Additional information
| Product Dimensions | 1.85 x 0.71 x 0.47 inches |
|---|---|
| Item Weight | 0.822 ounces |
| ASIN | B089NS9JW2 |
| Item model number | Band 5 |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium Metal batteries required. (included) |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #7,859 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)#34 in Activity & Fitness Trackers |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| OS | IOS, Android |
| RAM | 512 KB |
| Wireless communication technologies | Bluetooth |
| Connectivity technologies | Bluetooth |
| Display technology | AMOLED |
| Other display features | Wireless |
| Device interface - primary | Touchscreen |
| Colour | Black |
| Included Components | 1 |
| Manufacturer | Xiaomi |
| Date First Available | July 1, 2020 |
Michael –
TLDR: After owning a $150 FitBit and a $35 LETSFIT, this tracker blows both out of the water. It’s not just another Chinese knockoff. Do yourself a favor and purchase this if you want a simple watch/steps/sleep/HR/messages tracker.In 2018 I bought a FitBit off of Craigslist. The band broke twice in 1 year and there were software bugs sprinkled throughout my time of owning it. I just didn’t like how it fit. Then in Nov. 2019 I bought a LETSFIT tracker that the screen cracked on within 2 months, had really inaccurate steps reporting, and said my heart rate was almost 200 during workouts (yea right!).So after hours of scouring Amazon for a better & more affordable tracker, 9 pages in my search for “Fitness tracker” I stumbled across this and the reviews looked great and the look of the watch looked incredible. After owning it for a week I can flat out say that this is the best tracker I’ve owned and possibly the best one on the market for someone who just wants to track their steps/sleep/heart rate and have something that tells the time.The Screen:First, there are probably hundreds of faces for the watch you can switch out to, and to my knowledge so far, they’re all free. You just open the Mi Fit app, go into your Profile, go into the Smart Band 5 device, and navigate to the Store. Press the one you want and it will sync to the watch. It’s so easy. The faces that I’ve used look beautiful (my photos do not do them justice), like someone who actually knows about art design and color created them. One of the faces shows the watch’s battery (in %), the time, the date, how many steps I’ve taken, and my heart rate, all on the main screen. Perfect. There’s an on-screen button at the bottom of the watch face that when pressed, takes you to the home screen or turns the watch face on. It’s very similar to an android device. You can swipe the screen left, right, up, or down on the screen and get to a different feature. Swiping to the left gets me the weather, which is dead on, and swiping the other way takes me to my messages, which pop up instantly when someone sends me a text. I even get messages from group texts! Something my LETSFIT watch would not do. The text looks sleek and professional. Easy to read.The Tracking:The step tracking seems way more accurate than my LETSFIT watch. I’m on my feet almost all day, constantly walking around, sometimes short jaunts, and sometimes long ones. I’d get done with the day and my LETSFIT watch would tell me I had only about 6000 steps. That’s after walking around for 12-14 hours.. Not so with this watch. There are some mornings when I’ve been running around walking long distances and I’ll have 3000 steps before 10am, which seems pretty accurate to me. I’ve owned 2 fitness trackers and I used to run/coach cross country, so I have a pretty good idea how many steps it should be tracking from my FitBit that tracked fairly well. The heart rate tracking is way more accurate than my LETSFIT, but I haven’t come to a full conclusion on it. I have it set to track every 5 minutes and my normal resting heart rate is usually about 49-52. That’s what my FitBit would register at and my doctor confirmed it. My resting HR on this band has been in the 60s-70s so it may be a little off. When I’m working out it seems to work better though, and maybe that’s because it’s tracking the entire time and not every 5 minutes. I’ll hit up to 164 which seems pretty normal as a max for the intense workouts that I do.The battery:Well so far I’ve clocked in the battery running about 10% per day. This is with the HR checking at 5 minute intervals (you can go as low as 1 min intervals). I’d say that gives you about 9-10 days of battery life, which is excellent, in my book.The syncing:This thing syncs up quickly when you open the app. It also syncs with Google Fit if you open the Mi Fit app and go into accounts and add Google Fit. When you first get the watch and want to sync it, download the Mi Fit app, then make sure you long press on your Bluetooth on your phone and find the watch itself and pair it. Then when you press the screen of the watch it will say it needs to sync first. Press the check mark or next icon and it will automatically pair up.Other cool things that I’m just flat out impressed with:I thought I wouldn’t like the elongated elliptical shape of the watch face. I was wrong. It’s nice and minimalistic. The band is SUPER LIGHT and so easy to put on. Thread the band through the loop and press the little pin into a