The exception-al UP?

December 13, 2011

On browsing the feed for Stephen Hackett’s excellent blog, 512 Pixels, we came across a post quoting Garret Murray on the Jawbone UP: Don’t buy this piece of shit. It doesn’t work, it will fail, and the software is terrible. Jawbone is still selling them even though they know they’re all future bricks. Don’t buy [...]

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We’ll use the shit out of the iPhone 4S.

December 13, 2011

Paul Graham wrote a great piece on “stuff”, and how the trend of recent decades has been to amass an inordinate amount of it. It’s a message that some other bloggers have made as well, because there really is something to be said for the simplicity of having less stuff and living a more streamlined [...]

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The Jawbone UP’s audio connector.

November 7, 2011

Perusing the official Jawbone UP forum, we caught a complaint about the UP not including bluetooth. It’s true that Jawbone devices have to date been built around bluetooth, so why require the UP to be physically plugged into your iPhone in order to synchronize data? The simple answer is that bluetooth is a battery drain, [...]

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More on the UP.

November 7, 2011

We mentioned earlier that we were interested in doing a side-by-side comparison of the Jawbone UP’s sleep analysis and that done by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app. Well, user alexw at the official UP forum beat us to the punch with a sample one-day analysis. As expected, because the UP is attached to you, it’s [...]

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First take on the Jawbone UP.

November 7, 2011

On Friday, we drove by two Targets, a Best Buy, and an AT&T store to see if anyone was selling the Jawbone UP early. None were. The reports we heard about UPs selling early must have been very isolated experiences, though it seems people had more success at Apple stores, who apparently are more likely [...]

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Gearing up with the WINGstand.

November 5, 2011

Searching for a good iPad stand solution that incorporates a keyboard has proven difficult. We settled on the InCase Origami because it’s a somewhat sleek solution that keeps Apple’s bluetooth keyboard protected, and when unfolded offers a convenient stand for the iPad that works in both landscape and portrait modes. The chief downside to this [...]

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