Microsoft’s Band update puts an itty bitty keyboard on your wrist

Microsoft has been experimenting with smartwatch keyboards for Android Wear, and now the company is bringing a similar to concept to its own Band hardware. In its first major update, Microsoft’s Band has become a lot more useful for Windows Phone users, thanks to a new Cortana-powered dictation mode for replying to texts and the addition of a virtual keyboard. It works like a standard QWERTY keyboard, but Microsoft is using its Word Flow software from Windows Phone to detect letters and words correctly.

Voice dictation or a QWERTY keyboard for quick texts

I’ve been using the Band’s virtual keyboard for a few hours and found it was a little tricky to use at first, but once you trust it and get used to not worrying about tapping on the...

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