We are excited to announce that our Android native app is now available. Download the app at the Google Play store or search for “Basis” on the Play store on your Android phone. Of course, you’ll need a Basis band as well as one of the phones we currently support.

Fitting Health into Your Day

We’ve designed the app to seamlessly integrate with our interactive web experience and, most importantly, help you find more ways to fit healthy habits into your day. Check out our product overview video including mobile as well as some of the app highlights below.

Hassle-Free Syncing

Sync data wirelessly and automatically from your Basis Band via Bluetooth. Keep the most current data in your hands at all times.

Quick Checks on the Go

Track your habits or get daily summaries anytime, anywhere. Dive deeper into the insights of each day.

Check an activity habit like Don’t Be A Sitter over the course of the day or check your Get More Sleep habit each morning.

Check your daily summary of habits, activity and sleep. You can even chart your steps and calories for each activity.

Get Notifications on Your Progress

Basis sends you reminders on your progress through the app. Get notified for your achievements or get nudges to help you hit your weekly goal. You can also you use widgets to track your habits right on your phone home screen.

Wait, There’s More…

• Helpful demo videos are waiting for you on our YouTube channel, as are our helpful customer support folks at our mobile support section.

• For those who are curious about why were slightly delayed:  Our engineers wanted to ensure that Bluetooth syncing worked well across all our supported handsets. Since connectivity varies by handset and manufacturer, it took us a little bit more time to ensure that this top-requested feature worked great.

• Finally, here’s a list of the current Android phones we support. We focused our efforts on the phones most of our users would have. Sorry if your phone isn’t officially supported yet but check back as we’ll continue to add more phones over time.

iPhone Anyone?

If you’ve read this far and have an iPhone, here’s your reward. Our iPhone app is in internal testing and will be coming up next!

Thanks,

The Basis Team

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How will this work?

Learning from our December launch, we are using a special invitation system. And while we can’t say when you’ll get your individual invitation, here’s what we are doing to ensure a smooth process overall:

• First-Come, First-Served. To keep things fair, we are sending invites out in the order you signed up (so that our earliest fans are served first). 
• Invitations When Available. We are only sending out as many invites as we can support with available inventory (to minimize backorders). The timing of your invitation can vary based on the response of fans ahead of you in line.
• Exclusively for Fans. The special invite is set up for a one-time-only purchase by you. It won’t work if someone uses it for a purchase and then shares the link via email, Facebook, etc. Our public store won’t be open until all invitations are sent.
• U.S. Orders For Now. We are only supporting U.S.-based orders at this time. Apologies to our International fans who may be receiving this email inadvertently.

If you haven’t signed up on our notification list, we encourage you to go to get.mybasis.com to get in line for an invitation. We will invite everyone on the list before we open the store to the public.

If you haven’t been keeping up on Basis, be sure to check out some of our great reviews from PC Magazine and Popular Science. You can also visit our product tour and our website. Want to know if Basis heart rate tracking right for you? Read our blog post on what’s covered.

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to getting you a Basis band!

The Basis Team

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We’re very excited about getting the app in your hands. Some highlights include: hassle-free automatic syncing, monitoring your progress anywhere, anytime and mobile notifications on your activities and habits to keep you on track. We’ve design the app to seamlessly integrate with our interactive web experience. Here are some screenshots shared by one user just this week:

Syncing data via Bluetooth on the app home screen.

Tracking midweek progress on the Afternoon Lap habit.

Quick checks of activity and sleep from the day and previous night.

Getting a midday notification on the Step It Up habit.

With some of your help, we’ve put the app through its paces over the past few months in our beta testing. We’ve learned a lot and continue to add some final touches to create that seamless experience. In fact, you’ve probably already noticed some changes in preparation for launch – the recent Basis Sync update and some refinements to our web interface.

As we approach the release, you can expect even more enhancements – new firmware to enable Bluetooth on your band and more web app updates – and then the release of the mobile app itself. While we’ll be sending important updates directly to current users, you can also check our release notes for the latest.

Thanks again for your patience. Believe us – we’re as excited as you to get the app in your hands!

The Basis Team

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Scroll down to the bottom for what we discovered, as well as add your own insights! You can also click on the image to dive deeper.

What does it all mean?

