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jawbone announced the up three and a press release way back in November of 2014 today on job One's website that's claiming to be the world's most advanced activity tracker offering multi-platform sensors including a new accelerometer a bio impedance sensor to measure heart rates and more on that a little bit later skin and ambient temperature readings and the list goes on now it wasn't until recently that the up three is available for the general public now I've put all those fancy words aside and really see how this fits our lifestyle in the real world that is what I want to do is put all those pros and cons away from what we heard so far and that's all those delays all that hype and we'll get down to what is truly available today I have been talking with internal members of jawbone to gain a better understanding and addressing some of the issues I'm sure we all have questions about especially the heart rate readings now as always visit my website for reviews on activity band and other consumer products I'm Jimmy wood Jim's review room comm and I'm here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to another review going over the physical features first if you read or watch my job on up to review the band is almost identical it's offering very smooth with hypoallergenic TPU rubber now on the inside of the band are your sensing electrodes and besides the casing up top this is the only thing that's different from the up two and I have a section dedicated to heart rate tracking and the sensors later in this review but regarding the band it's a very subtle look very narrow it is a one size that fits all and it's really easy to wear even with long sleeve shirts now regarding comfort the up to is comfortable to wear right out of the box the addition of sensors on the up three however made for a slightly uncomfortable first couple of days now since the sensors do create a slightly firm contact point this did leave some red marks or right on my wrists Goblin says to wear this not tight but snugged and by doing so it did cause some discomfort ever so slightly now loosening this did help and the sensors are still reading my pulse and steps accurately and today and for the rest of the month wearing it at a more comfortable level despite leaving these indentations in the skin here there's no more discomfort for me so be mindful your experience may vary now regarding the class pier just like in the up to that loops through the bottom and slide into a movable latch it works well for adjusting to your wrist size but because it's not a true locking mechanism it's really held on by tension actually the clasp will undo itself if brushed accidentally against your shirt or your body again once you do wear the snug then it stays on your wrist pretty well they run after and the last physical piece here the touch sensitivity I've found to be fine for me and from my experiences you tap twice to activate the device and once it blinks you hold your next touch and this will switch between being awake or tell the band to start tracking or sleep the band also vibrates as a silent of vibrating alarm to wake you up without bothering or significant other or roommate here and the vibrations can remind you of any alerts that needs noticing all set up through the app the band will also vibrates giving you a friendly reminder to get up and move if you have been inactive for an hour or more and again all those anfor mention times can be adjusted which I'll show you once we get into the software side of things now this isn't necessarily a flaw here but kind of a down you can say since Javon did confirm initially this would be wearable for swimmers due to the manufacturing issues jawbone has stated this is only splash sweat and shower proof you just can't submerge the band in water and we're in this in the shower proved perfectly fine in regards to build quality but because of the water hitting the touch surface the band does go in and out of being active and in sleep mode from time to time so with all that being said here the most unbiased and fair answer that I can provide here the first several days when you do get the band you're trying to find the right fit meant you might find the tapping cumbersome as well and the clasp may be of an issue it's clearly not intuitive right away and it's not so great for first impressions but after giving it some time the band does hold on the band works of course here and the band is then comfortable it honestly just takes time which is kind of tough as products for the average consumer should be able to be picked up and used right away but let's get away from the physical band here and start looking into what I think is one of the best all-around activity apps available and also get into the HR stuff as well here's the jawbone app and what it has to offer the main page consists of two main tabs purple is for sleeping and orange is for steps the green one that I have here is if you decide to log in your food intake which I'll show you shortly but starting with sleep the up three provides more data than any other jawbone product at the time there's moments that you've been awake to REM sleep light sleep and last is deep sleep now on the up to model only light sleep and sound sleep are available a sound sleeper jawbone is associated when the body is particularly still now after consulting with jawbone and how they up three works they advise it's not just movements that they're relying on but as you guessed it the heart rate monitoring throughout the night that differentiates when you're in REM sleep versus deep sleep now the other area is resting heart rate now when I spoke with jawbone asking why resting heart rate was the focus they informed me resting heart rate is the best indicator of overall health the healthier you are the lower resting heart rate that you'll have some athletes have them as low as 45 beats per minute which is crazy to believe the resting heart rate is automatically taken right before you get up before any stress is introduced to your heart that's before taking any caffeine before you start interacting with the kids or maybe before you're reminded to get to work so with all that being said there is for sure value behind a resting heart rate reading and / even the Mayo Clinic here a lower heart rate at rest generally means a more efficient heart and better cardiovascular health I want to ask job on why not real-time HR monitoring and here's the big answer I'm sure not anyone else to probably answer this as of yet but it did disclose to me that is for sure coming in a firmware update now as to when they say they could not tell me at that time so that's something to look out for and you heard it here first but getting