Review: The NuBand Fitness Tracker

By Lady Lipstick

Back at the beginning of August when I reviewed the Misfit I said I had a third activity tracker to review, and after giving it a try for 3 weeks, it’s time to give my verdict!

The Nuband is a solid one piece black band and at £49.99 it’s a lot cheaper than many other fitness trackers on the market.

The band charges and syncs using a headphone jack, it comes with a USB charger, and syncs by plugging into the headphone port on your mobile phone and syncing with the app.

The stats I got from the Nuband differed dramatically from my Fitbit. It seemed to be over counting my steps, sometimes by quite large margins. Here are two sample days, as compared to my FitBit tracker.

As you can see it seems to be over counting by several thousand steps, some days it almost doubled my step count. After 6 months use I’m fairly convinced of the accuracy of the Fitbit, which also tallies fairly closely with the Misfit. The Nuband contains the facility to add your weight and height, but no other customisation options that might make it more accurate such as stride length, or the facility to say what hand you are wearing it on.

In order to tell the band you are going to sleep you need to tap it 5 times. For the first couple of weeks I found this really hard, tapping it like crazy and it wouldn’t go into sleep mode, till one day I discovered you actually have to tap it fairly slowly, after that it was a breeze! It looks from the above stats like the sleep figures are really high too, but I think this is because the band itself shows little information and …read more

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