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Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 Review

11 May 2022

Phoebe | Author

Looking for a way to measure and keep track of your health and fitness journey? Whether it’s motivation to get your steps in, curiosity as to how your body reacts to exercise or just a way to manage your stress, fitness trackers do it all. If you haven’t noticed everyone wearing one or talking about their steps yet, then I’m here to officially let you know what all the hype is about.

I recently got my hands on the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6, so if you’re curious as to what fitness trackers can do for you, this one-week detailed test and review of one of the top products in the market will definitely answer all of your questions. And maybe by the end of reading this you’ll have found your perfect buddy for that fun run or healthier month you’ve been wanting to start.

Xiaomi MI Smart Band 6

WAS £35

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Key Features:

Full Screen 1.56" AMOLED Display
Heart Rate & Blood Oxygen Tracking
Magnetic Charging & 14 Day Battery Life
Sleep Monitoring and Advice
Stress and Breathing Exercises

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Now I know what you’re thinking: How am I going to be able to see and enjoy all of these features and insights, while still being able to sleep, shower and run comfortably with it?

Xiaomi have the answer. Mi Smart Band 6 has been improved with a full screen 1.56’’ AMOLED display. This way you can easily check text messages, calls and notifications with a quick glance. What’s even better is this fitness tracker sticks to a classic shape. With an innovative large screen and rounded edges, it makes it comfortable to wear and look.

Time to Get Fit

Whatever your favourite hobby or type of exercise is, this fitness tracker has been designed to be your perfect exercise buddy and perfectly keep up with you. Whether you’re into a simple run or you find yourself enjoying a Zumba class, Pilates or even street dance, Mi Smart Band 6 features 19 new fitness modes. This fitness tracker automatically recognises your fitness mode so you can clearly see accurate calories burned, heart rate and exercise duration as soon as you start. You can also access a map version of your run or walk in nature, now that sunny days are coming, with cool information like your pace, heart rate and time.

Personally, I use the precise calorie count to set a target for myself when doing cardio so that I can get a doughnut as soon as I reach my goal. Now I know you’ll be disappointed to know that there’s no fitness mode related to binge watching Friends and eating crisps in bed, but we all have our flaws so I’ll let this one go. Another key feature that this fitness tracker has is a 5 ATM waterproof rating which means that you can wear Mi Smart Band 6 in swimming pools or on the beach. When swimming, you can even choose between five different swimming styles for more accurate tracking. Needless to say that after finding out about this feature, this tracker has made it to the top of my list for summer essentials I need to pack for my next holiday.

Mental Wellbeing

Now more than ever, we need to keep on top of our mental health and wellbeing. One of the main things I appreciated this week was the stress management feature and the breathing exercises that Xiaomi offer. With stress monitoring, you can discover your stress levels in more detail and keep track of them throughout the day. Mi Smart Band 6 also gives you amazing suggestions for easing and recovering from stress. One of these suggestions that worked wonders for me were the breathing exercises, that promise to help you quickly ease your body and mind.

Make it personal, make it fun

Now that you know the basics, let’s move on to my personal favourites and honestly quite fun features, if I dare say so myself. Firstly, within my first couple of days of using this fitness tracker, I’ll be honest, I was only using it for the basics and mainly for the data it produced. However, the day I realised that you could change the background and display to pretty much anything you wanted to just from the app, was truly amazing! The app has over 60 built-in band displays, specifically designed for the full screen, which means that you can make it look as fun and funky as possible.

Now to everyone but especially to the people that have pets, this is going to be music to your ears. For the first time ever, you can use the amazing screen mentioned above to set as a background a photo of your pet, your loved one or your favourite art. Guaranteed to make you smile every time you lift your wrist. I personally went for an image of my next travel destination, in my effort to try and manifest a trip to Hawaii, hoping that the tickets will just come to me magically. And you can even change the standard but practical, especially for a night out if you ask me, black strap that the tracker comes with, to a more lively, summery colour. Now in my imaginary trip to Hawaii, I would’ve definitely gone for the blue strap.

Other Useful Features

Would you like your coffee brewed fresh for you in the morning? Your clothes ironed? Your bedsheets changed? Just kidding, Mi Smart Band 6 can’t do any of that but what it can do is help you take a photo from your phone remotely. So next time you and your friends want to take a picture all together, balance your phone on a glass or water bottle as I usually do and control your camera from your fitness tracker.

Another great feature is the flashlight, which I find very useful when I’m looking in the dark for that midnight snack, or in an actual power outage I suppose. You can save it as a feature so with one swipe, the whole screen turns into a flashlight. This way it saves you time when you’re looking under the bed for something or when you simply can’t find your phone in the dark. Another great way to find your phone when you’re in the dark or when you’ve simply buried it under your clothes or behind the bed is with the device finder technology. Simply select the ‘Find Device’ option on your fitness tracker and it will track your phone and make its alarm go off, so you can find it easier.

Final Thoughts

Personally, keeping in touch with my body is really important to me. If you’re like me and you’re trying to get a better understanding and awareness of your body, its needs, limits and reactions to everyday activities like exercising, being at work or watching TV, then I think this is the perfect product for you. I started my week thinking that this thin and quite compact little band couldn’t possibly hold and display all this information, data and insights. But within the first few days I realised, and I’m sure you will too if you end up going for this fitness tracker, that it’s quite a powerful tool not only to someone that exercises every day and is obsessed with calories and steps, but to pretty much everyone. With the ability to receive call and text notifications, control your music and camera, look at the weather forecast and even find your phone, it makes everyone’s life easier. And personally, if I happen to go on a nature walk one weekend then great, but you can still mute all exercise and calorie related notifications during the week when you just want to be lazy, like I do.