Do you care whether the wristband connects wirelessly with your iPhone
Do You want to keep your device on you as long as possible?
Do you want the wristband to be as accurate as possible when tracking your calories?
Do you care whether your device can withstand water or get into a pool?
When you wear your wristband at night, it can track your sleep patterns
Some wristbands allow you to log your food to track how many calories you consume.
Fitbit was one of the first to come up with and perfect sleep tracking
The Flex can track sleeping patterns, but unfortunately the mode requires you to start and stop it from the app, and it doesn't display stats directly via the display. If you want a fitness-focused wristband device, the Force is the total package. From the OLED display to sleep tracking, floor climbing and social integration, it has everything you need to get off the couch and keep moving. It's so good, we can turn a blind eye to another mediocre rubber aesthetic... for now.
Jawbone is great but it focuses too much on your "whole life", not just sleep
The Jawbone UP software is beautiful. After you've sync'd enough it starts giving you feedback and encouragement through statistics. It will tell you "you were in the top 15% of UPpers this week" or "getting 8 hours of sleep per night it shown to improve...." if your sleep is coming up short. It does have the option to add in food consumption, performs a variety of tasks such as calibrating it's readings with actual distance walked, and has a really interesting "lifeline" feature that trends your activity and sleep over a period of hours, days, weeks and you can create a report on the fly comparing, for example, sleeping and calorie intake, to see if you consume more calories on days that you didn't have adequate sleep. It shows trends on daily/weekly and true to the marketing is a more "holistic" view of you and your life/activity. I guess we have reached my thesis for the comparison: Jawbone UP is about the holistic view of your life, while the Fitbit Flex is more finely focused on activity, seeing feedback for that activity in a quick frequent way and focusing on providing you that core data quickly and simply. Read more in these sources
Even Though Jawbone UP 24 has shorter battery life than its previous generation Jawbone UP, it still beats Fitbit.
One of the biggest pro’s for the Jawbone UP is it’s much longer battery life. Where the Flex lasts only 5 days, the UP gave me ten days with one full charge. I really appreciated that extended life since I often forgot to charge the Flex and lost entire days of tracking. I also found the UP was easier to charge since it always locks tight into the charger, where the flex must be snapped in properly, which isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Read more about it here
Nike Fuelband is a close second after Jawbone UP with approximately 6 days of charge
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With the best engineers, Jawbone UP does the best job tracking stairs, biking, and other activities that Fitbit and Fualband does terrible with..
When it comes to accuracy, your hips don’t lie. It’s pretty much universally recognized, even by the creators of these bands, that a standard hip pedometer will give a more accurate measurement of your steps than an activity wristband. Wristbands can register “false positives” — you could, for example, be sitting at your desk but if you wave your arms wildly, the band will read it as activity. Conversely, you could be walking briskly but pushing a stroller and not pumping your arms, which could affect the reading.
All of the companies have built their bands with these factors in mind. But I wanted to put them to the test myself. I wore a Timex hip pedometer ($30) while wearing all four bands on my wrist. I was completely decked out and utterly dorktastic. I mapped out a mile in my neighborhood, using Google Maps, RunKeeper data and also the pedometer’s mileage gauge. I did this walk almost every day for a week, comparing each band’s calculations at the start and finish of the mile.
For short-term activity tracking, the Jawbone Up and Fitbit Flex tended to be the most accurate. The Nike+ FuelBand and Basis Band were more consistently on the conservative side, and the Basis Band sometimes gave some super-low readings. Here’s a sample day, with the pedometer registering 2,165 steps at one mile: The Up measured 2,166 steps, the Basis Band 2,157 steps, the Flex 2,140 steps, and the Nike+ FuelBand 2,076 steps.
But on another test day, when I walked slightly over a mile, the pedometer registered 2,382 steps, the Up measured 2,339, the Flex 2,290, the FuelBand 2,103 and the Basis Band a bizarre 1,614. I also conducted a few whole-day tests, during which I was mostly working at my desk but also walked around the neighborhood, and found that all four bands registered more steps than the basic hip pedometer. In one such test, the pedometer registered 7,428 steps, while the Basis Band tracked 7,736 steps, the FuelBand measured 7,905 steps, the Up 8,369 steps and the Fitbit Flex 8,400 steps. That’s a lot of false positives, if you believe the hip pedometer. The Up and the Flex can be further calibrated for accuracy — you basically “tell” the band you’ve walked an exact distance and it adjusts your steps accordingly — but I didn’t notice a huge difference after I did this.
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