Redmi Smart Band with Color Display, 14-Day Battery Life Launched in India for Rs. 1,599

Sep. 8, 2020

Ever since the first-ever Redmi-branded fitness trackerwent officialin China earlier this year, Xiaomi fans have been waiting for its India arrival with bated breaths. The company has finallydebutedthe Redmi Smart Band in India today. It boasts a color display, a heart rate sensor, and a 14-day battery life.

Redmi Smart Band: Specs & Features

The Redmi Smart Band boasts a design that’s slightly different from the Mi Band we’re familiar with. You have a flat display here instead of a curved sensor-laden pill. Redmi Smart Band also includes detachable straps as opposed to the central pill cavity found aboard the Mi Band. This fitness tracker weighs only 13 grams and is really lightweight.

Talking about hardware specs, Redmi Smart Band sports a 1.08-inch color TFT touch display with a 220 x 120 resolution and up to 200 nits of peak brightness. Xiaomi will enable you to customize the band with a myriad of watch faces.

The fitness tracker supports five exercise modes, including outdoor running, exercise, cycling, treadmill, and fast walking. You also have a heart rate sensor at the bottom for24 x 7 continuous heart rate trackingand sleep monitoring. The band also offers idle alerts, message and call notifications, music controls, and alarm features right on your wrist.

Redmi Smart Band comes equipped with a 130mAh battery pack, which the company will offerup to 14-days of battery lifeon a single charge. And while Xiaomi finally switched over to magnetic charging with theMi Band 5, Redmi Smart Band supports USB direct charge – the same as the Realme Band.

You simply need to pull out one of the straps and can plug it in the fitness band into a USB-A port for charging. It takes close to two hours to fully charge, says Xiaomi. This fitness tracker is also water-resistant up to 5ATM/ 50 meters, which is great.

Redmi Smart Band has beenpriced at Rs. 1,599in Indiaand will compete against its Chinese counterpart, theRealme Band, in the entry-level segment. You can choose from among a variety of strap colors, including black, blue, orange, and green.

This fitness tracker will go onsale starting from 9th Septemberon Mi.com, Amazon India, and other offline retailers.