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Not surprising with all its features, but for wearables, that's a killer. My Fitbit can do 5-6 days, and I would consider that on the shorter end of decent battery life.
The main reason I bought a garmin vivofit is that the battery lasts a year.
The battery lasts for two days http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa...
A smartphone can go 48 hours if you turn off all the radios too. The 48-hour claim seems mostly meaningless to me.
Do you wear it on the inside of your wrist? Otherwise wouldn't the display be sideways?
Looks interesting and good on Microsoft for finally getting in front of a new hardware trend. I kind of wonder if all these health trackers are just going to be a fad though. Do you really need to micromanage every calorie and heart beat with a $200 gadget? There's a ton of hand waving about combining all the data, synergies, etc. but what are the actual benefits of these devices over just regular checkups with a doc…
Yep definitely a fad. I used up band religiously for a year couple of years when it came out. After a while I got sick of one more thing to keep track of, was just too overbearing. I see a counter trend where technology becomes invisible, fades into background and still works for us instead of being in out faces all the time. Smartphones, smart glasses, smart watches everything that wants a piece of our attention is…
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Hardware-wise, I'd say yes. I haven't used a Lumia but the Zune-HD and Surface were actually well made.
Xbox 360?
Yes, the RROD was a huge debacle and too many lost money on broken Xboxes. That doesn't change the fact that people bought 70 million of the things, and generally seemed to love them.
Got a nice package of on board sensors: Optical heart rate sensor 3-axis accelerometer/gyro GPS Ambient light sensor Skin temperature sensor UV sensor Microphone Haptic vibration motor The 2 day battery life is the one turn off for me. Otherwise this is actually quite nice for $199 cross platform fitness wearable
Must say, looks very very alluring.
Edit:- Sizing:- http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/sizing
From the accessories it looks like it can be wirelessly charged, and has BLE:- http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/buy/productI...
Edit2:- Does not look like wireless charging. It is "Connector: Magnetically coupled connector to USB"
Do you wear it on the inside of your wrist? Otherwise wouldn't the display be sideways?
Also, people keep saying it is so small, it certainly doesn't look like it to me, especially on the sides it looks relatively thick.
I'm going to be out in Redmond soon, hope to see some in the wild.
Finally a Microsoft product that isn't stupidly handcuffed to their ecosystem. Microsoft has amazing engineers still, and they must be frustrated that they aren't allowed to produce the best device they can, regardless of os. I hope for their sake this thing does well.
This isn't 'finally'. This 'new Microsoft' has been doing this for a while.