Here are some things we discovered and questions we asked from the data. Add your own in the comments section!

• People followed similar patterns: Even with the craziness of SXSW, people fall into common patterns driven by the realities of the show – 9am wake up calls to get to mid-morning panels, long mid-day periods of low activity as people attend panels and 2:30am bedtimes as parties wrap and the bar scene dies down.
• Starting Strong: The highest activity was on the first day when most participants are still fresh and energized (and a lighter panel schedule). However, by Sunday, steps had dropped to their lowest point. Was it a midway show slump? Good day for panels? One likely reason was the steady rain that day.
• Sleeping See Saw: We saw the highest and lowest days of hours slept on the last two days of our experiment. Were people resting up for one final late night out? Big party night? One definite factor was people catching early flights that last morning.
• Taking it to Heart: We saw a range of heart rates as people participated in panels and interviews – from 67bpm to 101bpm. What drove it? It depends on the individual and the circumstances. For example, Michael C. was standing while moderating –  that adds 5 to 10 bpm. Jef had just walked to his interview with Robert so he hadn’t quite recovered before starting the interview. Esther’s lower resting heart rate leads to a lower “talking” heart rate.

Hope you enjoyed our analysis. It was definitely a fun way to learn more about people’s patterns and habits.

Thanks,

The Basis Team

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Designing Habits: From Big Data to Small Changes
Speaker Panel with Basis CEO, Jef Holove
Friday, March 8th, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Sheraton Austin Creekside, 701 E 11th, Austin, TX
Encore Performance, Monday, May 11th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm

What Does Guitar Hero Have to Do with Your Health?
Panel with Basis Founder, Nadeem Kassam & Kai Huang, Guitar Hero
Tuesday, March 11th, 11:00am – 12:00 pm
Sheraton Austin Creekside, 701 E 11th, Austin, TX

This Week in Startups: Health Tech Edition
Hosted by Jason Calacanis
Speaker Panel with Basis Founder, Nadeem Kassam
Friday, March 8th, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Salon D, Hilton Downtown Lobby

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Exhibit merging social media, art, technology, and wellness into an engaging offline experience. Including Basis demo area.
Saturday, March 9th – Tuesday, March 12th, Demos from 1pm – 6pm
AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave, Austin, TX

Winner’s Circle at Rackspace Open Cloud
Basis product and mobile app demo
Monday, March 11th, 9am – 6pm
Champions Sports Bar and Restaurant at the Courtyard Marriot, 300 East 4th Street, Austin, TX

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First of all, we sincerely appreciate everyone’s patience so far and look forward to taking new orders soon. We’ve been flattered by the tremendous interest in Basis over the past few months. We’ve received positive feedback from current customers on our unique multi-sensor and healthy habits approach, as well as valuable feedback on potential improvements for future releases. We’ve also had some great reviews in the press and recently announced additional funding and advisors, including Deepak Chopra.

Of course, all of this has led to even more demand for Basis, so we’ve been exploring improvements to our manufacturing process in order to keep up. We’re eager to produce more Basis bands and ramp up production faster to serve you. Unfortunately, for a device like this, it is complex to make manufacturing changes while not disrupting our ability to deliver current orders. As the saying goes in the start-up world: ‘it is like changing the tires on the bus as you are driving it down the highway’.

Regardless, we are applying some significant changes, including upgrading manufacturing facilities, implementing new processes and investing in new resources to expand our production. These changes take time, but will help meet future demand.

At the same time, we are creating a private store system for the initial new orders that is designed to reward those who have been with us the longest and have indicated a desire to purchase a band. This means we will be inviting people from our waiting lists – from both before and after our November launch – to place new orders, based on when they signed up. The invitation can’t be shared on social media or email – a lesson learned from our initial launch.  We won’t open the Basis store to the general public until we’ve served those fans. This also means signing up  today at get.mybasis.com will still get you in the queue for an invitation (so we highly recommend it!).

We’ll be shipping in waves to the customers who reply to our invitation. Our waitlists number into tens of thousands and date back to well before launch.  Given we want to be fair to those that signed up earlier with a chance to respond before moving to the next wave, this process will take some time. As the pace of things becomes more concrete, we will of course provide updates on the progress.

Thanks again for all your patience. We believe it will be rewarded when you do get your band.

The Basis Team

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