![]() ![]() Pleasingly accurate (versus Apple Watch Series 6)Ĭonsidering this tracker’s budget price tag, it’s fair to assume that traits like sensor accuracy won’t compare to wearables that cost more than ten times as much, however, in practice, the Mi Band 6 proved to competently track metrics to within what I’d consider an acceptable margin, compared to the likes of the latest Apple Watch.The star of the show, undoubtedly, is the captivating 1.74-inch OLED square screen-the largest ever seen in the Mi Band series.The Mi Band 6 comes with a 125mAh battery, charging to 50 percent in 39 minutes, in testing, while a full charge took 102 minutes. That rate of drain was also with heart rate, SpO2 monitoring and sleep tracking enabled too. Xiaomi claims 14 days of total battery life and after dropping by 35 percent after four days of wear, while ambitious, that time frame doesn’t seem out of the question (I’ll update this review with more exhaustive figures after a longer period of wear/use). The accuracy of some of the metrics didn’t appear to match that of pricier smartwatches including Apple’s and Xiaomi’s latest offerings, but I did notice that it served up significantly better results than previous iterations of the Mi Band. That wasn’t true of all supported activities though, with spotty reliability when testing it with other activities, which fits with the Band’s more affordable nature. As a lifelong table tennis player, I found this feature to be fun and useful, although I already had faith in it working, based on a similar experience when wearing the company’s Mi Watch Revolve Active. There’s automatic workout detection, which in testing managed to consistently detect when I was playing table tennis something that even theĪpple Watch Series 6 wasn’t able to pick up on. Xiaomi has limited flourishes like animations throughout the UI to ensure that performance doesn’t get bogged down, however, it feels like a less premium product as a result. It’s also is pretty responsive and smooth to use, with regards to navigating the user experience. Largely, the Mi Band 6 performs as advertised, which is highly impressive considering its price. Mixed success with automatic workout detection.Note (15/9/21): Since this review was first published, Xiaomi has also released an NFC variant of the Band 6 to global audiences (this was previously only available in China, tied to AliPay), which supports NFC payments via Mastercard and the Alexa voice assistant, for added functionality. You can even control music from the band itself when using services like Apple Music, at least in terms of basic functions, like play and pause. Notifications also sync up with your smartphone and in the case of the iPhone will display the likes of WhatsApp messages, alert you to phone calls and other stuff, like emails too. PAI (personal activity intelligence) score. The band also doubles as a tool for keeping time and you get a couple of watch faces that feature complications, relaying additional information like the weather, your heart rate and your ![]() Xiaomi supports a whopping 30 fitness modes - ranging from the treadmill, freestyle, outdoor running, cycling, walking, swimming, rowing machine, elliptical, indoor cycling, yoga, jump rope, dance, indoor fitness, gymnastics, HIIT, core training, pilates, zumba, street dancing and stretching, as well as some specific sports tracking modes like cricket, bowling, badminton, boxing, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, ice skating and kickboxing support. Synching inconsistency is perhaps its biggest weakness of the Band 6 experience but in terms of ability, there’s actually quite a lot it can do. It runs mostly in the background and synchronises sporadically but there will be times that you will notice that it hasn’t updated on your phone. Pairing the device was pretty painless, though it will need an assortment of special permissions that you will need to invoke manually (you’re guided through this process during setup). I tested this band using an iPhone as my primary device. Sure, it doesn’t do everything the company’s smartwatches can but at the same time, it retains the same core functionality and still offers most of the things people care about, tied to the same Xiaomi Wear app (which works both on Android and iPhones). Xiaomi has basically created a more compact and affordable take on the Mi Watch Revolve Active, with the Mi Band 6. ![]() As such, it’s a wee bit slow for keeping track of time, even though this tracker does double as a timekeeping tool. One has to really move the Band, twisting the wrist and waiting half a second before the screen lights up. Once enabled (as it’s turned off by default), the Band 6’s raise-to-wake feature worked well enough, albeit more sluggishly than I would have liked. ![]()
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