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I spent about 8 hours using this today. Some notes.

  + It does feel heavy at first, but I got used to it pretty quickly. 

  + I plugged it in to charge and it seemed to be stuck at 80%. This may be because of the port I was using so I can't lay blame on Band. 

  + The charging mechanism is solid and feels great. 
  + I keep wanting to swipe the screen to turn it on (you need to press the "home" button).

  + I went for a 1.5 mi run. It took *4 minutes* to lock in GPS. This is in a fairly populated area, but the I was kind of in the woods. My iPhone has zero issues locking into GPS. 

  + It mirrors all my notifications from my iPhone which I love. 

  + After running, I went straight to Starbucks and tried to pay with the band but failed because the screen does not respond to sweaty fingers. This is partly my fault.

  + Haven't detected any UV yet. 

  + HR locking is quick.

Your phone can't lock to GPS faster because it can use cell towers to narrow down your position first. The Band should lock more quickly now that it has a general idea of where you are. I have a Garmin GPS watch, and the initial lock does take a long time.

Thanks, you are correct. I tried again a few hours later from home (about 50 miles away from my initial test) and it locked within 30 seconds.

Edit: I've had it plugged into my MBP to charge for about 35 minutes and it still said 80%. After turning it completely off and back on fixed this (now says 100%).

Edit2: I really wish I could play music via bluetooth with this.

The very first GPS lock for a device in a new area takes a while because it has to download the satellite positions first. After that (if you haven't moved too far away in the meantime) subsequent GPS fixes should be much faster.

(Quoting Wikipedia: »in order to obtain an accurate satellite location from this transmitted message the receiver must demodulate the message from each satellite it includes in its solution for 18 to 30 seconds. In order to collect all the transmitted almanacs the receiver must demodulate the message for 732 to 750 seconds or 12 1/2 minutes.«)

>I really wish I could play music via bluetooth with this.

I was really hoping for that when reading through everything it could do. I know it can't do everything but most of the power at that point would be on the headphones right? I'd be surprised if that doesn't show up at some point.

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