The market for smart bracelets and watches continues to grow, and an increasing number of users now consider them not just smartphone accessories, especially convenient for always having notifications at hand without having to look at the smartphone display, but precious tools for monitor your fitness. Xiaomi is riding this trend with devices characterized by an aggressive price, also within the reach of those who want to try for the first time the benefits deriving from a continuous tracking of the main biometric parameters, starting from sleep and activity. In fact, Mi Smart Band 6 is presented with reduced dimensions and weight, such as the official price of 49 euros, and offers cardiac monitoring via optical sensors in addition to the tracking of activity and sleep through the
The bracelet is almost completely occupied by the 1.56-inch color touch display, which proved to be sufficiently bright during the test to ensure reading even in bright light. The bracelet supplied with Mi Smart Band 6 is made of polyurethane, with a locking mechanism that is sufficiently comfortable and precise in the adjustment, in order to find the right size to ensure the correct detection of biometric values ​​through the sensors without however bothering even wearing it all. day and night. Mi Smart Band 6 is waterproof up to 5 atmospheres, thus allowing you to use it even in the pool for swimming and even more so during training without worries about any rain or even in the shower. The interface is completely touch based, without dedicated physical buttons, and proved to be comfortable enough to use in normal conditions, albeit a little less when running or other sporting activities. Xiaomi has made available a rather large series of watch faces, which can also be easily customized with an image via the Mi Fit app for smartphones, compatible with both the Android operating system and Apple iOS.
Mi Smart Band 6 is able to monitor 30 different types of sports activities that cover almost all the most popular disciplines, from pilates to rowing up to boxing and ice skating, to be selected before the start of training. The six most common activities (walking, running, stationary bike, rowing machine and elliptical) are monitored automatically, even if during the test the walk was not always recognized by the system. The monitoring of cardiac functions instead includes the detection of heart rate, which can be set at intervals from one to thirty minutes, and that of blood oxygenation, which can be carried out on request. During the test the recorded values ​​turned out to be lower in the
It is possible to set heart rate attention thresholds, which are very useful, and also the monitoring of stress, which turned out not to be too reliable. On the other hand, sleep monitoring was well done, divided into four phases, which showed data in line with that of other meters and summarized with an index that is easy to read. Mi Smart Band 6, which connects to the smartphone via a Bluetooth connection, and also able to view the main notifications of the phone (messages, calls, app alerts, calendar, alarm and clock) and, in the Nfc version, also allow payments limited to the Mastercard circuit managed by Nexi through a partner bank. Battery life turned out to be excellent, settling at just under five days with heart rate monitoring set to one minute and activating all other options and wearing the bracelet around the clock. (All rights reserved)
