It's useful feature for offering a more three dimensional picture of your fitness life, but it feels half-hearted, and that's a bit of a shame. And if you forget to wear Moov, then it logs that as a mega long sleep time, which then messes up your averages. If you're still, it assumes you're asleep, so our sleep time was often logged as the entire time we were in bed. Moov also isn't that great at logging your sleep time. You can't dive into advanced stats on your sleep or stats, just scroll through time on a less than useful graph and see totals displayed. It certainly doesn't hold a candle to the likes of Jawbone, Fitbit or even the Apple Watch, and that's a shame. It's slightly basic – and that's a little disappointing. You can see these on the home screen of the app (below). In the same app as the sports tracking, Moov will track activity in the day and keep a tab of your active minutes during the day, and sleep at night. User feedback asked step and sleep tracking to be added and Moov obliged. More on the sports tracking later, but daily activity tracking is the biggest notable addition to the mix. In terms of features, the Moov Now carries all the same sports as before – but now in one app, rather than the six individual apps from the previous device. With the addition of daily fitness tracking this is a great move, and it's nice to have your Moov ready for a training session when you are. Moov Now switches to a watch battery rather than a rechargeable lithium, so it offer six months of battery on a single charge. You get two straps in the box – large and small – which is helpful as you do need to position the Moov Now around your ankle for running and cycling tracking. At night was a particular challenge, and we sometimes found it lying in the bedding come morning. The only issue is the security of the clasp, and it's easy for it to slip open when caught thanks to the shallow pins that you press through holes in the band. Someone actually thought it was a diamanté finish, the crazy fools. It's secure, the unit never falls out and the holes in the top add texture and catches the light nicely. It's a silicon band with a tight pouch that the sensor slips into. Securing a sensor has proved to be difficult for some brands – we're looking at you Misfit – but Moov's new strap is a stroke of design genius. It still packs an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer – the trio of movement sensors that enables it to provide so many coaching stats – yet it doesn't feel as unwieldy as before, especially on the wrist. Moov Now has been shrunk to a third of its original size, and feels much more manageable. The original Moov was a chunky old sensor that attached to a fairly haphazard holder. The original was a dedicated sports coach, designed for running, cycling, swimming and boxing – but the second returns with daily activity tracking added to the mix, as well as a heavily modified design.īut can the company translate its original plucky sports tracker into a meaningful mass market sports giant? There's no easy ride for the start up here – so join us as we put Moov Now through its paces. Moov Now is a refinement of last year's tracker, both in terms of design and features. Check out our cycling tech group test and swimming tech review for in-depth analysis. UPDATE: We've now tested swimming and cycling performance in more focused reviews. The original Moov was one of our favourite sports wearables of last year, and now the company is back with Moov Now, which adds fitness tracking into the mix.
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