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Re:Microsoft Band by eitally on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:14AM (#8532135)
If you compare it more closely to a Garmin than to a Fitbit, this is reasonable/comparable battery life. A Garmin GPS watch will track 8-15 hours of activity, if you're lucky ... but without GPS and in pure watch mode will last a couple of weeks.

I'd buy this to replace a Fitbit any day of the week.

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Re:Microsoft Band by scblock on Thursday October 30, 2014 @11:44AM (#8533620)
Unless you compare it to a Garmin Vivosmart, which does notifications and lasts about 7 days. No GPS, but fully waterproof.

Or if you compare it to the just-announced but not yet available Fitbit Surge, which claims 5 days without GPS.

Two days is not much time in this space.

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