Yamay Fitness Tracker
Introduction
The Yamay Fitness tracker is one of several low cost fitness trackers on the market and I’ve been pleasantly surprised with its features and capabilities.
I got the opportunity to review this fitness tracker recently and the timing was perfect. My name brand tracker’s battery was starting to fail and I was missing activities, as I was not in the habit of charging it every other day. It was my second basic tracker and battery failure seemed to be occurring just over the two year point. Now that’s not necessarily bad, it’s just that if that’s the typical lifespan I figured giving one of the low cost trackers a try would be worth the less than half-priced cost.
Fitness Tracker Features
The Yamay fitness tracker has a couple of neat features. One is the charging process. Instead of a USB port the tracker has a USB A style plug that in normally covered by the band. To charge this little tracker, you simply pull of the band and plug it into a typical cell phone wall wort style charger. This lack of a charging port also allows the tracker to have a degree of water resistance.
The other is the small sensor on the face of the tracker to cycle through the variable choices and start and stop activity iterations such as a run or bike ride with a long press. Again, since it’s in the face and is not a physical button, water resistance is enhanced.
Last, I was pleased to see a pair of sensors on the back of the tracker to monitor your heart rate. Personally, I wouldn’t trust this as a medical device, but as a trend tracker it should be helpful.
Fitness Tracker App
This tracker makes use of a common technique to manage fairly complicated devices without mounting all sorts of controls on them. That, of course, is using a Bloothtooth connection to a smart phone app. In this case, the Yamay tracker uses the Very Fit Pro app available on the app store and Google Play.
The app is easy to use and provides easy-to-understand displays of the data that’s collected. You can share data with others so be mindful of the end user agreement and privacy policies.
Besides seeing graphs of your activities, you can also set a number of parameters for your tracker. You can set your step length and aerobic fitness zone to add accuracy to your workouts. You can also change the standard three activities in the fitness tracker to any of several other categories such as dance, yoga and treadmill instead of the walk, bike and run categories that come loaded.
Additionally, you can also set wake alarms, movement alarms and have your tracker buzz when you get a text or call on your paired smartphone.
Closing
So far, I’m impressed with the Yamay fitness tracker. It feels good on my wrist and the on-board controls are easy to use. With the extra features on the app, you can get good trend information and set specific variables such as step length to fine-tune the results.
My first battery charge allowed me to use the app for about 10 days before putting it back on the charger. I thought that was really good. I wasn’t recording a bunch of individual activities, just daily steps for the most part, but at least on the first charge, the battery held it’s charge longer than advertised.
If you’ve watched other reviews and tutorials on my channel you know I try to focus on low priced but not low quality gadgets. With a price that’s less than half the cost of the basic name-brand tracker, even if it fails after a year, I’m still money ahead based on my two to two and a half year product life experience of the name brand trackers.
If you’re considering trying out a fitness tracker, the Yamay tracker is a great choice.