Xiaomi have today unveiled their latest wearable the Mi Band 2 with new OLED display and 20 day battery life.
The new Mi Band 2 was announced today with a new price of 149 Yuan and will officially go on sale in China on the 7th June.
Even with the new display most of the features of the Mi Band 2 remain the same as the last generation model with a built in heart monitor, sports pedometer, sleep monitoring, phone unlock etc. Changes are that the heart rate monitor now has live tracking (so it is constantly recording), and that the new wearable has an OLED display and an IP67 body.
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With the addition of the display, the battery life in the Mi Band 2 has dropped from the originals 30 day standby to 20 days which is still more than adequate.
The new wearable is sure to be a popular product in China so expect it to sell out on the 7th, while online resellers also try to get their own stock too.
Meh! I was expecting something actually new, I mean for people that actually use this for fitness the new heart rate monitor is nice but for the rest of us (I’m sure the big majority) it adds nothing as notification device over the original band.
its a fitness band not a smart watch, what more feature can you expect?……. tbh a smart watch would have been better than this.
Yep, but for those like me who really wanted to have live recording this is awesome!! 🙂
It’s a fitness band. Nobody was expecting anything more than this because this is literally all that fitness bands are used for
I’m curious as to what exactly you were expecting. Did you want it to run Android Wear? Were you expecting it to make coffee? Please, do tell.
And I think this is much more useful than anything running android wear or the apple watch, maybe the smartwatches aren’t my cup of tea at all…
Please explain why you call the xiaomi phones “millet” beloved chairman. I have heard that from a few Chinese people but the rest of the world calls them xiaomi mi.
As far as I know “xiao mi” means “millet” or translated word by word “little rice”.
Meh! I was expecting something actually new, I mean for people that actually use this for fitness the new heart rate monitor is nice but for the rest of us (I’m sure the big majority) it adds nothing as notification device over the original band.
its a fitness band not a smart watch, what more feature can you expect?……. tbh a smart watch would have been better than this.
Yep, but for those like me who really wanted to have live recording this is awesome!! 🙂
It’s a fitness band. Nobody was expecting anything more than this because this is literally all that fitness bands are used for
I’m curious as to what exactly you were expecting. Did you want it to run Android Wear? Were you expecting it to make coffee? Please, do tell.
And I think this is much more useful than anything running android wear or the apple watch, maybe the smartwatches aren’t my cup of tea at all…
I know right, hopefully it supports strava
i wish it can tell or show about the incoming call and notify about the message
Resellers are going to overcharge it so hard
I was looking now at few resellers and they almost doubled the price. It’s around $40.
Yes they are dear friend of the millet
Please explain why you call the xiaomi phones “millet” beloved chairman. I have heard that from a few Chinese people but the rest of the world calls them xiaomi mi.
As far as I know “xiao mi” means “millet” or translated word by word “little rice”.