Wondering how you can track your sleep? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
Getting enough sleep is crucial when it comes to the wellbeing of a person. Not getting a good sleep can make one feel uncomfortable during the day. Simmons used Beautyrest SmartMotion technologies that fine-tunes itself with everything from tracking your sleep to pressure relief positioning and gathers all the record unified with its very own smartphone app but today there are apps that can do the tracking.
The apps will let you know the time you have been restless, it will also record the frequency you have woken up which makes it a fantastic tool for day to day maintenance of your health.
However, it is worth noting that the best sleep tracking setup should be wearable and integrate a companion iOS app. The current sleep tracking apps are high-grade in that they can track your sleep as well as tracking other things like when you are snoring and record your heart rate too.
Let’s discover the best apps to help you track your sleep!
1. Fitbit OneThe Fitbit One is one of the best sleep-tracking apps. To use this app, you will just need to clip it to your pocket or somewhere close to you and it will do the tracking. It will record all the steps you take during the day and how restless or active you’ve been. The good thing about this app is that it will also provide you with incredible reports and feedback on what you have been doing during the day.
During the night, when you want to track your sleep, you need to slip the app into the included wristband and adjust it to sleep mode. The app will do some amazing sleep tracking of your movements during the night; it will record how often you have woken up as well as when you are turning in bed.
When you wake up in the morning, you need to turn it off and sync it with the Fitbit Web or app for you to get the report of the activities you’ve been in during the night, the number of times you woke up and the duration you have been active. You can but the Fitbit One at $100 but the apps are free.
2. Sleep as AndroidSleep as Android as the name suggests, it was designed with support for Android devices only but it is a great app when it comes to sleep tracking. When it was launched, it was mainly used for the purpose of waking you up at your best possible time of the morning but it has matured enough to something really special. This app will track your sleep cycle and it will generate graphs of your sleep habits during the night, however, the app goes an extra mile to alert you if you change to a sleeping pattern that is not good so that you can change to your normal and healthy sleeping habit.
The app has matured and it comes with support for Galaxy gear gadgets and can also be integrated with Google Fit as well as Samsung Health. With this app, you will get some soothing binaural tones to make your sleep superb. The Sleep as Android will record all the sounds you make while you are sleeping such as when you are snoring when you talk and help you in the diagnosis of a health illness that you might not be aware of such as sleep apnea.
You don’t have to get to work late; this app will wake you up at your best time in the morning with some soothing music and sounds. Get this app for a 2-week free version and upgrade to a paid version after the two weeks are over.
3. Sleep Tracker+ Mood DiaryAnother incredible sleep tracking app that can do more than just tracking your sleep is the Sleep Tracker+ Mood Diary. This app is unique when it comes to versatility and using it is just but fun. The app tracks your sleep, food, calories, expenses, time, weight and more. The good thing about this app is that it will store the data automatically to Google Drive and sync with iCloud.
4. SleepbotSleepbot for Android is an all-inclusive sleep tracker that will track your sleep habits and measure how well you sleep during the night. Since it was launched, the app has incorporated some new and incredible features. The app will help you to track your sleep as well as help you to fall asleep. The good thing about Sleepbot is that it will track while in the background mode thus helping you to track your sleep even in the background. Another fantastic thing about this app is that it comes with some soothing music that helps you to get the best sleep easily.
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Introducing ZTE’s latest addition to the V-series which comes with a nice design, crisp display, fairly powerful hardware to mention a few. The new ZTE Nubia V18 is quite a nice offering with mid-range features and perfect for users that wants an all-round performing smartphone for a price that doesn’t break the bank. Let’s have a look at what the smartphone has to offer or if it is actually a good buy for you.
The ZTE Nubia V18 is a nice looking smartphone but not a spectacular one, however, it will perfectly into the sea of recently built smartphone having the “modern’ design. This ‘modern’ design include an 18:9 aspect ratio or something close and a much reduced bezels than older smartphones. It is also quite slim and built with metallic material which makes it all together sleek and with a solid build too.
On the display front, the smartphone is equipped with a nice high resolution LCD display panel that is sure to make viewing worth your while. This being said, the ZTE Nubia V18 has a 6.01-inch 2160 X 1080 pixels display which has just tiny bezels at the side.
