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10 months with the Microsoft Band

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Adam Z. Lein

Today, my Microsoft Band kicked the bucket. After 10 months of heart rate monitoring, GPS location tracking, footstep tracking, sleep monitoring and smartphone notification displaying, it’s no longer functional. The screen has stopped responding and well… after 10 months of heavy amounts of sweat, the rest of device ain’t pretty either. If you want to see what my Microsoft Band was like when it was brand new, take a look at our original review from last year. ...

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Microsoft could already be retiring its Band wearable in anticipation of new model

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

Rumors dating back several months now have been talking about Microsoft’s follow-up effort to last year’s Band wearable, a cross-platform fitness tracker with an interesting sensor package. After those first whispers of a Band 2 arrived, we eventually saw Microsoft confirm its general plans, mentioning development of a new Band, presumably for launch later this year. That idea of the wearable arriving sooner rather than ...

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Google Now, Siri and Cortana need to be more human

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Jules Wang

No, I’m not talking about their sound. I mean, sure, developers can definitely help relating voice assistants’ with the average user by fine-tuning their voices to sound like people and not cyborgs. I think, though, that they should retain some robotic quality so that users clearly know what they’re interacting with as opposed to who.How Google Now, Siri, Cortana, or any other voice service interacts with you is more important. Important to you, the person who wants data from the internet. It’s most important to the companies behind the services which gain income ...

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Microsoft announces plans for next-gen Band wearable

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Stephen Schenck

While smartphone makers from Apple, to Motorola, to Samsung (and more) have all expanded into the world of smartwatches, other manufacturers are taking a more tempered approach, testing the waters with devices that are closer in construction and feature set to fitness trackers to full-on smartwatches: firms like HTC and Motorola fall into that camp. Last fall the latter brought us the Microsoft Band, a cross-platform wearable with a focus on exercise and health. Recently, we’ve been hearing that

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Microsoft Band will soon track your golf game in a smarter way

Posted on June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 by Jaime Rivera

We’ve struggled to love the Microsoft Band because of its rudimentary design, and it’s uncomfortable fit, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t a powerful wearable. On the contrary, the Microsoft Band has proven to be a very powerful product over the last couple of months, and this only expands as developers make use of it. Today we learn of a new game that it will be able to ...

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Microsoft Band sales return to company’s web store – but act fast

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Stephen Schenck

Late last month we saw Microsoft get into the fitness tracker game with the launch of the Microsoft Band, a cross-platform wearable with GPS, messaging support, and even a UV sensor. While the company was quick to put its Band up for sale, initial stocks were low, making it tricky to get your hands on one (at least we managed to, bringing you our review in the process). But now the Microsoft Band is ...

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Microsoft Band review: don’t call it a smartwatch

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Adam Z. Lein

The “Microsoft Band” came as a bit of a surprise when it was unveiled late last month. There weren’t any leaked pictures of the device and all we knew about it came from the Windows Store, where the Microsoft Health software appeared the night before the new wrist band went on sale in Microsoft Stores nationwide. The Band is mainly geared towards fitness tracking, though it does have quite a few “smartwatch” ...

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Smartwatches: Who’s doing it right?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Adam Doud

Now we have wearables from all three major platforms – iOS, Android, and Windows. Or at least we’ve seen announcements for all three. Apple is a little on the slow side coming to market but for the purposes of this article we’re going to assume what we saw in the demos is actually what people will be wearing. What we’re looking at here is not the aesthetics of each brand – so Microsoft Band haters can just move all those thoughts to the recycle bin for now. Rather, what we’ll be examining is the philosophy behind the wearable, because we have three distinct platforms here all ...

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There are a lot of reasons to like the Microsoft Band

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Adam Doud

Yesterday, we took a look at why the Microsoft Band is good for the Windows Phone platform, but we never really examined why the Microsoft band was good in and of itself. We touched on a few points that will be reiterated here, but now we’re going to focus on those positives, and maybe a minor negative here and there.The Microsoft Band is a 1.0 product. Let’s just go ahead and get that out of the way right now. It’s not really finished and I don’t think it’s the destination of this journey. It’s ...

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Is the Microsoft Band really what Windows Phone needs?

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Adam Doud

Last week, Microsoft quietly released a new wearable into the space – the Microsoft Band. What’s remarkable about this device was how quietly it was released considering it is the first wearable to be fully compatible with Windows Phone. Ok, Pebble fans, I know you have an app. I’m very happy for you. But this Microsoft Band is something else because it is designed to work with Windows Phone. Oh, and it works with Android and iOS too.LOLWUT?Yessir, that’s the case. The Microsoft Band is ...

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The Microsoft Band isn’t about looking good

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Jaime Rivera

The state of wearables is clearly going through experimentation, up to the point where even dictionaries struggle with the word “wearable.” Try a web search of any smartphone from back in 2006, and you’ll notice the same thing happened with smartphones, even up to the name “smart phone.” Today they’re almost entirely a slate of touch-sensitive glass, but eight years ago, you could see the oddest of form factors, from dual-sliding keyboards, to the unpopular backflip. What’s interesting is that the simplest of form factors became the predominant design, and the rest has become ...

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How many different health platforms does Microsoft need?

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Adam Z. Lein

Last week Microsoft released a new health service along with a fitness tracker called the Microsoft Band. Microsoft Health is the name of the service that goes along with it, and that’s meant as a new platform for centralizing all of your health and fitness related information. Currently the software runs on Windows Phone 8.1, Google’s Android, and Apple’s iOS so that consumers can enjoy the benefits of platform agnosticism. The new platform is also meant to be very open to both app developers and ...

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Microsoft Band unboxing and first impressions (Video)

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

Microsoft surprised us all a bit by going official with its Band fitness tracker on Thursday, but we’ve now got one in hand and are ready to share with you the unboxing experience and our first impressions on the hardware, and Microsoft Health as well.To get a proper look at the Microsoft Band unboxing experience, you know where to go – but let’s talk launch-day promotions. By paying the $199 for the Band, you’ll also get a $5 Starbucks gift card (as part of the Starbucks/Microsoft Health partnership), and one free month of RunKeeper Elite, both things that can help you ...

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Microsoft Band goes official alongside new Health service

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Rithvik Rao

It seems this is the year wearables finally take flight – Apple has one, Samsung has a bunch, LG has a couple, Pebble has two, Motorola has one, and the list goes on and on. Microsoft has given us a jolt this evening with the unexpected announcement of a new fitness tracker, the Microsoft Band, along with a wellness monitoring service dubbed Microsoft Health.The device has ten sensors to measure things such as heart rate and the ultraviolet index, along with stress levels and more. It can also last 48 hours with just one charge. Both of these things haven’t quite been matched by ...

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