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I thought I saw it all in the wearable world but that's before I got my hands on the Huawei talk band b2 this device is part activity tracker and the other part is a bluetooth earpiece for making phone calls when you receive a call on your smartphone the talk band will vibrate and either display the name of the contact calling or the phone number you can then pop out that your piece place it in your ear and begin a conversation on my end things sounded pretty good but for the people I was speaking with it sounded like I was far away or was talking to them on speakerphone but this is only one of the features the talk Dan can do it's also an activity tracker that's capable of measuring the steps you take distance traveled calories burned and your sleep at night there's also a vibration on board that can be used to wake you up in the morning or remind you to get up and move unfortunately battery life is a problem Huawei claims you'll get around six days depending on how much you use the device but I got only three and a half days and that wasn't with many phone calls this is a lot worse than other activity trackers most of which can last at least a week I'm also not the biggest fan of the overall design the earpiece makes it bulky the screen is hard to read outdoors and the device is only splash proof so you can't wear it in the shower or the pool the one shining feature about the talk band is that's the first third-party device that can sync with Jawbone's powerful up software this opens the door to jawbone smart coaching and insights that I find really helped motivate me to reach my health and fitness goals syncing wasn't always smooth though because you still have to sync with Huawei's mobile app which will then sync to the jawbone app you're just better off buying a cheaper and in my opinion better job on up to or the Fitbit charge the talk band b2 is available now in the US for $180 for more information be sure to check out my full review over at cnet.com I'm Dan Rydell prasena and that was a first look at the Huawei talk band v2