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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here there is just a cab with clade of fitness bands out there smart watches and other wearables are claimed to do pretty close to the same thing what I found though is you've got to pick an allegiance to an operating system if you want to use it if you want to use Android wear obviously it's Android if you want to buy an upcoming Apple watch you got to pick an Apple watch pebble has kind of straddled that line of cross-platform compatibility but not many others do it the Microsoft band surprisingly will work pretty close to fully with iOS with Android and with Windows Phone and it doesn't pretty well let's go and take a look here is the Microsoft band and it's a lot of things it's a SmartWatch it's a fitness tracker it's a UV sensor heartrate monitor one of the things it's not those overly good-looking is a bit on the clunky side as you can see right here Microsoft does have a variety of sizes and one thing I like about it is that it is adjustable like it's a regular watch man without having to worry about sort of threading through any sort of holes you just pop it right in and you can slide to adjust it to your wrist they also offer sizing charts on lines to make sure when you walk into a store or went online you're gonna order the one that is right for you so a quick visual tour where we talk about all the stuff this can do the band it's got two little prongs that you push in opens up and it's going to reveal on the bottom that is a heart monitor which will glow a super bright green when it trying to get your heart rate and on the bottom that is where the magnetic charging port is going to levantar plugs in via USB a battery life on this guy I've been able to easily get two days I pushed it to two and a half days at CES so not something you have to worry about charging every day despite having a full color LCD display so you give that LCD display it is going to scratch it is going to show nicks and it's going to show dirt so the first thing I recommend you buy after you buy your smart band it's also getting a screen protector for it I did not put one on here I want to see how the screen performed and worked and you can probably see what happened after about seven days of using that's about six and a half I actual days of usage time so I'll let aside let me show you what it can do and show you how it's gonna integrate with your phone so you I controlled by two buttons you've got a home and power button that's gonna wake it up and hold it down I'll turn it off and you have an action button you can do a couple things with the UI here if you just tap it you go ahead and see what you've done for the day so you can see your steps you can see the amount of miles that you've walked calories and it's all customizable as well where'd you go and that kind of stuff and there's a back arrow that goes back and if you want to swipe to the right you can see that it's a blue - if there's your battery level and let me know the heart rate sensor is indeed working if you just want to swipe the other direction you can get sort of your SmartWatch type stuff you can see your text from - your emails and even your miss phone quality and customize this quite a bit as we'll talk about it also go through and see other actions you want you got on here one things I really like on it I think of nothing I've seen on other smart bands before and I think I've ever used these other smart band is a UV sensor I'll tell you what the UV levels are outside if it's hazardous or not and then on the way I've got mine set up is on settings so it works pretty well let me go ahead and bring in a phone and share with you I would click the other story - the Microsoft bands how it's been interact with your device I'm gonna show you on iOS Android experience is exactly the same it's also the exact same on Windows Phone but on Windows Phone you get the gigantic added benefit of having Cortana so you do anything you can do with your virtual assistant that Cortana can do right from your wrist so the app is Microsoft health open that up it seems to be a Bluetooth with your device to pull up all the information so here's what I've done today I've been kind of active my goal is about five to seven thousand steps per day so you know I'm halfway there it's about two o'clock here California time you can customize tiles and add a lot more so the main app is broken up into two sections you've got your menu section up here and you've got a full customization option here to show you how to serve make this your own go ahead and pull back and I'll show you some of these things here so find a work that was interesting and I'll sort of help you with workouts that predetermine workouts if you want to sort of pick your favorites or browse workouts even by brand you can see it's sort of they've partnered with a few different folks to sort of give you the best workout experience in the band to actually help you with that the profile I mentioned it's a profile you set up when you first get started connected apps a few third-party apps here that'll work sort of do other additional things mostly Fitness things RunKeeper and My Fitness Pal the more should certainly be coming go ahead and go back and go it's done about and thence out when I first got this advice it was all done up in purple screen was purple everything was purple oh no I'm not a not a purple guy so you can go ahead and customize pretty much anything you want there so personalize band you can pick your color any color that you want here I preferred discrete you pick wallpaper different color wallpapers I just wanted plain black they're gonna be better for battery life they get a preview of what it look like but more addressing than that I think is the tiles you can show so go ahead and go to manage tiles this is where you can see all the things that the band is capable so again this is with iOS but Android is gonna be the same Windows Phone is the same you can pick what notifications are going to show up a new certification is gonna come with a little bit of haptic feedback a vibration on your wrist so for me I've got messaging mail called I turn calendar off could have run can turn off your exercise door sleep counter it'll tell you when you want to sleep and give you some information on your rest an alarm guided workout weather which I like would go and flip weather on Finance UVs tell you what the weather is outside if it's safe to be out there with ultraviolet light a Starbucks app which a lot of folks were quite excited about to actually access your Starbucks app break from your phone Facebook facebook Messenger Twitter anything that comes with Notification Center you can show right from your watch go ahead and hit save and now get weather all throughout to show off right on my watch it's syncing and next time I go there it'll be there so let's go ahead and take a look I'm sure that's there now all my tiles and there's a weather icon I can select that and it's syncing trying to figure out where I am using the GPS on my phone and it'll give me the weather for or vine there you go so what it is now today a little bit about tomorrow and you can see it's a full color display and I was really surprised at how well battery life lasted oh so one of the things I wanted to try with this I was kind of interested in you know I got a kid I'm trying to be healthier ultimate rate was sort of not very high I want to keep a nice healthy arresting heart rate between 65 to 75 s let me show you how the heart rate monitor works on here I'll go to put this guy back on my wrist yeah the lens it goes high right away and then drops back down so one four 99 to 76 which is about right maybe got four if I've hired that usually is and turn that back on and it's still locked if I go ahead and kind of jump around a little bit think about having to pay taxes sue and other things that make me nervous I should be able to see the heart rate start to go up a little bit so it's really cool to be able to track this throughout the day and sort of see when I got stressed out or when I didn't and sort of helped engage to start mitigate that unnecessary an additional stress a couple thing that we should had it wish I had a proximity sensor which if I sort of did something to my wrist it would light up before I brought it up to my face it would light up don't wait to turn on right now is just to use that home button and then of course the action button to do whatever action that you want overall though I've been really happy to Microsoft band I kind of went in with little expectations in a blew me away I haven't worn a fitness band since the Nike FuelBand about a year and a half ago but this one's been really nice actually I put my pebble steel aside everything this is both a fitness band and a SmartWatch and been really pleased with it so if you're looking to pick one up it's gonna cost you $200 from buy it from Microsoft Store or online make sure you print out the sizing chart first if they're right one for you what do you guys think is something you would use not usual to your thoughts on it until next time I'm John rende you're from TechnoBuffalo see you guys next video we stopped the video just real fast to thank our friends and good peeps at Lenovo no longer do you need a smelly rubber mat to get your yoga on I want to tell you about the Lenovo yoga 3 Pro there's a laptop that just doesn't want to be one type of laptop it wants to be everything and it does so many cool things got a ton of different modes including laptop mode stand mode pet mode and tablet mode and the thing could launch off at this pace of probably would two features a ridiculously gorgeous 3200 by 1800 pixel 13.3 inch multi-touch display crazy thin Intel Core M processor 7.2 hours battery life JBL speakers and way more and also tense mode thank you guys for watching and hope you enjoy we are people just like you who 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