The United States based well know producer of wearable products: Jawbone has finally announced to dispatch its well-built and quite efficient fitness band: UP3 from April 20. After being proclaimed originally in November 2014, this wrist-worn is now ready to hit the shelves of retail stores. Notably, gadget has been priced at $179.99 (Roughly Rs. 11,213) and it is already available to pre-order via the official website of corporation.
Here, you must be contemplating about reason behind the delay of wearable, so company was basically re-evaluate some features of its creation. At this place, vice president of product management and strategy at firm: Travis Bogard has stated that they were confident to start mass production of the device and begin shipping within a few weeks of the announcement (by Christmas 2014). During testing, most units passed high quality bar, but they were not achieving the level of water resistance in a proportion, which had been passed in the design and initial production stages.
Till now, manufacturers were working on the water resistance, wherein corporation wanted to give it 10-meter water-proofing. Diving into this advanced multi-sensor equipped wearable device, it is coupled with a raft of sensors such as Tri-axis accelerometer, skin and ambient temperature and also houses some Bio-impedance sensors such as Heart rate, Respiration and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR). This tool is more accomplished to monitor and analyze biometric data like heart rate and gives a detailed information of wearers overall health and fitness level.
Featuring Bluetooth v4.0 BTLE, it capacitates the consumers' to sync and record all the data wirelessly. However, band doesn't feature any touch screen, but an LED indicator has been provided in its central unit that is much sensitive. Interestingly, LED gives three singles: Blue for sleep, Orange for activity and White for notifications. The UP3 can also keep eyes on the different stages of sleep and able to detect a tiny-bodily movement just like other fitness-focused bands such as Lenovo Smartband, Fitbit Charge and many more.
The invention of Jawbone is fueled by a rechargeable 38 mAh Lithium-Ion Polymer battery that can be fully charged in 100 minutes via magnetic USB charging cable. Coming to the exterior of gadget, Anodized Aluminum and TiN coated Stainless Steel have been utilized to fabricate this wristband, which is splash-resistant, so that it can withstand while washing hands or in shower, but activity tracker is unsuitable for swimming or submerged use.
Well, there are a number of rivals in the way of this latest health-tracking wristband, but Microsoft Band looks the biggest competitor of Jawbone UP3. As yet, only US customers can also pre-book the gadget through the dedicated site, but availability details for other regions is unknown.