It dries quickly in the air or with a wipe of the towel. I don't wear a wristwatch on a regular basis, and when I do the strap is made from steel or leather. I found Up's rubbery texture to be mildly annoying, especially at first. The rubber can be sticky resulting in a slight but noticeable tug at the skin and hairs around the wrist, especially when the sweat begins to flow during a working out. In general though, I found Up to be comfortable enough that I rarely noticed it except when it would stick inside a shirt sleeve while getting dressed.
I also have to slide it up my wrist whenever placing my hands on the palm rest of my laptop. Up's anatomy benefits from the miniaturization of sensors, batteries, and motors driven by demand for smaller and smaller smartphones. Beneath the rubber epidermis you'll find a high-tech carcass made from a built-in 10 day Li-ion rechargeable battery, a vibration motor for alarms, and a motion sensor. At one end of the band is a square multifunction button for putting Up in activity, sleep, or workout modes.
Press-and-hold to switch between active and sleep modes; or press then press-and-hold to go into workout mode. Two indicator lights — a blue moon sleep and star red when charging, green when in activity mode, or flashing green when in workout mode — are neatly integrated into Up's skin and illuminate briefly to confirm your selection.
Unfortunately, while the lights are easily seen in the gym, they are nearly invisible when outside in the sunlight. Now, about that cap It's my guess that at some point in time you're going to lose the 3. I remove and plug the Up into my iPhone three or four times a day: one in the morning to see how I slept, once or twice during the day to check my activity, and a final time at night to see how my overall day looked.
That's three or four opportunities to lose the cap. Eventually, you will lose it, I'd put money on it. Fortunately, unlike the Fitbit device which can inadvertently pop off your belt and disappear like mine did , the Up wristband itself is not likely to fall off your wrist without you knowing about it. If you haven't figured it out already, the Up mates directly with the audio jack of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
It doesn't charge via the jack, naturally, but it will manually sync with the free Up iOS application. It also support the iPad and iPad 2 but the Up app isn't formatted to take advantage of the iPad's larger screen. It does support the iPod Touch 4th generation and above but the GPS functions in the app are limited.
Oh, and as a bonus, the Up also makes a decent video viewing stand just as long as you don't mind listening to your video through the on-board speaker. Up integrates the same Fullpower-MotionX engine already found in Jawbone's Era motion-controlled headset. It's this internal software that allows Up to make sense of the data collected by its motion sensor, converting it into steps, distance, calories burned, pace, intensity level and active versus inactive time.
You sync data off the Up by attaching its 3. The iOS app is free but not all that intuitive even though it features the kind of UI polish you'd expect from a Jawbone product. Unfortunately, the polish is applied to a thin veneer — the app feels very much like a 1.
In portrait mode you can see a segmented view of your sleep, activity, and meals. Rotating your device into the horizontal presents you with a detailed view of each segment ordered chronologically in a timeline. I ran into a bug more than once, where nothing would display on the landscape timeline until I swiped the screen. There's more finicky behavior if you tap the screen in portrait mode, as doing so will force the display into landscape. The only way to return it to portrait is to rotate the phone 90 degrees in one direction and 90 degrees back.
One of Up's potentially hyperbolic features is the programmable Smart alarm. Jawbone claims that Up "wakes you at the best possible moment in your natural sleep cycle.
The battery provides the power and can last several days. The motion sensor detects changes in acceleration. Acceleration has two components: speed and direction. If an objection in motion experiences a change in either speed or direction, it has a change in acceleration. Motion sensors detect these changes through tiny electromechanical elements. A basic solid-state accelerometer looks like a sandwich. The outer layers are capacitance plates carrying an electric charge. In between the plates is a weight suspended between them.
When the entire sensor is still, the weight rests between the two plates. But in motion, forces act on the weight, which will move toward one plate and away from another.
As the weight draws closer to one plate, its capacitance increases. The other plate experiences a decrease in capacitance. The sensor registers this as movement. As you move over time, the weight continues to shift, causing more changes in the capacitance of the plates in the sensor. The sensor analyzes the data and converts it into information useful to you, including how many steps you've taken and an estimation of the number of calories you've burned. The UP wristband doesn't have a display.