hole. Done. This means there’s no excess band to flap around accidentally. Normal watch bands have the excess band that slips through a small loop on the watch after you’ve secured it, and it can come loose and you have to rethread it. Not this one. Since the end of the band is what gets pinned into the hole, this thing stays nice and secure on your wrist. The manual says you can wear it in the shower or during swimming. I don’t plan to try either, but man, that’s just cool.The sleep tracker is dead on accurate. I have cats and so I get up in the early morning to feed them, and sometimes go back to bed on the weekends. This thing will pick up when I get up, and then resume my sleep tracking once I go back to bed. My old tracker would just stop tracking once I got up.The app itself is very sleek and well done. I’ve not encountered any bugs, and everything is very well organized. You can turn on notifications, incoming calls, smart analysis of your sleep tracking and exercise, and you can set 3 types of alarms: Mon-Fri, every day, and once, and dictate the time. You can go into the app itself and have it grab your location for the weather and change it between Fahrenheit and Celsius degrees. There is even a feature to control your phone camera from the watch for taking pictures, but I haven’t really messed with that yet.Recommendations to the Mi Band company: You need to add the words “watch” or “fitness tracker” closer to the beginning of your product name, or something to get you listed better on Amazon when someone does a search for your product. It took me 9 pages of sifting through every other Chinese knockoff watch to find yours. It makes me wonder if Amazon realizes that every cheap knockoff fitness tracker with a different name is actually the same company just calling themselves something else, because they all have the same watch face & same graphics.
J. Iscariot –
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. I decided to replace my (still functioning) Fitbit Alta because I wanted something that would keep track of my heart rate. I liked the Mi Band 5 because it was inexpensive and has heart rate monitoring – but the tipping point for my decision to purchase it was the ability to change watch faces.I do really like the size of the band. It’s about the same width as my Alta, so it wasn’t difficult to get used to. I haven’t had any issues with the “clasp” coming apart, but I don’t do much that could snag it. It’s just a little nub you pop into whichever hole on the band fits your wrist, so I can see it potentially coming undone if you’re doing an activity that heavily involves your hands.You can set the heart rate monitoring to be continuous, but you can also make it manual and save battery. It accurately measure my heart rate compared to taking it manually myself.Sleep monitoring is more accurate than my Fitbit, though it does only consider it “sleep” during the night so if you’re on the night shift, your sleep time will count as a nap.The step monitoring seems to be accurate as well when compared to my Fitbit when wearing one on either wrist.The app is pretty decent. I had to put an edit in my review here because I’m an idiot (and it seems like it would be easy to miss). You *can* customize the home screen by hitting “View More,” scrolling to the bottom of the page, and clicking “↑↓Card order.” Then you have to hold whichever start you’re trying to move until it’s selected and move it where you want it to be.You can customize the screens you swipe to on your watch face by re-ordering, deleting, or adding what you want to have easy access to and it’s super easy to change the watch face itself.Which brings me to my favorite part: You can change the face to just about anything. They have several layouts you can use to make a custom face by adding a photo, but there are also several apps that have hundreds (maybe thousands) of additional faces in many different languages. There are faces with cartoons, professional styles, things related to TV shows and movies… I mean there are *a lot* of choices. I downloaded several of the watch face apps and personally found “MI Band 5 Watchfaces” the best as far as options go, but the others are good as well.Battery life is decent. Even with an animated watch face and continuous heart rate monitoring on, it’s currently in need of charge on day six.Anyway, this is getting super long so I’ll wrap it up. I’ve only had it for just over a week and will update this review of I run into any issues. [Slightly edited once]
June –
Love it so much!I mainly just need something that tracks my steps and it also shows stress levels, breathing help(counting to relax), weather, cycles, alarms, options for custom image background, workouts, notifications and a few more!Really a nice buy for the price point if you just need something simple.
Al –
Great smart band, the product is well designed and functional. I’ve been using it primarily to track my sleep and it’s pretty accurate. The software is great. Totally worth the price.
David S. Culpepper –
It is a great piece of tracking equipment, I wear a nice watch, and on my other arm I wear the Band 5. Just a black nice looking tracker. I also does my sleep, steps and cost less than a new band for the Iwatch.The screen is color, and has more features than I will ever need.
