The new band looks almost exactly like the old one, but now it only comes in black and a dusty orange persimmon color. The design is pretty comfortable; the only time I ever found it cumbersome was the first time I slept with it on, but it took me just one night to get used to it. It coils around your wrist and has the main power button on one end, and a removable cap on the other that hides the plug for charging via an included USB adaptor. You only need to plug the Up24 in every 7 to 10 days when you need more power.
Wireless syncing is the only technical difference between the Up24 and the previous model, but it makes all the difference. After I put on the band for the first time, I forgot about it for days as it worked in the background of my life, which is exactly what Jawbone needed to do. Currently the Jawbone app is only iOS compatible, but Jawbone tells me an Android version will be released in early It shows your sleep and activity scores on the home page, displayed as percentages of your set goal.
I never remembered waking up, but having the Up24 tell me I did helped me understand why I was tired the next morning, and helped me decide how much earlier I should go to sleep the next night to catch up. Personally, when I saw one day that my longest active time was 30 minutes and my longest idle time was 59 minutes, I wanted to walk around my office to bring up my active time.
And at the end of the day, my activity numbers alone were enough to make me feel victorious or defeated. The only activities you have to input yourself are workouts. The list of exercises you can track is similar to any workout app, tracking cross training, weight lifting, cardio workouts, and Pilates.
But during my elliptical workout, I was surprised that both the Up24 and the elliptical reported a similar number of calories burned. I was not expecting a tracker and an exercise machine to give me comparable numbers; exercise machines have been known to be notoriously inaccurate. Koepp told me that devices now have the ability to be 90 percent accurate when calculating caloric expenditure, so while those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, they can be a measurement of success.
These cards help the Up24 do something much better than similar devices: telling you what to do with your data. In this sense, Up24 is trying in a small way to be more than just a tracker. Most people will not have the initiative, or the time, to look up what the next step could be to make them healthier.
Its rubbery matte finish looks like a Livestrong bracelet, and its dot LED display can easily be read in full daylight and is even faster to scroll through than the previous model. Its snap closure can be a little tricky — it sometimes pinched my skin — but it does come in three sizes so you can get the best fit for your wrist. From the desktop software, you can set goals, reminders, and all your personal information, and then pair your FuelBand with the mobile app.
The entire FuelBand experience has an athletic feel. You have the option to see smaller bits of scientific data, but the point of Fuel is to simply be a bar you have to raise every day. Nike also claims the FuelBand can recognize different activities by using its accelerometer to detect motion on three different axes.
The activity choices, however, show how sports-focused the device is. Then I tried to report my run as a basketball session, but the Fuel points and the number of calories burned were the same.
I thought this would be easy to achieve at first, but my regular office activities like getting up to go to the restroom and walking to see the video team one floor down were not enough to win hours.
The most successful attempt I had was going out to buy lunch, and even then I had to take my time. A sleep session tells you when you fell asleep, when you woke up, and how many Fuel points you gained during the night.
They both spoke, but I only really listened to one. You simply wear it on your designated wrist all the time and let it do its thing. Initial setup needs to be done via computer using the integrated USB connector, which charges the band in the process. It is worth noting that the setup procedure is browser-based, and that I had issues on one computer getting the Nike site to respond properly. That could be to do with the locked-down nature of the machine, as it worked fine on another computer, but it would be nice to have the option of setting up the FuelBand via the smartphone app rather than having to rely on a computer.
Once up and running, you can press the button to cycle through your readout, including calories burnt, steps taken and your Fuel activity rating. A quick double-press of the button instantly shows the time, which makes it relatively easy to use instead of a watch. Press the button once more and you initiate a countdown to set you going.
The same activity tagging system can be used to track your sleep too, although the sleep tracking features of the FuelBand SE are very limited compared to most competing activity trackers like the Misfit Shine or Fitbit One. Charging the FuelBand takes just over an hour via the USB connector, while Nike has improved the water resistance of the SE enough so that you can wear it without fear of breaking it with sweat or in the shower.
Nike has also reinforced the circuitry within the band so that it can take more abuse from your vigorous workouts or sporting activities without breaking compared to the original FuelBand. Via the site you can tag your activities, see your progress and chart your Fuel usage over the day, week or month.
You can also share your activity with friends, compare your stats and set up competitions between fellow FuelBand owners. Nike states that the poor state of Bluetooth 4. Google recently rectified that state of affairs with Android 4. You can forget about a Windows phone or BlackBerry app too, unfortunately. The iPhone FuelBand app is fairly intuitive and will periodically sync in the background with your FuelBand SE as long as you have Bluetooth switched on. You can also force a sync for instant updates, and then view your activity on small interactive graphs to see how you're doing.
Once one person hits their goal, whatever that might be, the rest of the group can be notified to pile on the praise.
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