There are 12 in total, which include calorie count, steps, walking, running, sleeping, communication (Twitter and Facebook), taking pictures, listening to music, watching video, playing games and reading books. What you are then presented with is a timeline and a series of boxes below totalling your score for the different activities the app can track. You’ll need an email account to sync with it and then you are good to go. Here you will be able to view all of your recorded data in a colourful, sylised interface. It’s also the place to view battery life status. The Smart Connect app is where you can configure settings for the SmartBand, like notification alerts or the native and third-party application support. The SmartBand SWR10 application actually bakes itself into the Smart Connect app, so there’s no app icon created and combined helps create the connection between smartphone and SmartBand.

Once you’ve established whether your phone is even compatible, there are three apps to download.

The phone needs to be running on Android 4.4 KitKat or higher and requires Bluetooth 4.0, so that alienates plenty of other Android handsets and of course means iPhone and Windows Phone users are left out in the cold as well.

The latest Xperia smartphones, like the Xperia Z2 and Z1 Compact, work fine, plus a select list of Android smartphones including the Nexus 5, Nexus 4, Samsung Galaxy S5 and the HTC One M8. Much of what sets the SmartBand apart from the others is the concept of ‘life logging’ but before you get to that point you need to make sure you have the right phone to even use the SmartBand.

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