After years of development, the field of wrist wearable intelligent devices has generally formed three categories:
Genuine smart watch, represented by Apple Watch, can independently install APP, have call networking function and strong independent use ability;
Most Android mobile phone manufacturers and wearable device manufacturers launch RTOS smart watches, which are characterized by basic sports, health, notification and even payment functions. Their endurance is better than that of real smart watches, but they basically have no ability to connect to the Internet, make calls and use APP independently. Their use relies more on pairing with mobile phones;
Smart bracelets represented by millet bracelets and glory bracelets.
The second type of RTOS smart watch is relatively simple in function and weak in independent use, which is close to the current smart bracelet in function, and is also called "large bracelet" by many people.
Of course, the ridicule comes from ridicule. After all, smart watches have obvious advantages over bracelets in terms of product texture and screen display area. The only disadvantage is price. If a product with basic functions in place, watch appearance and price close to the bracelet can be made, it will have a huge impact on both the bracelet and the watch market The Redmi Watch, which debuted at 269 yuan, seems to be such a product.
Packaging/appearance
The Redmi Watch is packaged in a simple black paper box. In addition to the manual attached to the watch body and a magnetic charger.
In terms of appearance, the Redmi Watch adopts a square dial design, which is covered with 2.5D glass. The overall quality of workmanship is not inferior to the competitive products of 8 or 900 yuan, but the color matching of this classic elegant black is a bit too low-key and stable. It will be even better if you replace it with ivory white.
The screen is one of the major advantages of Redmi Watch in the corresponding price products. It is equipped with a 1.4 inch, 320 × 320 resolution LCD screen, and the PPI has reached 323. Both the display area and the fineness are the same as those of competitors hundreds of dollars more expensive. It has obvious advantages over the bracelet when browsing notification messages.
The drawback is that it does not use a full screen design. Although the Redmi Watch displays content on a black background and cannot see it in most cases, switching to a dial with a color background will expose the lack of screen proportion, which is also the most talked about point after the conference.
The watchband adopts a snap on rubber watchband, which supports the replacement of the watchband in other colors provided by the official. The back of the watch body is embedded with a heart rate sensor.
On the right side of the watch is the only function key on the Redmi Watch. In the rest screen state, a short press wakes up the screen to the dial interface. Another short press opens the application list. Long press to call out Little Love, and long press for 3 seconds to call out the system operation menu.
The Redmi Watch body+strap is only 35g in total, which makes it very light to wear.
Functional experience
Previously, after Xiaomi decided to make his own watch, he developed a "Xiaomi Wearing" APP specifically in addition to the original "Xiaomi Sports", and the pairing, system upgrade and management of many functions of the Redmi Watch with the mobile phone after startup naturally depend on this APP.
For a smart watch, it is necessary to change a beautiful dial after you get started, There are only 5 types of dials that can be stored by the Redmi Watch itself. More dials need to be selected, transmitted and installed into watches after clicking on the "dial market" in the APP. At present, there are 126 types of personalized dials, which are relatively complete in style. However, because the screen proportion of the Redmi Watch itself is not high, I think some color background dials have a certain sense of fragmentation after being installed.
It should be the most frequently used function of a smart watch to raise the wrist and light up the screen. The Redmi Watch has no problem with the response of raising the wrist and light up the screen. The screen has six levels of brightness that can be adjusted, and can be seen clearly in strong outdoor light. It supports the setting of five minutes of continuous light up; However, the default setting of the system is that the effective time of raising the wrist to light the screen is up to 22:00 at the latest. Users need to set the effective time period according to their work and rest habits. Once, after this time, they raised their watch to see the time and found that there was no response.
In terms of core sports health functions, it is natural not to mention the daily steps, calorie records and sedentary reminders; Respiratory training, 24-hour heart rate monitoring and sleep monitoring functions are available. Sleep records and heart rate data in the past 30 days can be viewed in the APP.
There are 7 sports modes: outdoor running, indoor running, outdoor cycling, indoor cycling, free activities, walking and swimming in the swimming pool, which are relatively basic, and may not be enough for fitness experts who play some slightly biased fitness programs; Since the positioning function is not provided, the movement track cannot be recorded when leaving the mobile phone.
Compared with the mainstream functions of smart watches on the market, Redmi Watch mainly lacks the functions of blood oxygen detection and women's health. Users with related needs may pay attention.
Message reminder, alarm clock/stopwatch, weather and music control functions are also available, but in addition to the alarm clock and stopwatch, they all depend on the paired connection with the phone. In addition, when you try to wake up Little Love's voice assistant, you will also be reminded that you need to connect the phone to use it.
Then there is the NFC function that I value more. It supports bus and door card functions. At present, there are 17 bus cards supported, but there is a shortage of Shenzhen Tong, which we need most. To open, add cards and recharge, we need to use APP. Except for Beijing Tianjin Hebei Interconnection Card and Qindao Tong, we need to pay for opening cards; In addition to the common analog door card and open blank card, the door card function also supports the addition of Mijia smart door lock card.
In terms of battery life, the official nominal battery life of the Redmi Watch is 7 days. In the past two days, when all monitoring functions are fully turned on, the phone is connected daily, and the continuous screen is turned off, the power loss is 10% to 14% every day, which can generally ensure the use of the watch for a week. However, this battery life may not be safe without a charger when going on a long vacation, It is also inferior to the competitive products that are prone to 14 day endurance.
In terms of charging, a complete test has not been carried out here. With the matching magnetic charger, 11% of the battery can be charged in 10 minutes, and 35% of the battery can be charged in half an hour. It takes about one and a half hours to fully charge from zero.
summary
In terms of products only, Redmi Watch can only say that its basic functions are in place in the sea of smart watches today, and its overall level is not outstanding - considering that it lacks positioning, blood oxygen detection, and its screen share and endurance are average, many functions rely on connecting handheld computers. Of course, in the context of the growing convergence of smart watch functions and the bottleneck of innovation, it is difficult to make more difference.
However, when the price is less than 300 yuan, the conclusion is completely different.
Wrist wearable smart devices are mainly focused on the field of sports health, and the content that can be displayed on the screen is also too limited, which is not as necessary as mobile phones. In other words, smart watches/smart bracelets are actually indispensable to many people, not to mention the Apple Watch, which costs more than 2000 yuan, Even the most common RTOS smart watches of 8 or 900 yuan can not attract these users to pay, which is why every generation of Xiaomi bracelet with less than 200 yuan has sold well - enough and cheap for most users.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, bracelets are inferior to watches in terms of product texture and screen display area, especially the former is what many users care about - watches have always had the attribute of decoration, and bracelets are relatively focused on practical aspects. This leads to the significance of Redmi Watch: it lowers the threshold for a practical smart watch to a low enough level, or even to threaten the survival space of the bracelet, which is bound to attract a large number of users to try new things, further expand Xiaomi's user base in the intelligent wearable field and cultivate users' habits of using such products. From this perspective, The Redmi Watch is very consistent with Xiaomi's slogan of "young people are the first XXX".
Therefore, the purchase suggestion for Redmi Watch is that if you have been a heavy user of smart watches before, its product strength may not be suitable for replacing the existing devices on your hand; If you have never or rarely used a smart watch to try something new, or if you were a smart bracelet user who wanted to change a watch to play with, it is indeed one of the few choices at present.
In addition to the Redmi Watch, the recently launched Glory Bracelet 6 (the screen is actually closer to the watch), ZTE Watch Live, and the Amazfit Pop Pro launched by Huami also have similar positioning, which will lead to a new round of fierce competition for wearable smart products at a price around 300 yuan.
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