Battery and CameraRegarding battery keeping your smartphone on, you are provided with an ample 4, 000mAh capacity. This is quite a generous offer as a mid-range smartphone although not comparable to battery centered ones like the Energizer Power Max P16K Pro. There is a MicroUSB 2.0 port through with it charges and a quick change technology.
Pertaining to snapping pictures the smartphone doesn’t come with dual cameras like most smartphones you have now with just a single camera on both ends. In that regard, you have a 13MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera. This might not be as good as the Oppo F7 when it comes to taking selfies and all but it should take quite decent pictures.
Hardware and SoftwareIn terms of hardware, the smartphone features quite the ideal chipset from Qualcomm. You’ve got a Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 CPU with eight cores clocking at 2.0GHz accompanied by an Adreno 506 GPU in charge of graphics.
In addition, you also have a 4GB internal memory which goes alongside a 64GB built-in storage space expandable to 128GB by sacrificing the second sim card for a memory card. It also runs on Android 7.1 with Nubia UI 5.1 on top.
Pricing and AvailabilityThe smartphone is available for sale in various online stores and smartphone retail outlets for about 74, 500 which might add a little more depending on your location and the deal
Here are a few specs of the ZTE Nubia V18:
General Features Platform: Android 7.1 Nougat (Nubia 5.1 UI) Processor: Octa-core Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 GPU: Adreno 506 Memory: 4GB Colours: Black, Gold, Red Dimension: 158.7 x 75.5 x 7.8 mm Weight: 170g SIM Type: Nano sim SIM Count: Dual sim Display Display: 6.01-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 2160 X 1080 pixels (401 ppi) Screen Protection: – Camera Rear Camera: 13MP camera, 1080p Video@30fps Rear Camera Features: Phase detection autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama Front Camera: 8MP camera, 720p Video@30fps Storage Built-in Storage: 64GB Memory Card Support: Yes, up to 128GB Bundled Cloud Storage: – Network Support 2G GSM: Yes 2G CDMA 1X: – 3G WCDMA: Yes 3G CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800) Internet & Connectivity GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes HSPA+: Yes, 42.2/5.76Mbps CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yes WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes Bluetooth: Yes, v4.1 with A2DP, LE NFC: – Infrared Blaster: – USB Port: MicroUSB 2.0 Messaging SMS/MMS: Yes Instant Messaging: Yes Push Emails: Yes Email Protocol: – Entertainment Music Player: MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player Video Player: MP4/H.264 player FM Radio: Yes Loudspeaker: Yes 3.5mm Jack: Yes Navigation Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS Maps: Yes Sensors & Control Digital Compass: Yes Accelerometer: Yes Proximity Sensor: Yes Light Sensor: Yes Barometer: – SpO2: – Pedometer: – Heart Rate Monitor: – Gyroscope: Yes Fingerprint Scanner: Yes, (rear) Iris Scanner: – Face Unlock: – Intelligent Digital Assistant: – Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: – Voice Control: – Other Features Video Streaming: Yes Active Noise Cancellation: Yes Wireless Charging: – Built-in Mobile Payment: – Water Resistant: – Dust Resistant: – Image Editor: Yes Video Editor: Yes Document Viewer: Yes Document Editor: Yes Battery Battery: 4, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery Talktime: – Standby Time: – Fast Charging: YesThe post ZTE Nubia V18 Specs and Price appeared first on Nigeria Technology Guide.
It’s not the second quarter yet and we have already seen quite a number of mid-range smartphones released or scheduled to release soon. Lenovo has decided to enter the race with its recently released Lenovo S5. Entering into the fierce competition with a bunch of other smartphones like Oppo F7, Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, Vivo V9 and so on. However, the Lenovo S5 happens to have a decent spec sheet too which we will be taking a look at to see how it fares against the competition.
If there is one thing apparent about the Lenovo S5, it is that the smartphone follows in the recent style of building smartphones. There is the 18:9 aspect ratio, bezel-less display amongst other things. It also appears compact with much of the front space fitted with the display. Besides the smartphone as it dual camera arranged horizontally at the top left corner with the fingerprint toward the centre and Lenovo written at the bottom area.
