For my uses, for example, I chucked out everything bar the fitness tracker, the media control and the weather 'widget'. It's best to keep as few of these mini apps on-board as possible. Thanks to the slow refresh rates of the e-ink screen, this is not a terribly slick process. It's not that the actual device slows down, but that you need to cycle through these mini-apps in turn in order to use them, by pressing the button on the side repeatedly. If the SmartBand Talk is capable of all these extra bits, why are they not packed in from the start? Well, the more you pack in, the more sluggish the band feels. The files are then saved on your phone/tablet. Voice Recorder: Lets you talk to the SmartBand Talk like Captain Kirk emoting away to his tricorder. As with any voice assistant, though: will you use it? You need to be quite specific in the wording of your questions, but otherwise it works reasonably well. Voice Control: Lets you talk to the SmartBand in order to issue basics commands to the phone, such as 'Call X', 'What is the weather' and 'Read last SMS message'. Smart Control: Toggle a selected feature on your phone (Wi-Fi, phone speaker, radio) or show the phone's battery level. Weather: Display temperature and weather stats for your chosen city. Smart Camera: tap to take a photo, with your phone/tablet, not the band (which has no camera). You download these as apps from Google Play, but you can see the listing of what's available from within the SmartBank Talk app: You can also add a bunch of others, again fairly basic things but all-important to the SmartBand Talk's being able to offer more than just a fitness tracker with a clock. Latency may not be drastically awful with Bluetooth, but it does result in a noticeable delay most of the time. I did find this much less responsive than actually using an in-line remote, but this comes with the territory most of the time when using a Bluetooth controller rather than a wired one. Working much like a single-button remote on the in-line controls of your earphones, a solid tap on the band works like a play/pause button, and you can switch back and forth with multiple taps. The most useful of the lot is the music remote.
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