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The Grip is a smartband meant for people who are looking ahead of a basic band and are serious about tracking their workouts. It's waterproof, however, HTC does not recommend using it while swimming. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The big advantage of HTC Grip will be HTC's new tie-up with Under Amour. The band will work with the Under Armour Record app to help users make sense of their data. But the band will not sync with any other fitness apps. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The HTC Grip smart band features a 1.8-inch (32x160pixels) PMOLED mono flexible display with capacitive touch. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The HTC Grip is based on RTOS platform and runs on a STM32L151QDH6 processor with 16MB Flash memory, 8MB SRAM. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The HTc Grip smart band comes with a sophisticated rugged rubber design. It has no buttons that can get tangled in your clothes, except for one flat one beside the screen. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The Grip does all the regular smart band stuff like show text and mail notifications, let users accept or decline calls and control music. The battery will last two-and-a-half days without GPS usage. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The Grip can work independent of a smartphone and auto sync with the device when back in range. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
The Grip is definitely a top-end band, but most probably irrelevant to a market like India. (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
