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Your physical interactions with the Up3 and Up2 are based around a bewildering system of taps. Tap twice to wake it up, and then hold to toggle between modes. Next time, they should really put a button on it.

Jawbone has told me that the sensitivity around these controls might be fine-tuned in a coming firmware update. The system tracks your activity milestones like hitting 50, steps and pushes you to try a bit harder by entering into "Today I Will" challenges that go beyond your daily goal. I also liked the Smart Alarm option, which attempts to wake you during a light stage of sleep at any point between your target wake-up time and 30 minutes beforehand.

And that brings us to the heart. Whereas Apple, Microsoft, and most other fitness bands use LEDs and sophisticated algorithms to sample your blood flow and produce a best guess at your heart rate, Jawbone went with the sensors mentioned earlier.

But is that more accurate than the path Fitbit, Microsoft, and Apple are pursuing? Right now, Up3 only measures your resting heart rate. And it only does that once a day. One time. Every morning when you wake up, Smart Coach will reveal your reading for that day. And when it notices spikes or sudden changes, the app will do its best to figure out why. During my time with the Up3 so far, my resting heart rate has averaged between 54 and 58 beats per minute. But Smart Coach never explained why.

Even if accuracy issues remain, I have to give Redmond credit for trying experimental things and pushing forward. The software is well designed, well executed and gorgeous. Performance is very solid as well. Each and every person I spoke to or emailed during this ordeal was helpful, professional and courteous. They are truly a phenomenal team. And the worst part is that in the early enthusiastic days of my time with the UP, I recommended it to several people and even bought one for someone as a gift.

The gift had to be returned because of a loose button and among the three people who purchased a band based on my recommendation, one told me he had to exchange a defective unit. Beyond that, I have spoken with about a dozen other people in person and online who have told me that they had to exchange defective bands at least once. One woman said she was currently on her fourth UP in as many months. We have spoken at length about my experience and the experiences of others I have spoken with.

While Jawbone declined to offer a statement, they company did make it clear that it stands behind its customers and while customer care happily exchanged my bands that had rattling buttons, the UP is designed in such a way that some movement can be expected. FixYa compiled data from 6, users who commented on the bands on its community-based troubleshooting site.

So much potential, but problems persist. The first-generation Jawbone UP was an absolute nightmare and the second time around, I really thought the company had pulled it off. It had a loose button that rattled violently each time the band vibrated. I mailed it back with the intention of giving up. A fifth replacement band from support shipped on July 1st, I do not intend to use it. As a final bit of irony though, the button is loose and it rattles when the band vibrates.

The product itself is fantastic. The software is well designed, well executed and gorgeous. Performance is very solid as well. Each and every person I spoke to or emailed during this ordeal was helpful, professional and courteous. They are truly a phenomenal team. And the worst part is that in the early enthusiastic days of my time with the UP, I recommended it to several people and even bought one for someone as a gift.

The gift had to be returned because of a loose button and among the three people who purchased a band based on my recommendation, one told me he had to exchange a defective unit. Beyond that, I have spoken with about a dozen other people in person and online who have told me that they had to exchange defective bands at least once. One woman said she was currently on her fourth UP in as many months.

We have spoken at length about my experience and the experiences of others I have spoken with. While Jawbone declined to offer a statement, they company did make it clear that it stands behind its customers and while customer care happily exchanged my bands that had rattling buttons, the UP is designed in such a way that some movement can be expected.

FixYa compiled data from 6, users who commented on the bands on its community-based troubleshooting site. So much potential, but problems persist. The first-generation Jawbone UP was an absolute nightmare and the second time around, I really thought the company had pulled it off.

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