It looks like you'd have the ability to control/turn off all the notifications you don't want. Why would you assume that wouldn't be the case? http://www.microsoft.com/Microsoft-Band/en-us/support/phone-...

i never assumed it wasn't the case.

Then why would you complain about getting alerts if they can be disabled? Or are you complaining about the idea of other people being able to get alerts because you don't approve of the concept?

This is going to sound silly but here's my thing: the Band is built around receiving notifications, that means that even if you disable them, you'll still see text message icons, emails, etc. even if you can't use them.

I want to look at my watch and see "hey, you've walked 30,000 steps today", not "you know, you can check all this crap on here!".

It's the concept, and it's also that mental reminder that you MAY have notifications. I hope that makes sense!

Actually, I think the psychological weight of both notifications and infoglut in general is a very valid concern, but I think making crazy assumptions / rants is silly.

Case in point, what if I told you not only can you turn off the notifications completely (which we established earlier), and that no notification icons show up on the main screen (which is obvious from the video/screen shots - we're not talking about old-school LCD stencils, after all), but that you can further manage the tiles so even if you can't control yourself from actively swiping around you won't see anything?

Because now that I have the device on my wrist and the app on my phone, that's exactly what you can do.

I have very little skin in this game (it annoys me slightly to see rants w/o any basis necessarily in reality, but life's too short for arguing on the Internet), but maybe it can be better to be more reserved about a product critique until having seen how it actually works?

I totally get what you're saying and am happy to hear that it works that well but, I haven't seen anything like that in the shots. The only thing I've seen is the "do not disturb" mode which is probably what I'll do when I get it.

I'd love to hear more about what you like about it and how it is. My main concern was basically not having yet another phone-like device that will annoy the crap out of me. And the Band is begging for it.

Here's my first day thoughts: http://randomfoo.net/2014/10/30/microsoft-band-overviewrevie...

very useful! So I saw that you said it's uncomfortable? That's a major concern for me. I spend the entire day typing. I wonder if my strangely-shaped wrists will alleviate that though.

You can disable notifications with ms band