The Misfit Shine is
a £50 tracker that feels anything but cheap: a sliver of silver
aircraft-grade aluminium to make Apple fans jealous, its metallic shell
packs smarts as sleek as its exterior.
Whether you wrist-mount the Misfit or attach it to yourself with its silicone magnet strap – not the strongest of fixing solutions, but mighty stylish – the Shine generally tracks accurately, except when its stuck to your shirt.
What’s more, the Shine is far and away the best budget bounding buddy to use as a standalone solution. A quick double-tap on its top brings up an array of white lights on the clock-like display that show your progress as a percentage of a circle, followed by pulsing lights to indicate the time. Like an Audi’s headlights, they’re striking because they’re subtle – and that light-on-metal contrast is majestically magnificent.
Best of all, Misfit hasn’t sacrificed substance in its delivery of style. The Shine is fully waterproof, so it has the smarts to be a swimming sensor, as well as a range of activity tracking options activated with a quick triple–tap.
The only niggle is that triple-tap tagging is a pre-determined process. Sure, it’s simple, but you have to tell the app what the tag should mean before you hop on your bike or start pounding the pavement – and sleep mode comes under the same option. That said, exercises are easily re-assigned after the fact, so selection isn’t such a chore.
We’re less keen on the Misfit app and its focus on filling your daily points circle, and discovering in-depth data requires a bit of delving – but that’s a minor downside for such a sterling piece of pedestrian kit.
Whether you wrist-mount the Misfit or attach it to yourself with its silicone magnet strap – not the strongest of fixing solutions, but mighty stylish – the Shine generally tracks accurately, except when its stuck to your shirt.
What’s more, the Shine is far and away the best budget bounding buddy to use as a standalone solution. A quick double-tap on its top brings up an array of white lights on the clock-like display that show your progress as a percentage of a circle, followed by pulsing lights to indicate the time. Like an Audi’s headlights, they’re striking because they’re subtle – and that light-on-metal contrast is majestically magnificent.
Best of all, Misfit hasn’t sacrificed substance in its delivery of style. The Shine is fully waterproof, so it has the smarts to be a swimming sensor, as well as a range of activity tracking options activated with a quick triple–tap.
The only niggle is that triple-tap tagging is a pre-determined process. Sure, it’s simple, but you have to tell the app what the tag should mean before you hop on your bike or start pounding the pavement – and sleep mode comes under the same option. That said, exercises are easily re-assigned after the fact, so selection isn’t such a chore.
We’re less keen on the Misfit app and its focus on filling your daily points circle, and discovering in-depth data requires a bit of delving – but that’s a minor downside for such a sterling piece of pedestrian kit.
Stuff says: ★★★★✩
A top fitness tracker going for less than £50. What's not to like?
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