Stefan Mileschin

Good tracking for €38.57

Makibes is not a big established brand in the bushel of smart fitness trackers but the company managed to make an affordable, connected, GPS smart band and price it for under 40 Euro / $44 USD.

Most more expensive devices including Fitbit don’t come with an integrated GPS and this is the feature to look for, as with integrated GPS you can get much more accurate fitness cores including distance and elevation. This is what most people are after and you won’t need to have your phone connected to get the accurate distance.

The package looks rather appealing and apart from the Makibes G03 Plus smartband, the company is shipping a short manual and a USB charging cradle dock.

Makibes G03 Plus uses a proprietary OS and shows the scores on the 0.96-inch slightly curved 128x64 pixel color TFT. It comes with a 230 mAh lithium polymer battery and packs a pedometer, heart rate sensor and GPS.

If you want the list of all features it includes the pedometer, trajectory, speed, pace, heart rate analysis, mileage, calorie, exercise time, laps, swimming feature, cycling, running, climbing, ball games, smart notifications. That sounds about right and lets not forget that it comes with IP67 waterproof rating and should withstand underwater conditions up to two meters.

The battery will allow 120 hours stand by time and many days of non-connected use and if you turn the GPS and use always on heartrate, you will get to 6-7 hours always on GPS performance. With GPS on during fitness activities and with always on Bluetooth connection to your smartphone you can expect up to three days of use.

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