Review: Nike + Fuelband #unbox-therapy

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this is my reveal the Nike Plus fuel

band this band right here accepts onto

your wrist it helps you keep track of

basic things like how many steps you're

taking a day your calories your Nike

Fuel and I'll explain that here a little

bit later and different things like that

to help you keep an overall track up

your fitness so I'm gonna talk about the

design the hardware the software

including the IRS applications and

whether this would be a good fit for you

so now it's going to talk about the

hardware now you first look at it it is

definitely bigger than is other rival

competitor I guess we can say now the

jawbone up it's about an inch across has

a rubberized type of feel it doesn't

feel bad in your skin doesn't irritate

you and it's very lightweight you're

really not going to notice it throughout

the day but it is big enough where

people will notice this thing on your

wrist itself and a band has over 100 LED

lights to show you different stats and

information that the band is tracking

now at the bottom we have over 20 color

LED lights to show you your daily

progress towards a daily goal until you

get all the way up to green to the max

it also does have a 100 white LED lights

to show you the text so I'll show you

the information like the time and how

many calories you burn and all that

stuff all the text would be in those

white LED lights and also does have an

ambient light sensor so if you are in

the darkroom you'll bump up the

brightness so you can see it and if

you're in the light room or outside in

the daylight they'll dim those down so

you can read everything clearly and also

is water-resistant so you can walk in

the rain or you can take a shot with

this thing can't go swimming with this

not waterproof you can't go swimming

with it but you can do basic things

without haven't worried about it

breaking because of water damage

so Nike also went the extra mile to make

sure this band is going to be a

comfortable fit for everybody and all

four three standard sizes small medium

and large when I'm reviewing for you

guys today is the medium now it's kind

of worried that this is going to be a

little bit too small but I was surprised

that it did offer two extenders that

came inside the box they didn't offer

they put two extenders inside of the box

so one of those is 8 millimeters and one

is 16 millimeters but basically you can

add those into it to get the custom fit

to make sure this thing fits your wrist

so even though this medium was initially

a little bit tight

add an extender on there just made it a

comfortable fit and it's very easy to

sing you this little tool inside the box

that just poke down in the little hole

and you can pop the extenders on or off

and put them back on put the thing on

your wrist and now you're ready to go so

I do like that Nike took that extra

stuff to make sure you don't have to

worry about getting the size too small

or too big and also in the Box you get a

USB charging cable and also a charging

stand so you actually connect the cable

with the stand to

like so as I'm showing you here right in

this video and then now you can plug in

and they'll be sitting upright so it

won't be just laying on the ground

somewhere but also - it will be charging

or syncing with the application at the

same time I'm speaking of battery life

Nike says you'll get about four days of

uses I was able to get about five days

of usage so look at you through the

majority of the week so I think battery

life is pretty decent else gonna explain

how this band actually works now inside

the band you have a three axis

accelerometer so it's tracking all of

your motions so whether you're running

you're moving you're walking you're

jogging you're jumping up and down

you're playing basketball whatever

you're doing you're dancing is tracking

all of that motion it kind of sees you

know how much effort you put into it and

then it calculates all that into Nike

Fuel which is basically a standard point

system that is standard for everybody

across the board and now I'm gonna show

you the free iOS application that you

can download for your iPhone or iPod

Touch now when you first open up the

application you are going to need to

sync your band to the application itself

and it works over Bluetooth which is

nice don't need a plug-in into anything

so basically you hold down the gets the

home button on the band for a couple

seconds and then to start syncing though

sync all the information over and when

that is done it'll go to show you your

your progress throughout that day as far

as how far you are from reaching your

daily goal or if you already reached

it'll give you nice little celebration

or something and also keep track of your

calories your steps your distance all

within this application itself you can

head over to the activity tab which you

give you a little bit more details for

its what time of the day were your more

active or what time of day you need to

start moving more and things like that

and also you can set your own little

personal mood if you hit that little

smiley face there you can tell you how

you were feeling and also you can put a

little status or a little comment there

about how your day was to kind of give

you a little pick-me-up if you need to

and also does have a profile section you

can go ahead and see your best day your

best week your best month your longest

streak the best days of the week and

also to me you get certain trophies they

show up at the bottom here and you click

those or tap the tap on those and give

you a nice little cool animation again

to make you feel a little bit better but

I do really like those at those

animations there so those are some cool

trophies for you

alright guys what just showed you

everything about this band I sold you

the hardware so do the software and I

showed you how it works now this is

something that you should get well it

depends on what you're doing in your

life now this thing is not going to get

you in shape it's not going to make you

lose weight but it is going to help you

keep track of your daily progress and

it's always good to have a goal which is

thing is going to be most important for

the kit keep you you know it aiming at a

certain goal per day or per week or

per year and they have something that

you need to reach in this band would be

easy to keep track of the basic

information and a couple of provements

for this band it could be a little bit

smaller I know it does have the LED

lights and then that's what it has to be

a little bit bigger than other

alternatives out there but I think it's

just a little bit smaller will help it

keep just a less of a presence on your

wrist

also I do think it does need an Android

application I mean by now a lot of

people do have Android phones and

devices but the net I think there's

really no really other negatives with

this band at all is just really whether

this is something good for you whether

this is something that you want and for

149 dollars again this is something that

is just depending on what you want to

use it for it's not a bad device are

there other alternatives out there yes

but a lot of them don't have really good

iOS applications and ways to track all

this stuff that the Nike has provided

for you with this band the question that

a lot of people going to be asked me is

this the FuelBand better than the

jawbone up and I would say definitely

yes one because the job well done has

some manufacturing problems and a lot of

people's including mine broke on me out

there a couple days or a few days worth

of use

- this does provide you more information

on the band itself nuts - I think it's a

better I US application and to keep

track of everything now it's not as

social as the jawbone of words that's

one thing that up has going for it

but I think this band overall does

everything else better for it plus you

don't have to plug it in is bluetooth

the jawbone up you do have to plug in

via the headphone jack so I personally

would recommend this Nike+ FuelBand over

the jaw up right now but I really can't

wait to see the second versions of both

of these devices when they eventually

come out anyway guys this is my boss

about the Nike+ FuelBand but before we

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