Jawbone Introduces New Real-time Experience for the Up System

Jawbone has announced new software and a new hardware option for the Up system, its wristband, app, and data service that helps you understand your sleeping and eating habits. The Up 3.0 App uses your own data to deliver insights and celebrate milestones while challenging you to accomplish more each day, while the Up24 wristband powered by MotionX connects wirelessly to your iOS device via Bluetooth Smart to provide continuous feedback and in-the-moment notifications to help you achieve your goals.

The Up 3.0 App for iOS encourages and motivates you to take small steps that can turn into long-term progress - all based on your unique data from your UP or UP24 wristband:-

• Today I Will: challenges you to accomplish a suggested goal in a day's time. Focused in one of three categories - sleep, movement, or water intake - your Today I Will insight might recommend that you go to bed before 11pm if you've missed your sleep goal several nights in a row, or suggest you drink eight glasses of water in a day if you've been actively working out.
• Streaks & Milestones: rewards you with celebrations of your short- and long-term progress. Upon hitting your goal consistently for a number of days in a row, Up acknowledges your successful streak with a visual, interactive celebration within the app (such as your millionth step taken or logging 1,000 hours of sleep).
• Activity Log: gives you a snapshot of the steps, sleep, workouts, and meals you've logged since you last visited the app. By scrolling up from the home screen, you can view your recent activities and tap into any event from the past two days to quickly make edits, hide something from your feed, or see more detail.
• Sleep Recovery: even if you occasionally forget to put your band in Sleep Mode, it identifies times when it believes you may have been sleeping and makes a suggestion in your Activity Log. The more you track your sleep using Sleep Mode, the more accurate Sleep Recovery
  
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Up24 notifies you when you’ve reached your step goal with a push notification on your iOS device, as well as when you’re getting close to hitting your goal and need a gentle, motivational nudge to help you to succeed. It can also be set to send notifications with a summary of your recent sleep activity at the moment you wake up, or a workout summary as soon as you complete a workout.

Now, partner apps found in the Up App Gallery can perform new, more timely functions with real-time syncing via Up24. Keep your MyFitnessPal and LoseIt! accounts constantly up-to-date with your latest

activity and calories burned, or try Recipes from IFTTT to receive nudges throughout the day based on your current step count. You can even use IFTTT with your wireless lighting system or Wi-Fi switch to automatically turn on the lights or start your coffee maker the moment your UP24 band exits sleep mode.

Up24 features the same form factor and technology as Up, now with the addition of Bluetooth Smart for continuous syncing with the Up 3.0 App. Its smooth, hypoallergenic, medical-grade rubber exterior features a new, stylish textural design.

It is powered by the patented MotionX engine based on the biomechanics of natural human motion, developed by Fullpower. Its battery lasts 7 days, and it can be charged through your computer or USB power adapter via the included 2.5mm USB cable.

In three sizes (Small, Medium, and Large), and two colors (Onyx and Persimmon), the Up24 band is available for US$149.99 at Jawbone.com, and at Apple, and Best Buy stores nationwide beginning November 19. Up by Jawbone 3.0 for iOS is already available as a free download from the App Store. The Up or Up24 wristband is required for the app.

Read more about the Jawbone Up in our review.

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