Mi Band 3 Review: A Worthy Mi Band 2 Successor?

As far as fitness bands go, Xiaomi'south line up of Mi Bands has been one of the best selling in the globe. Always since the company launched the (admittedly pretty bones) original Mi Ring, it has caught the middle of a mass audience thanks to the aggressive pricing strategy by the company. I've used every Mi Band the visitor has launched, and nosotros got the Mi Band iii from China that I have been using for quite some time now. Well, the Mi Band 3 has arrived in India at a toll of Rs. 1,999 on Amazon and Mi India. So, without further ado, let's get to our Mi Band 3 review:

Mi Band 3 Specs:

Before we swoop into the review, let's get the specs out of the style.

Display	0.78-inch OLED
Resolution	128x80 @ 193ppi
Water-resistance	5ATM (l meters)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 4.2 BLE
Sensors	Tri-axial sensor, PPG Heart-rate sensor
Weight	~20g (with wristband)
Bombardment	110mAh Li-ion
Toll	Rs. one,999

Design and Build: Exceedingly Xiaomi-like, and I Love It

As far every bit the pattern and build of the Mi Band iii is concerned, Xiaomi has gone with its tried and tested design philosophy, improving upon the Mi Band two in some key areas, and that really makes a difference in what the band looks like, and how information technology feels on the wrist.

Arguably, the Mi Band iii fixes two of the biggest flaws in the Mi Ring 2 blueprint — the non-affect enabled brandish, and the eyesore of a button. The Mi Band three comes with a touchscreen display, and a button that's more like a depression in the console. The button here manages to easily blend in with the residual of the glass console on the front, and manages to look about low-profile.

True, the 3D curved design of the tracker itself makes it look highly susceptible to scratches, and I did find myself accidentally hitting it confronting walls and stuff in my everyday use, which resulted in a lilliputian bit of scratching on the glass. However, that can be chalked upwardly to my exceedingly irresponsible usage of the Mi Ring 3. Devinder, who has been using some other Mi Band 3 for every bit long as I have been using this one, is probably far more careful than I am — his Mi Ring 3 doesn't accept a single scratch on the glass.

Personally, I love the curved design of the tracker, it looks really beautiful even with the screen off, and I can safely say that the Mi Band 3 is an absolute stunner.

To brand things even amend, Xiaomi has improved the water-proofing on the Mi Ring 3, taking information technology up a pretty-few notches from the IP67 rating on the Mi Band ii to a water-proof rating of 5ATM (that'due south up to 50 meters). In comparison, IP67 is rated for upwards to one meter of submersion in water.

The strap here is pretty much the aforementioned in terms of build and design equally the 1 on the Mi Band 2, or the Mi Band by extension. It'south the same silicone textile which is quite flexible and didn't lose its shape fifty-fifty on beingness abnormally bent and stretched by me — something no i volition ever practice in normal usage, just I was merely being thorough in my attempts to find something to complain about. Also, different the Mi Ring ii, the strap for the Mi Ring 3 comes in three colors — black, deep blue, and orange.

The only thing I institute a tad difficult to practise on the Mi Ring 3, is remove the tracker from the band itself. It's a non-issue, really, but it just feels a trivial scary to do. I don't know if it's the curved glass panel on the tracker, or a band that's tighter than usual, only popping the tracker out of the band feels like it might end up cracking the glass.

Nevertheless, some of you lot guys mentioned in our video review that popping it out back-to-front is easier, so I tested that out, and turns out it is easier that way. Thanks! Information technology's however more hard than popping the Mi Band 2 out of the strap, but at to the lowest degree information technology doesn't feel similar I'll be nifty the glass anymore.

Display: OLED, Touchscreen, What's Not to Dear?

The Mi Band 3 also improves upon the Mi Band 2 in terms of the display. This fourth dimension around, Xiaomi has put in a comparatively massive 0.78-inch touchscreen OLED panel within the tracker. That'southward a big step-up from the 0.42-inch OLED panel on the Mi Band 2.

The display here is brighter as well, by a considerable margin as compared to the 1 you'd find on the Mi Band two. It has a pixel density of 193ppi, which, as far equally I'm aware, is one of the highest in a fitness band. It definitely feels really sharp as compared to other fitness bands in the price range.

Also, since this here is a touchscreen display, you can navigate the menus using swipes, leaving the button for those few moments where y'all demand to tap to go home, or long tap to start an action.

It'southward a pretty impressive display, all things considered, and the just thing I institute irksome was that sometimes (just sometimes), the display would have a few seconds to commencement responding to touches later being woken upwardly. That's something that tin can be fixed with a software update though, so if this actually is an issue with the Mi Band 3 (and non just with the unit I've been using), I'm sure Xiaomi tin fix it with a tiny patch.

