![]() ![]() The fact that Jawbone openly encourages cross platform collaboration means that the functionality of the app will only grow over time, and could well place the UP app at the centre of many fitness enthusiasts’ lives. The list is far more extensive than that, though. Likewise, if you use the Withings smart scales to track your weight, that too can be pulled into your UP timeline, giving you a clear picture of your activity and the results. As well as supporting Strava and Withings, the UP app will pull in feeds from the likes of Runkeeper, MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and FitStar. So the next time you decide to cycle up Box Hill on a Saturday morning, that ride will automatically appear in your UP app timeline. If you happen to log all your cycling and running with Strava, you can link your Strava account with the UP app. But the UP app is much smarter than that, because Jawbone has designed it to play well with others. You can log when you started your activity, how long it lasted and what it was. You can also log any specific activities during the day. Not only are you likely to find what you’re eating in the database, but you can search for it by simply scanning the barcode on the packaging. There’s a food database built into the UP app, and unlike the database embedded into the Fitbit app, this one is UK friendly. We were a little dubious of the band’s ability to wake us from a deep sleep, but it’s surprisingly effective, and has the advantage of not waking your partner, as an audible alarm could. Within the app you can set silent alarms, which will cause the UP24 to vibrate and wake you. You can also use the vibrate function to wake you up in the morning. For a start you can configure the UP24 to vibrate after a set period of inactivity, and even though you may not always be in a position to respond to that alert, it’s worth it for the times that you can. The UP24 may not have a built-in display, but it does have a vibration alert feature, which is far more useful than you might first think. To round things off, it will also highlight your longest idle period too – name and shame tactics! While the companion app will tell you how many steps you’ve taken throughout the day along with estimates for calories burned and distance travelled, the UP app will also tell you how long you were actually active for during the day, along with the longest period of activity. Where Jawbone differs from many competitors is how it makes sense of the data that its tracker collects. The accelerometer built into the UP24 will measure all types of activity, whether you’re walking, running, cycling and so on. Like most activity trackers, the Jawbone UP24 will measure the number of steps you take, but just like the FuelBand SE, it’s more than a basic pedometer. There’s a single button, which you press to switch between the modes. Instead you just get two lights: a Sun to indicate day mode and a Moon to indicate night mode. There’s no built-in display on the UP24 like there is on the Nike+ FuelBand SE. ![]()
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