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Review on Smart bracelet Xiaomi Mi Band 2, black by Micha Korkosz ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I like everything, the quality is good, the price is reasonable.

I bought this bracelet for the sake of a silent alarm clock, it seems to cope with this task (I hope there will be no more incidents with pes, otherwise you will have to set three alarms, like in jawbone). If you are still chasing the steps and waking up in the “correct” phase of sleep, then I urge you to think about whether this is making your life worse. Regular walking in large quanies can negatively affect the back (I realized for myself that I can quite calmly walk 30 thousand steps a day once a month, but the daily pursuit of 10 or even 8 thousand is suicide), but in order to really wake up in sleep phases, you have to be prepared for an error of 1.5-2 hours, and not the ridiculous 30-45 minutes, as most bracelets suggest. Accordingly, it will work normally only if we are talking about 8-10 hours of sleep. If you sleep for 5-6 hours and are trying to get better sleep, the only correct solution for you is to increase the amount of sleep, and not wake up half an hour earlier in the "correct" phase.

Pros
  • It has a display and at the same time holds a charge for a long time and has a compact design. The clock on the display is very visible. Not bad design. Comfortable to wear. A persistent alarm clock that will wake you up until you lose your pulse, and not emit three weak vibrations and shut up (hello up3). The native application does not the phone when the bracelet is not in sight (well, I don’t wear it around the clock, hello Sony SmartBand). Records the phases of sleep and seems to adequately count the steps.
Cons
  • Alarm. All the same, there are oddities. A couple of times I woke him up, as if he didn’t turn on at all, or I managed to convince him in a dream that I was already up. Therefore, I don’t really like touch ons on bracelets, it’s too easy to press accidentally or unconsciously. The alarm clock goes off every ten minutes for an hour until you get up - as I understand it, they decided to replace the smart alarm clock with this algorithm, like setting an alarm clock with an hour's margin, and when you have the wrong phase, you just don't wake up, and then every 10 minutes trying again, and when it hits the right phase, you already feel it and get up. Because the very idea of ​​​​a smart alarm clock could not prove its effectiveness, and an extra hour of sleep is much more useful than waking up in the “necessary” phase, it would be better if they completely scored on it, and the alarm would go off every 3 minutes for 15 minutes. Inaccurately determines the edges of sleep, most often adds 20 minutes at the beginning and at the end (but this can be edited after the fact). It does not know how to determine when it is not on the arm, so lying on the table is constantly trying to measure the pulse (seen by blinking), although this does not affect the charge, fortunately. Cannot detect REM sleep. It is inconvenient to fasten on the arm, in this regard, I even liked the jawbone up3 more.