The Redmi Watch Transfer is Xiaomi’s newest smartwatch. It is essentially the most reasonably priced mannequin within the firm’s lineup in markets comparable to India, which additionally consists of the Redmi Watch 5 Energetic and the oddly named Redmi Watch 5 Lite, which is the costliest one.
The Redmi Watch Transfer makes some huge claims regardless of its extremely low price ticket of INR 1,999 (~$23). Xiaomi claims that this mannequin affords one of the best coronary heart charge monitoring accuracy, one of the best step counter accuracy, one of the best show, and one of the best battery life within the section.
We are going to get to these, however let’s first begin with the design. As with seemingly each smartwatch Xiaomi makes as of late, the Redmi Watch Transfer design is closely impressed by the Apple Watch. The whole lot from the curvature of the glass, the corners of the show, the perimeters of the watch physique, and even the form of the strap are near-identical to that of Apple’s designs.
This all the time ends in the identical awkward dialog of somebody asking you what Apple Watch mannequin you’re sporting, adopted by the embarrassing admission that it is not really an Apple Watch however merely a pretender that prices over twenty occasions much less. I am positive for some folks this is perhaps a professional slightly than a con; in any case, imitation luxurious watches have existed for so long as luxurious watches. But when that is not your jam you then is perhaps dissatisfied.
The straps are color-matched with the watch, and you’ll choose from one among 4 totally different coloration choices. The straps have an Apple Watch Sport Band-style design, however with a buckle as an alternative of a stud. In addition they have a really handy launch mechanism that requires urgent a button, and the strap detaches from the watch effortlessly.
Being a funds machine, the Redmi Watch Transfer physique is made totally out of plastic. You continue to get an IP68 ranking for mud and water resistance.
A brand new addition to the Redmi Watch design is the rotating crown on the aspect, which, in fact, will also be pressed as a button. I did not discover the rotating characteristic notably helpful because the dial is slightly stiff and tough to maneuver. It additionally solely simply scrolls via the contents of the display, which you could possibly do very simply utilizing the touchscreen.
Shifting on to the show, the Redmi Watch Transfer has a 1.85-inch AMOLED show with a 390 x 450 decision and 60Hz refresh charge. The show is great with vibrant, vibrant colours and nice viewing angles. The excessive decision makes textual content and watch faces look tremendous easy and the brightness is satisfactory open air. The show does have sizable bezels of about 3mm throughout however most watch faces assist disguise this beautiful properly.
Sadly, there is a matter with the show, and that’s the lack of computerized brightness. The panel can get fairly vibrant, however you must regulate the brightness manually. You may get by with a medium brightness that’s nonetheless seen open air and does not blind you at evening nevertheless it’s removed from excellent.
The show helps always-on mode, which is helpful. The watch additionally responds properly to twists of the wrist to verify the time. Nevertheless, on our unit, the show would generally activate even when the wrist wasn’t rotated and I usually discovered myself strolling round with a totally lit panel. That is almost certainly a calibration challenge with the accelerometer and could possibly be mounted with a software program replace.
The watch has a built-in speaker and a microphone. The speaker will get loud sufficient for notifications and calls and might even tickle you somewhat with its reverberations.
The HyperOS software program on the Redmi Watch Transfer is sort of good. The UI on the watch is properly laid out and straightforward to make use of. The identical will also be mentioned of the Mi Health app for Android and iOS, though the annoyance of constructing and logging into an account stays.
The app affords a ton of watch faces so that you can use; Xiaomi claims there are greater than 200. There are loads of good ones in there and it is best to discover at the very least one thing that takes your fancy. Some watch faces additionally include their very own AOD mode, though most simply use the default one.
The Redmi Watch Transfer is tremendous fast to obtain and allow a brand new watch face from the app, with the complete course of usually taking underneath two seconds. Nevertheless, the watch can solely retailer two extra watch faces over the 4 that come pre-installed, and you can’t take away these 4 to create space. This makes going via all these 200+ watch faces a chore, as you must instantly take away the one you simply set to create space for the following one.
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One of many 4 pre-installed watch faces is AI-generated, which is a part of the restricted AI performance on this watch. You possibly can communicate a immediate and the watch will generate a picture so that you can use. The method is a bit sluggish and you’ll’t simply cycle via them as it would solely generate one picture at a time and you must redo the immediate if you’d like extra choices.
Regardless of that, I used to be having enjoyable producing some photographs till I hit the 30-free trials restrict, after which the watch informed me to get a $2.5 ($2 for a restricted time) month-to-month subscription if I wished to maintain producing extra photographs. It is also not a Xiaomi subscription, however slightly to some firm known as AI Zone that does the picture technology.
The identical firm additionally handles the opposite AI characteristic, which is AI Q&A. It is a restricted model of an AI chatbot that roughly works like Siri as you’ll be able to solely ask it one query at a time. It is also not superb as a result of I requested it the time in a specific metropolis and it informed me it could’t do this, which is de facto useful coming from a watch.
The Redmi Watch Transfer doesn’t have Alexa like Xiaomi’s dearer watches. If that is one thing you end up utilizing so much then this would possibly not be the look ahead to you.
Then there are all of the health options. The Redmi Watch Transfer has built-in coronary heart charge monitoring together with a blood oxygen sensor. Utilizing the information from each, it could additionally observe different issues, comparable to your stress, vitality, and sleep. Xiaomi claims that the center charge monitoring is 97% correct, the very best in its class. There is no simple method to confirm that aside from strapping myself to an ECG machine so I’ll take Xiaomi’s phrase for it.
Lastly, you get your common plethora of actions that may be tracked, 140+ on this case with auto-detection for six, together with outside operating, strolling, outside biking, rowing, elliptical, and soar rope. The one factor lacking from that listing is swimming, which the watch won’t observe for some purpose.
The Redmi Watch Transfer doesn’t have built-in GPS so it depends in your cellphone to offer location data. This implies you’ll want to have your cellphone on you to make use of the situation monitoring options.
Xiaomi claims a battery lifetime of 14 days. After a few week of use, I nonetheless had about 54% battery left, so I might say that declare appears to be correct. The charger is only a skinny USB cable that attaches magnetically to the again of the watch.
All issues thought of, I believe Redmi Watch Transfer is incredible for the worth. INR 1,999 may be very low for the options and performance on provide right here. I used to be impressed with the show, the software program, the battery life, and the vary of fitness-tracking options. It lacks just a few issues like GPS and Alexa that Xiaomi’s dearer fashions provide, and the design is much too spinoff to be taken severely. However when you can look previous these issues then that is exceptionally good worth.
