Video: Microsoft Band reading and replying to messages with Cortana and the on-screen keyboard

One of the nice updates to this week’s Microsoft Band update is a new way of reading and replying to messages. Previously you could only read subject of an email so you had to get your phone out to read the message but now there is a new word at a time preview of the email, tweet or text message. It works much better than it sounds so I thought I would show you in a video.

Also you can now reply to messages by dictating via Cortana which works really well or you can use an on-screen keyboard which again sounds like a bad idea but in fact works very well. In this video you can see how reading messages and replying works on the updated Microsoft Band.