![]() ![]() It can be used while swimming and does show a person’s progress and the time on its simple display. When the six months of battery life is finally up, all you have to do is replace the coin cell battery, just like you would with an analogue watch. Fitness bands are continuing their downward price slide with the Misfit Flash, a 50 activity and sleep tracker. The Misfit Shine tracks a lot of basic information one should expect from a fitness tracker, including calories burned, distance travelled, how many steps taken, and an individual’s light and heavy sleep cycles. There's also hardly anything to charge in the first place, since the Flash utilizes Bluetooth 4.1 or BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), to sync up with your smartphone. Lack of cords alone has helped it stay on my wrist longer than most other wearables simply because there's no need to take it off since I don't have to worry about juicing it up. Perhaps the most appealing feature of the Flash? The tracker's super long battery life and the fact that it requires no charging. Though available to use with the Shine, Windows Phone compatibility is still "coming soon" for the Flash. Most Android handsets work with the Flash - notably the Samsung Galaxy S5, S4, Note 3, Google Nexus 5 and 4 with Android 4.3 JellyBean and later. Press Flash to see a halo of lights that shows your progress toward your daily activity goal and the time. Like a lot of other fitness trackers, the Flash can be used with almost all mobile devices including the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus all the way down to the iPhone 4S, if its running iOS 7 and later. Get fit with Misfit Flash, a sleek, sporty fitness tracker that measures your activity and sleep, syncs with your smartphone and comes in a variety of colors. That said, perhaps an automated solution is not the most exact science to track sleep. Instead of double tapping to bring its hidden LEDs to life, you press its front face down like you would a button (essentially, the coin-like circular device is just one big button).Automatic tracking is nice though, since I'm the type of person who would forget to push a button every night and every morning. The interface is also the same as the Shine, a ring of LEDs that light up to indicate how active you've been that day, or to display the time as a minimalist clock. In the app, you can set what activity you're about to do, and when you press and hold the Flash's button, it starts tracking.įlash shares similar styling with the Shine, but rather than a machined aluminum face in the center of its band, it has a less costly polycarbonate casing. Even though this device is part of the growing. Offered in two different color designs of rose gold or carbon black, it is made of aircraft-grade aluminum and encourages a life that is more active. Unlike the Zip, it also tracks sleep, as well as swimming and cycling activities with help from its companion smartphone app. The Misfit Shine 2 is a premium and advanced sleep monitor and fitness tracker that contains the company’s most advanced tracking technology. Like the latter, the Flash tracks steps, distance, and calories. Priced at $50, it's cheaper even than erstwhile cheapie Fitbit Zip. Misfit Wearables, which debuted its first fitness tracker, the Shine, last year, is lowering that barrier with a new option called Flash. For someone who's not sure if they need or want such a device, that's pretty steep. ![]() Your average wrist-worn fitness tracker, a molded piece of rubber with a handful of accelerometers and gyroscopes inside, costs around $100 at the low-end. ![]()
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