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Nike+ FuelBand SE hands-on preview

2013-10-15
this is Danberg with the verge and we are looking at the new Nike Plus FuelBand se which is an update of glass fuel band it now comes in four different colors this one is yellow but it's called volts and there's also total crimson pink foil and an all black version and is pretty much very similar to last year's except it is a bit more durable nike says so one notable addition to the bracelet is going to be a new double tap to show the time you just tap twice on the button and it'll medially show you what time it is which it was kind of difficult to tap through and see the time last time the display is going to be exactly the same and it shows everything like that the biggest improvements are going to be with the new app and the old version will work with the new application but a few of the new features will not be available with the new band you can also you can now have something called sessions which allows you to track individual activities to be activated from the band or on the app by pressing this button and what it allows you to do is login what type of session you're going to be doing and then start it and it'll show you in real time how many fuel points you're earning as well as it has a color indicator to show basically how much of fuel points you are earning during each of your activities so you can watch this in real time if you're running or have it run in the background all of your different sessions are going to be saved so once you stop this you can go back through and view all of your sessions you can add pictures you can send these to your friends share them with your friends and it will let you visualize which activities get you closer to bringing up your total fuel points the application is still iOS only so there's no Android app there's no Windows Phone 8 although it does also sync with their website and you can use that to track it all in all if you like to the old fuel band you're going to like this new one and the sessions ability is very cool because you can also use it to track sleep which the last FuelBand couldn't do it's going to be available on November 6th and the app and the new band are going to be released on the same day and the new band is going to cost 149
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