Well, all three sizes are now.... "£199.99 incl. VAT", so expired

i got the band 2 last night. love it. a piece of advice.. . if yoy want the band to work flawlessly downgrade from windows phone 10 to 8.1. trust me.

Has arrived, it's a band 1 in a refurb type brown box, pre-bagged with a cable. Also looks to have a wet-type screen protector already installed.

HEAT, glad i held out now, almost paid £169.99 a few months ago ordered from amazon with prime delivery :smiley:

Thanks for the update.

They've just sent out my replacement, states Band on the site rather than Band 2, has a new serial number but I suspect it'll sadly be a band 1 judging by the picture

Yes basically the way to do it is do some runs while em.. walking with the GPS on.

Price matched on Amazon now, so got my 5% student discount too, asked MS if they would allow the 10% discount, they said no as its already discounted.

For what it's worth, on a ten minute run on the treadmill at about 10.2 kph, the Band 2 tracks a mile at the 9:30 minute mark, whereas the treadmill itself will show about 0.96 miles. How it does it, I'm not sure but I was suitably impressed.

Got my Band 2 today. Impressions as follows - Firstly you have to commend MS on the actual packaging, it's first rate and gives you an instant warm feeling you've bought something of quality. The Band itself is slim on the display part but quite chunky on the clasp, which contains the UV sensor, skin sensor and, I believe, the battery. This means it's not ideal whilst typing i.e. it clonks on the desk. I know it's a fitness band, but I want something to replace my watch that I can wear for all occasions. You could wear it the other way round (face on your inner wrist) but then I'd be more concerned about scuffing the face on the desk. I think the actual electronics continue someway either side of the face inside the strap. This means the strap isn't very flexible. I have the medium band but the strap only starts bending beyond the width of my wrists which means there's a bit of a gap. Not too bad for me but I would imagine if you needed the small strap the gap would look excessive.

Functionally the device looks pretty good so far with plenty of features. Email notification etc is particularly good. Virtually no instructions supplied but I guess it would be difficult to keep these up to date as the first thing the device did was perform an update. Plenty of info on-line though. There doesn't seem an option to calibrate the distance traveled against steps measured. A quick Google though and the general feeling is that this is automatic if you let it use the GPS for a while. Well that's fine assuming you're not exercising on a treadmill!

If anybody wants to ask me any questions about it, I'll try and help.

The rubber has stripped off the battery of mine after three months. Raised a service request last Thurs, sent via UPS on Friday and received in Germany yesterday, albeit no update on the MS site.

Was hoping for a possible band 2 replacement given they ask for the charger cable to be sent back too, will report back.

The app on Android is swifter, less laggy, quicker to sync.

Can you expand on that? My son has a Nokia 920 and hasn't said anything isn't working. What works better?

Thanks for the posting just received a £10 refund on the price I paid a few days ago.

brilliant smart watch

Yes, and works way better with Android than with my Lumia 950 Windows Phone.

And Currys, Argos & PC World, so if you have any vouchers for these, use them up. Not sure which has best Quidco either

Now same price at Amazon

I hope this is easier to wear than the surge, that thing is way too big

My son has this and likes it a lot. Does anyone with one use it with an Android phone?

​This has more sensors so take your pick :smiley:

Nice!! Heat added!

Good news, thanks. Still undecided however, this or the Fitbit Surge?

Do these have metal backs?

We sent our band 2 back as they have a common fault with the charging of the batteries. So be aware of this check out there Facebook and Microsoft website for the reviews and complaints. We have now pre ordered the new Fitbit that does the same.

Can anyone vouch for the heart rate monitor?

I was in a few different currys, and each one on display was showing fluctuating heart rates between 65-72, WITHOUT being on a wrist...

My v1 is playing up, will there repair or replace it with this?

have some great good price, I spotted it had dropped as I was after two and luckily dropped by even more, linked to oil prices me thinks! up and down like a yo-yo!

Brilliant smart watch, especially for the cycle gps tracking. Heat!

On the MS website, most pictures show it being worn on the inside of the wrist. Is this necessary for heart rate or something? I'd prefer to wear it on the outside. Thanks

Looks like Argos have matched it too. Surprised to see Amazon aren't in on it yet (edit: 2nd March... now they are)

..and at the same price.

Got one from Very for £120 last week. Nice bit of kit although I'm already wanting to upgrade to new Vivoactive HR

am tempted. bought the previous version for the wife and think its a great bit of kit, but where can i actually see one in the flesh?

Looks like Quidco will get you 5% cashback too

Sweet

Cheapest a month ago was 169.99 heat from me.