Published by Steve Litchfield at 9:30 UTC, October 8th 2015
In readiness for the upcoming Band 2, but also because the design was confusing and non-standard, the Microsoft Health application has received a much-needed refresh, with all menu functions now in the one ‘hamburger’ menu rather than split across two sides of the screen. Plus other changes mentioned below, though the application’s sync speeds are no faster than before – I’m guessing that the Bluetooth connection really is the bottleneck here?
Also annoying is that many tile options (Weather, Notification Center, and more) are no longer available to be selected on my original Microsoft Band. I’m assuming this is a glitch and that this will be fixed – I did factory reset the Band, so it’s something at the Windows Phone client end that’s screwed up, albeit here on the Windows 10 Mobile Insiders Preview. After all, Microsoft still hasn’t got Cortana working for Microsoft Health under this new version of the OS. Watch this space.
See here for my original Band review and see here in the Store for the corresponding Microsoft Health application.
Here’s a walkthrough of the facelifted app:
I’m looking forward to both the application and Windows 10 Mobile being properly in step and to the Band 2 itself, arriving next month. Watch this space.