With a $199 Fitness Tracker Smartband Microsoft Officially Enters the Wearable Market

Microsoft enters the market with a new Fitness Tracker Smartband that includes some features which other fitness bands still lack. It will be able to do all standard things like monitoring sleep and physical activity along with receiving smartphone notifications. The Microsoft Smartband is on sale now for $199 and you can get it from online stores or Microsoft’s retail. It comes with total 10 sensors that can track standard health statistics such as steps, heart-rate, calories burned, and many more along with some new things like Stress and Sun exposure tracking that other Smartbands lacks.

Furthermore, Microsoft also launched a new platform called Microsoft Health, it hosts a cloud service which gathers data from Microsoft Band along with other Fitness data gathering devices. You can access the platform via the new Microsoft health app which you can download on all major platforms, therefore Android, iOS and Windows phone. It will be compatible with devices running Windows 8.1 update, Android 4.3 and above and iOS 7.1 on iPhone 4S or newer.

 The Health Platform is compatible with many other fitness tracking services like MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal, UP by Jawbone, and Runkeeper. Along with these, you are also able to connect the data from Microsoft Health with HealthVault, which is also Microsoft’s Health care platform to share data with your health provider.