Pocket-Lint: The wearable activity tracker is becoming a bit of a trend at the moment - First Nike, then Jawbone and now Fitbit, with the Fitbit Flex.
Designed to record your daily activity as well as pair up with the Fitbit smartphone app, the Flex is the value for money wristband of the activity tracker bunch.
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AmongTech: When you set your Jawbone UP or Fitbit to its sleep mode, both devices will use their accelerometers to track your movements, including the speed and direction you’re moving. This is the main way they track your activity during the day and also how they tell when you’re sleeping. But how does it know you are sleeping? What does it measure?
These Fitness Trackers cannot provide a deep analysis of our sleeping patterns since they relies only on movement alone, agreed that they cannot be termed as accurate just yet. however they give their users a general idea about their sleeping patterns.