Viewing on the display is quite impressive for a mid-range smartphone with high resolution and a not too large size. Taking on a 2160 X 1080 pixels display stretched out on a 5.7-inch screen your viewing will be nothing short of pleasant. Also, you’ve got a 2.5D curved glass with a pixel density of 424 ppi and a an ideal visibility in sunlight.
Battery and CameraBattery capacity is not really the Lenovo S5’s forte but it carries just enough for daily use. Speaking of which you have 3, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery. This is of average power, which means it may likely not go for a day on engaging the smartphone intensively. That aside, the smartphone charges through a USB Type-C port along with support for quick charge technology.
Coming to one of the most coveted features by most youths which is the camera. Taking a chapter from the recent camera features book, the smartphone has a dual rear camera made up of a 13MP RGB camera and another 13MP monochrome camera. On the flip side you also have a 16MP snapper for selfies.
Hardware and SoftwareWhen it comes to the hardware featured here, the Lenovo S5 goes for a chipset that is positioned squarely in the mid-range segment. Moving on, there is an Octa-core Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 SoC with cores clocking at 2.0GHz max. This goes alongside an Adreno 506 GPU with a frequency of 650MHz.
Also, there are three models available at the moment. One has a 4GB RAM and a 128GB internal storage space while another have the same RAM but with a 64GB storage space. The last one has a 3GB RAM and 32GB of built-in storage space, however, all the smartphone models storage can be expanded up to 256GB. On a final note, it runs Android 8.1 Oreo with ZUI skin from Lenovo on top.
Pricing and AvailabilityThe smartphone has only been released in China where the 32GB model costs CNY 999, 64GB for CNY 1, 199 and the 128GB for CNY 1, 4999. This is equivalent to about 57, 215 naira, 68, 670 naira and 86, 000 naira respectively.
Here are a few specs of the Lenovo S5:
General Features Platform: Android 8.1 Oreo (ZUI 3.7) Processor: Octa-core Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 GPU: Adreno 506 Memory: 3GB/4GB Colours: Midnight Black, Flame Red Dimension: 154 x 73.5 x 7.8 mm Weight: 155g SIM Type: Nano sim SIM Count: Dual sim Display Display: 5.7-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 2160 X 1080 pixels (424 ppi) Screen Protection: – Camera Rear Camera: Dual 13MP + 13MP camera, 2160p & 1080p Video@30fps Rear Camera Features: Phase detection autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama Front Camera: 16MP camera, 1080p Video@30fps Storage Built-in Storage: 32GB/64GB/128GB Memory Card Support: Yes, up to 256GB Bundled Cloud Storage: – Network Support 2G GSM: Yes 2G CDMA 1X: – 3G WCDMA: Yes 3G CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) Internet & Connectivity GPRS: Yes EDGE: Yes 3G/WCDMA/HSPA: Yes HSPA+: Yes, 42.2/5.76Mbps CDMA EVDO: – 4G LTE: Yes, LTE-A (2CA) Cat 7 300/100Mbps WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, WiFi Direct Wi-Fi Hotspot: Yes Bluetooth: Yes, v4.2 with A2DP, LE NFC: – Infrared Blaster: – USB Port: USB Type-C 2.0 Messaging SMS/MMS: Yes Instant Messaging: Yes Push Emails: Yes Email Protocol: – Entertainment Music Player: MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player Video Player: MP4/H.264 player FM Radio: Yes Loudspeaker: Yes 3.5mm Jack: Yes Navigation Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS Maps: Yes Sensors & Control Digital Compass: Yes Accelerometer: Yes Proximity Sensor: Yes Light Sensor: Yes Barometer: – SpO2: – Pedometer: – Heart Rate Monitor: – Gyroscope: Yes Fingerprint Scanner: Yes, (rear) Iris Scanner: – Face Unlock: – Intelligent Digital Assistant: – Motion Sensing / Gesture Control: – Voice Control: – Other Features Video Streaming: Yes Active Noise Cancellation: Yes Wireless Charging: – Built-in Mobile Payment: – Water Resistant: – Dust Resistant: – Image Editor: Yes Video Editor: Yes Document Viewer: Yes Document Editor: Yes Battery Battery: 3, 000mAh non removable Li-Po battery Talktime: – Standby Time: – Fast Charging: YesThe post Lenovo S5 Specs and Price appeared first on Nigeria Technology Guide.
