What it’s essential to know
- On Thursday, Xiaomi teased its upcoming Good Band 8 Professional wearable on Weibo.
- It has a 1.74-inch AMOLED show, 60Hz refresh fee, 336 ppi pixel density, and 16.7 million colours.
- The Good Band 7 Professional prices a mere £74.99 / $89.99, so we count on one other sub-$100 health tracker.
- Xiaomi will absolutely reveal the Good Band 8 Professional, Combine Fold 3, and Pad 6 Max throughout an August 14 livestream.
At what level does a health tracker turn into a health smartwatch? That is the query we requested with the Xiaomi Good Band 7 Professional, a 1.62-inch tracker with built-in GPS. Now Xiaomi is making us much more confused with its 1.74-inch Good Band 8 Professional, scheduled to launch subsequent week.
Revealing photographs of its new tracker on Weibo, Xiaomi gave us a glimpse of the Good Band 8 Professional’s upgraded show. Other than the dimensions improve, it has 336 pixels per inch (10 greater than the 7 Professional) and a 60Hz refresh fee, the usual for many smartwatches just like the Apple and Galaxy Watches.
Xiaomi did not listing the 7 Professional refresh fee, so we will presume it was 30Hz or decrease. The identical goes for the Good Band 8 Professional’s new 16.7 million show colours; we do not know the way a lot of an improve that is during the last era, however our 7 Professional reviewer already mentioned its show “seems actually good,” so we will solely go up from there.
NotebookCheck, which reported and translated the Weibo posts, notes that the Xiaomi Good Band 8 Professional could have smartwatch-like widgets; the promo pictures present how one can see your music, coronary heart fee, and exercise information concurrently. Xiaomi additionally promised completely different colours and kinds for its bands.
Xiaomi will reveal the Good Band 8 Professional alongside the Combine Fold 3, its newest foldable with upgraded cameras and the newest Snapdragon chipset, on August 14.
Not like the Combine Fold 3, which is predicted to solely promote in China, Xiaomi could promote the Good Band 8 Professional worldwide. You possibly can at present see a world model of the Good Band 7 Professional out there on Amazon.
The Good Band 7 Professional was one of many uncommon health trackers to help GPS monitoring as an alternative of utilizing linked GPS out of your telephone. Because the Good Band 8 Professional will observe in its footsteps, we will additionally count on built-in GPS, at the very least 500 nits of brightness, over 100 sports activities modes, 5ATM water resistance, and well being monitoring for coronary heart fee, blood oxygen, sleep, stress, and menstrual cycles.
On the extra unfavorable entrance, we additionally suspect it will not have a built-in mic or speaker for Bluetooth calls, identical to the 7 Professional. That was the primary lacking characteristic that dissatisfied our reviewer.
The query is whether or not followers of health trackers will need a faux-smartwatch once they can select a lighter, cheaper health tracker just like the Mi Band 7 or Amazfit Band 7 as an alternative for half the value, or pay extra for an precise smartwatch.
