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This listing is for a Band Size LARGE in black. Please search amazon for Jawbone Up to buy in size Small or Medium (if available).
Track your health and fitness with this band that monitors activity, sleep patterns, calories and more for comprehensive monitoring. Personalized tips and recommendations help you develop a personalized approach to wellness. | | | Features: | |
• BAND SIZE: LARGE | COLOR: BLACK
• iOS Device Required
• Measures activity and sleep patterns Including active and inactive time, steps, distance, calories, hours of sleep, sleep time, sleep phases, waking moments and sleep quality
• Personalized tips and recommendations Offer customized results.
• Size Large ... Search amazon for any other size that fits you.
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 87 reviews |
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| $89.99Shipping Free | Used
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161 of 168 found the following review helpful:
Nice try... maybe wait for the next versionNov 21, 2011
By A. Niksch
I purchased my UP a week ago. Bought for $100 @ Best Buy (only 2 were in stock for my size). On the jawbone website they have a sizing guide which you can print out and wrap around your wrist - I found this to be accurate.
When sized right, the bracelet is about as comfortable as a watch to wear. The way it looks I thought it would just wrap around my wrist like a wire but it's actually an ellipsis that is pretty firm. Only the bottom part is flexible enough to move, so you have to bend it a little to fit it around your wrist. No worries about it falling off.
The one button interface is pretty simple. You press it to see what mode you are in. Push-hold to switch modes. Press, Press-hold to shift to mark a workout in day mode. I didn't find these things obvious but software guides you to this stuff pretty quick.
Which brings me to my next point. This is worthless without the software. You can set inactivity alerts (vibrate every X minutes when I'm idle) or wake up alarms (wake me up around 5:40 to 6am). But to do any of this you have to "sync" with the software. To sync you take it off your wrist, remove the cap and plug the thing into your headphone jack of your iDevice. Your choices for alarm are what days do you want your single time - so if you have a very repetitive routine that isn't so bad. Otherwise you have to sync anytime you change a setting. Change an alarm? Need to sync or that is gone. Change inactivity alert, sync. There is no concept of local vs device data - so you can't set everything and then sync. This is where the lack of bluetooth is most evident. That would make a big difference for this device (also easier to work with things like Android).
The sleep monitoring worked well enough. I have a wakemate as well, and although I like (as does my wife) the vibrate to wakeup feature - I think the UP was waking me up at the wrong sleep cycle - I felt more groggy waking up with the UP than with the wake mate. That could be the alarm style - but I suspect it's where in my sleep cycle the alarm catches me.
The food tracking was stupid. I didn't even bother diving into that. It seems to be more of a journal of what I ate instead of "how many calories I ate", "how many grams of carbs/protein/fat". Sites like dailyburn work much better there.
I really liked the idea that the device is water resistant. Not taking it off to shower makes it feel more like a ring/necklace that you wear all the time.
There are some other misses here where the UP could be better. Like a button (sequence) that: turns off your alarm... sets the alarm for XX hours from now... turns off the inactivity stuff.. I read that jawbone employees were being encouraged to wear this. In the software world we call this "eating your own dog food". That is one of the things that made me more eager to purchase this. After a week, I have to wonder if they (the employees) were really just thrilled with getting a free iPhone as part of the project and didn't bother adding ideas here. I mean with an honest 3 months of use you could add alot of ideas of "things that would make this better".
Another miss is the charging cord. You get about a 2" USB cord that you plug the wristband into. Ok, I guess that goes to the computer? But the USB isn't used to sync data - just to charge - so it's kindof worthless if you aren't often in front of a computer. It's also something I'd think is easy to lose.
The cap is another element I was afraid to lose. Once secured, I wasn't worried - but you take it off to sync and to charge. I had wondered how quickly I'd lose mine. Who knows what it would cost to replace it - but it's something you'd want to replace..
I've seen a number of people review this device on how it stopped charging. That is what happened to me after a week. Most common response in forums was "did you shower with it?" which makes me think they aren't as confident in the water resistant claims that the product advertises.
I was just happy that I could return it after a week - I'd be bummed if I got this and 40 days out it died like this. Product was completely unresponsive. There is only 1 button to push and I tried different variations of that after charging etc, no dice!
For $100 this would be a nice device if it worked with BT and perhaps had some more versatility with the alarms.
60 of 69 found the following review helpful:
 Can't review thisNov 22, 2011
By Gary Brinkman
I would love to be able to review this product. But I can't. Mind died after 11 hours of use. Jawbone customer support is the worst. I have been dealing with them for 8 days and I still don't know if I am getting a replacement. I wish I had bought this from Amazon then at least I know I could return it and get my money back.
