The Xiaomi Mi Band 6 goes official

Xiaomi had a great time promoting its much popular Mi Band 5 last year with new design and features. After a year of such wonderful journey, Xiaomi officially replaced the popular smart band with the new Mi Band 6.

The new Mi Band 6 continues the fifth generation set of upgrades with a better and more thought out features for the new generation of fitness smart band.

Up front, the new Mi Band 6 features a noticeably larger 1.56-inch AMOLED display which is about 50% the size of the out-going Mi Band 5. It has a 152 x 486 pixel resolution with 450nits of brightness and is protected by a anti-fingerprint coating tempered glass.

The body of the new Mi Band 6 is like its predecessors made in polycarbonate and that’s not bad in any way as it is also proven to be durable and can withstand any climate conditions. With that being said, the Mi Band 6 offers 5ATM water resistance and comes with a removable rubber straps with at least 6 strap colors to choose from.

Feature-wise, the new Mi Band 6 sports a lot of sensors including a PPG Heart Rate sensor, Spo2 sensor, a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope sensor. It also comes with different fitness tracking modes with up to 30 fitness modes and 6 of which are automatically detected. There’s also the standard sleep tracking, stress monitoring, a female health tracking feature that debut with last year’s Mi Band 5 and idle alerts.

Like most of fitness bands in the market, the Mi Band 6 promises long battery life which can easily last a couple of weeks for a full single charge. Underneath it is a 125mAh battery which can be charge through an including magnetic charger.

The new Xiaomi Mi Band 6 is available for CNY229 and there’s also a separate NFC-enabled version that goes for about CNY279 in China. The new smartband which will be called the Mi Smart Band 6 globally will cost for about 44.99 Euros for the Europe and expect a conversion of that with a little discrepancy in pricing due to exchange rates for other markets.