This is a high quality, activity tracker that also supports low- to medium-level sporty activity with an inbuilt optical HR sensor. Positives: It looks great. It is compatible on iOS, Android and Windowsphone. It has optical HR AND it has GPS in the device. It has a high-resolution screen. The battery life is fantastic considering all the…
Why isn’t there a Polar Optical HR Sensor? After all Polar have been the gold standard in sport HR monitors for a long time. Why has it taken Garmin so long to pair up with MIO Global to include MIO’s optical HR technology in the new Garmin 225? The answer is that these companies want…
Microsoft has got it right with the Microsoft BAND. It’s a cutting edge, hi-tech product that works. It’s directly comparable with the Apple Watch – better in some respects, less so in others. The key thing is the 2 day battery life, the Apple Watch will hardly last you from dawn ‘til dusk. For that…
I’m in the late stages of my Microsoft Band release and was bemoaning the lack of exporting or sharing of detailed data. No need…here’s strava!! Super cool. Also linking to MAPMYRIDE these will let us get lap data and the detailed HR data out of the BAND environment. I should be able to do a…
I’ve had the Microsoft BAND for a few weeks now and I have had a good chance to play with it, hopefully looking at it from what you would consider to be an ‘athletic’ perspective. It’s good. If you want a review on the SMS/text and notifications features and how to press the two buttons then,…
Here is the rather pretty and comfortable FITBIT CHARGE. It comes in nicely under £85 in April 2015. It’s a straightforward activity tracker and sleep monitor that benefits from FITBIT’s excellent web and smartphone applications. FITBIT is one of the larger players in the wearables market and this kind of product from them exemplifies why.…
I’ve just finished a rather sweaty indoor bike/turbo session. Sweaty because today is hot, it was an endurance session going into Z3/Z4 at times (if that means anything to you, if not it means ‘fairly hard’). I had the Microsoft BAND in ‘bike’ mode (silly really as there wasn’t much of a GPS signal indoors…
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% 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…
Ahead of a more detailed review I’ve just unwrapped my Microsoft Band ahead of tomorrow’s launch when everyone can get to play too. First superficial impressions? Looks AWESOME Extremely intuitive setup Requires virtually no user input to get setup What I have seen of the interface is super-intuitive Not yet looked at all the pretty…
—– Microsoft Press Release Follows Verbatim ——————————- Microsoft Health and Microsoft Band to launch in the UK on 15 April Microsoft announces its first smart band for health and fitness is coming to the UK next month and is available for pre-order from today Microsoft Band is the first device to work alongside the Microsoft…
How exciting ! The Microsoft Band is about to hit the UK. I first opened the image below and thought it was a new Transformers Movie (Luckily not!!). I have a friend or 2 with Microsoft (Windows) Phones who will be delighted. There’s a slideshow of all the images I have below. Hopefully they will provide…
