You’re also getting women’s health tracking and breathing exercises features that live on the Bands and the companion apps here too. Install and open the Amazfit app on your mobile phone, create an account and login, then select Band to pair.

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With a focus on fitness trackers, headphones, running wearables, phones, and tablet, he has written for numerous publications including Wired UK, GQ, Men's Fitness, BBC Science Focus, Metro and Stuff, and has appeared on the BBC Travel Show. It delivers core fitness tracking features well, and improvements made to the color display and richer sports tracking make it more desirable.

You can view basic fitness-tracking stats from the main watch screen or delve into the Status menu to see more. Using the touchscreen interface is a straightforward and responsive affair, with swiping up and down cycling you through a list of apps such as notifications, events, heart rate and other staples.

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These features are all useful and only hampered by the inability of the band to read emoji or other meta-data. There's women's health tracking available too letting you track menstrual cycles and ovulation periods, with some of the experience present on the tracker itself. The Amazfit Band 5 launched after the Mi Band 5 in 2020 and while there's no sign of the Amazfit Band 6 just yet, there is a Xiaomi Mi Band 6. It is indeed possible to keep the Mi Smart Band 5 running for two weeks between charges, but what is very clear is that there are more features here that demand a lot more of that battery.While Xiaomi offers additional bands, and the screen is exceptional, you can certainly find a tracker that has a bit more personality and can be dressed up to look less like a fitness band.

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There's a heart rate monitor on both to continuously monitor heart rate and track heart rate during exercise. Other notable features include stress tracking and guided breathing exercises, which we've seen crop up on many other wearables, and round off a comprehensive set of features. That sensor is also used for PAI health assessment scores and continuous stress tracking using heart rate variability measurements. I also did a comparison of measurements with a few other devices, and the readings were always within a 2% margin.

Put in the necessary password and once you sync your Amazfit Band 5 will be able to access the service. From an accuracy point of view, we felt it fared better in terms of recognising sleep duration in comparison to the Garmin fitness tracker we took to bed as well. If you use an an Android phone or iPhone, both of these trackers are compatible and should offer largely the same experience. The product's actual performance may differ slightly due to product individual differences, software versions, usage conditions and environmental factors.

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There's no speaker, but there is a microphone to ask queries and it'll display responses on the screen. Reading can be a challenge at times due to the tiny fonts employed on several of the available watchfaces. The Mi Smart Band 5 houses a 125mAh battery, which promises 14 days of uninterrupted use, whereas the Mi Band 4's 135mAh battery could last 20 days. So while there are certainly some aspects that aren't perfect, the fitness tracking features on the whole do the job. So what you're essentially getting is a tracker that's a little smaller, though it's not really something you're going to notice.We kept the phone in a running belt as we're not huge fans of wearing an armband and it just didn't dish out reliable distance data. This is intended to shift the focus away from hitting daily step counts to doing regular activities that raise your heart rate. When we took it running outside, you need to launch the app on your phone first before it can establish a GPS connection. This could be something to do with how I rest, as I’m sure my sleep must get deep at some point, but I did find it very useful to track the times I went to bed and got up again, which usually proved quite accurate.