46 of 52 found the following review helpful:
stopped working within a weekNov 23, 2011
By The Goose
I am very active/fit/athletic and was looking forward to this as a way to track my activity. I lost the cap within a week (they do sell replacements. annoying though). ALSO, stopped working properly within a week - it would not keep a charge for longer than a couple of hours. While tracking sleep was kind of interesting, the nutrition feature is useless as it doesn't track calories or macro-nutrients. Don't we all intuitively know how we feel two hours after eating a meal? Saying we feel good or bad at that moment isn't really going to change anything. Also, the exercise calculation is baloney. It is really only useful if you run or walk. If you lift weights, do pilates or yoga, do crossfit or any other activity it is useless. It doesn't give you any information such as calories burned. This device is not for an athlete. It is for a person who wants a fancy pedometer. Returned it.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Doesn't work, plain and simple.Dec 04, 2011
By Jason Kleeberg
"J. Kleeberg"
I've had this band for a week now, and it's going back. I bought it with the intent of knowing how active I am during the day, but most importantly, see what kind of sleep I'm getting and how many times I'm waking up at night. Unfortunately, this product just does not deliver what it promises.
The construction of the band is nice and fits well. It has the familiar 'Jawbone' feel. However, the button on the end does not have any kind of 'click' or sense of depression, so when you do hit the button, it's a crap shoot on if you've pressed it or not (half the time, it will buzz, but the flower or moon light symbol will not light up, so I have no idea what happened). The cap to the headphone jack adapter on the other end of the unit (poor design choice, and I see it being bluetooth for the next version) falls off easily. The first day I had it, when I got home from work, I noticed that the cap was missing. I found it on my car seat the next day.
The unit syncs easily once plugged into your headphone jack, but that's where the ease stops. It recorded my steps just fine throughout the day, but is a pain to get into 'workout mode'. But I really bought it for the sleep function. First night, I put it into 'sleep mode' and the moon was lit up. So I hit the hay. When I woke up, I synced it, and the app showed...nothing. No sleep recorded at all. I thought maybe this was a gaff on my part - I know electronics, and I know that most of the time when something is wrong, it's user error...so I tried again the next night. I specifically put it into sleep mode, made sure it was in sleep mode, and went to dreamland again. When I woke up...nothing. Again. It did, however, tell me that I had a 12 second workout at 1am. Must have been a calorie burner. I was looking over the data, and it also has random 'work out' points throughout the day. I must have hit the button somehow, but this just seems odd.
This band does not let you record food intake either. You simply take a picture of your meal...what good that does, I have no idea. I was expecting a place to input what you ate, how healthy it was, and how many calories were burned that day. Nope.
For $20, this band might be worth keeping around as a simple step counter, which it seems to get right. For $100, this product is unusable and inexcusable.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Uncomfortable! Horrible Customer "Service"Nov 29, 2011
By Karen Wilson
Edit: No contact from "support" yet! No email - no RMA. -- End Edit
I cannot say how this thing works long term because I decided to return it the day I got it. This thing hurts after about 10 minutes of wearing it.
I ordered this direct from Jawbone, and I used their measuring PDF - making certain that my printer was printing it properly by calibrating the calibration mark with a ruler. My 1st print job was off. The 2nd one was dead on. I came up a size medium - right in the middle of medium to be exact.
So I ordered it, and several weeks later it arrived.
It fits in a convoluted way - I guess they are trying to be cool or something? Anyway, it put pressure on the top and bottom of my wrist, whilst there is a pencil sized gap on one side of my wrist. If this thing were made like a watch, it would probably have fit. But this thing just doesn't have that kind of flexibility. Too cool for that I guess.
So after trying both wrists - I gave up, and contacted their support. In my support request, I simply asked them how to return the product. After 5 full days I got a reply - "We suggest getting a large" was the answer to the question I did not ask.
So I dug and dug and found that to return this thing, you have to call their number - which I did, then wait on the line - which I did, and ask for an RMA number. They guy said he'd email me the RMA info to return this thing (the website says no RMA - no return). That was hours ago - no RMA - no email - no nothing.
Looks like I might have to exercise my credit card disputing skills on these pieces of work.
I think I'd say far far away from anything this company puts out. Even if the mythical RMA should arrive sometime this year - to require an RMA means they want you to jump through hoops to get your money back which is uncool and anti-customer service in my book.
Move on my friends!
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