To get a look at all that precious fitness data, you'll need to connect the UP to an iPhone , iPad or iPod touch -- as of this writing, an Android app is in development. Plugging the TRS plug into your device's headphone jack does the trick. But how can a headphone plug transmit data? One of the most common uses of the 3. But that's not the only type of data that can travel through a TRS plug. The TRS plug is made up of three conductors called the tip, ring and sleeve.
When plugged into an appropriate jack, these three conductors make contact with three contact points. This allows for the transfer of data in the form of analog signals. Data can travel in either direction along a TRS plug. When you plug in your headphones, data from your device travels through the plug up the wire to the speakers in your headphones. The speakers convert the data from electricity into sound. The app accepts the data and translates it into a form that's easy to understand such as how many steps you've taken or calories you've burned.
The app also lets you pair your device's abilities with the UP. For example, the iPhone has a GPS receiver inside it.
When going for a jog outside, you can set your app to use the iPhone's GPS receiver to track your position during an activity. Through the app, you can elect to share your progress with others via the Jawbone UP site, or keep it all to yourself. Using a fitness tracker to count steps is a good measure of activity for people who play other games too.
Through the UP app, you can compete with friends and family to see who is the most active. You can also challenge yourself by timing your activities. To do this, you click on the UP Move's face. I usually forgot to do this before I started playing, but it doesn't matter too much — the app still graphs your activity throughout the day, and shows when you were most active.
For instance, after an afternoon of playing ultimate Frisbee, the app told me I accomplished 19, steps, the equivalent of 9. It's debatable how well the sensors in fitness trackers can monitor people's sleep, but the UP Move aims to categorize your sleep as "light" or "sound," depending on how much you move.
You have to remember to put the tracker into sleep mode, so it's not automatic like the LifeTrak Brite R although our reviewer found the Brite R had problems monitoring sleep at night. I don't like wearing a wristband at night, so I clipped the UP Move to my pajamas when I went to bed. The app also gives you tips about how to manage your health, such as citing a study from the U.
National Institutes of Health on how camping in the wilderness helps you get away from artificial light and reset your circadian rhythm. The tidbits are cute, but with my busy schedule, I haven't made the time to follow the institute's advice. I did have one complaint: I'm used to wearing a wristwatch, and like seeing the time in a glance.
Sometimes I would click it twice, and the screen would give my step percentage instead, so it seems that the device doesn't always respond as it should. It's useful having a pedometer that shows how well you're meeting your goals. I learned from the device that I usually don't move enough during the week unless I walk home or hit the gym after work. It's also fun to check your steps throughout the day, and I found myself clicking on the UP Move after I walked around the city or ran errands.
But in a wristwatch, all the important innards are localized in one spot—behind the watch face. With the Up, the goods are present throughout the band. The redesigned band is built to be considerably more flexible, with extra give for the chips on the inside. The company now tests the Up with dunk tests not just in water, but in soapy water, shampoo, and even booze.
But I did it, and my Up continues to work great. A tiny integrated LED lights up very briefly to indicate that the Up is now in sleep mode. But the most important ones are a time window during which the Up can wake you silently by vibrating , and—in daytime mode—its ability to vibrate after an extended period of inactivity to remind you to get moving again.
My one knock on the band is the aforementioned cap and plug. Jawbone is a company with years of expertise in Bluetooth; the Up is the only shipping Jawbone product that lacks Bluetooth integration. Not the Up. Jawbone stresses that your Up must be dry before you do this.
Syncing takes only a couple seconds with the Up plugged into the iPhone. To make the annoyance worse, the tiny cap detaches completely. Beyond syncing, the integrated Up plug is also used for charging. You get 10 days of battery life on a full charge; a full charge from empty takes 80 minutes.
The Up app is actually quite lovely. You get beautiful, tappable charts showing your steps taken over time each day.
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