I was pretty underwhelmed by Apple's watch and have actively disliked the Android watches that I've seen so far. I use a Fitbit One every day currently, so the new Fitbit Charge bands with some phone integration kind of piqued my interest, but seemed very feature poor.
After seeing the functionality this thing offers and that it will work with my iPhone instead of requiring a particular phone OS, take my money.
If it really does as much and works half as well as the promo video suggests, MS may have a big winner here.
The only thing that's a bit of a bummer is the battery life (the Peak Basis claims 4 days and the Fitbit Surge claims 5 days) and the MS Band is only "Dust- and splash-resistant" while those other devices are waterproof to 5ATM (usable for swimming), but the sheer number of sensors is really impressive and I'm much more confident about software/data access. At the very least it looks like MS Health pipes data into HealthVault, which is API accessible), but I'm most looking forward to getting access to the raw data stream (considering it's my biometric data they're collecting).
After seeing the functionality this thing offers and that it will work with my iPhone instead of requiring a particular phone OS, take my money.
If it really does as much and works half as well as the promo video suggests, MS may have a big winner here.