Jawbone UP Fitness Tracker
- Model: JBR06B
- Ah, so THIS is what all those joggers are wearing
- Wristband tracks movement and sleep
- App displays that data, and you can add meals, moods, etc. for a full picture of your fitness
- Pretty cool, it’s a shame smartwatches will make it obsolete - or will they…?
Look how cheap these are now. Thanks, Apple Watch!
Like an asteroid that hasn’t crashed yet but is already wreaking havoc on the atmosphere, the Apple Watch is driving the dinosaurs into extinction before it even hits. That’s how come we can get our grubby hands around - and into - the Jawbone UP, until now one of the monsters of the smartphone-enhanced fitness age.
Look at the poor thing. So noble, so unaware of its impending doom. Once, with its movement and sleep monitoring, its holistic system of app-based health tracking, it ruled supreme over its epoch. It was an essential accessory for the health-conscious, the subject of excited conversation, the perfect gift when you wanted to say “You need to take better care of yourself” without coming out and saying “You need to take better care of yourself.”
That will all be over soon. If the impact of the Apple Watch doesn’t kill it, the dust cloud of Apple Watch imitators will. Soon you’ll be able to do everything the Jawbone UP can do, plus a hundred other things, right there on your wrist. That’s evolution on the march. Or the jog.
In the meantime, why not take the Jawbone UP for one last glorious run of its range? You’ll have a few months to develop some good health habits, so you can hit the Apple Watch running. Your wrist can get used to wearing a watch again. At this price, it’ll be no big loss to let the Jawbone sink into the tar pits of history. And if that seems a little sad, well, imagine how excited some future paleontologists will be when they dig the Jawbone up.
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