![]() ![]() It’s a definite added incentive, but chances are you might not know anyone else with a Misfit so you’ll have to get them on board. The final element to the Misfit Flash is the ability to connect with other Misfit-using friends to compare activity and encourage a bit of healthy competition. The Misfit app offers an alarm feature that we wouldn’t even bother with, particularly as you’ll need to have your phone on and unlocked the whole time, and there’s no haptic feedback (vibration) on the Flash itself. However, the Misfit app does offer the ability to connect with other apps and services including MyFitnessPal, for example, and you can enter your weight each day to keep track of your weight loss progress. You can take a photo of a meal you’ve had if you’re using the iOS app, and that photo will appear in your ‘Highlights’ menu that’s accessed by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, but it’s a pretty useless feature. There’s no calorie counting feature in the Misfit app: it’ll tell you how many calories it estimates you’ve burned but you can’t add calories from meals and snacks. We love this feature in the Fitbit One and the new Fitbit Charge, but at £50 you can’t expect the Flash to have it all. The lack of an altimeter means the Misfit Flash doesn’t track how many floors you’ve climbed. The downside is that there’s no analysis here (there’s a lack of analysis across the entire app, in fact), so the information doesn’t actually mean much.Īctually, there were some nights when I felt I had a brilliant sleep, but my Flash thought otherwise, immediately making me feel more tired (silly brain), so the usefulness of the sleep tracking element is definitely questionable. The Flash is surprisingly good at figuring out when you’ve been sleeping, and lets you know how many hours you slept for and how many times you stirred. Where you put the band on your body affects the accuracy – we’d advise against wearing it on your wrist if you spend your day typing, for example, even though the instructions suggest that’s the best place to put it. Walking, jogging and running are the activities it tracks best, but it can offer some very basic tracking capabilities for other activities including swimming, cycling, basketball, tennis and soccer (or football to us here in the UK).įor tracking steps, the Misfit Flash seems to be fairly accurate, missing just a few steps here and there. In a nutshell, the Misfit Flash can track your activity levels (including steps and miles travelled) as well as sleep. ![]() Now, you’re probably thinking: “That’s all well and good, Ashleigh, but what does the Misfit Flash actually do?” That’s a great question, and one that I’m going to answer in this section. Misfit Flash review: Tracking & other features Turn on Bluetooth on your device, launch the Misfit app and follow the on-screen instructions. I quickly got fed up and switched to using the alternative clip accessory that’s included in the box or simply popping the Flash into my pocket. Every time I pressed the button the Flash popped out of the wristband or twisted so that the clock face was in the wrong position. Which is true until you come to actually press the button (which I did quite regularly to see the time and see how well I was doing). It’s been redesigned since the Shine’s wrist strap, meaning you now slot the Flash in from the underneath which is supposed to make it less likely to fall out. The problem here is that the Flash’s wrist strap is utterly useless. Unlike the Shine, the Flash is a physical button that you can press instead of furiously tapping like you often had to on the shine. Misfit has made the LEDs easier to see than they are on the Shine, and they’re easier to activate too. The Misfit Flash features a series of 12 LEDs around its face, which can be used to display the time as well as your daily progress.
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