PS: There'due south no notch, for the few people who were joking about it on the comments in my video. Aren't we all glad about that?

Features: Everything from the Mi Ring 2, and Then Some

Equally far as features are concerned the Mi Band 3 takes everything that was practiced nigh the Mi Band 2 and adds a bunch of more than stuff to it. To make matters easier to understand, I'll split the features on the Mi Band 3 into fitness features, and other features.

Fitness Features

In terms of fitness features, the Mi Band 3 comes with everything y'all'd expect from a fitness tracker in this price. The band tin count the number of steps you've taken, the altitude y'all've walked, and the corporeality of calories you've burnt. Calories are an of import metric for people who are trying to burn some fat, or just trying to lose the vacation weight, and the Mi Band three will definitely help you lot keep a track of that.

There'due south sleep tracking every bit well, which (every bit is usual) breaks downwards your sleeping patterns into deep sleep, lite sleep, and awake, giving a pretty detailed look into your sleeping patterns (mine are pretty screwed upwards, every bit I realised after using the Mi Band three).

At that place's also heart rate tracking, and the Mi Band 3 improves upon the Mi Ring ii here likewise. While the Mi Band two could measure your heart-charge per unit, information technology would only practice so if explicitly asked to, and non on its own. That may be fine, but having an option to automatically take eye rate readings can be a godsend to anyone suffering from cardiac issues. The Mi Band 3 allows users to set an interval for the tracker to automatically have heart rate readings.

In that location'southward an option to ready it to ane minute, x minutes, and 30 minutes. The characteristic does take a major hit on the bombardment life (and Xiaomi warns you when you first ready it up), simply it's there if you desire information technology. If you don't desire it, it can always be disabled from the app.

Other Features

Other than the fitness-oriented features, the Mi Band 3 brings some pretty great boosted features as well.

There's a stopwatch built-in on the Mi Band 3, which yous tin actuate from the 'More' card inside the Mi Band 3. This can come up in very handy, not just for timing your workouts or runs, but also in everyday situations where you may find yourself in need of a stopwatch (believe me, those situations ascend).

Other than that, the Mi Ring 3 can likewise allow you locate your smartphone with just a couple of taps, something that was missing on the Mi Ring ii. Personally, I love this feature, because I tend to leave my phone lying around my firm simply to panic a couple of hours later when I can't find it anywhere. Also, if you're wondering, when y'all try to locate your telephone from the Mi Ring, it'll band even if it's set to Silent (I fifty-fifty tested information technology with Do Non Disturb and it worked).

As well, notifications. The Mi Band 3 handles notifications a lot better than the Mi Band 2 ever did. If y'all're getting a call, the Mi Band three not only displays that a telephone call is incoming, it'll too let you press and concord on the push to reject the phone call. However, while it says 'pass up', this basically silences the call. I don't know why it wouldn't just say 'silence,' but that'due south how it is.

In case of messages, the Mi Band 3 now lets you view the content of the notifications every bit well. The band supports a maximum of 5 notifications, and can show a maximum of 3 pages per notification, which might sound similar information technology'due south non a lot, only I found it to be enough. You can also press and concord the push to articulate the notifications from the Mi Band 3. I would've liked the ability to respond to notifications directly from the band, but I approximate that would've made the Mi Ring 3 a fully-fledged smartwatch (or at to the lowest degree a very close approximation of 1).

There are watch faces (band faces?) here as well (just similar in the Mi Band 2), but the Mi Band 3 has three faces instead of two like in the Mi Band two, and you tin can now alter the faces straight from the band itself. That's not really a big-bargain, simply it'due south in that location for anyone who likes to change ring faces frequently.

NFC

Xiaomi had launched ii variants of the Mi Band three, including a standard model that we have and are reviewing, and a 199 Yuan model that comes with NFC.

Now, NFC means that you'll be able to pair the band with your phone a lot faster and it'll also exist used for making payments with Mi Pay. Still, that particular feature will most probable exist limited to China, so it'south not really that big a deal for us Indian users.

Overall, the Mi Band 3 is definitely a very well-rounded fitness ring loaded to the brim with features. In my usage of the fettle tracker, I felt similar it was very close to breaching into smartwatch territory; what with all the bang-up features Xiaomi has stuffed into information technology.

The Mi Fit App

Talking about the features of the Mi Band 3, I'd be amiss if I didn't mention the ridiculously amazing app that is the companion Mi Fit app y'all'll be using with the Mi Band 3. Anyone who has used a Mi Band before would know how astonishing an app this is, just with the Mi Band iii, at that place are a bunch of improvements thanks, in part I'm sure, to the improvements in the ring itself.

