The Pandemic era has already limited our lifestyles, but still, health enthusiasts keep perform some physical activity to shape their bodies. Moreover, day-to-day life is coming back to normal across several countries. To further improve the new beginning, the users can grab the Xiaomi Mi Band 5 NFC fitness band to keep track of every step, and every calorie you burned. There are several other benefits such as heart rate monitor, notifications control, sleep monitoring, and much more.

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Xiaomi Mi Band 5 NFC variant is officially limited to some markets across the globe. But, the interested users can order it via Giztop for a discounted price of $29.99.

The fitness band packs a 1.1-inch large AMOLED touch display with a resolution of 126 x 294 pixels. It even supports custom skins aka watch faces and users can develop their own watch faces for the fitness band.

It houses an upgraded high-precision six-axis sensor and PPG heart rate sensor for accurate 24 x 7 monitoring. The smartwatch can easily track sleep while you’re asleep to measure the quality of sleep. The smart band support over 11 sports mode including cycling, walking, swimming, skipping, rowing, and others.

Xiaomi Mi Band 5 NFC variants have the ability to control eh smart appliances such as Mijia air conditioners, rice cookers, and others. In China, you even get support for Xiaomi Voice Assistant. The NFC variants even enable contactless payments via Xiaomi Pay, Google ay, and other supported apps.

It is a 5ATM water resistance band that can withstand easily for some time under the depth of 50 meters water. It is an optimal choice even if you want to swim after wearing it. Xiaomi Mi Band 5 houses 125MAh battery which can last up to 14 days upon a single full charge. However, it takes a1.5 hours to fully charge from 0%.

Such a useful fitness band is available for the price of $29.99 from Giztop. You can grab it by sitting anywhere in the world.

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Xiaomi’s best selling Mi Band lineup has got a new update today: the Mi Band 5. The new wearable brings significant upgrades to the company’s smart band family, including a new magnetic charging design, a larger dynamic OLED display, and new sports modes. The band also comes with a brighter display that goes up to 450 nits, improving its visibility outdoors.

Larger Display with 100+ Animated Watchfaces

The new Mi Band 5 retains the same pill-shaped design of the Mi Band 4 and has a variety of wristband colors. You can choose the TPU wristband in eight different colors which include – graphite black, deep space blue, dynamic orange, bronze purple, vibrant yellow, light green, dark cyan, and ivory.

The Xiaomi Mi Band 5 comes with a large 1.2-inch dynamic color AMOLED display, protected by a scratch-resistant 2.5D glass on top. This marks a significant increase in its screen size (more than 20%), allowing more information to be displayed at a glance. Another highlight of the new display is the support for new dynamic animated watchfaces. You get over 100 new animated watchfaces and there are some special ones based on characters from popular series’ like Neon Genesis Evangelion (EVA), Hatsune Miku, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Case Closed.

As mentioned above, Xiaomi has also increased the peak brightness of the Mi Band 5’s AMOLED panel, increasing it to 450 nits from 400 nits on its predecessor. You also get five levels of brightness adjustment.

Better Health Tracking

New Indoor Sports Modes

Considering the current situation across the globe where indoor / home exercises are gaining popularity, Xiaomi has added five new indoor modes for the newly launched Mi Band 5. This includes indoor machine and floor exercises like rowing machine, elliptical machine, skipping rope, yoga, and indoor cycling /spinning. This combined with the already available six exercise modes like swimming, walking, cycling, etc gives you a total of 11 specific tailor-made sports modes on the new wearable.

 More Accurate Heart Rate and Sleep Tracking

The Mi Band 5 comes with a photoplethysmogram (PPG) biosensor for accurate 24 x 7 heart rate monitoring. Xiaomi claims that the new wearable increases the accuracy of irregular heart rate monitoring by up to 50%. Sleep tracking also gets an upgrade and its accuracy has gone up by 40%. It can also show you how many hours of REM sleep you’ve had every night, in addition to deep and light sleep.

Xiaomi Mi Band 5, for the first time, will also calculate your Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) score. PAI is calculated by monitoring your heart rate and gives you a fair idea of your physical activity every week. A PAI score of 100 or more in a week indicates that you have an active lifestyle.

 Magnetic Charging solves the biggest Pain Point of its Predecessors

Each generation of the Mi Band has had at least 2 weeks of battery life. But charging the device was a painful process – you had to manually remove the device from the wristband and place it in the charging cradle. Plus, there were a lot of complaints regarding the charger’s design.

The Xiaomi Mi Band 5 finally solves this pain point by using a magnetic charger. The charger easily connects to the two charging pins on the device, so you no longer have to remove it from the wristband.

The new Mi Band comes with 14-day battery life, so you just have to do it once every two weeks. It’s also waterproof up to 50 meters – just like its predecessor.

Xiaomi Mi Band 5 Pricing & Availability

The Mi Band 5 comes in two variants – NFC and non-NFC. The NFC variant is slightly more expensive at 229 yuan (~$32) but the non-NFC variant is priced at just 189 yuan (~$27).

The Mi Band 5 will go on sale on June 18 at 10 AM in China.

Honestly, the new Mi Band 5 raises the bar for smartbands this year. With a larger display and better health tracking, you get a lot of features for its sub-$30 pricing!

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