Xiaomi Smart Band 4 (Image: kibotek.com)
After our bad experience with the Apple Watch, we gave ourselves a truce and decided to try a non-Apple device and that can replace the basic functions of the Apple Watch.
We didn't want to spend a lot of money and wanted a watch that obviously told time, notified messages, was aquatic, and tracked our steps and training.
We informed ourselves, we consulted, we saw reviews of various smart bracelets and, in the end, the one chosen was the Xiaomi Smart Band 4. It has left us pleasantly surprised. We tell you about our experience with it after a week of use.
Xiaomi Band 4 for iPhone, the perfect fusion:
Here we pass you a video in which we show you how it is and all the options and functions of this device:
Obviously, all the functions and advantages that the Apple Watch gives us will not be given by this bracelet. But we can tell you that if you are not a person who is not going to get much use out of the Apple watch, why spend a lot of money when there are watches, like the Band 4, which for a little more than €30 fulfill the basic functions that we all need?.
The small size of the device, its color screen, its customization options, its easy synchronization with the iPhone, monitoring of sleep, training, steps , the notifications, the great battery life are aspects to highlight of this small bracelet that we have loved.
Sync Band 4 with iPhone:
It's very easy to do. Having activated Bluetooth on the iPhone and following the steps indicated by the MI FIT application, we will synchronize it in no time.
If it's not very clear to you, here are the instructions on how to do it.
Xiaomi bracelet display:
It is Amoled in color and the main screen offers information that, although the screen size is small, it looks quite good. Since it has various types of customization screens, you can always choose the one that best suits you.
There are three gestures that we can perform on it. Swipe up and down to navigate the menus and tap to access them and turn options on or off.
The notifications that you receive, since the screen is so small, if you have presbyopia problems, it may be difficult for you to read them.
You can configure the brightness at different levels and you can program when to activate a night mode in which the brightness is lowered to a minimum.
It is also possible to change the screen skins. We have a lot to choose from:
Screens for the bracelet
Notifications for WhatsApp and other applications on Band 4:
Whatsapp Notification
Notifications don't play sound. They just vibrate the bracelet. It is possible to configure various types of vibrations to differentiate incoming calls, messages, WhatsApps .
In the following tutorial we explain how to configure notifications on the Band 4.
In addition, if you activate PUSH alerts in the weather function, it will send you the weather alerts in your area, which the state meteorology agency sends.
Workouts, steps and sleep monitoring:
The steps are counted automatically. You can set daily step goals to try to be more and more active and try to beat the marks you set.
If you don't take off the Band, it automatically detects when we go to sleep. When you wake up, you will have a small sleep analysis that will help you to know the quality of sleep that night.
As for training we have six sports to choose from:
- Running Outdoors
- Running on treadmill
- Cycling
- Walk
- Exercise
- Swimming in pool
Battery life:
It is what has caught our attention the most. It came to us with 45% and we have charged it, for the first time, after 7 days.Since we charged it to 100% we haven't charged it for eight days and we have it at 57%. Making a projection, we can say that a 100% charge can last about 20 days.
Obviously, depending on how you configure some functions of the device, the battery will last more or less. But what is clear is that it lasts a long time.
More features of the Xiaomi Band 4:
The Band 4 also gives us information about the time, heart rate, has a stopwatch, countdown, "Do not disturb" function, alarms, locator iPhone that makes it emit a sound to know where it is in case of loss, for example, at home.
Many functions that complete one of the most complete smart bracelets on the market.
Things we don't like about Band 4:
Let's list some of the aspects we didn't like about the bracelet:
- Bluetooth radio is quite short.
- He got hung up on us one morning. He wouldn't tell us the steps so we had to restart it. He hasn't happened to us again, but that doesn't stop us from worrying. If it happens to you, to restart the Band enter the "More" menu of the bracelet and follow the following route: Settings / Restart.
- Sync with the iPhone He alth app is not complete. The trainings do not collect them. It only collects steps, calories and heart rate. To see the training statistics, you must do it in the Mi Fit app.
Training stats
These are the only things we didn't like about the Band 4. As you can see, you can live perfectly with them.
We recommend buying Xiaomi Band 4:
If you are a person looking for a smart device that monitors the basics and notifies messages, calls, this is undoubtedly your watch.
Simple, cheap, complete, you can't ask for more from a product.
Totally RECOMMENDED your purchase.
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