First and foremost there's the step-counter which is pretty much the same whether yous're using the Mi Band, the Mi Band 2, or the Mi Band iii. Information technology shows a daily stride-count, the altitude you've traveled, and the calories burnt. It's a adept way to go on track of your walking habits, and whether you're walking enough every day or non.

Then at that place comes the heart rate data which, in the instance of the Mi Band three comes in the form of a graph. I had enabled automated heart rate detection and set it to every 10 minutes in my regular usage of the band and the data shows up really nicely. There'southward also a handy table of my daily average middle rate, along with the minimum and maximum heart rate. People with a cardiac condition volition find this very useful to keep a track of their eye activity throughout a twenty-four hour period.

There's as well the slumber data, which again is pretty much the aforementioned equally information technology has been. The data is divided into three dissimilar regions — deep sleep, calorie-free sleep, and awake. Along with all of that, the app shows an analysis of your sleeping patterns, and fifty-fifty makes suggestions on how to form better sleeping habits that'll be helpful.

The Mi Fit app is also where you lot'll set-up things like notifications, and select the apps yous want to receive notifications for on your band. You'll likewise be able to gear up an activity or weight goal for yous to follow.

Battery

Coming to what is probably the i affair Mi Bands have been known for — the bombardment life. The Mi Band 1 had a bombardment life close to a month, the Mi Band two had a battery life of effectually fifteen days, and the Mi Band 3 manages to push a pretty decent life out of a single charge equally well.

While Xiaomi claims a bombardment life of 20 days with the Mi Band three, that's under lab testing conditions, and with manual centre rate tracking. In my personal usage, I had prepare the centre rate measurements to every 10 minutes through the twenty-four hours. That obviously drains quite a lot of battery (and Xiaomi warned me well-nigh information technology when I first enabled it), but fifty-fifty with that, the Mi Ring 3 lasted an easy 10 days. That'southward honestly kind of ridiculous.

Xiaomi's decision to become with a much larger 110 mAh battery on the Mi Band 3 every bit compared to the 70 mAh bombardment on the Mi Ring 2 has plainly paid off really well here, and I take no complaints with the battery life on this thing.

Even when I did manage to completely bleed it of it's bombardment, information technology took around 3 hours to get back up to a full 100%. I love it. Basically, every 10 or so days, I tin just put it to accuse when I go to bed, and that's it. It'due south pretty dandy.

Pros and Cons:

The Mi Band 3 delights in more than ways than one, only like every other device e'er designed, there are pros and cons to what is otherwise a remarkable gadget.

Pros:

• Excellent pattern
• Touchscreen OLED display
• Automatic heart rate tracking
• Good battery life
• Abrupt 193 ppi display

Cons:

• Difficult to pop-out of the band
• Easy to bump into walls and article of furniture (kind of like your niggling toe)

See Too: Mi 8 SE Review: The New Mid-Range King?

Mi Band three: Truly an Upgrade over the Mi Ring 2

All things considered, I have no doubts in calling the Mi Ring 3 a true upgrade over the Mi Band two. Everything the Mi Ring 2 did, this does amend, and to add on to that, it does some stuff that the Mi Band ii never could.

It has a bigger, brighter display, an overall better design, all the fettle features you'd want in a fitness tracker including automatic heart rate tracking, stopwatch, notifications and call alerts, and more than. It has a bigger battery that easily lasts ten days, even with automatic heart rate tracking enabled (a feature that the Mi Band 2 didn't fifty-fifty accept).

At Rs. 1,999, the Mi Band 3 is simply unbeatable. Whether you're looking to buy your first fettle band, or thinking of upgrading from a Mi Band 2, I accept absolutely no bug in recommending the Mi Band 3.

Buy Mi Band iii from Amazon: (Rs. i,999)

REVIEW OVERVIEW
Design and Build nine
Display eight.five
Features 9.5
App Features 9
Battery Life 8.5
Value for Money ten
SUMMARY The Mi Ring 3 is a delightful little fitness tracker that you lot'll fall in love with. For 169 Yuan (~Rs. 1800) the Mi Band iii brings along features most unheard of in its price range, and a design and build that is exceedingly impressive, even for a company like Xiaomi that has had an excellent rail tape with its fitness trackers. The battery life is some other impressive feat for a ring this pocket-sized, and if you're looking for a upkeep fitness tracker, your search will probably finish here.	9.i OVERALL SCORE

Source: https://beebom.com/mi-band-3-review/

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