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well it looks like a lot of the rumors were actually quite true HDC was going to bring a wearable into 2015 but it might not necessarily be the one that you were really expecting but nonetheless here is HTC's fitness wearable it's Josh freghar from Android authority what's going on everybody and this is the HTC grip this band style fitness tracker is the result of a partnership between HTC and Under Armour who will use their ecosystem of over 130 million users as we were told in order to bring a lot of users to this brand new fitness tracker by HTC built by HTC rather there are no buttons on the outside what screen is a curved OLED screen that allows you to have some touch inputs and there's also a capacitive key right over on the bottom in order for you to activate the fitness tracker itself we stopped short of calling it a SmartWatch because a lot of the elements inside don't necessarily make it a SmartWatch it's more of a fitness tracker than anything else but you are able to get some notifications and to receive messages and repend respond to them with canned responses and from there it's just really just a place for you to get some notifications from your smartphone while you're out maybe having a workout but isn't the fitness tracking ability that HTC is trying to go a little bit above and beyond because underneath is a GPS tracker that will track your route along with other metrics like a heart rate monitor that you will have to buy separately because there's no heart rate monitor underneath of the unit instead you will use a Bluetooth heartrate monitor for example that you may strap around your torso like from say polar or Under Armour's own that they have in their lineup but nonetheless it will connect to the heart rate monitor and be able to track your metrics in that fashion rather than have the meter on its own but the lime green actually does look quite nice it's on the inner part of the band and it's a nice textured rubber band that will feel very secure in the hand especially after you get the right size there are a few different sizes from small to medium to large but there are also extenders if you just need to get that little extra bit in order for it to fit on your wrist it is a waterproof band ip57 which is not ideal for swimming but it will be able to work through the sweat that you have during your workout and maybe get through the rain and any other conditions that are not necessarily submerging into a pool of water for example now it is very important for us to preface that these are very early units of the HTC grip and there could be enhancements not only on the design but also in the software experience in particular but nonetheless we just wanted to give you this quick look at the HTC grip this is the brand new fitness tracking wearable that HTC has put out given a partnership with Under Armour and it is a pretty exciting partnership to have and we will see once we get our hands on review units or rather put this finish tracker on our hands and wrist in order to really see if it is the kind of fitness tracker that is for you so keep it tuned to Android authority for all of the best coverage and clean more from HTC here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain 2015