Sony announces its new wearable SmartBand 2

These same days we have been commenting the next bet from Speedo in collaboration with Misfit to launch a special wearable for those who want to record all the strokes they do in an olympic pool with a device specially designed for water. Speedo Shine is an activity bracelet that you will have to forget to recharge in 5-6 months until you have to change the battery that it carries.

Following this line of devices ready to be worn on the wrist, comes the official announcement of the Sony Smartband 2. A smart bracelet that uses the accelerometer and heart rate sensors to measure all the daily activity that we produce daily to have better health and to find ourselves in a better way. A type of device, that if you are used to having a tablet and a smartphone, are arranged as a gadget that is almost an obligation to acquire, and more if we want to lose weight or improve our physique.

Recording our physical activity

Among the virtues that we will have when we have a Sony SmartBand 2 well tied on our wrist, it will be the ability to record the steps, the kilometers we run or the daily programmed exercises. All this well arranged in the Sony Lifelog app to which we will resort every day to see our improvement or how many more kilometers we have run in order to evolve.

Like other wearables such as the one mentioned in the first paragraph and Xiaomi's Mi Band, SmartBand 2 can record sleeping hours at the same time as it has an automatic sleep detection. You can also determine what time is the best for us to wake up based on the daily sleep cycle, which can surely improve our health or at least that we wake up with a better face every day that we have to go to work.

Notification Center

Like other smart bracelets, SmartBand 2 can help us know at all times the notifications that are arriving to our smartphone when we have it paired.

This can alert you even with a few LEDs or the use of vibration. It also allows control of the music with a few buttons to change the subject or start playback. And if we already have an Xperia device such as a paired phone or tablet, it will alert us when we are more than 10 meters from the connected device.

SmartBand 2 is classified as IP68, which makes it water resistant up to 3 meters and 30 minutes submerged. Regarding the battery, of vital importance in some of these devices, you can expect to be with the active up to 10 continuous hours of use, 2 days in normal mode and up to 5 days if we have it under stamina mode.

A wearable compatible with Android 4.4 or higher and iOS 8.0 or higher. Price is unknown At the moment but it will not exceed what other smart watches, now it remains to be seen if that battery life convinces us to become the daily activity bracelet to record all kinds of sporting events. Xiaomi's own lasts 1 month, so we will have to see the price that Sony SmartBand 2 arrives.