While the Voice Control app means you can use SmartBand Talk to make phone calls to more than just the person you have added as a Favourite, it is quite a tedious process and it doesn't work flawlessly either. After this, you can speak a command to the SmartBand Talk and ask what the time is, tell it to make a phone call or ask what the weather is like - but it is nowhere near as simple as the "Ok Google" approach of Google Now on Android Wear. You still need to get to the app using the side button and then have to press the screen (hard, as ever) for the device to register that you want to command it to do something. Like the Favourite app, there is also a Voice Control app which is supposed to allow you to complete various tasks by talking to it. It's easy to sync the device to the app using Bluetooth, via one-touch NFC (near field communication) if your smartphone has it.
The 1.4-inch display features a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels (192ppi) and you can opt to have white text on black or vice versa using the accompanying app, with the black-on-white looking less like a mini Kindle strapped to the wrist. That's great for the benefit of its low power-consumption, but also means no colour, which looks somewhat drab in a device of this type. Indeed it is the first wearable device to offer this kind of display.
Sony has opted for an E Ink display on the SmartBand Talk, which is its biggest point of difference compared to the company's other wearables. However it lacks the far better Super AMOLED display and heart-rate monitor of the Samsung.
We’d like to see the call function get a bit more stability, and we wish the default strap was more secure, but aside from that we thoroughly enjoyed our time using the SmartBand Talk and would recommend it over the Huawei TalkBand B1 without a moment’s hesitation, and think it’s a solid Samsung Gear Fit rival.The scale is one of the SmartBand Talk's best attributes, as at 23.5mm wide, 9mm thick and weighing just 24g, it's slimmer, lighter and more subtle to wear than the Galaxy Gear. The altimeter and automatic sleep tracking put it in the same league as some of its top competitors, and when you add the smartwatch capabilities into the mix you’ve got an excellent little gadget here. Overall, we found the SmartBand Talk to be a good fitness tracker that collects lots of useful data (as well as lots that isn’t useful at all). The downside is that, during that hour of charging, the SmartBand Talk won’t be tracking your activity (whether it’s steps or sleep). We found that the SmartBand Talk can last for up to five days between charges unless you’re making/taking lots of phone calls, which is more than the three days stated by Sony and is quite impressive.
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