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When at my desk working, I usually have my Microsoft Band sitting in the charging stand, connected to my PC. That way I can glance down at the time pretty easily, have the band fully charged when I'm ready to get up and do something exercise-y...
In a recent post, I offered a tip for getting more battery life out of the Microsoft Band when performing and monitoring lengthy fitness activities. The tip involves shutting off unnecessary band features to extend available juice.
But, base...
One of the biggest drawbacks of any fitness tracking device is battery life, particularly when the device has a huge number of options that can soak juice quickly. The Microsoft Band is not alone in this, however, due to the depth of features ...
Microsoft continues to add additional integrations for fitness services. When Microsoft released the Microsoft Band late last year, it provided 3rd party integration with RunKeeper and myfitnesspal out of the gate, but then recently added mapmy...
I don't know if you've ever noticed, but when a blockbuster movie is released there are generally 2 or 3 similarly themed movies that follow. Such is the case for a new series of Microsoft Band apps. A week or so ago, it seems one developer f...
“Redmond, we have a problem.”
OK – so this issue is not comparable to the emergency the astronauts faced on Apollo 13 and it is certainly not the end of the world by any means however, if you use Microsoft Band and travel in vehicles for a l...
As part of a troubleshooting experience with Microsoft Band support recently, the rep had me perform a "soft reset" of the device. I had never had to perform this before, and frankly had no idea this option existed. The reset didn't help my par...
For the past week or so, I've had an issue where my PC no longer recognizes the Microsoft Band when I plug it into the USB port. It charges fine, just won't show up as a registered USB component in Device Manager. I noticed this shortly after a...
Just a couple days ago I reported that Microsoft will soon be enhancing its Microsoft Health application, the framework that provides monitoring and statistics storage for the Microsoft Band. Those changes started yesterday afternoon with a n...
The Microsoft Band is already a fantastic fitness device. I was a skeptic and considered waiting until a version 2 of the devices was available. But, once I saw new features rolling in through updates, I decided not to wait. And, I'm glad I too...