of your liking, just remember to buy the 20 millimeter one also because this is a soft silicone material. It is ready to be taken on exercises and when you’re done, you can wash the entire thing. This unit is ip68 water. Resistant halo really just got all the basics covered here now, speaking about battery life, real quick before we talk about all the features, this last just exclaimed, which is great 20 days with always on heart rate monitoring.
Let me repeat that 20 days, with all the features turned on with a decent amount of notifications per day. You can expect this to drop around five percent per day, but of course it will use more juice if you are using the exercise modes or if you get more notifications and calls every day, but to actually reach 20 days in my own personal usage is insanely Good we’re in the mi band territory, now or even better than a me, been 5 actually, and we have a much more usable screen real estate here. Also, if you turn off the heart rate, monitoring it’ll take a whole month to empty the battery. Let that sink in 30 flipping days, you literally charge it once a month. So now let’s talk about the features and what this watch is actually capable of. First of all, the watch user interface is a fairly simple one. You get your watch face. First, you swipe down for some quick setting, toggles swipe, left or right to switch between some of the built in apps, and you can swipe up to see all the apps in list view now. Here we have stats, which is your step counter bpm or your heart rate monitoring app, and this one is interesting because it seems to be updating in real time and it is the only app that lets you swipe up and reveal your heart rate throughout the day. So i would prefer checking these kind of details in my phone instead, so moving on, we have sport, which is your exercise app.
There are plenty of exercises here that it can detect and just to be up front i’m, not much of an exercise guy. So i only use the jogging one and when you’re in an exercise program, you can see how long you have been exercising your distance and heart rate from here. You can only swipe right to pause the exercise and then you can stop it from there. Next, one is the weather, this one pulls location from your phone and yes, the app on the phone does ask for a location permission, but i’ve set it to only while using, and it still works. Fine here, though, in indonesia, most of the days are either sunny or rainy, so i don’t really check whether it often let me know if you do the same thing too now for the sleep app here again, i prefer checking these kind of data in my phone. It just shows you how long you have been sleeping last night, how much light and deep sleep you’ve had, and this resets when you are nearing the end of the day, and then we have notice, which is your past notifications. If you missed any – and next is music controls – music setting there it’s fine, though i cannot control volume here, which is what i usually needed, the most and some more stuff tucked away here in more like stopwatch countdown, which is essentially a timer fine phone, which you Can access easily actually from main watch face by swiping down it’s right here and talking about this fine phone feature real quick? You got ta tap on it and tap one more time for it to start sending signal to your phone and let it start vibrating and making a sound, but unfortunately, in ios, when i needed it, the most it doesn’t make the phone vibrate, which is basically the Limitation of the app actually because it cannot run on the background, essentially 100 of the time.
Maybe if you have an android phone, it will work better, but i don’t know if the halo app will drain more battery because it’s running all the time, yeah it’s, just like kind of that problem again. Third party, not very good integration. Finally, last but not least, is breath training. This here is probably made to copy what the apple watch can do, but here’s the thing there, the taptic engine would vibrate differently telling you when to breathe in and when to breathe out. So you can actually close your eyes, relax and breathe. I thought this would at least mimic that somehow, but instead it just shows you an animation, no vibration at all. So i wonder what is the point of this breeding thing when you can’t even close your eyes and worse when the one minute or two minute timer is up it also doesn’t vibrate, you know i can keep on breathing and i realize oh okay, it’s done it’s. Just so weird, anyway, sorry for the little rant here. This thing is still great for the price, regardless just forget about the breathe app now talking about the main watch face you can tap and hold on it to change it to a few different watch faces that are available, but you can’t customize. Anything here you just have to accept them, as they are. Some of them have more complications like weather and heart rate, but most of the round watch faces especially look awful in my opinion, so this digital one is the only thing that i use.
I just wish at the very least we can change the color, but am i asking too much anyway, whenever you’re out from the main watch face, for example, you swipe up, you can always see the time in the top center battery on the top right and connection To your phone in the top left for touch, responsiveness and ui performance, it’s, actually quite slow and laggy, though i think this is a way to save battery so i’m, perfectly fine with it since there’s not much. You can do anyway, it’s a pretty straightforward system now. Moving on to the app, let me just say this: first in ios, the data does not sync up with a built in health, app, whether that’s, important or not depends on you but it’s a missed opportunity in my book, because of course i prefer to have all My data in one central app for me to check out now inside the halo app what you get is really the basic raw datas of what the watch collects, such as how many steps you’ve taken for the day, how much total calories you’ve burned for your exercises? How much time you slept with deep and light sleep and some heart rate stuff, including average maximum and resting heart rate? Those are good and you can also track a workout with gps. If you bring your phone with you on a run, but remember the data, won’t go anywhere else. You just see how much you’ve exercised and that’s about it.
As far as i know, i don’t think you can export any of these data as well now onto the rightmost section, you can customize some setting for the watch. Like you see in a screen right now. You can turn off most of the things and i believe this is fine at the price they’re selling at, but i would love to see more like watch faces, customization that i just mentioned. Maybe just the colors will be fine and integration with the health app would be super, but probably the most important setting here is the message notice option where you can customize, which notification goes to your watch and which will not. Here we have some chinese messaging apps. Facebook, twitter, whatsapp and most popular social media app but that’s about it. Everything else will be tucked in the very buttons at other notification setting and you basically have no control over that. Even when your phone is on do not disturb the watch will vibrate, and this could get annoying sometimes because the only way that i can turn that notification off is to disable it entirely. From my phone look i’m not mad at halo for not being able to provide deeper customization, maybe this is ios’s limitation or i’m sure other smart watches, even more expensive ones, will also do the same thing. At the very least, i know that the mi bands do and it’s just that, coming from an apple watch, i do enjoy the ability to set a specific person as my favorites, and only a set of very specific apps that i deem super important that could vibrate My watch and really get my attention the rest can just go to so you have to understand that this is a fairly basic smartwatch with basic notification, settings and features and you’ll be fine.
My only real gripe here is the do not disturb setting on the watch. It does not seem to do anything notifications still pop up and they still vibrate. Did i tell you not to disturb me, so i ask you this question again. What do you want to do with a smartwatch if it’s, to have a little thing that vibrates, when you got a phone call or a message, then it can track your exercises, sleep heart rate. This will do a perfectly fine job, but if you want more than that, you want to actually answer calls without reaching for your phone. You want to dictate a reply to a message. You want only a specific set of people who can vibrate your watch. You want all these health datas to be integrated with the health app. Then this is not for you, but considering the low low price of 20 bucks, absolutely no one can fault this. The build quality and the fact that it works already makes it worth it, and then it can last you up to a whole freaking month, it’s just insane stuff. I recommend it all the way way more than a mii bands, honestly, because i prefer more screen real estate, so i can read my notifications easier, but what about you? Let me know down in the comments below what do you think about the halo ls02 compared to the previous gen, the ls01. This got improved on the battery life, which is so great and the halo solar it’s similar to this, but it has a round design.
So if you like that better get that, but in general all the halo, smart watches are basically the same thing on the inside it’s, a basic notification machine, it’s, a health tracker and a watch. If that sounds like the watch, you want well check out the links in description and help me support the channel. Okay, that is it for the video don’t hesitate to leave a comment. If you have more questions or suggestions hit the thumbs up. If you haven’t subscribe or watch my channel intro first i’ll link it up here. If you want to know more about me – and you can also follow me on instagram and twitter i’m at namecan to know more about my everyday life.jzkFu9jSW60