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But it has no color, no touchscreen, and no other smartwatch features. Its battery lasts five or six days, and its screen shows you incoming messages and calls. It’s a comfortable, heart-tracking band that’s accurate and a joy to use. It strikes a unique halfway position on the spectrum between fitness band and smartwatch.Įarlier this year, I tested 22 fitness bands and declared the winner to be the $150 Fitbit Charge HR. Is it the best band of them all?īut never mind all that: The Band 2 is one of the most successful fitness wearables ever made.

That’s one of the best parts of those products: health through humiliation. But charging every other day - yikes.Īnd weirdly, you can’t sync your data with other Band owners’ to show off and egg each other on, as you can with rivals like the Fitbit and Up bands. The charging cord snaps magnetically onto the Band’s clasp, which is cool. The battery lasts only two days, which is a royal pain. (Not many smartwatches are, but there are some - the LG G Watch R and the Sony SmartWatch 3, for example.) It’s fine with heavy sweat, washing your hands, and running in light rain, but showers and swimming pools are off-limits. the Smart Alarm reserves the right to wake you up to 30 minutes earlier, if it can find a lighter-phase opportunity. In fact, at your option, the Band can try to wake you at the lightest phase of your sleep cycle, on the theory that you’ll avoid “sleep inertia” grogginess that way. One beauty of having a touchscreen: You can set the alarm right on the watch, without having to fiddle with your phone. The Band can also act as a silent alarm, waking you by vibrating on your wrist. It sometimes gives you really whacked-out estimates for when you went to sleep.

Unfortunately, the autodetecting algorithm is really flawed. It takes two button presses to do that, which isn’t a deal killer.īut rival bands can figure out on their own when you’ve fallen asleep.Īctually, the Microsoft Band can do autodetecting too, which is great if you forget to press the buttons. Sleep trackingįor best results, you’re supposed to tell the Band when you’re turning out the light at bedtime and when you’re awake again. Microsoft makes you go to the Web site on your computer to see this kind of thing. Rival bands, like Fitbit and Up, let you see graphs of your sleep over the week or the month, which is handy. One frustration: You can’t see historical graphs in the phone app itself. Once you’ve completed at least five strenuous runs or bike rides, you’ll start seeing your VO2 max data on the Web screen. It is, Microsoft says, “the most precise measure of overall cardiovascular fitness.” Thanks to a partnership with TaylorMade, the watch can help you find a nearby golf course - and then track your progress through the course, keeping tabs on your swings, distance, pace, and so on.Īnd by the way: Unlike most bands, this one can track VO2 max, a measurement of the maximum volume of oxygen an athlete can use.

There’s even a Starbucks tile so that you can pay for your coffee by waving your wrist, and an Uber tile that lets you summon a car ride with a tap. Camera Band Control turns the Band into a remote-control shutter release for your phone’s camera.

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For example, Torch for Band blasts the screen full white so you can use it as a flashlight. There’s no avalanche of apps for the Band, as there is for the Apple Watch.

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There’s no food-logging feature in the Band app, as there is with Fitbit and Up - but you can link the Band with the fantastic, free Lose It! food-tracking app. You can share its data with popular apps from other companies, like Strava, MapMyFitness, Runkeeper, MyFitnessPal, and so on. Your fitness data isn’t locked into the Microsoft app.

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In the unlikely event that you own a Windows Phone, you can use Cortana to dictate notes and reminders to your phone with your voice.

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But if you have an Android or Windows Phone, you can respond to text messages with canned responses. Microsoft? Creating products that work seamlessly with its rivals? Something weird is going on.

But here’s the shocker: Unlike any other touchscreen smartwatch, the Band works with any brand of phone: iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone.