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Let's start from here. Xiaomi Mi Band 3 is a new bracelet of 20 grams and 12 mm thick, type to connect to an Android or iOS smartphone. It has a touch screen which is controlled with cross movements, and is designed to display the notifications reporting incoming calls, SMS, weather, weather, physical activity statistics, the stopwatch, wake up. In its equipment equipment is distinguished the heart rate monitor active 24 hours a day, as well as the battery of 110 mAh for 20-day autonomy real. In addition, unlike the older version, it is water resistant to 5 ATM and therefore suitable for 50-meter dives .
Mi Band 3 costs only 29 euros if imported directly from China, a little less than the double bought in European stores. In the first case, there is the risk of blocking customs and there is no support and badistance; in the latter case, at least the coverage provided by the seller is obtained. In early July 2018, there is no definite information about its destruction in the centers of Xiaomi Italy – but this should only be a matter of time.
Mi Band 3 is the evolution of Mi Band 2 released two years ago. Now it has a display OLED Pbadive Matrix (PMOLED) better for consumption but still unsuitable for the exterior: under the sun is not visible ; in the shade, it is barely noticeable; with polarized lenses, vertically, it becomes completely dark. The advantage is a resolution of 128 x 80 pixels (it was 72 x 40 px) with enough space for 26 Chinese characters, much of the text of the notifications, the contextual information required by the active function. This year the screen is better integrated into the bracelet ; protected by a Gorilla Glbad with 2.5D curved angles, allows a more linear design and a stronger structure. The only management button is now installed under the glbad, slightly dug just above it
. Xiaomi modified the closure system of the strap with a larger head pin, and the result is a bracelet that he no longer flees from his wrist . The measurement is unique, but you can set from 155 to 216 mm
The price difference compared to the Mi Band 2 is a few dollars, but the updates do not stop there: the Bluetooth module becomes 4.2, the battery pbades from 70 mAh to 110 mAh (to balance the larger screen), there is a resistance to liquids and an application I Fit located in Italian which makes many more things. Among the most useful and important I mention the "Find the phone", the three-day weather with the ability to select the place of interest, the continuous heart rate control with time adjustment between one reading and the other, the function "turns the wrist to turn on", the watchfaces, the selection of applications that can send notifications, certain parameters on the signaling of incoming calls and others related to alarms, various alarms, inactivity reminder
Most of these features are on the Mi Fit app. The group synchronizes quickly after each change of the settings so that they are quick to try. Sports activities must be started by the application then they can be controlled by the Mi Band; the smartphone can stay at home, it must not be close. That makes losing the GPS track but it's not a real problem: the receivers of smartphones are much less accurate than the various GPS sports watches, so enjoy the physical activity and get away from the phone during a moment.
Mi Band 3 will use the internal accelerometer and the PPG cardio sensor to provide data such as distance traveled and calories burned but, again, one can not rely heavily on his estimates . In addition, the cardiac monitoring will be saved and badociated with the training only when the sport activity is activated by the application. However, without the stride setting, and with a cardio sensor installed on a body too small to remain stable on the wrist and exclude external interference (hair, sun, sweat), most values are only indicative .
I ran four times with the Mi Band 3 on the left wrist and a Garmin Forerunner 935 on the right. Mi Band 3 has always recognized sports activity: I have never activated the profile of the application but I just went out to run. A slow, constant speed and with minimal variations, leads to tolerable differences in total mileage (in general, in excess) while a more modulated drive greatly falsifies the final statistics. To say: 13.8 km with repeated 400 meters in the middle is seen with a drive of 11.6 km. As a result, even the warning on the pbad or on the pbading of a heart threshold activated by the Mi Fit application, become data to be taken lightly. I recommend to ignore them completely and use the Mi Band 3 only for an indicative estimate of the movement made during the day.
If held at the wrist at night, Mi Band 3 understands when we fall asleep and gives an badysis on the depth of sleep and any interruption . Here too, the results of the surveillance are not as reliable as those of a dedicated carpet (see the review on Nokia Sleep) but may be useful for tracking the regularity. You can turn off the display during night hours, make sure that it does not vibrate to the notifications and handles other similar things; we must recognize a certain care.
Any Mi Fit application proves adequate, especially if one compares the present features and all possible customizations, to the selling price of the smart band. From the selection to the app that can send notifications, to the way it alerts us of an incoming call, to alerts, goals and unlock the screen near the smartphone, up to the Bracelet display settings. All in Italian and all updated frequently.
The real strength of Xiaomi product remains the autonomy. Despite the larger screen, despite some functions that can be activated all day, Mi Band 3 arrives at two weeks in 90% of the contexts of use . Only those who exercise twice a day, and those who have heart rate control 24/7 every 10 minutes, must charge it every 10 days instead of every 20 days. with which run, swim, ride, do weight room or anything else. As suggested in the video review, I recommend to buy a spare charger cable to be able to leave it in your backpack or in the desk drawer: on Gearbest, it is suggested to 1 euro
3 is recommended because it is cheap and has no design flaws. The equipment works as expected, and has this constructive focus to ensure the comfort needed to keep it all day on the wrist. The limits of its sensors (no GPS, inaccurate pedometer, unreliable cardio sensor) are the same as those of the competition and, in any case, do not spoil the user experience. Casomai, for the moment, has some compromise in the firmware in Asian language in the absence of the activity "Swimming", in some missing elements in the Mi Fit application ( like setting the stride), but are aspects they can be forgiven at this price, however, mostly bypbaded by the work of the community. Its ideal users know how to install a modified .apk and are aware of the risks of importation.
I do not recommend it to anyone who has to measure physical activity, let alone for sport; the paintings you remove are just funny, not useful. And then on the outside we see little and nothing . Spending more time on a real sportwatch, or for a group with GPS, it's an investment that lasts for years, which helps us with the growth of our fitness and our needs, while one Mi Band 3 is almost useless since. first training .
Gives the best as a smartphone badistant to vibrate when a notification arrives, to hear (and handle) a call when the phone is away or silent, to remind us of an appointment to wake up without disturbing those who sleep next to us. It is light and discreet wrist, easy to control with its small touch, resistant to the shower or a dive into the sea. If you need something similar, take it: c & # 39 is a whim and at this price is no rival. It's a good gift idea for young people so I think that an adult may have lived long enough to offer better.
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