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Xiaomi takes a far more open approach than most, and you get the benefit. It is more erratic, with the occasional leap to the ~120bpm range when the rate should be around 70bpm. Connected GPS makes the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 a fair, at the very least, tracker for serious runners. More should probably be enabled as standard. With normal use, Xiaomi says the 135mAh battery will last about 20 days on a single charge. It monitors your heart rate, sleep patterns, and more. Wear the band overnight and you’ll see your sleep and wake-up times, and a breakdown of your REM, light and deep sleep segments. Xiaomi says the tiny 125mAh battery lasts up to 14 days, which seems perfectly believable. It ticks off the basics. As the swim mode suggests, the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 is ready for the pool with 50m (5ATM) water resistance too. With an improved display, more exercise profiles, and a rock-bottom price, the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 squares itself away as one of the best cheap fitness trackers of 2019. Some are cringeworthy, but handfuls are not.

It’s not particularly useful as a manual feature to set off. You flick up and down on the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5’s screen to scroll through each of its main functions. This “flick to wake” mode, and the vast majority of its useful extra features, are not switched on as standard. But it should be quicker to alter manually. You can access your history by tapping the activity card in the status tab, swiping over to Once you’re there, the Mi Fit app will display tons of information, even down to the small five-minute activities it records throughout the day.For the most part, the Mi Fit app is a well-rounded, easy-to-use fitness platform (aside from the ease of checking workout history). The Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 has a 1.1-inch full colour 294 x 126 pixel OLED screen. A solution? Accessories for it. It’s about four inches long, so it’s going to dangle from any USB charging port not sitting directly on a desk.The good news is you won’t have to charge the Mi Band 4 very often at all. Subjects I cover include mobile phones, fitness tech, computing and cameras. Mid-workout comparisons with the Wahoo Kickr HR chest strap also suggest the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 makes significant use of cadence data to pre-empt actual drops and rises in heart rate. Want the quick verdict? I’m currently sitting at a 70% charge after a full charge last Friday, and that’s after three long runs and the heart rate sensor being on in 10-minute intervals.The Mi Band 4 will keep track of all the basics: steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, resting and active heart rates, and sleep.

And, to be honest, you can only really tell by comparing it to a more accurate chest strap sensor.Huawei’s Smart Band 4 Pro is arguably even better, with built-on GPS and a more comfortable design, but the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 is an excellent choice if every dollar counts.I have written about technology for over a decade, with a focus on everything you might wear, put in a pocket or fit in a bag. I recommend you prune these down, as the 11 “homscreens” are a few too many to flick through every day. Just make sure it’s setup before you start running: the process isn’t as seamless as other Connected GPS devices. This acts as a point-based indication of your activity level through the span of a week. The Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5 also offers basic music control. Flick through the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 5’s screens and you’ll see one called PAI. Sync with the Mi Band app in real-time via Bluetooth ® Low Energy (BLE) to view your fitness and sleep records. It’ll track your deep/light sleep and time awake, and it’ll give you a sleep score from 1-100 by comparing your data to other Mi Fit users’ data.Throughout my time with the device, I haven’t noticed any major issues with sleep tracking — the Mi Band 4 always seems to report my time asleep and time awake pretty accurately.For a device this small and cheap, Xiaomi was able to pack quite a lot of smart features into the Mi Band 4.Before we get too far into it, I’m using the Mi Band 4 meant for regions outside of China, so my review unit does not support contactless payments with The Mi Band 4 can relay call, text, email, and just about any other notification you receive on your smartphone. For the most part, it is not. The designs are almost limitless, and feature info beyond the basics, such as the step count, heart rate and battery life. With that 1.0.7.04 update, Xiaomi also brought new watch faces and improved swim tracking to the Mi Band 4. Overall, it will give you a good idea as to where your heart rate generally is, but don’t rely on it fully for higher-intensity workouts.With software version 1.0.9.48, Xiaomi brought a new heart rate sharing feature, allowing the Mi Band 4 to communicate heart rate data with Sleep tracking is another one of the Mi Band 4’s strongest areas. Here's how your nights of sleep are represented in Mi FitThere’s a stress monitor function too.

This grades you using a fairly rudimentary system, most likely based on current heart rate versus normal resting heart rate and heart rate variability. But you can take a look back over the day in the Mi Fit app if you have a stinker of an afternoon and want proof of its awfulness. Heart rate readings dropped more quickly in the Mi Smart Band 5 than the strap, before normalising, when slowing from a run to walking pace. At launch, the Mi Band 3 wasn’t able to start exercises from the band itself, but it gained this functionality at a later date.I took the Mi Band 4 on multiple outdoor runs and compared it with my Heart rate recordings — both resting and active — with the Mi Band 4 are decent. Notifications come through to the Mi Band 4 right away.