Mi Smart Band 5 with 11 sports modes and 14-day battery life launched


Mi Smart Band 5 was launched in India as Xiaomi’s latest fitness band offering. It is equipped with a 1.1-inch AMOLED color touchscreen and is offered in various color options. Mi Smart Band 5 comes with 11 professional sports modes including yoga, rowing machine and free exercise. Other health and fitness features include heart rate monitoring, sleep tracking, women’s health tracking, stress monitoring, and more. The Mi Smart Band 5 is touted to last up to 14 days on a single charge.

Mi Smart Band 5 price in India, sale date

The Mi Smart Band 5 is priced at Rs. 2,499 in India. It comes in black, navy, teal, purple, and orange strap color options. The fitness bracelet will be available from October 1 on Mi.com and Amazon.in. It will soon be available in retail stores and also in Mi Home stores.

Mi Smart Band 5 Features

Mi Smart Band 5 features a 1.1-inch AMOLED color touchscreen with 126×294 pixel resolution, 16-bit color, and 450-nit brightness. It is said to have approximately 20 percent more viewing area than the Mi Smart Band 4. The new fitness band is touted to offer 14 days of battery life in regular use and up to 21 days of battery life in Power saving mode. Xiaomi has introduced magnetic pins on the back to eliminate the need to remove the capsule from the strap just for charging. The total charging time of the Mi Smart Band 5 is less than two hours.

There are about 11 professional sports modes in Mi Smart band 5, including outdoor running, walking, horse riding, indoor running, indoor swimming, free exercise, yoga, rowing machine, indoor riding, elliptical machine and jump rope.

The health and fitness functions of the Mi Smart Band 5 include 24×7 heart rate monitoring, resting heart rate, sleep monitoring, deep sleep, light sleep, REM (rapid eye movement), stress monitoring, guided breathing exercise, Step counting, calorie counting and goal setting. It also tracks women’s health, such as their menstrual cycles and ovulation phases. Xiaomi says that it has integrated an improved PPG Bio sensor that enables up to 50 percent more accurate heart rate monitoring.

Mi Smart Band 5 can also offer a PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence) score that lets you know how active you need to be to stay healthy. This is calculated using gender, age, heart rate, and other vital data points. Other key features include 50 meter water resistance, custom watch faces, music control, remote shutter, call and message notifications, weather forecast, timer and alarm.


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