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hey everyone this is Jimmy wouldn't James review room now no a lot of readers and viewers have been asking me about this activity band and for the past week or so I receive at least several messages a day and when this review is coming out well the head of her testing for some time now and I'm pleased to present to you the jaybird reign now it's priced at 199 dollars which is somewhat on the pricey side but we'll go over its features and functions and see if it's worth the price tag so without further ado welcome to another review going over the physical features first jaybird includes all the accessories that allows the band to function there's the hypoallergenic super soft daily wearing silicone band it doesn't have any overlapping parts and it's magnetically interlocking and surprisingly this works very well in wearing this almost 24/7 never did it once unsnap on me now also in the Box our sport bands silicone stretch bands that hugs your wrist when you're in more intensive activities and land and when swimming and with this particular design like some other activity band makers the brains of the tracker is removable and it snaps into place and that's one of the things I really tested since it's just magnetized now as the rain has no locking mechanism it left me a bit questionable but the design recesses into each band pretty deep and there's no stretching the band itself so I haven't had the computer fall out or felt really insecure about it which is a huge relief now the last wearable accessory is the bike strap that wraps around your ankle and secured by the velcro strap which is are pretty self-explanatory for using when biking now either one of these bands are very comfortable to wear very lightweight and especially the silicone bands they are very soft to the touch and I'll let the aesthetics be your judgment if it seats your style by going back to the tracker here tapping on the band four times glows green indicating your progress for that day and more than that once I get into the app and after a very quick second maybe a bit too quick the time is then displayed and at first for anyone including myself I was a bit confused to understand but after a bit of practice in a few days it became somewhat more natural there's 12 LEDs lined and right in the center is the halfway point or one would indicate 6:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. and you can use that to gauge the solid red light is the hour-hand and the blinking light would then indicate the minute-hand and although this is an activity band first and a watch ii providing this feature i don't think is as intuitive or fluid to read some people may grasp it pretty quick while some may take a little bit longer but there's no on/off switch or a sleep button either on this device and one of the benefits and similar to other competitors out there like polar loop and misfit shine it can sense when you're walking running cycling - even swimming all automatically and before going into the app jaybird has released this for Apple devices first and just a month later after launch this will be available for Android as well so both parties will be able to use this band now at the current time since this is a very new device and jaybird is admittedly a small company compared to the likes of like say Nike or jawbone and other Fitness companies there will be a few features that are not available just yet but getting back on track here there's three main screen to the app there's activity sleep and go zone now with activity as you enter in your height weight age and a few other answers when you set up initially the app will then estimate an activity score for you to attempt this activity score is automatically adjusted every day based on your previous day's performance in your go zone number which I'll discuss how that works shortly now throughout your day the rain differentiates again just general movement walking running sports related activities basically more intensive general movements the ring can't technically differentiate playing basketball versus tennis for example but the band can differentiate and record swimming and cycling which I know a lot of viewers have been asking me about now not many bands on the market today can actually do that and being used in a pool or even worn around the ankle in on each category you can click on the bottom gray bar here to expand more information on that particular day and as you can see calories burn steps taken a progress bar and a few others are shown up top and below is a vertical timeline to inform you on your progress and at first it didn't seem like much I personally would have preferred a horizontal timeline instead but clicking on each icon on the vertical line gives you a bit more data to work with it's great information but for the average consumer and like many other bands on the market a graphical chart and the day's progress would have been a little bit much a little bit more easier to see and interpret and people liked numbers but they loved an accompanying chart now the only illustration offered is on the main home page again and on the very bottom which cannot be expanded or large in the last feature which I liked and which more activity bands offered our suggestions on how to reach your goal and at the end of day let's say you're very close to hitting your number here take a walk or run for the time suggested and sure enough you'll succeed the one item for sure missing at the moment is a history graph comparing my performance from the past day a week or even a year ago and after discussing this with j-bird they did announce by January of 2015 this should be an available feature now next up is sleep with showing what my previous night was like it's pretty straight forward to be honest with you but it's pretty useful and I'm sure most of us have very busy lives now and sleep can be all over the place at least mine is here and like many bands if not all once you open up the data you can see what time you've slept what time you had woken up and this tells you how much time you've slept with again the vertical graph with blue lines indicating times you were Restless or moved around and going back to the main homepage here like very much with the app so far that provides recommendations on how much sleep you need to basically catch up and once again after my testing like many other bands it only discloses how much sleep you've had I would have loved to seen light sleep versus deep sleep to see how restful my night actually was but again jaybird at least confirmed sleep details to improve is in their next update and for the very last item here is go zone and this is where it gets a bit technical and a bit unique that makes this band stand out from the rest boom zone measures your heart rate variability and heart rate variability and our abbreviated HRV is the variation of the heart beats interval it's an indication on how our body is for that day regardless of what we may think we feel Jaber tries to explain it as by saying although you may not feel as motivated when you get up in the morning if your heart rate variability is good you should definitely consider going running again despite how you feel and when you do go run you'll be surprised at how the body performs and when it's not such a good level it's a day that's recommended for rest but you can always do a google search for more information on HRV so how does it all work basically every morning within the first 30 minutes of being up you open the app and tell it to take your HRV measurement you do have to sit there stationary for two minutes which for some people may be accepted while others in practice may not but you receive a number in between 0 and 100 and a score of 33 or higher means you're good to go and a number between 40 and 60 regardless of your what your body feels that morning your body during exercise should feel pretty good and with the go zone number it supplement the rest of the app providing a customized activity goal now as an average consumer and not a scientist I don't know if this is a placebo effect or if HRV really works but it does make me more conscious on what I want to do for that particular day so all other ring does have some strong selling points like being able to swim and bike as many bands can't even do that and for those more Fitness focus individuals heart rate variability may be ideal and to be honest at the review in so many bands rain seems like the band that learns the body the most and provides feedback and suggestions on how to improve but for a 200-dollar tracker at the moment it's still missing some key features that keeps it up with the competition again that's performance and activity history deeper sleep recognition any vibrating alarms or alerts when you're not active for too long and what I think in general are better visual aids are still missing instead of just numbers I think having graphs or bars to show for example active time versus inactive time would have been a more impactful way of looking and comparing the data and granted some of these features will be coming down the road but at the time of this video it's not here and with several companies now supplementing their bands with heart rate monitors polar loop Garmin vivofit and then vivosmart LG life band and future bands for $200 or less having heart rate monitoring built it right into the wrist like basis peak and Fitbit surge it really puts jaybird in a tight spot and keep in mind all these companies mentioned have those features that are yet available on on the reign or features that we probably won't see on the reign in general I still think jaybird has a great product and yes does have some strong selling points and I truly believe their strategy is and doing very well with niche features rather than offer an assortment of features like the others so tell me below what do you think about the rain hopefully this video helped you in some 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