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Always On - Fitbit Flex vs. Jawbone Up

2013-06-18
we need last word before we start other than don't die hey the mud be with you oh good one those are good words are good oh thank you nice so I have the first aid kit in my bag no I love you guys aware of this but it's there's no air 8,000 feet you know what hey there's mud I missed the mud you got some right here The Revenge go check out yellow right here design-wise the Fitbit flex is great it's super low profile it's really actually pretty attractive you would wear it in public and it's very lightweight and easy to wear my biggest complaint about it design wise is that it's not a watch so it has this kind of hieroglyphic dot thing for when you want to see what's going on but that's all it does and you wear it on your watch risks which kind of bug me the clap on this thing is ridiculous it's sort of this weird piece of plastic and you have to shove two pieces through two other pieces it's really hard to get on you will guarantee her your thumb trying to get it on there it's just sort of a weird design and frankly it feels a little bit cheap I don't know why they didn't spring for something better so the Fitbit has always kind of been the most full-featured fitness tracker this one's no different i mean the fact that it tracks your steps your calories and your sleep and then gives you all of that data and these kind of cool charts so that you can really get a pattern over time it's probably the most useful of the fitness bands in that way and I have to say I've got a little obsessed with the sleep tracker especially and that app is nicely designed I like the way it lays out data I just wish it synced with more android phones well I have to say despite there being no clasp and it's only on here very gingerly the jawbone stayed on my wrist throughout the entire mud run that's pretty impressive now the bad news is it's hard to be able to test to see if the fig still lives I can put it into sleep mode by holding down the only button that this thing has so now that thinks I'm going to sleep I have no idea any of the data right now I have no idea how close I am to my goal today four steps taken or how I did with my sleep pattern the only way to find that out is to plug that into my phone and there's no way I'm gonna be doing that while this thing is still muddy Oh Wow so we're all showered up yes I feel something when us and we're synced we synced our bands with our phones and the apps evidently I moved 13,000 274 steps today see I think that's kinda interesting cuz i move 13,000 333 I mean that's Wow pretty much a wash like yeah and we were together most of the day so it seems pretty accurate accurate so all in all I mean I would say these are performed pretty well for us but what are your impressions of the jawbone up and you will I don't like the look of it I mean I think there are probably people that would like the fact that it doesn't look like a technology device for me it looks like a silly bracelet that I'm wearing that people keep commenting on and asking you but with the bracelet with a weird look in their eye and I can so no no no it's a it's tracking my activity today cuz it doesn't look like tech all in all you know as much as this did perform for me it's comfortable it's attractive I feel like if the FuelBand is still on the table it's only thirty dollars more than these guys and you get a watch you get kind of a cool sort of retro readout I to me that's a more full-featured more game ified half that's actually ultimately more motivating I have to agree so by or do not buy for me it's a do not buy if you're somebody that really doesn't want to look like you're wearing technology on your wrist and you like the look of this you might want to consider it I feel like if it came down to these two the flex for me would be the x but like I said fuel band is on the table I'm going feel bad me too you
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