In China, wearable products have not been paid attention to. Most of them are made by mobile phone manufacturers. There are very few manufacturers of wearable products alone. We are only familiar with brands such as Huami and GoOut. It is supported by a strong backing. For example, Huami has an inseparable relationship with Xiaomi.
Huami has made bracelet products for Xiaomi for many years. From the first generation to the fourth generation of Xiaomi Mi Band, every product has Huami’s presence. It was not until November this year that Xiaomi officially launched its first watch. On the wearable products made by Xiaomi.
We will not discuss the relationship between the two. We only talk about the product here. After the launch of the Xiaomi watch, Xiaomi released a new watch Color in early January, with a round dial and a price of 799 yuan.
From the configuration point of view, the color of the Xiaomi watch is more inclined to sports, and it is not really smart. After all, there is no eSIM, and it does not support independent installation of applications. The main functions are the same as most round watches on the market.
Xiaomi Watch Color provides two colors: elegant black and fashionable silver. This one in our hands is elegant black color, but Xiaomi provides 6-color colorful trend watch straps for it, and users can mix and match a variety of colors at will.
watch packaging
The back of the package is a simple parameter
front of watch
light up the screen
application interface
The Xiaomi Mi Watch uses a 1.39-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 454×454, 326 ppi, Corning Gorilla Glass 3, two-color stainless steel bezel, scratch-resistant and anti-corrosion, which is a common material in watches. There are two knob buttons on the right side of the dial. , the shortcut function can be realized.
The back of the watch is a biosensor and charging contacts
wear
Colorful strap with quick release design
Magnetic charger
2. User experience
Xiaomi Watch Color has 110 built-in dials, which may continue to increase in the future. It has built-in gyroscope, geomagnetic, air pressure, heart rate, and ambient light sensors, supports 10 mainstream sports modes, and cooperates with the well-known sports algorithm organization FirstBeat to analyze sports in depth through professional algorithms. There are more than 30 sports data during and after exercise. For daily exercise, it is more than enough to give these data.
1、Connect APP
Different from the Xiaomi Mi Band, the Mi Watch Color has another APP connection, called “Xiaomi Wear”. After the user downloads the APP, they can search for the connection by turning on the Bluetooth of the mobile phone and the Mi Watch.
After connecting to Xiaomi Wear, the watch has all the basic functions, but it is not rich enough. For example, the common screenshot function is not available. If the user wants the user data on the watch, it can only be recorded on the mobile phone screen.
2、Watch face replacement and sports data
In the Xiaomi wearable APP, you can download the dial to the watch, and the watch can change other dials at any time (the watch itself does not support downloading dials). At the same time, you can view the activity data, the wearer’s heart rate, effective standing activities, etc. in the APP. Create your own exercise program.
3、watch interactionThe Xiaomi Mi Watch Color uses a circular dial. Tutu always thinks that the circular screen realizes irregular touch operation, because its upper, lower, left, and right boundaries are very blurred. It is not as efficient as a square, and the reading display is low, but considering that sports watches are basically Circular screen, no more to say, let’s talk about its interaction.
The interaction of Xiaomi Watch Color is like this. In addition to the screen touch, there are two knob buttons on the right side of the dial, which can light up the screen when the screen is off. Then the upper button is to enter the built-in application interface, and the lower button is the function shortcut. key (customizable).
In terms of touch interaction, swipe up to view the unread messages pushed by the mobile phone, swipe left/right for personal data such as heart rate, sleep, weather, stress, etc., and swipe down to view the notification bar, as shown in the figure below.
There is a problem here. Users who often use mobile phones will subconsciously swipe into the application interface when using the Xiaomi Mi Watch Color for the first time, instead of clicking the buttons on the side. This requires the wearer to take some time to get used to this operation, which will undoubtedly increase The cost of learning, I hope the follow-up can be optimized to increase the sliding entry interface.
In fact, it can be seen here that the Xiaomi Mi Watch Color is not a smart watch in the true sense. Since there is no speaker, it does not support playing music, making calls, etc., but Tutu thinks that using a watch to make calls is not very good. function, I won’t say more here.
In terms of actual experience, first give a good review to the 40g body weight, there is no pressure on the wrist, the news is pushed in time, reminding that the vibration is much better than the bracelet, and then lift the wrist to brighten the screen function, this time it is very sensitive, basically When you lift your wrist, it will light up. Regardless of the intelligence level, the practicality of Xiaomi Mi Watch Color is higher than that of all bracelet products.。
In addition, it should be mentioned that the Xiaomi Mi Watch Color does not have a speaker, which means that there is no voice feedback from Xiao Ai. After summoning Xiao Ai, it will only display text, which is not much different from the Mi Band 4 NFC version.
4、battery life
Xiaomi Watch Color has a built-in 420mAh battery. Official data shows that the watch can be used for 14 days in typical battery life mode and 22 days in long battery life mode. Due to time problems, we only use it here for two days to check the battery life.
After actual wearing, it can be seen that the battery life of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Color is very good. When the Bluetooth is connected in real time (the battery life mode is not turned on), the power consumption is about 9% in 24 hours, which is not much different from the officially displayed data.
3. Summary
Color is an inevitable product in Xiaomi’s wearable layout, and it is indispensable.It is a large-screen watch featuring sports, long battery life, and multi-functional NFC. Although it is not smart, for the price of 799 yuan, the Xiaomi Watch Color is qualified, not to mention there are watches that do not lose 1,000 yuan. ‘s appearance.
Even a real smart watch (here refers to eSIM, independent calls, and APP installation) can only maintain three or four days of battery life before a breakthrough upgrade in battery technology, and even one charge every two days is inevitable, so There is still a big developing market for this kind of sports watch.
The battery life is the advantage of the Xiaomi Mi Watch Color. Official data shows that its typical battery life is 14 days. Even if it is connected to Bluetooth in real time to get the message push, it can achieve a battery life of about 10 in the actual test, which is worthy of praise.
Judging from the current development trend, manufacturers have reached a consensus that watches are an important part of wearable products. Xiaomi, Huawei, Apple, Samsung, etc. are all making their own watch products. In the future IoT ecosystem, watches will definitely There will be a place, and its future development is worth looking forward to.
