hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today i will be doing a heart rate test
of the xiaomi mi band 6 the all-new tracker that was just released on the 2nd of april 2021 versus
the infamous honor band six and we all know this track it came out in november last year and it
basically blew up the fitness track market so anyway the newbie versus the honor band six today
showdown of the heart rate accuracy test and the benchmark will be the polar h10 ecg chest strap
without further ado let's get into the test if you are new to wes knows tech news and reviews we talk
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so before we get into the test details let's talk about our contenders just for one minute so let's
talk about the honor band 6 first so this bad boy came out last year and it basically changed
the way we look at fitness trackers previously the fitness trackers were of this shape so a slim
light design long face in the middle of a black plastic face we would have a small or a 1.1 inch
amoled display and that was it the honor band 6 came along with a bezel to bezel edge to edge huge
1.47 inch amoled display so in regards to this tracker it's got 10 preset sport modes you can't
expand the list it's got sp02 it's got your stress monitoring you can monitor three sleep stages your
deep your light and rem sleep you can monitor your stress levels and you can measure your spo2
even though it's spot readings it's still very useful it's waterproof and there's just connected
gps so that's a run through of the honor band 6. with the xiaomi me band 6 we've got 30 sport modes
which is wow it's also connected gps there's six auto detected activities so you can either walk
run do elliptical workouts you can actually do the settings play around with the settings
on the watch face and you can set up which sport modes you want to be auto detected which is very
useful of course the honor band 6 was famous for offering gold based sport modes at a very
budget price the xiaomi mi bands never had gold based activities before the new one before the
me bad six so now it's got it as well it's also got stress monitoring sleep tracking it's got
continuous heart rate tracking there are a lot of things on there of course there's also cool
apps like the world clock sitting on the b band 6 while the honor band 6 does not have a world clock
it's got a torch function so you can see that there are slight gaps and overlaps here and there
but in general it's very similar functionality so now let's get into the heart rate test
between these two trackers let's do it so before we get into the test results let me tell you about
how i performed the test so yesterday i went to the gym i got onto the treadmill and i went
for a run a 2k run and it took me the first 12 minutes as we can see on the polar h-10 ecg chest
strap plot so we can see that the heart rate was increasing as i went along obviously heart rate
was growing and we can see that as soon as i hit the two kilometers or just after 12 minutes we see
the spike sort of falling as i stepped off the treadmill and that makes sense then of course i
went over to the weight section and as i was doing my sets between them i was doing core exercises
such as squats and abs and i was actually pushing myself and you can see that through the steps or
and the spikes of how my heart rate was actually growing over the next 12 to 13 minutes so at
the 25 minute mark the exercise was stopped now that we've got the benchmark results from polar
let's actually plot the me band 6 and the honor band 6 chest right plots above or over the polar
h 10 and see what we come up with let's kick off with the mi band 6 and then we'll take a
look at the honor band 6. let's do it i think we need to take a look at the polar results
first of all so we can see that the average heart rate was measured at 147 beats per minute while
the max heart rate was registered at 179 beats per minute and that peak actually looks to be on the
last part of the treadmill so just before i got off and started my weight exercises if we look
at the me band 6 we can see that the average heart rate was measured at 146 beats per minute that's
a variance of just one a single beat per minute over the 25 minutes now if we look at the max the
mi band 6 has registered a max heart rate of 178 beats per minute so overall we see that there's
just one beat per minute variance between the ecg chest strap from pola and the optical heart rate
sensor on the back of the me band 6. these results are extremely sharp this is almost unbelievable
let's take a closer look at the actual tracing so as we can see as we start off on the run
the me band 6 optical heart rate sensor picks up the heart rate well quite in line or in
generally in line with the polar h10 and it does follow through so it picks up the
so it picks up the trolls it picks up the peaks and as we see the decrease it's also coming down
in line of course the staggered or the stepped uh upward move from when i started the weights
and the squats and the ab exercises there is a bit of inconsistencies but these are the
tracing is in line with the polar h10 and hence the tiny variance this is very impressive having
such a small variance of one beat per minute for the average and for the max that means that in
percentages these these variances are smaller than 0.1 of a percent this is amazing now let's take a
look at what the honor band 6 came up with now the honor band 6 did not want to be left behind and we
can see that the average heart rate as measured by the honor band 6 was 144 beats per minute that's
just a variance or an underestimation of 3 beats per minute for the max we had an overestimate by
1 beat per minute so if polar h 10 showed us 179 on a band 6 showed us 180. these results
are also awesome so the variance on the average is just 2 while the variance on the max is under
0.1 percent these results are also very sharp let's take a closer look at the tracing though
and if we look at the tracing during the treadmill run i can say that the tracing is much more close
than on the me band 6. we can see that the optical heart rate sensor on the back of the honor band 6
is very good and it does register those runs and the gradual increase in heart rate much better
than the mi band 6. but we do hit problems as soon as we hit the steps and the sharp spikes
as we start doing the weights the squats and the ab activities this is where i think there is a
bit of faltering from the honor band 6 optical heart rate sensor it's not causing a big issue
but we can see that the average is off by three beats per minute so let's summarize
our results what i can say is that these two trackers are showing us heart rate accuracy
that's unheard of and i can say that we've had to the test at west knows premium smart watches sport
watches budget sport watches and budget smart watches and i'm yet to remember where two such
budget or cheap trackers have performed as good as these two so if you're out in the market
looking for a budget fitness tracker just choose the one you like look at their design
look at some of their apps and widgets and actually have a look in the next couple of
days because we'll be doing a comparison between these two in regards to features and functions
but otherwise in regards to heart rate accuracy these two are very impressive of course i will
be doing a sleep comparison and test in the next couple of days as well between these two
and the fitbit inspire 2 as well as the samsung galaxy fit too so keep tuned to watch that
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