The Amazon Halo has been out for less than a year, but we’re already looking forward to what an Amazon Halo 2 could improve on.
The Amazon Halo launched in late 2020 with a surprising pitch: it’s a fitness wearable without a screen, haptic vibration, or any feedback whatsoever. Instead, the band passively tracks data and routes it through a paired phone app, an approach we found effective enough, but not without obvious drawbacks we’d like to see fixed in an Amazon Halo 2. To be clear, Amazon hasn’t confirmed whether it will release a Halo 2 device, nor have we heard rumors that the company is developing a follow-up device. When we do, we’ll post that info here – along with details about possibly similar devices the company might be developing instead, which we expect to hear about during the upcoming Amazon Fall Showcase at the end of September. In the meantime, we’ve thought about the original Amazon Halo’s strengths and weaknesses to come up with a list of what we want to see in an Amazon Halo 2. Read on for our thoughts on what the shipping titan’s next device could look like. The original Amazon Halo launched in December 2020, so it hasn’t even been on the shelves for a full year, and we wouldn’t expect a sequel device to land before the end of 2021. We haven’t heard any rumors about a possible Amazon Halo 2 release date, either, though we could get more information during the Amazon Fall Showcase happening at the end of September. Likewise, we haven’t heard any rumors surrounding the Amazon Halo 2 price, let alone any hints at potential new features that could lead to a higher price than its predecessor. The original Amazon Halo is priced at $99 (around £75 / AU$130), which seems rather high for a wearable without a screen. The Halo is properly titled the Amazon Halo Band to set it apart from the Amazon Halo service, a subscription-based offering that enabled the Band’s full suite of features, tracking, and workouts on the paired app.
