After Fitbit unleashed its new product line-up few days, Jawbone went live with a duo of new activity trackers of its own: the flagship Jawbone UP3 and mid range Jawbone UP MOVE. Jawbone is fairly well known for its Up fitness band and one of the few companies that does sleep tracking well. Jawbone's fitness bands take a totally different approach than recent fitness watches and super-smart smartwatches do: you're not meant to interact with them. The older Jawbone Up and Up24 were like that, and so is the new Up3. Its job is to collect data, sense things and send you to your phone for the rest.
With sensor technology from BodyMedia purchase, Jawbone has crafted an all-day activity tracker that appears more refined than most of its competitors. Slimmer than Microsoft's recently announced Band, its sensors go deeper than Jawbone has ever gone before. Perhaps most significantly, it features heart rate monitoring that may actually work consistently. It packs a raft of biomimpedance sensors that are capable of recording a wealth of data, including perspiration, body mass index, hydration and your breathing - so Jawbone potentially has unprecedented personal body data on its, or rather your, hands.
The Jawbone UP3's sensors will also measure the resistance of tissue and blood flow from your wrist to gauge your resting heart rate, with the tracker automatically taking a reading just after you wake up. Jawbone claims that an over-the-air firmware update will arrive soon after launch for UP3 users that will enable further health data to be captured.
The Jawbone Up3 band is meant to be a general lifestyle coach, not a hard-core fitness tracker. It's meant to do more as it collects data over days, weeks, even months. You're meant to kick back, live with it, let it understand you. It will costs $180 in US and £150 in UK.
With sensor technology from BodyMedia purchase, Jawbone has crafted an all-day activity tracker that appears more refined than most of its competitors. Slimmer than Microsoft's recently announced Band, its sensors go deeper than Jawbone has ever gone before. Perhaps most significantly, it features heart rate monitoring that may actually work consistently. It packs a raft of biomimpedance sensors that are capable of recording a wealth of data, including perspiration, body mass index, hydration and your breathing - so Jawbone potentially has unprecedented personal body data on its, or rather your, hands.
The Jawbone UP3's sensors will also measure the resistance of tissue and blood flow from your wrist to gauge your resting heart rate, with the tracker automatically taking a reading just after you wake up. Jawbone claims that an over-the-air firmware update will arrive soon after launch for UP3 users that will enable further health data to be captured.
The Jawbone Up3 band is meant to be a general lifestyle coach, not a hard-core fitness tracker. It's meant to do more as it collects data over days, weeks, even months. You're meant to kick back, live with it, let it understand you. It will costs $180 in US and £150 in UK.
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