It’s official: Amazon is sunsetting the Halo fitness tracker. The news came as quite a surprise to loyal users like myself who have come to rely on the device as part of our daily fitness routines.

It’s been over a year since I started using the Amazon Halo fitness band. It’s a good time interval to reevaluate and comment on whether my assessment of the fitness tracker made a year ago still holds.

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At the beginning of last year, my Oura fitness ring died on me for the second time within 26 months, just outside of the warranty period of twelve months, which meant that Oura wouldn’t replace it this time.