{"id":442,"date":"2020-10-11T14:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idzan.eu\/?p=442"},"modified":"2020-10-11T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T12:19:26","slug":"power-user-with-sports-tracking-bracelet-xiaomi-mi-band-4-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Power User with Sports Tracking Bracelet \u2013 Xiaomi Mi Band 4 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, this is my personal review of Xiaomi Mi Band 4 as someone who previously used clone of it (Chinese copy, something like this\u00a0M4 Smart Band<\/a>) and Smart Watch (to be precise\u00a0Forever SW-100<\/a>\u00a0which was premium looking but with custom firmware on it).<\/p>\n

Now, one and two months of usage later I will provide my experience with Xiaomi\u2019s Mi Band 4 which I got for a fair pricing at August of 2020. To be precise, pricing was about 33 Euros at day of purchase (conversion from Croatian Kuna\u2019s to Euros so there might be conversion mismatch because I used information for conversion from\u00a0European Central Bank<\/a>\u00a0on 4. October 2020. to see what was conversion ratio on day of purchase).<\/p>\n

Why I chose Xiaomi Mi Band 4 over Xiaomi Mi Band 5 which was available to purchase? It is simple \u2013 pricing. Mi Band 4 was cheaper and also it was for my usage perfect Sports Tracker and Smart Bracelet.<\/p>\n

For a quick rundown of specifications I will mention few things \u2013 0.95 inches AMOLED display with 24bit color depth and max of 400 nits of brightness, 5 ATM Water Resistance Rating, 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity with backwards versions of Bluetooth support and finally \u2013 capacitive 2.5D tempered glass for display to be useful. More detailed specifications can be found on\u00a0Official Xiaomi Site<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0GSMArena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How it is to use Xiaomi Mi Band 4 for a two months. To put it simply, it is easy to use, I don\u2019t mind to have it all day long on arm. It isn\u2019t obtrusive as previous Smart Watch that I had and also it is way lighter than it. In comparison to Chinese Clone of it \u2013 it is way more responsive and it is in my honest opinion way better in battery department.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m mostly using it to track my walking and heart rate (plus sometimes I might track sport activities like Outdoor Biking or Running\/Jogging) it can do all things that I put to it. As mentioned I\u2019m using it primarily as my pedometer and heart rate monitor with enabled features like Sleep Monitoring.<\/p>\n

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Shot of Xiaomi Mi Band 4 few days ago while slow walking session in neighborhood at noon sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For sports monitoring it needs to be connected with phone and Mi Fit application. It is important to connect phone and Xiaomi Mi Band 4 trough Mi Fit as it uses them to get GPS data for walking, running or cycling distance and to be more precise with them. In General Training option in Workouts it tracks how long are you doing exercises and tracks heart rate with heart rate monitor. There is also Swimming tracking, but as I bought it bit late I couldn\u2019t test this feature, but I can say that water resistance is perfect.<\/p>\n

As for non sports features it have Weather connection trough\u00a0Mi Fit<\/a>\u00a0application, Notification support for multiple of applications but without option to reply on them and some features which might be useful like Alarms directly on watch. Yup, I use that feature a lot, especially with regular Alarms on phone (needs to be activated trough Mi Fit) so it can wake me up when phone is on desk and I\u2019m still in bed few meters away from phone. I can dismiss Alarms or get to to Snooze from Smart Band which helped me few times when I forgot to turn of daily alarm at 5:55 AM on weekend.<\/p>\n

Other notable features are Smart Do Not Disturb Mode which is enabled when you go to Sleep or to Power Nap (which is useful not to vibrate with notifications when you just want a quick nap after hard working day).<\/p>\n

There are also features like Music Playback controls (which I didn\u2019t used as I\u2019m mostly playing music using YouTube Music application), Stopwatch with Timer, Find device and Silent Mode.<\/p>\n

Now, as it is Xiaomi\u2019s product it is customizable with Watch Faces. You can create yourself one or just find one you like. In Mi Fit application there are few of them, but you can find more on Internet or just use application\u00a0Mi Band 4 Watch faces<\/a>\u00a0from Google Play Store (there are more applications for that, but I found this one to be perfect in my opinion as it have lot of watch faces to choose with different styles and language compatibility.<\/p>\n

In final topic let\u2019s talk about battery life. What I can say is \u2013 it can take about 25 days (give or take few days depending of usage) from charge to charge. This is my average, and this average is higher then\u00a0official rating of 20 days of usage<\/a>. And yes, that average is from 2 mobile phones that it was connected in a first week \u2013 temporary\u00a0iPhone 6<\/a>\u00a0and my current device\u00a0Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Xiaomi Mi Band 4 Battery levels after second charging of it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
As for additional bands or protectors for screen \u2013 it have bunch of options on various sites like Aliexpress, Gearbest, eBay and others like them. For instance I bought 3 pack of screen protectors and they helped out on few occasions where I was working around metals and it saved me lot of money from scratching device. Now I\u2019m on second protector as first one got scratched to be unusable one day while working around house for preparing wooden planks to be painted later on.<\/p>\n
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In conclusion \u2013 Xiaomi Mi Band 4 is still perfect Smart Sports Tracking Band for somebody who wants affordable and perfectly usable smart band with lot of customizability and great support from manufacturer.<\/p>\n

All images shot for this review are my personal shots created with Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, this is my personal review of Xiaomi Mi Band 4 as someone who previously used clone of it (Chinese copy, something like this\u00a0M4 Smart Band) and Smart Watch (to be precise\u00a0Forever SW-100\u00a0which was premium looking but with custom firmware on it). Now, one and two months of usage later I will provide my experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-wearables-and-other-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worker.idzan.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}