Hey there guys, Today we will share an in-dept
review of the New Redmi Smartband which is available at the price of 1599 RS in
the Indian Market, I have put the Discounted links at the end of this post if
you are interested in Buying this product.
This same product was launched in China back in
July 2020 with a name of MI band 4C, the Chinese version is the exact same as
the Redmi Smart band but just the difference in both the products is that the
Chinese version has NFC support which the Indian version lacks.
which doesnt matter at all because the NFC is
useable for Alipay payments which is useless for the Indian Consumers.
Build Quality
The build is Plastic hence the device is
superlight which weighs just 13 Grams, you literally dont feel if you have this
on ur wrist or not.
There are no buttons on the side which gives it
an extremely clean look
The Straps are made of soft silicon and are
really lightweight while the Back has heartrate sensor with the Redmi Branding.
The Best part is the USB charging port on the
Redmi Smart band, you just need to pullout the strap on the side and access the
port.
Its one of the reason that i love this so much,
this product is not the first one to do it but these small things make it
convenient, you never need to carry a charging wire with you for your smart
band ever again. I so want to see other fitness trackers too follow this
design.
You just have to plug it in a powerbank or
Charging brick and it starts charging right away.
Display
The Display is another plus point of the Redmi
Smart Band.
Its a 1.08 inch TFT LCD Touch colour display with
a resolution of 120X220 Pixels.
The Display is super clean and sharp.
It covers the Time, Battery Percentage, Day, Date
and the Steps.
There are many watch faces to choose from the
companion app.
The Colour reproduction is also quite good
although not as vibrant as we see on the MI band 4 but it is not dull or faded
also, I would say its pretty good according to the Price Point.
Its a flat display which makes it look a lot more
bigger, it also gets much more easy to swipe and navigate through because of
the flat display.
There is a touch button at the bottom to go back
to the home screen.
This also comes with a little gesture feature,
when you cover your screen with a palm, it turns off the display, which comes
pretty handy.
Interface
Press the button to wake the display, If you
swipe left you get the music player where you can control the songs that are
playing on your phone, you can reduce or increase the volume from here, there
are controls like Play, Pause, Previous and Next track directly from here.
When you swipe up, youll come to the status,
Press status to see the steps, distance, calories
burnt and the number of times you stood up.
When you go further down, here you have heart
rate sensor,
You have Excersice in which you have Outdoor
Running, Treadmill, Cycling, Walking and Idle time.
Further down we get the Weather, Notifications,
More, DND, Alarm Clock.
Then you have theme controls where you find
couple of different watch faces to set.
You also get things like the Stopwatch,
Countdown, Find My Phone.
In the Settings option you can adjust the
Brightness controls, Also you get the options of Restart, Reset, Supervision
and About.
Going throught the Interface of this Redmi Smart
Band i found that it is one of the simplest and easy to use smartband
interface. It covers all the things that you expect in a Smart Band.
I tested the Band and Compared it with my other
Smart Watches and it was quite accurate.
It showed distance, time, pace and the heart rate
pretty accurately.
It connects to GPS via your phone to map your
Run,
You have the freedom of choosing the alerts that
you recieve on the Band, you can set from which apps you want the notifications
and from which you dont. Its supereasy to choose from the companion app or MI
Fit app.
You also get call alerts with Vibration where
callers name is shown, and you get the options whether to reject the call or
silent the call.
Overall the user interface is really smooth and
responsive, i didnt encountered any lag while navigating
The Device comes with 5ATM Water Resistance, so
rain, sweat and splashes are taken care of.
Coming to the Mi Fit App, here you can control
pretty much everything on the Band very easily. Right from monitoring your
steps, and exercises, to setting Alarms and Notifications.
The Band also has a raise to wake feature but it
is not very quick.
The best part about the App is that it has a huge
collection of watch faces to choose from, they are really colourful and vibrant
but when you use custom watchfaces the batterylife takes a major Dip so you
have to deside whether you want colorful watchfaces or Battery life.
Battery
Xiaomi claims that the battery of this Redmi Smart
Band will last for 14 days, but i havent tested this one with such a long
stretch to confirm the claim by the company. But even if you get 8-9 days with
this band, it still is excellent.
This Band comes with 130 mAh battery which takes
around one hour to charge.
Conclusion
Now there is nothing to dislike about the Smart
Band, but if you ask me to Nitpick then i would say that the Tracking options
are little limited and an AMOLED Display wouldve made it even better but for
1599 RS its really hard to expect so much.
If you want the AMOLED display and some more
Activity Tracking options then you can go with the MI Band 4 but frankly i
think this one should suffice for most of the regular users.
Its perfect as you get Good Activity tracking,
notifications, time at your wrist without having to worry to charge it
everyday. The Smart Band also comes with various Strap colours to choose from
you can check the following Amazon link if you are Intersted in buying this
product.
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