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there's a magical spot between fitness band and smartwatch and has microsoft just nailed it i'm scott stein and right here on my hand is the Microsoft band this thing came out of nowhere like a bat in the night but here it is and it's a hundred ninety nine dollars now what does this do that other fitness bands do when your Microsoft and fitness band you're not necessarily going to go I got to have that but damn it if this thing didn't really cover all the bases this has a heart rate monitor that tracks your heart rate 24 hours a day it also tracks your steps of course it has built-in GPS so if you're a hardcore runner you could use this without your phone go for a run or a walk and it'll track where you've been it has workouts that you can download with partners like gold's gym and men's fitness and you can download them right to this it tells you to do push-ups or to take a break and it coaches you along the way it tracks sleep but it also does it with your heart rate so you get a deeper analysis of what your resting heart rate is and also maybe a little more on the quality of sleep that you got oh did I mention also the UV sensor no fitness band is a UV sensor this will tell you how much Sun you're getting and then you get into the smart side of things this gets notifications it gets mail phone calls it gets Twitter Facebook weather stocks it also connects with your calendar and if your Microsoft user it also has a built-in microphone so you could talk to it to Cortana and use it to set reminders and interact with it as an extra little carrot on a stick so it's got all that plus apparently a 48 hour battery life stay tuned for seen at testing five hours if you're going to be using it on gps for running that is a complete package you could use it as a full SmartWatch you could use it as a fitness band you could use it as a deep workout band how well does this all work while we're going to have to see and microsoft claims a certain element of machine learning so the stuff is stored in the cloud and that they're going to give you insights along the way to coach you sort of like what jawbone does with its job on up 24 which makes us love that platform so much and they're claiming to work with other partners to integrate other services into it is the perfect band well too soon to tell but I don't think there's anything on the market that's this ambitious and 199 dollars it's only fifty dollars more than some of those fitness bands that we've been seeing just in the past few months that only have basic fitness tracking capabilities and this works on all three platforms to I'm Scott Stein with the Microsoft band the most ambitious Fitness band and smart device on the market seems like it