Marla Entelisano –
After my Fitbit Versa died, I wasn’t sure what kind of watch to get. While debating it, I bough a cheap watch on Amazon that someone had raved about in comparison to my previous watch. It was about $35 so I got it to use until I made a decision. It was garbage. Strap broke twice, the format and display were awful. I went through 2 of them only because they replaced the first one. I’m still undecided on a sports watch so looked for a different cheap alternative, that’s when I found this. I’m literally no longer debating a Garmin or Galaxy or Apple Watch. Love this thing! Steps and HR are right on the front like my Fitbit. You can easily move things around to fit how you want to access them both on the watch and on the app. Treadmill runs it allows you to adjust the mileage at the end in case it over counts, which it has a couple times. Logs your sleep and other health things. I can’t say enough good things about it! If I had to pick a flaw, I don’t love the band closure but that’s just me being picky and looking for something. Battery life is great, even with me having things turned on to run constantly. Several watch faces to choose from that are free. It’s a great watch for this price. Keeping it indefinitely. I run and workout at the gym and I’ve had no issues with mileage or gps. Heart rate seems pretty accurate. Buy the watch!
AmM –
I can’t go into too many details but let’s just say Amazon has done a fabulous job of blocking my brutally honest reviews. Possible they may try to block this too. We shall see.While I do not love the design of this fitness tracker…for the money, this is the best fitness tracker I have tried to date. And I have tried many at this point. An avid Fitbit user for years, I finally got tired of their trackers conveniently becoming defunct mere days after their warranty expired. Then they would offer to give me a 30% discount to buy a brand new Fitbit. I loved the look and the functionality of Fitbit but didn’t appreciate that 1000s of customers wrote about having the same issues that I was having. So after purchasing 5 Fitbits, I have been on the search for a comparable replacement.Halo was introduced right about that time…I ordered a Halo and several other inexpensive fitness trackers from Amazon. The Halo was filled with novelty features that lost their appeal after about 3 months and the battery life horrible. The way the app tracks information becomes mostly useless and after X period of time, you have to pay for a subscription and lose most of the data tracking. In addition, it does nothing else – no alarms, music control, notifications, etc. Halo is in the garbage at this point.The other fitness trackers I purchased tracked the information and I liked it cosmetically but the battery would be dead within 1.5 days…just wasn’t worth the hassle. How it charged was convenient but I was losing data regularly with the constant charging requirement. The app was cool (H Band) but useless if not tracking. These are also in the garbage at this point.And now I’m on to the Mi Band 5. I have currently been wearing it since last Wednesday (5 days). I have all features on and still have 30% battery! I believe once all is said and done, I will be charging this once a week. That works for me. The information it tracks is also a plus. There is plenty of information out on the internet about the app, and I am still figuring out how to use some of its features.I do not usually come out and write a review this quickly unless I am significantly disappointed or impressed. I AM SIGNIFICANTLY impressed. The only thing that could make this fitness tracker better would be a cosmetic redesign that makes it more appealing to worn casually and for business wear. This would allow the manufacturer to cash in on accessories as well.
Lew Stewal –
Mi Smart Band 5 is not officially released in the USA and it cannot show the Dollar sign $. Instead it shows the Chinese Y symbol. Contacted Xiaomi and they told me tough luck and to bug off they don’t support the Global version in USA. Well, last I heard, the USA is part of the Global community. So good luck to them ever selling me anything else. Having said that you understand the reasoning for 3 stars and not 5. The iPhone App is not totally intuitive, but once you go through it a few times it’s fine. I’m sure when they do begin to sell the Mi Smart Band officially in USA it will be much higher priced than the imported Global version. I whole heartedly recommend the Global version to my fellow US citizens. Turns out there is no need to pay more for a USA version. I can be happy with the Y symbol instead of a dollar sign in the few messages that need it. It’s not that big of a deal and saved bucks. Bought this for my wife too. Much love for the less expensive Global version, thank you importers!
TessV84 –
I love that you don’t have to take anything apart to charge it, the magnetic charger is great. They give you so many options for changing the picture on the face of the tracker. This tracker seems like it would be a really good one, it did track my steps pretty accurately and also check my heart rate regularly which was awesome. The battery life seems great, I only had it for 3 days before I lost it ☹️ thanks to the crap extra bands I purchased separately. The band that came with this tracker stayed secured on my wrist, however I decided to change it to a brightly colored band which was obviously of lesser quality and now my tracker has disappeared. There is even a find my band thing on the app but I had my bluetooth turned off so it doesn’t work 🤦. Please learn from my mistakes, enjoy this awesome band how it comes and keep your Bluetooth on just in case 😉. Magnetic charger and crap bands pictured.
danielle –
I love this cheap thing. It works well for the price. It has music but I still havent figure out how to use it. The only thing is that the weather is not of US measurement and I cant seem to figure out how to change that. The app is very simple but lacking setting options. I would still buy it becuase it measures walking steps well. I am not that active so this works for me. It has heart rate and sleep as well.