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Microsoft band is designed for hardcore cyclists golfers and me regular people who want to get healthy the band came out last year and introduced heart rate tracking all the time at GPS the ability to track sleep and a lot of apps that added communication features including some poor tonic connected stuff if you had a windows from this is the new band and what's different well mostly the design before it was a little stiffer now this wraps around my wrist feels more comfortable the batteries now tucked underneath and this has a curved screen so nice curved Gorilla Glass and its supposed to be better for wet fingers I'll test that some other time plus it has a barometer so you can check out elevation which is important for a lot of people to work out the rest of it is not that much changed it seems 48 hour battery life like before but the differences are really about a an evolution its banking that if you have one of these before you'll still be able to use a lot of the updated Microsoft software that also exists on the Microsoft health app because a lot of what the band does is cloud connected it's trying to track and guide your uses and your habits to be a little more helpful day to day as that evolves will be interesting to see how much micro set bang can be like that the band comes out knocked over later in October for $249 a little more expensive than the first band but it feels better and hey it's not that much more than before how this stacks up to a very large growing field of fitness trackers and smart watches that are also fitness trackers lot to test out but very few are making the types of coaching and lifestyle claims the Microsoft is I'm Scott Stein here with the new Microsoft band