So finally, it has arrived. Just take a look at it. This is it the me band six, so we’ve been waiting for this, because we’ve been expecting a tracker that will actually stand up and fight the amasfit bp, as well as the famous honor band 6.. Can the me band 6? Do it well, let’s? Take a look at this review and make the decision for ourselves let’s get into it. If you’re new to wesno’s tech, news and reviews, we talk about the latest tech news, we do brutally honest reviews and share hacks and tricks along the way. I think it’s only logical that we actually compare the me band 6 versus the old me band 5, just to see where the differences actually lie and just high level let’s take a look at them. So this is the me band five. This is the me band. Six, what do you notice? They are almost identical. In fact, if we talk about the dimensions, so we’ve got 46 millimeters in the mi band 5 we’ve got 47 millimeters in the me band 6., so lengthwise they’re, almost identical. If we talk about thickness on the me band 5 it’s 12.5 millimeters on the mi band 6 it’s 12.7 millimeters, these differences in dimensions – they’re, absolutely minuscule – you are hardly going to be noticing any of them, but so what’s the difference – and this is what we’re going To be discussing right now and we’re going to be structuring, this particular review of the me band 6 in the following ways.
So first we’re going to talk about the design. Then we’ll talk about the display and then we’ll talk about the features and functions let’s get into it. Let’S start off with the design. So, as i’ve just mentioned, the dimensions are almost identical and yes, both of them are still clickable right. So the first one there you go. You pop it out me band 5, simple, let’s, take a look at what the mi band 6 can do. Whoop there you go, you pop it. You know what we’re going to do now let’s test. If we can put the face of the me band 6 into the strap of the me band, 5. let’s take a closer look, so here we go so this is the strap from the me band. 5.. All right here we go Music it’s a perfect match. Can you believe it and let’s see if we can check the me band 5 face into the strap of the mi band 6? So we know that this one, the mi band 5 face, is slightly smaller than the mi band 6.. Nonetheless, let’s give it a shot. Perfect fit so again, we can see that the straps are most likely the same, because even the tpu strap is just same quality it’s, just as soft it’s, just as comfortable to wear and actually the clasp is also identical. So we’ve got the pass through the clipping clasp. There we go it’s, so simple to use we’ve been used to this design for yonkers anyway.
I don’t think there’s much more to say about the design it’s pretty much the same tracker that we saw on the mi band 5 and the me band 4 for that matter. Anyway. Let’S talk about the display because that’s, where a lot of the changes have actually occurred and now it’s time to talk about the display. So of course, if we remember what is the traditional tracker, what was it like back in 2019 in 2020? So we had a tracker as such and then we would have a small led panel in the middle and there would be a lot of wahoo about it. Where people would say say we have this huge 0.95 of an inch and later the 1.1 inch amoled display. Well, yeah, but why do you have all that black plastic around the display? That was a question that we couldn’t quite answer. Until last year in november we had the release of the honor band 6. But what happened? There was a full transformation of the traditional tracker where we took this small thing and we plastered on a huge 1.47 inch. Amoled display edge to edge. It looked amazing, but it wasn’t the traditional tracker anymore. It looked like a smartwatch and if you have a look through the channel through the wiznos channel, you will see quite a lot of the comparisons that we did and actual tests with the honor band 6, a 30 dollar tracker versus smart watches.
It actually looked like a smart watch, so what they did at jaomi. They took the me band 5 and they said we’re going to be keeping the same dimensions but we’re going to be changing the display we’re going to get rid of all that black plastic and instead of the black plastic we’re, going to check in a perfect amoled Display and that’s exactly what they did with the me band 6.. They put in a 1.56 inch amoled display. That looks amazing, that has 2.5 d glass, so it has curvature around the edges and it’s bezel to bezel it’s, just full on. It looks stunning and now in regards to brightness, so nothing really changed. We had a peak brightness of 450 nits on the me band. 5, the same remains on the mi band. 6 450 nits let’s be fair. The me band 5 is a 25 dollar tracker. The mi band 6 is a 30 tracker, so we’re not really expecting always on display. Neither do we really expect auto brightness they’re, still just the five brightness levels same as you see on the me band 5.. Now. Is that bad? Well? Why is that bad it’s, a 30 dollar tracker? What else can you get for this price, but anyway, let’s get back to the display? The cpu is much faster, the graphics are much smoother. The pictures are just bigger, they look brighter and it’s amazing. So when you are exercising – and you do want to have a look at your screen – you don’t have to squint at the small amoled display anymore.
Nope you’ve got a full tracker face, it might be the same tracker size but it’s just great. You can see every single value, because it’s, just bigger you’ve got 1.56 inches worth of amoled display. Now, if we talk about the downloadable faces, so on the me band 5, there were a hundred of faces available for you to download onto your watch with the me band 6. There are 130 and i’ll tell you what they do. Look amazing, much more bright and, of course, much more exciting and interesting as well as you do have faces where you can choose your modules of information. Of course, most of these modules are only available on the preset faces, but it is good because once again, you’ve got the full track of face to enjoy anyway that’s enough about the display. Let’S talk about the features and functions and i’ll tell you quite a few things about that, because the features and functions have pretty much remained with what was on the mi band 5.. But now there’s just more of things and the things that were on the mi band 5. They were just improved and quite drastically anyway. Let’S talk about the features and functions on the xiaomi mi band 6. let’s get into it, obviously there’s the basic functions, and then there are the advanced features and functions. Let’S cover the basics. So things like your stopwatch, your timer, your weather, widget, that hasn’t changed that’s. Still all there you’ve got your events calendar.
