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Title: Jawbone Up update fills in the fitness tracker's missing gaps Post by: HCK on September 10, 2015, 03:00:12 am Jawbone Up update fills in the fitness tracker's missing gaps
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Jawbone has issued the first major software update for its Up line of activity trackers to address some of the issues that people have had with the wearables.</p><p>The updates released Tuesday will help resolve some of the problems users have experienced with the Up2, Up3 and Up4, wrote Mimi Huggins, Jawbone’s public relations manager, in an email.</p><p><span style="line-height: 1.75em;">An over-the-air firmware update via either the Android or iOS Up smartphone apps will allow the Up3 and Up4 to collect what Jawbone calls “passive heart rate” data.</span></p><p>Currently, those devices only gather “resting heart rate,” which Jawbone defines as the number of times a heart beats when a person is completely at rest, particularly during sleep.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2981609/wearables/jawbone-responds-to-up-activity-tracker-criticisms-with-software-update.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Jawbone Up update fills in the fitness tracker's missing gaps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2981609/wearables/jawbone-responds-to-up-activity-tracker-criticisms-with-software-update.html#tk.rss_all) |