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Healbe GoBe review: Can a fitness band really track your calorie intake?

Posted on May 7, 2015April 28, 2020 By Hulk

In 2015, a simple activity-tracking wearable just doesn’t cut it. Unless, perhaps, it’s cool-looking, or dirt cheap. Being able to keep tabs on how active you’ve been (or not) is certainly helpful; the problem is it’s only one part of the picture. A fitness tracker might know I hustled my way through a 5K run this morning, but it doesn’t know about the waffle-mania breakfast I enjoyed straight after. Some products work around this by letting you log your food intake. I’m prone to “forgetting” to log my meals, though, including the guilty, post-run carb-fest breakfasts. The dream fitness wearable, then, would be one that tracks your activity, auto-logs your sleep and knows what you’ve eaten without you telling it. Enter GoBe, by Healbe, a $300 wearable that promises to do exactly that.

 

  

 

PROS

  • Excellent sleep tracking
  • All-day heart rate tracking
  • Slick, easy-to-use app

CONS

  • Calorie counting — the device’s signature feature — doesn’t work as promised
  • Bulky design
  • Poor battery life
SUMMARY If Healbe can demonstrably improve the calorie-counting abilities of GoBe, it would be the health product of the year — even with poor battery life. Improve that too, and it’s health device of the decade. Unfortunately, while those problems persist, it’s just a $300 activity tracker in an already competitive market.
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https://www.engadget.com/2015-02-09-healbe-gobe-review.html
Wearables Tags:app, fitness, fitness tracker, gobe, Healbe, health, review, tracker, wearable

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