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Review on Smart bracelet Xiaomi Mi Band 2, black by Agata Wydra ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

A good product, I advise you to try it.

Watch. There are no special claims. They work fine, the only pity is that they do not show the date and day of the week. At rest, the watch is turned off, to turn it on, you must either press the touch button or make an appropriate wave of your hand. But for some reason, when you make a wave in "real" conditions, they almost never light up and you have to stand like a fool waving your hand, or release your other hand to press the touch button. I used to wear an ordinary watch and now I really miss the opportunity to find out the time just by looking at the watch in any position and not showing everyone that I'm in a hurry somewhere. Phone notifications. Shown as icons (no detailed information). In general, this suits me. But the range of the bluetooth is not satisfied - it is none at all. He left the room and that's it, the bracelet will not give a signal. Comrade Pebble has a range many times greater - tens of meters through walls. Strap. The white strap quickly (2-3 weeks) darkened from dirt, and no chemistry can bring it back to a snow-white color. I had to switch to a black bracelet. Pedometer. It works fine, but it's also not needed. Before the bracelet, the phone itself with the moves application did an excellent job with this function. It seems to me that all people now carry a phone with them all the time and steps can be measured with it. You don't need to buy a bracelet for this. The smartlock function (auto-unlocking the phone if the bracelet is synchronized, i. E. is nearby) did not work on my phone (meizu). Very sad. But the bracelet is probably not to blame. Outcome. I think that a bracelet (of a similar series) should have at least a long-range bluetooth, a normally turned off alarm clock, a smart lock, a more informative watch and always a long battery life (like xiami mi band 2 :))))

Pros
  • Quality build. The bracelet is well made. Good design. Stays on the strap very well. Silicone straps do not irritate the skin, do not sweat, the bracelet is not felt on the hand. I don't take my bracelet off even at night. The charge holds for about 2 weeks, I did not make more accurate measurements.
Cons
  • The functionality is disappointing. The heart rate monitor function is useless. I regularly run, I thought that I would monitor the pulse - it will not work. The pulse can only be measured in a state of complete rest. It is not clear why these heart rate monitors are needed in bracelets, except for bedridden patients. In general, I came to the conclusion that the pulse during physical activity can be qualitatively measured only with chest heart rate monitors. Wrist either lie or refuse to measure. Although it should be noted that the bracelet can use a heart rate monitor when tracking sleep phases. But sleep tracking isn't great either. Sometimes the tracked sleep is really similar to the truth, and you can see how much slow-wave sleep was and how much fast. There is a dependence of the feeling of sleepiness on the amount of non-REM sleep. The more slow-wave sleep, the more rested you feel. But often the bracelet just lies - it says, for example, that I went to bed at 3 a. M., although I fell asleep exactly before 12. The result of tracking sleep - you can play around, but you shouldn’t buy any kind of bracelet for this. Vibrating alarm. This is what I really liked! Waking up from the vibration of the bracelet, and not from the music screaming from the phone, is very comfortable. For this, it is worth having a bracelet. But even here it was not without jambs. To turn off the alarm clock, you need to knock on it very thoroughly! This apparently remains from the previous model, where there was no touch button. If you press (even accidentally) on the touch button (or just oversleep the first signal), then the alarm clock will ring every 10 minutes 3-4 more times and there is no way to stop it! You are at work and the alarm keeps waking you up. Very distracting to be honest. Continued in the comments.