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The battery lasts for two days

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa...

"For example, if you receive many notifications or run with GPS turned on, you’ll need to charge the band more often."

A smartphone can go 48 hours if you turn off all the radios too. The 48-hour claim seems mostly meaningless to me.

> A smartphone can go 48 hours if you turn off all the radios too.

My Lumia 1520 goes for longer than 48 hours, with all the radios ON.

it also has a much larger battery

Not surprising with all its features, but for wearables, that's a killer. My Fitbit can do 5-6 days, and I would consider that on the shorter end of decent battery life.

My fitbit has just emailed me to let me know it's charge time. 5-6 days isn't really enough for my useage.

However, this is better than many of the smart watches to me, why have a large circular face?

Plus the price point of $199 isn't bad at all.

The main reason I bought a garmin vivofit is that the battery lasts a year.

I love my Garmin vivosmart. 7 days of battery life but you get the smart notifications. It's pretty convenient.

The overall quality of the fitbit (both as a band and a clip) is complete crap. My wife, hardly a heavy user of such, has had the clip die within two months, the band (a replacement) started acting up within about 3 months. Bought at two separate times from two different places. Friends have similar stories.

I haven't delved into wearables yet. I mostly have used my iPhone 5s (now 6) for the motion tracking, but it certainly doesn't catch everything (let alone doesn't catch vitals) since I don't carry it everywhere.

I haven't had any issues, but my wife's Fitbit battery wouldn't stay charged for more than 2 days, within a month of getting it. Since her replacement came in, we've had no issues.

My biggest complaint with the Fitbit is the lack of any battery meter on the device itself. Unless you sync frequently, you wouldn't know when your battery is running low.

Up to 48 hours.

You can bet that is with everything off. Looks like its going to be a 1 day device with GPS/Heart Rate and moderate usage.

If it can get more than 3 hours with the GPS turned on, I'll be very, very impressed.

Gets five hours with GPS.

That's very impressive - my iPhone 5, with "GPS Tracks" (my favorite waypoint tracking device), with the screen off for most of the time, gets a little over 4 hours before the battery dies out.

If I can get a solid 16 hours out of it - this will be a killer product.

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