Sony is yet again showing off its latest piece of wearable tech, the SmartBand, at the MWC 2014. After the company gave us a nibble of information at CES in January, Sony’s now marketing the SmartBand with its dedicated Lifelog app that’s meant to be something more than your average fitness tracker. It’s been announced that the SmartBand will start rolling out to over sixty countries in March together with Sony’s Lifelog app.
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Apart from the usual fitness trackers that track your sleep, calorie intake, steps and so forth, the SmartBand is meant to do that and way more.
According to Sony’s description, when paired with the SmartBand, Lifelog is intended to let you capture, “places visited, music listened to, games played, books read… how active you were, where you went, what pictures you took and how you have been communicating with your world.” It further aims to, “help you set activity goals, monitor your progress and make recommendations to help inform future decisions.”
It also has a Bookmark feature that lets where you can record a special moment like a specific song, location or what have you. While it’s mostly supposed to be paired with your Android smartphone, with the Lifelog app, you can further use it to skip pause, play or skip songs.
It’s like a very smart watch that can’t tell you the time.
It has no display but communicates with you by vibrating or flashing LEDs. The SmartBand holds Sony’s much hailed Core which uses NFC and bluetooth to pair with your smartphone. Like many of Sony’s latest gadgets, this wearable is dust proof as well as semi waterproof. Probably one of its most favoured characteristics is the claimed fact that it gives you “up to five days” of battery.
