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Microsoft Band 2

Hardware — The updated band with GPS, Barometer, VO2 max readings [Android, iOS, Windows]
Hardwarehardware-salesest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.2 · 2/4
16.2
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 10004 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#45,915
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Microsoft Band 2's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 16.2 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Apple Watchhardwarecurated40.0+32.0● live
Fitbit Chargehardwarecurated16.00.0→ redirected
Xkuty Onehardwaresimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
iWatchhardwaresimilar100%40.0+9.6● live
Flow - CLEAN AIR, TOGETHERhardwaresimilar100%45.70.0● live
Lumo Lifthardwaresimilar100%19.4+8.0→ redirected
Orilamphardwaresimilar100%8.0-22.4— unverified
iGrillhardwaresimilar100%5.60.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelhardware-sales
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:05Z9999timeout
2026-08-26 09:36Z10000timeout
2026-08-19 13:58Z10007timeout
2026-08-11 00:33Z10014timeout
2026-08-08 06:26Z10014timeout
2026-08-05 18:46Z10009timeout
2026-07-30 18:00Z10012timeout
2026-07-23 09:20Z10000timeout
2026-07-22 09:23Z10000timeout
2026-07-21 09:24Z9999timeout
2026-07-20 09:51Z10000timeout
2026-07-19 09:02Z10000timeout
2026-07-18 08:43Z10001timeout
2026-07-17 09:05Z10000timeout
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Microsoft Band 2 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/microsoft-band-2-4 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.