out of here and looking at my steps now don't mind my numbers I work in my office in studio most of the day so I am no athlete by any means but it has an easy-to-read bar graph up top with numeric data on the bottom here differentiating times you are active versus being idle and if you had gone for a workout you can log it in afterwards when you're done by tapping the plus sign up top and selecting the many you can label your workout as there's running weights yoga tennis and if it doesn't happen to be in there you can always select others right at the end and label it to whatever you'd like at that time below is your self-proclaimed effort level with the time and duration that you would enter in manually but now I'm backing out to the main homepage and this is one area that really does make the up to and up three very much different from most other bands at the market over time wearing this band it learns your sleep patterns your daily movements and the more you log in your workouts and food intake the band will create a unique profile for you it unfortunately takes about three weeks per job on that is until the band has enough data where the band will start recognizing your habits and what I'm talking about is smart coach now in the beginning the app will give you really generic pointers but after some time when data is collected for me with sleep here it started suggesting to sleep at a specific time based on my previous night's performances now with data showing I'm not achieving as much RAM or deep sleep it would suggest to me basically take a nighttime shower to help cool my core temperature down in turn helping my body create that signal to become drowsy and there's supposedly some kind of science behind that the per jawbone but same thing with food logging suggesting foods that I need to eat after it sees my overall health eating habits which per jawbone wasn't compassed so overtime smart coach will learn you basically and give you personalized feedback and overtime for example if you normally run let's say the band will learn your motions and on the next run if it senses similar motions again the band the app can basically tell that you just ran a run here and you don't have to manually enter it in but now moving on to the rest of the app food logging is done from the home page here with the plus sign you can also input your mood and manually enter in your way to keep track of that you can also manually input your sleep here if you were to ever forget to put your band into sleep mode prior to knocking out and I'm curious to know if this will ever sense me sleeping without going into sleep mode in the future so we'll see about that but food logging you can scan your food packages or manually type them in and once you've done so a food score is present on the homepage and tapping at each one here will give you your total intake fiber calories fats sugars and proteins as you can see on your screen while backing up once more here to the home page and tapping the band icon provides information on how much better you have remaining and jawbone does claim up to seven days of use and I personally timed it and now is personally able to achieve 7 days 9 hours and 53 minutes now continuing down the list of features here activating sleep mode from the phone here a stopwatch feature to segment your workouts manually instead of doing your workouts and afterwards labeling it as I described earlier in the video sadly it's not a real clock or traditional stopwatch that displays a number next here is a smart alarm offer waking you up at the most optimal time within a 30-minute window prior to the actual set time so what this all means basically the smart alarm is meant to wake you up when you're not in deep sleep preventing you from waking up groggy or irritated from a deep slumber now next is idle alarm where the band vibrates at your set interval of inactivity it's again a friendly reminder to get up and move the activity alert vibrates your band and gives you a notice on your phone when you achieve certain milestones for that day you can set this up to vibrate everything 1,000 steps and so on or have a summary provided to your phone at a set time and now the last option here is reminders again vibrating your wrist and displaying a notification on your phone of a note that you would have manually entered in previously through the app now going through the far left side here are your other options there's your goals that you can basically adjust you can aim to sleep 8 hours at night and also move how many steps you will try to achieve basically on a daily basis but trends is the other option it's a great tool allowing you to compare one metric versus another for example compare your total steps versus your total sleep and you see basically if there's any kind of correlation obviously you can compare the total amount of calories consumed with how many steps you've taken so far over time and see if you need a catch-up and any exercise that you need doing now backing out and going into team you can add in basically random online friends or friends that you personally know that has a band as well you can compare and compete with each other and as you've seen on my home page you can see Jenny's information shows up on there as well and it does kind of motivate me to be more active as she is and those days when I'm kind of lacking and you can firmly set up a duel as well challenging one of your friends to a step challenge here for as long as 24 hours three days and even up to a week and the very last feature here the up application does sync it's data with other very popular apps like MyFitnessPal RunKeeper Strava and the likes so that's it for my review I know that was a lot of information there and I can really see where jumbling did really well in some areas while others fans were really let down and I believe a lot of fans were waiting on real-time HR tracking like those found on the fitbit products swimming was also taken away and the band not fitting on some people as they would have liked so I believe if you dig much deeper into jawbone and its app then you really do start seeing the benefits there but that's the question though how far is the average consumer willing to dig and accept overtime for the band to work for them that is so let me know your thoughts in the comment section below if you can help support what I do here stop by and take a look at Jim's review room comm for more content and other reviews that I actually don't put on YouTube and add me on to Facebook Twitter Instagram or Google+ and you get to see behind the scenes info and you can always stop by and say hi as well again I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room comm you guys take care and I'll see you in the next one