ĐÁNH GIÁ MI BAND 6

mi made a name for itself in the budget phone market, but the company has also made a big push into wearables. Xiaomi"s affordable but capable mi Band series (actually made by certified partner Huami) has always been a prime example of making great products that don’t break the bank. The latest iteration, the mi Band 6, is a considerable step up, both in price và in functionality. The question that begs khổng lồ be answered — is it still worth buying at $60?

SPECS

Display	1.56" OLED, 152*486, 326 PPI, up to 450 nits
Battery	125mAh, magnetic charging within 2 hours
Sensors	6-axis sensor: Low power-consumption 3-axis accelerometer và 3-axis gyroscopePPG heart rate sensor
Size	47.4 × 18.6 × 12.7 milimet (body), 155–219 milimet (band)
Weight	12.8 g (body)
Connectivity	công nghệ bluetooth 5.0
Water resistance	5 ATM
Price	$50 / €40 / £33

THE GOOD

Bang for the buck	This affordable accessory has almost all the smarts you could want in a fitness band. Bạn đang xem: Đánh giá mi band 6
Full toàn thân display	The display is as big as it can get in the body — barely any space is wasted.
Growing tracking selection	Lots of thể thao modes to lớn choose from.
Waterproof	You can take the mày Band 6 for a swim.
Battery life	You can expect about five days of battery life with all features activated, và up to lớn a month with the bare minimum.

THE NOT SO GOOD

Janky UI	The UI is janky when scrolling và interacting.
Strap	The strap feels nice to lớn the touch, but I"ve had it accidentally xuất hiện on me more than once. Xem thêm: Bạn Gái Ronaldo Georgina Rodriguez, Georgina Rodriguez
Poor watchface selection	You need to rely on third-party apps when you want more customization options.
No light sensor	You"ll have to lớn adjust the screen"s brightness manually when you go running out in the sun.
Convoluted app	The ngươi Fit ứng dụng has gotten better over the years, but it"s still not intuitive.

Design, hardware, what"s in the box

When you take the mày Band 6 out of its box (which also contains a charging cable & the strap), you"ll instantly notice the big 1.56-inch màu sắc OLED screen that stretches across the pill-shaped front of the device. Its only blemish is the slightly bigger bottom bezel. The whole display is about một nửa bigger than previous models, và its improved 152x485 resolution will make it hard khổng lồ spot individual pixels at normal viewing distances. Despite the larger screen, the ngươi Band 6 grew by a mere fraction of a millimeter. Paired with bigger fonts across the system, the new mã sản phẩm makes it much easier to process information at a glance.

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While the whole front of the ngươi Band 6 is covered by curved 2.5d glass, the rest of the device is made of plastic. On the back, you"ll find a two-pin magnetic connector for charging and the usual array of health sensors. The device can survive swims và showers with ease thanks khổng lồ 5ATM waterproofing. The TPU strap appears to lớn be the same that xiaomi mi shipped with the mày Band 5, which means that you should be able lớn use any straps you"ve purchased for that model. The included strap feels alright on my skin và doesn"t itch, but I"ve has it come loose several times. This hasn"t happened with my mi Band 5, so I suspect this is a defect with this specific band.

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Despite the bigger screen, the mày Band 6"s battery has the same 125mAh capacity as its predecessor. It doesn"t last as long as the ngươi Band 5, especially when you activate all available features. I"m reaching about five lớn seven days of battery life, while I used khổng lồ consistently get more than seven days of battery life with the mày Band 5. These stats depend a lot on your personal tracking preferences, though. When you only use the band as a "dumb" notification buzzer, you should make it almost a month on a single charge.

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Software và performance

Due to lớn its big screen, the mày Band 6 doesn"t have a capacitive home/back button like previous ngươi Bands. Instead, it relies on a swipe from the left edge of the screen as a back gesture in most menus, much like Android and iOS bởi vì these days. The only place where that"s not the case is the homescreen. Here, a swipe khổng lồ the right reveals audio/media controls while a swipe left lets you view the current weather conditions by default, though both actions can be switched out for multiple other actions in the ngươi Fit app.

The bigger screen makes navigating the watch much easier, but overall, moving through the menus feels rather janky, with lots of dropped frames và delayed cảm biến responses. Since you probably won"t be finding yourself interacting with the screen as much as with your phone it should be fine, but a responsive interface would still be preferable.

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It"s also a bummer that both the mi Band"s menus và the mi Fit phầm mềm remain outright dissonant, with weird omissions in functionality. For example, you can"t view your sleep stats right on the band itself, and some settings are exclusive to either the watch or the app. Fine-tuning the band"s software to lớn your liking is a process of trial & error.

