Recent content by pj737

Read the specs? LOL. Of course I read the specs before dropping $2,700 on a laptop. Microsoft chose to not specify which Nvidia GeForce GPU they would be using in the Surface Book. Now we know why Microsoft didn't provide that spec. It's universally disappointing. Especially at that...

940? Are you kidding me?? I paid $2,700 for a laptop with a 940? I thought Apple was the undisputed champion at overpricing under-powered garbage. MS has just proved that they are just as bad - if not worse. What a joke.

The Band calculates calories burned by including your basal metabolic rate (BMR). So you have to consider the aspect of time. If your basal metabolic rate is 2,000 calories, you have to subtract 83 calories (2,000 / 24 hours = 83.3 calories) for every hour of exercise you do to get a true...

Re: "my" band failed a simple run this AM I found that if you try to activate the GPS in an environment that you are not open to the sky above the unit seems to spend a lot of time searching for the GPS (even if you immediately go outside after activating it). The constant searching seems to...

Thanks

What is the maximum video size I can upload to this forum? I have Note 4 and even on the lowest setting, the recording size @ 12 mins is significant. If I can upload it here I'd be happy to show everyone.

This was posted by someone else on another Windows forum - Microsoft snubs its new Band, bundles Fitbit Flex with new Lumia phones | PCWorld

Facts - Fitbit Surge provides 720 HR data points per hour for 5 days straight Basis Peak provides 3,600 HR data points per hour for 4 days straight Microsoft Band provides 6 HR data points per hour for 2 days straight Of course the engineers at both Fitbit and Basis (i.e. Intel) must be...

Well, at least I tried to be nice. I call BS. Post a 12 minute video to youtube with a timer running in the video for proof. I want to see the optical sensor turn on twice without the wake button being touched during that time. Until someone can post that. I call BS. I'd post a video but I...

Where exactly did you get this information from. Can you provide us a source? I can't speak for the sampling rate when I'm sleeping because I haven't observed the optical LED when in sleep mode... but I can tell you that my optical sensor is NOT on for one minute out of 9 minutes during the...

Yes.

Because this is the only forum with a high number of Band owners/users. If you read from the beginning of the thread, people have been stating that the unit automatically pings HR more than once an hour during the day while active and that the HRM is activated by motion. Whenever I state...

Wait, you don't even own a Band yourself? You've been arguing with me this whole time and you don't even have a unit in your own hands? Good grief. I must be in the twilight zone.

Well glad to hear you don't want an always-on heart rate monitor. There are a lot of people out there that do want this feature. And what is indeed scary is that you say all (with the exception of poor little me) the forum posters here are saying the device turns on automatically from...

So let me get this straight... I am respectful enough to respond to posts made toward me and I type fast - this apparently makes me a "maniac"? LOL. I'm not questioning your odd obsession to posting to this forum more than once a day for 2.5 years, am I? I'm simply discrediting what you're...