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this ain't no apple watch and it isn't Android wear either your Fitbit nor jawbone is this thing anywhere in between well I'm Jules along with the pocket now and this is our review of the hallway talk band b2 our Beatty unit came with a 22 millimeter thermoplastic polyurethane band it has plastic in the name but it's been made to resist sweat and oils it's okay as plastic feels and goes but there's also a leather band option if that's not your style the module that's attached to a band holds the device itself and while it's water-resistant it's not waterproof so don't go to the shower with it the manual tells you to wipe it dry if you happen to get it wet pressing the one button on the b2 turns on a monochrome Pima LED touchscreen which can also be activated by either raising or violently flicking your wrist without a GPS the talk band relies on a 6 axis gyro scope and an accelerometer for measurements using the device is simple after connecting the talk band with your phone of choice via bluetooth and downloading the hallway wear app you sleep you exercise and you let the b2 track it all for you specifically it can vlog walking running stair mastering and biking if you saw my 24 hours video the talk band b2 had a little trouble doing all of that it seems that the device can confuse walking with running or even cycling given the right conditions I can verify doubts about the sleep tracking as well it had me awake for an hour in which I was actually still sleeping it takes an hour and a half to charge the b2 from zero to full and while alway claims a theoretical 5 days of use I found myself getting between 3 or 4 without the headset and between one and a half and two and a half days with some streaming radio your Bluetooth connection the number of phones you connect to the band yes you can actually do two of them captain two phones and overall mileage may vary probably the device out of the tray we reveal the charging port and the earpiece listening to media through that year piece we found audio quality to be on par with headphone output but the volume was lacking even in moderate background noise to not take a call on the b2 you can long press the button on the device to take a call on the b2 you have the option of single pressing the button or releasing the earpiece from the tray but the dual microphone setup didn't provide the best voice pickup respondents initially said my voice intermittently got clipped no matter how close I was to the phone it took a little bit of adjusting the earpiece before the caller deemed sound quality tolerable but still average so what did hallway set out to do with the talk B&B - not much but it didn't do not much that well perhaps if there was GPS or there were better designed earpieces maybe it could work at 180 US dollars though we don't think so quite yet our hallway coverage continues with the p8 Lite video review shortly in the meantime if you like what you saw here please consider thumbing up this video as well as subscribing to pocket now if you haven't already and visiting pocketnow.com I'm Jules Wong at green point 0 on Twitter can I stop running yet let's see you soon