My Microsoft BAND kindly said goodnight to me last night when I put it in sleep mode.
This morning it gave me simple clear information: Sleep Quality 93%…some things don’t change and 10 years on such simple, focussed sleep information is given by the WHOOP 4 strap.
Isn’t that the KEY information we need? I’ve spent ages with other manufacturers trawling through complicated graphs of highs and lows of sleep cycles. In reality, are we going to trawl through that data every day for the rest of our lives?
Of course not.
93% is the simple 1 second to read info we need.
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This sort of thing shows that Microsoft have actually thought about the USER EXPERIENCE of the device rather than just features and functions
Last Updated on 13 January 2026 by the5krunner
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Better than Jaybird REIGN?
well that is a very good question indeed. And one that I hope to be able to answer in due course. I have heard some EXCELLENT things about the REIGN and am talking with them. At present I have no material comment to make.