Mi Watch Color - Best Entry Level Smartwatch! By C4ETech

This is the watch and this is the mean watch color, so what's changed your other than the design? Now that's what we're going to be looking at in today's video, hey guys ash here from Sakura Tech and if you don't end up planning this video interesting subscribe turn on notifications by hitting that Bell icon. Let's now get this video started so guys. Today we have the circular variant of the mean watch. We recently looked at the other knee watched, the squire variant and I have to say at least when it comes to the packaging. They have the same, look and feel to the back. We get the usual spec highlights: there's nothing to the sides.

Let's open up the box and see what Xiaomi has to offer sliding it open. First thing inside is this leaflet: it's got instructions and other stuff written all in Chinese, of course, since this was imported from China next up we have the watch itself. We've got a heart rate, monitor to the back underneath that is this tiny me logo flipping it round. This is how it looks next to my Fitbit charge, 3. Just to give you guys, an idea of the size of perspective looks quite good.

The strap looks decent enough. I'd, say anyways, we'll come back to the watch color later on. So that's what they're calling this the watch color moving on inside the box. We have the charging cradle. It's got a nice rubberized bottom.

That should help with a grip. On the other end, we have a regular USB connection, so we have power pins on the cradle and once we put the watch in this is how it charges the other compartment well seems like it's empty, so that's pretty much it for the box contents. No, we did compare it before with my Fitbit, but that's a fitness tracker. So, let's see how it stacks up against its sibling. The watch so side by side I prefer the circular design of the watch color.

It's also thinner, and it weighs less the straps feel similar and on my wrist it felt comfortable. The frame is made out of stainless steel and overall, the mean watch. Color feels really premium and well like the watch. The screen here is AMOLED, and it comes with an auto brightness sensor, even when viewing the screen outdoors I have no trouble with it. The 1.3 9 inch round panel sports, a resolution of 454 by 454 pixels and everything from Dexter images. Look sharp and vivid.

The default screen off. Timing is set quite low at 5 seconds, but we can go into the settings and change that there are multiple ways of waking up. The screen left to wake where it's great and that's what I'm mostly ended up using whether taking a quick look at this, but other than that we can twist awake or press one of the two buttons located to the side. Now these buttons they can be used to navigate around the watch. You why the top one acts as a home button, so tapping on it from the home screen brings up the app drawer tapping on it from any other screen like save within an app immediately brings us back to the watch face the button below.

It is a customizable shortcut key by default. It works as a shortcut to launch the activities' menu, but we can change that from the settings menu within the app itself, of course, other than the buttons we can tap or swipe on the screen to navigate the watch UI. Furthermore, it works similar to what we've seen with the watch. The only big difference here is that there is no rotating crown okay, so that is quite a bit about the hardware of the watch color. Let's now take a quick dive into the software now, first things.

First as similar as this is to the watch in regard to how the software looks. This is not Android wear, which means we lose. You know we lose out on some Android wear functionality like installing apps from the Play Store. That being said, there are a number of preloaded apps in here, and they have all the basic functionalities covered. Now, since all the apps are in Chinese and I, don't understand Chinese, we had a hard time figuring, most of them out.

However, we did try out a few of them, mostly the ones related to fitness, tracking and hey. They seem to work quite well. Xiaomi has included eight sports tracking modes that includes stuff like cycling, jogging running on a treadmill and even hiking. Now the Chinese website dead mentioned that the watch color can recall swimming as well. In fact, the watch to function in an in up to a depth of 5 atmospheres underwater, but we couldn't find the function anywhere in the watch or of the app menus.

Since we are talking about the app, let me run you guys through the app quickly. It's basically the same app that we've used with a watch. So once again, everything is in Chinese. So what's the point of looking at it, you ask: why did we stumble our way through it to test out and make this video to test out a few features and make this video well consider this a sneak? Peek Xiaomi has a habit of launching these things globally eventually and this year, especially, they promised more meat products in India and I also happen to find it quite interesting anyway, coming back, we can change the watch face from the app as well as the watch itself, but if we want new ones, then we have to use the app to browse and download watch faces. The app also lets us set up notification access for the watch, and we can receive everything from Twitter notifications to incoming call alerts here.

But, unlike the new watch, the watch color doesn't come with a speaker, so there's no way to take a call on it. Now there is no IOM functionality either. Moving on to the watch UI, despite not being Android wear, it still looks and feels similar to the new watches interface. Like I said so, the same gestures apply and everything is really fast and snappy. We can swipe down on the watch face to access our notifications, swipe from left to access various screens with vital information like calories, burned, steps walked and so on.

We have one screen for a leap a and yes. This watch also has support for NFC contactless payments in China, then we have one dedicated to measuring pressure. The weather, sleep monitoring energy levels and a continuous heart rate tracker swapping up from the watch face, brings us a bunch of quick toggles along with the battery indicator. Now diving into the settings gives us another bucket load of options, including ones to change. Watch faces, choose brightness levels set screen off times and a lot more.

They are pretty self-explanatory by the way we have Bluetooth 5 onboard and the range for the SS squared good. We can also restart power off and factory reset the watch from the settings menu. Ok, as promised, let's take a quick look at some interesting first. We have the regular stopwatch alarm and countdown timers. There's Find My Phone option that I'm pretty sure everyone will find really useful, there's a compass and an altimeter that tells us what altitude that we are at, along with the air pressure and a weather app that we couldn't quite get working and by the way this new watch.

Color also comes with an onboard GPS, so it's accurate for tracking runs and jogs, even if it's disconnected from your phone now with all these features, onboard you'd expect battery life to not be great right now. The fact that Xiaomi is using their own interface here, not Android, wear means they've been able to kind of optimize the battery life here. Xiaomi claims the 420 William hour battery powering the watch. Color can last up to 14 days of typical usage on a single charge in 22 hours, on the sports mode on a single charge. Now that's really impressive.

Since I'm battery life has always been a weakness of Android wear watches. In our practical experience, though, we noticed the watch, color lost around 7% battery over the last 18 hours, or so I expected to last around 8 to 10 days with my kinda usage pattern. Also charging this VR, the included cradle, is quite hassle-free, but thanks to the different size of the base, the cradles of the watch enemy watch color. They are not interchangeable. Of course, you know it's a circle.

It's a squire! Well, another bands are standard, 22, millimeters and show-me sells a variety of those, so changing up. The look of the watch from sporty to business is pretty simple. You can even buy off-the-shelf bands, and they will work fine with this watch. The watch itself is available in two colors elegant black and stylish silver, both costs $7.99 yuan or just about 8,000 rupees 115 US dollars. So yes, it's considerably less expensive than the watch.

The watch retails for $19.99 new one are about twenty hundred twenty thousand five hundred Indian rupees. But then you do lose out on a lot of stuff, including season, the speaker Corning Gorilla, Glass 3 are in the more expensive Edition the sapphire glass protection and, of course, the rotating crown right. Where I mean America loves playing with that crown, so any which ways now at this cheaper price point the mean watch color. Is it worth buying in its current state? I'm? Not really going to suggest it to anyone, because hey it's all in Chinese right, but if this ends up launching globally, if it winds up launching in India at a reasonable price, then, if you're, somebody who, like smartwatches the new watch color remains a stylish option, that's well worth checking out and that's my two cents on it. As of now where the Chinese interface it cannot draw, is half-mad a mercy on particular trying to translate all of this trying to figure out what how what works, and if you appreciate all the effort we put into this go ahead.

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