Fitness band Star 21 review

As we told you a few days ago, we have been testing the fitness band "Star.21", from the Oaxis brand, a bracelet with a very clear objective; improve our lives by helping us to be more active.

After testing it for a few days quite intensively, I have been able to see how it behaves under various situations and to what extent it is useful or true what its creators promise, and these have been my conclusions.

Review:

First of all, let's review "What do they sell us?": Star.21, as we mentioned in the previous article, is a fitness bracelet, it is important to highlight this since it is different from the bracelets we are used to until now , that is, this bracelet will not notify us of our notifications, it does not allow us to interact with the phone, it is only there to fulfill its function, which in this case, is to help us maintain a more active life.

Star.21 claims to be the mentor of our routine, with small touches of attention this bracelet will help us to get up on time, to complete a minimum of daily steps with a goal of progressive difficulty, to go to sleep at a time that suits us that is, healthy for our body and to improve the quality of our sleep.

As you already know what functions it has, and even its technical specifications (and if you can't read it in our previous article) I will go directly to give you my opinion.

Benefits for our life

At first everything is a bit confusing, the bracelet is practically useless the first 3 days since it does not allow you to set goals or anything else than to read the data it receives, but everything changes from the third day, since it gets an idea of how you are in your day to day and make some recommendations based on it.

In general, I am a person who finds it difficult to go to sleep and not even talk to get up, however I have to say that he does his homework, be wandering in front of the computer around 12 at night and just when that time comes … Bang.

It's like you ever have someone who sends you to bed, your arm begins to vibrate and does not stop, it does not let you concentrate on anything, you have to tell it that you are going to sleep so that it stops and leaves you alone, and not only that, or you do it or it will know, as the bracelet detects movement in your wrists will realize that you have fooled him and again to vibrate, it is definitely a warning that we cannot ignore, and it forces us to consider folding everything and going to rest.

(You can set the time you want to go to sleep and what days you want it to be activated).

Get up It is another, as I have said it costs me a lot, well, I come from a Pebble like the one that says, that is, until now my alarm was a Pebble and its exaggerated vibration motor that hit me every jolt in the morning…. The Star.21, however, goes unnoticed, it is strange, it wakes you up in a gentle way, its vibration is much lower but be careful! Do not think that it is not even noticeable, you wake up and you do not even know why.

The best of all is that you do not have to press any button, it alone stops vibrating after a few seconds, and if you have not woken up (because you are a deep sleeper) it will know it and it will return to the load, it is simply impressive, we return to The first thing is to have someone there next to you who screams at you to get up.

Walk; On the fourth day, in the application, the route is activated until we reach our goal, a route in which we will see small points covering a path, each of them is one day, and each day the goal is higher. You can start with a goal of 10.000 steps and end with about 50.000 or more (depending on your habits it will always go up) and making it impossible to achieve it, this is thanks to "gamification", a term used for the action of putting achievements or reward systems based on effort, in this case, each X objectives achieved will allow us to share an achievement on our social networks.

I do not walk a lot, which I have to change, and having a line on my wrist that reminds me how little I have left to reach the daily goal is sufficient motivation to think «come on, take a walk and you will arrive, no it costs so much », you get stupidly increasing the number of daily steps you take, and all this is reflected, both in our health (better resistance and fitness due to activity) and in our sleep (we will go more tired to the bed and sleep better).

As a bracelet itself

As an accessory it goes unnoticed, when you wear it, few people ask you until you press the button and the LEDs turn on, then people are amazed and ask you, it is a bearable, beautiful (if you like the color you choose) and modern accessory, we carry both a fashion accessory and a gadget on our wrist, a personal trainer that nobody but us will know.

You can use it while you shower, wash your hands, bathe on the beach or in the pool, do whatever it takes (except diving and themes of a little depth). This bracelet is IPX7 certified, this allows you to submerge up to 1 meter for half an hour, it is exactly the same certification as the Apple Watch.

Regarding the issue of charging it, I'll be honest, I charged it on the 20th, but because I thought I needed it, because in the application I still had a 50% battery, so I charged it 1 or 2 times a month It is not a problem, especially when you have it full in an hour.

Application

The application is complete, has a quite beautiful design and smooth and elegant animations, yes, it is outdated, no compatibility with HealthKit, it lacks a bit of optimization, an interface more adapted to the new iPhone 6 and 6+, older Fluency and a more orientation towards us, let me explain, when you register (you must do it), you have to choose a social network, Sina Weibo or Facebook, the postcards are also from places that are far away, nothing from Spain, everything from China , Japan and a few other countries (postcards represent well-known sites).

But even so, it has statistics of all kinds, it tells you from the steps you have taken to the hours in which you have been most active, the month or day that you have walked the most and the station in which you have taken the most steps. With sleep the same, our data ranges from our sleep cycles, through our hours of light sleep and deep sleep, to how many hours we have slept in a specific week or month. All very detailed and with a lot of precise information (compared to the iPhone 6 and its M8 motion co-processor, the difference in steps usually varies between 200 a day, an insignificant amount in the statistics).

Conclusion

If you want a smart bracelet that can interact with your phone and inform you of notifications and others, this is not your bracelet, you have the Xiaomi MiBand.

If you are an athlete Naturally, you do gazillions of kilometers a day (?) and you are already very active, this is not your bracelet, you have options like Garmin, Sony or others.

If you are a ordinary person (I'm not saying that those above are not) of the lot, who do not know how many steps they take, who would like to take better control of their life and start taking healthier habits, this is your bracelet, it will help you your goal and who knows, perhaps when he has managed to educate you to be more active, you can transfer it to another person and thus help him to take control of his routine.

As for the where can you buy... In Spain I see it difficult, I have contacted those responsible and I have asked them for more information on this particular issue, as soon as I have it I will inform you in this article, for now you can search online in your trusted sites or even in Wallapop or Ebay, that surely there will be people who sell them.