If you’re out there for a health wearable, likelihood is you have taken a take a look at Xiaomi’s merchandise already. The Mi Band sequence has helped the corporate construct and keep its place within the health wearable house. With a view to diversify on this product class, Xiaomi has lately introduced within the Redmi Watch, which caters to these in search of a watch-like form and in-built GPS for health monitoring. Priced at Rs. 3,999, the Redmi Watch does appear inexpensive, however does it provide the perfect worth? I put the Redmi Watch to the check to seek out out.
Redmi Watch value in India
The Redmi Watch is out there in a single dimension solely and is priced at Rs. 3,999 in India. Xiaomi gives the Redmi Watch in three dial colors: Black, Blue, and Ivory. There are 4 strap choices (Black, Blue, Ivory, and Olive). I had an all-black Redmi Watch with me for this assessment.
Redmi Watch design
The Xiaomi Redmi Watch has a square-shaped dial however it does not actually stand out since lots of wearables at this value level have related designs. The Redmi Watch has a plastic physique with a matte end and it’s curved on the corners whereas the edges are utterly flat. There is just one button on the proper whereas the opposite aspect is clean. The Redmi Watch has an LCD show that measures 1.4-inches, with 2.5D glass on prime.
The Redmi Watch is waterproof upto 5 ATM of strain so you possibly can put on it whereas swimming with none concern of damaging it. Xiaomi has used proprietary connectors for the straps which can restrict your strap choices. Eradicating the strap could be very simple, you simply must press the discharge button on the watch physique. Placing the straps again on is easy as properly and also you hear an audible click on when the strap is firmly connected.
Xiaomi has pre-curved the straps which makes it tremendous simple to put on the watch. The Redmi Watch has a typical pin buckle and it by no means got here off throughout the assessment. On the underside of the Redmi Watch are its coronary heart price sensor and pins for charging. This wearable doesn’t help SpO2 monitoring, a characteristic which may have made it extra interesting given the present pandemic scenario. The included charging cradle has a full-sized USB plug on the different finish. The Redmi Watch homes a 230mAh battery and claims to supply about 10 days’ price of battery life. The Redmi Watch is comparatively gentle at simply 35g.
Redmi Watch software program
You need to use the Redmi Watch together with an Android or iOS system, and you may want the Xiaomi Put on or Xiaomi Put on Lite app respectively to handle it. This wearable could be very simple to pair, and it maintains a steady connection so long as the cellphone is inside vary. The app requires you to signal right into a Mi account and is similar one you’d use with lots of different Xiaomi wearables such because the Mi Watch Revolve (Evaluation), which I’ve reviewed already, and the newly launched Mi Watch Revolve Lively. The app is simple to make use of and allows you to customise among the settings on the Redmi Watch. You’ll be able to change watchfaces and choose which apps can ship notifications to your wrist.
You’ll be able to retailer upto 5 watchfaces on the Redmi Watch and might change them by merely long-pressing on the present one. To obtain recent new watches onto the Redmi Watch, you will have to make use of the Xiaomi Put on app. So many can be found that you need to use a brand new one every single day and nonetheless not repeat any for a number of months. Nonetheless, you aren’t getting the choice to customize these watchfaces.
The Redmi Watch runs a customized OS and options heart-rate, sleep, and exercise monitoring. It additionally has a barometer, a compass, and in-built GPS, which helps you to observe outside exercises while not having a smartphone. The UI on the Redmi Watch could be very simple to make use of. You’ll be able to swipe down from the highest to see notifications and swipe as much as entry fast toggles. Swiping left to proper reveals you totally different screens containing climate information, sleep length, coronary heart price, energy burned, and music participant controls. Urgent the button on the aspect takes you to a listing of all of the capabilities of the Redmi Watch.
Redmi Watch efficiency and battery life
I used the Redmi Watch for 2 weeks and I discovered it to be very comfy. Provided that the Redmi Watch weighs simply 35g, you will barely discover it when worn. This low weight and its small dimension additionally makes it simple to put on this watch to mattress. The show high quality is simply common and I discovered the auto brightness to be a bit too aggressive. The raise-to-wake gesture works properly, and the Redmi Watch is fast to modify its show off to preserve battery life.
I had arrange the watch to buzz for incoming WhatsApp notifications, and I may learn incoming ones on the watch itself however there is no such thing as a manner to answer them. The Redmi Watch can notify you of incoming calls together with the caller identify. You’ll be able to’t take calls utilizing the watch, however you possibly can decline or silence them.
Coronary heart price monitoring was pretty correct and I didn’t see an enormous deviation in comparison with readings proven by an Apple Watch SE that I used to be utilizing on the identical time. The default interval for coronary heart price monitoring is half-hour (to save lots of energy), which you would possibly need to change to five minutes or so for extra helpful statistics. Sleep monitoring on the Redmi Watch was correct and it additionally gave me a breakdown of my sleep high quality within the app. In the event you’ve been in search of a tool that may additionally observe SpO2, properly, that is lacking on the Redmi Watch, and it may have been a robust promoting level had Xiaomi included this.
Step monitoring labored with a negligible error price on the Redmi Watch, I counted 1,000 steps manually, and the watch confirmed 1,002, which is suitable for a tool at this value. The Redmi Watch is able to monitoring 11 exercises together with Cricket, however given the present scenario I may solely check its health monitoring capabilities whereas exercising indoors utilizing the freestyle exercise mode. On this mode it solely confirmed me my coronary heart price and the variety of energy burnt. I discovered the center price readings whereas understanding to be inconsistent. I could not check the accuracy of GPS monitoring on the watch.
Battery life was acceptable given the scale of this wearable and its small 230mAh battery, Xiaomi claims upto 10 days of battery life however I received solely about 7 days of use out of it with sleep monitoring each evening, understanding on alternate days, and notifications enabled for WhatsApp. In the event you allow extra app notifications or work out extra often, the battery life may be even decrease. The provided charger takes about two hours to cost the Redmi Watch absolutely, and a quicker charging answer would have been good.
Verdict
The Redmi Watch does what you would possibly anticipate, however does nothing extra to face out within the sea of health wearables at the moment out there. Xiaomi has put within the effort to make it gentle, however I might have been pleased with a barely heavier Redmi Watch with higher battery life. Xiaomi nonetheless gives excellent monitoring for steps, and in case your primary motivation is to log your step rely every day, the Redmi Watch will try this fairly properly.
Xiaomi does have the scope to enhance the Redmi Watch, and including SpO2 monitoring can be a very good place to start out. Until then, if you’re in search of an inexpensive health wearable that allows you to observe the same old together with SpO2, the Amazfit Bip U Professional is another price contemplating.