It"s hard to believe, but mày Bands haven"t supported emoji until the mi Band 6. It"s the first in the series khổng lồ display them out of the box in notifications, though it looks like there are still quite a few missing compared to what game android offers, especially more outlandish ones. Either way, it"s a step in the right direction.

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ngươi Fit Developer: Anhui Huami Information công nghệ Co.,Ltd.
Price: Free
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While there are dozens of watchfaces available in the app, I personally don"t like most of them. Many are based around fandoms or popular culture, và the rest are either over-the-top designs from the 2000s or just plain ugly. At least you can địa chỉ cửa hàng your own backgrounds khổng lồ a handful of pre-defined layouts, giving you some customization options out of the box. For anything else, you"ll need lớn rely on third-party software like Amazfit.

The ngươi Band 6 introduces oxygen saturation measurements khổng lồ the mày Band series, và while you need khổng lồ manually start the process khổng lồ get readings, they seem to be pretty accurate. I compared some of the results I got khổng lồ those of a medical SpO2 meter, and they weren"t far off. If you were to lớn have too little oxygen in your blood, the band should be able to tell (but keep in mind that it"s not a medical device).

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The mi Band 6 comes with automatic walking, running, cycling, elliptical, and rowing machine recognition. It"s rather good at spotting these activities after a few minutes of ongoing movement, và the workout data looks accurate. Unfortunately, these workouts weren"t always automatically synced khổng lồ the mi Fit tiện ích for me, và I haven"t been able lớn make out the reason.

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When it comes lớn heart rate tracking, I feel lượt thích Xiaomi is finally closing in on Fitbit. When I glance at my wrist, the heart rate seems much more consistent and in line with what my Charge 4 says. I still feel like the mi Band readings are high but only by a little now. Looking at longterm stats, these inaccuracies appear khổng lồ be statistically irrelevant, with my resting heart rate close to Fitbit"s readings.

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The ngươi Band 6 is also significantly better at sleep tracking than previous iterations and other models in this price range. While older mi Bands used khổng lồ think I was sleeping as soon as I laid down in bed, the mi Band 6 understands that sometimes I"m just lying there surfing the web. It even accurately recorded a few nightly sleep interruptions. The ngươi Band additionally supports sleep breathing quality analysis lớn help spot sleep apnea và other problems, but this is a beta feature that you need to lớn opt into specifically.

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Should you buy it? Rating 8/10

Mi Band 6

Yes.The ngươi Band 6 is the perfect fitness band for the budget conscious consumer who wants a basic overview of their health status. It"s much better than its predecessors và there are barely any inconsistencies và inaccuracies left, with most of the tracking on spot for me, allowing me to give it a wholehearted recommendation — despite some of the software quirks I"ve experienced.

Compared to other fitness trackers, the ngươi Band is still missing a few features. Some Fitbit products have built-in GPS và NFC for payments, both of which you don"t get on the ngươi Band (NFC is available in the Chinese version, for what it"s worth). But these devices are also much more expensive. At $50-$60, there"s not much competition for the mày Band 6 in the US, especially now that it nails the basic fitness features.

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Buy it if...

You want a reliable budget fitness tracker You don"t care much for customizable watchfaces

Don"t buy it if...

You need more accurate readings You want lớn sync your stats to Strava without workarounds You want khổng lồ leave your phone at trang chủ when you go running

Where lớn buy

I"ve been using the mi Band 6 on & off for the last month, and my opinion is largely unchanged. In fact, I actually took another look at the Band 6"s predecessor, and it"s incredible how old-fashioned và straight up ugly it looks with its rectangular screen fitted into the oval front. A display that stretches across the whole shape is much more aesthetically pleasing.

However, I"ve been annoyed with automatic workout tracking on the mày Band 6. It notifies me whenever it detects a workout, but it doesn"t start tracking right then & there. I need to lớn approve tracking manually, which is rather dangerous when I"m on my xe đạp in the middle of Berlin traffic. This might not be as bad when you"re out running, but I personally find myself riding the xe đạp much more often & would love to lớn have it just automatically start tracking.

Other than that, the band has basically turned into a glorified notification buzzer for me, & thus, battery life is stellar. I can imagine that it might not live up to the battery life of its predecessor with that tiny screen, but I"ve still only had to lớn charge it twice since the đánh giá from a month ago. Granted, I"m barely wearing it while I"m home, but this shows that standby battery life is no joke.

If you want an affordable fitness tracker, or even just an unobtrusive wrist-based notification buzzer, the mi Band 6 really is the way lớn go.