The FuelBand isn’t necessary for the Nike Fuel, Nike Training Club or Nike Running apps as they can use your phone for motion tracking.The Apple Watch monitors your heart rate.The Apple Watch doesn’t have as many, or as cool of trophies (called Achievements).The AppleWatch battery needs to be charged every day.This is all just a long way of say that the purpose of this article changed a bit to if you’re thinking about dumping a FuelBand and getting an AppleWatch, here are some things to know: The original product was awesome for the time, but there’s so much more that can be done today. But I slowly came to realize more and more that if Nike had wanted to remain in the wearables market, they would have needed to really redesign and make serious improvements to the FuelBand two years ago. But I clearly don’t need three wearables on my wrists (I still wear my FitBit).
When I decided to write an article comparing these devices, I didn’t realize I’d be getting rid of my FuelBand. The sync was fast, sometimes happened in the background (sometimes not-so-much) and Nike understands competing, so a huge strength of the solution was the resultant Trophies (gamification, yo) and prodding to always do better. So what did the FuelBand do and what does the watch do? Basically, the FuelBand tracked steps, workouts and other typical activity and then converted steps and active calorie expenditure into a number that took as much information as Nike had available to try and provide you a score on how you did. The FuelBands strengths were that it was a simple bangle that synchronized to your phone and lasted a good week at times between charges. Obviously you’ll need your phone to use it. I didn’t loose anything. The reason is that the Nike Fuel app now supports “Phone Tracking” which uses the sensors in the phone instead of the sensors in the FuelBand to track your movements. And then I got my Apple Watch. And when I switched the FuelBand out with my Apple Watch I realized something kinda’ rad. I thought perhaps I would never part ways with it.
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