Then, of course you do have. Then, of course you do have your pi metric. We had on the mi band 5 as well, so what’s, pi, that’s your personal activity index and what that shows. You is basically a single value which does represent your cardiovascular health, and there is a rule of thumb as long as you keep that value above 100 points. That generally means that you’re 25 less prone to getting heart disease and that’s a very cool metric, because it does incorporate into itself well, mostly your heart rate or the intensity at which you’re performing particular exercises over the last day and the previous week roundabout. Then, of course, it does incorporate your sleep quality and your breathing rate, so it is a very handy tool, so it’s not just the steps. It looks at quite a wholesome approach to measuring your cardiovascular health anyway, so that was there on the me band 5 it’s down the me band, six as well great, but we consider it as core it’s an advanced feature, but it’s core it’s been there on the Previous model also there’s a status widget, which does have all of your daily and weekly results where you can just see a summary great, so we’ve covered the basics, let’s get into the exciting features and functions and what has actually changed from the previous model. One of the bigger downsides of the me band 5, when it was released last year, was the omission of the spo2 monitor or the blood oxygen saturation monitor.
Well on the me band 6. We finally do get it so it’s, not continuous it’s, a spot reading that it can do but nonetheless it’s. Finally, there it’s on the tracker and that’s great in regards to stress, monitor yep, also there and you can actually set it to be continuously measured during the whole day. You’Ve got a really cool music control here and, of course, it’s much easier to use due to the screen being almost 45 larger than on the previous model. Now one of the coolest things with the fitness trackers is, of course, fitness functionality. If we talk about this tracker, it’s only got connected gps there’s, no inbuilt gps, but again that’s expected at this price point. Another really awesome feature is that this tracker is 50 meters, waterproof well same as the me band 5, really or most of the trackers out there. But this is really handy because you can take it for the pool swim with you. You can actually take it to the shower with you and just don’t bother taking it off. Let’S touch upon the idea of not taking a tracker off now both of these trackers. So the mi band 6, as well as the mi band 5, have the same battery size and it will last you in general, approximately 14 days, you’ll, be happy to know that the battery charger is actually the same, as was on the previous models. So it’s quite easy, it’s a clip on magnet there we go it’s on now.
The coolest thing about the me band 6 is sport modes. The sport functionality is wow really. So if you recall, on the previous model, we had 11 preset sport modes, you couldn’t expand the list. Yeah there were enough, they were the usual sportlines. You had your running your elliptical workouts. You had your walking great, but just 11. on the me band 6. There are 30 sport modes now that’s great. If we talk about the auto recognized activities on the mi band 5, you had just two you’re running and walking on the me band. 6 you’ve got six auto recognized activities and you can easily set them up for auto detection and you can easily set up the activities which you want to be auto detected in order not to flounder your battery life around you can actually do it. Quite simply. In the settings, another thing i want to mention – and this is key – the exercise or the activities the sport modes available in the mi band 6 – have been upgraded with an awesome feature. So we previously know that on the mi band 5, as the same on the mi band 6, you could set your pace controls. You could set the particular heart rate zones in which you want to work out, that’s very advanced for a cheap tracker for a budget tracker, but there was a problem with the xiaomi mi bands. With the sport modes available, you could not set goals, let’s, say a time goal, a calorie spent goal or a distance goal with your actual activity.
Well, with the mi band 6, you choose an activity of your choice, so let’s say we go into let’s, say outdoor running so here. If we do that, we can actually set up the target heart rate zones. We can set the pace alerts. We can do distance alert. We can actually set up auto pause if we want that’s great that’s advanced, but it’s not goal based. Well, there is the goal base option as well, so you can either do a go by duration by distance or calorie consumption. I think this is the biggest improvement, well an exception for the huge screen on the me band 6.. So these two upgrades are, i think that the addition of goal based activities, plus the huge display, make this one of the biggest contestants to the honor band 6.. I think we’ve reached the end of the initial impressions review of the xiaomi mi band 6, but of course there will be upcoming reviews of how it performs and measures your activity in the gym in the pool. I’Ll be posting these videos in the next couple of days. I will be doing an in depth comparison to the me band 5 as well, and of course i will put it up directly against the honor band 6, as well as the amasfit bpu, because many people will be quite interested, not just in the differences in the Functionality, but actually the difference in performance. So how is your optical heart rate, measured? What about sleep accuracy, because this thing here also does and monitors three sleep stages, your light, your deep and rem sleep, so there will be a lot of comparisons coming up.
What can i say in summation of the xiaomi mi band 6? Who is this track for well let’s, say you’re, looking for a budget tracker that has a ton of premium features and not just premium in looks but premium in functionality. I think we’ve got a nearly perfect contender sitting right here, so for 30 bucks or 30 quid or 3 000 indian rupees. You basically get yourself a really cool tracker. You’Ve got 30 sport modes. Six of these activities are actually auto. Recognized you’ve got three sleep stages that can be monitored on this tracker. You’Ve got a stress, monitor, you’ve got an sp02 monitor, you’ve got the pymetric and then finally, of course, you’ve got the 1.56 inch amoled display. So the full tracker face is now visible to you. It’S so easy to use anyway, thanks for watching this initial impressions review of the xiaomi mi band 6..rdZ9XdfdVpg
