hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we've got an interesting review for
you we'll be taking a look at the amazfit band 5 as well as the xiaomi mi band 6. so they look
almost identical but they are very different indeed and today we'll be telling you exactly
what's different between these two trackers so anyway without further ado let's get into it
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honest reviews and share hacks and tricks along the way so these two trackers have come out about
six months apart from each other so if the amasfit band 5 actually came out at the end of last year
the xiaomi mi band 6 came out at the start of 2021 now they look almost identical in fact
the two straps on these two smart bands are actually replaceable so i can take off
the strap from the amazfit band 5 and i can put it onto the me band 6 and vice versa
how cool is that now the only thing is is that you have to get straps or the bands specifically made
for these two trackers simply because they are the pallet shaped and they are sort of
well like that nice and simple now that's all great so that's how they look so they're both
very light they're both under 15 grams each and that's with the straps on they're super super
light you really forget you're wearing any of them but the biggest and most significant difference
in regards to the design and the display so with the amasfit band 5 the display is actually sitting
right back in the center of the black face you've got a 1.1 inch amoled display sitting in
the middle of the black plastic with the me band 6 this is the contemporary look you've got an amoled
display which is stretching edge to edge which with a very thin bezel on the brim so basically
you get a 1.64 inch amoled display which is what over one and a half times bigger than on their
mass fed band 5. now in regards to brightness so the amasfit band 5 goes up to 450 nits the me band
6 goes up to 500 nits so again it's not massively brighter but it does feel just bigger better
and it's so contemporary if we talk about price well the amazfit band 5 will set you back at 30
pounds or 30 the me band 6 will set you back 50 bucks or just over 40 pounds again the difference
is not massive but what you're gonna get on the me band 6 is a lovely amoled huge display while the
mass for band 5 you get the old-fashioned or what we used to expect from the fitness rackers back
a year two or three ago we don't really in 2021 we do want something fresh and that is the me band 6.
well that's it about the design and the display let's get into the features and
functions because there are a lot of overlaps in these two trackers but you also get a lot of gaps
so things that we're going to see on the mi band 6 the massive band 5 just simply does not have
anyway let's do it let's talk about it i think it's important to first cover off the
overlaps so both of these trackers are 5 atm water resistant so you can go to the pool with either of
these two trackers and they will and they will be able to track your swimming they will be able
to auto detect your stroke so be it freestyle or breaststroke they will be able to count the number
of laps that you've swam you can actually set all the activities and sport modes are a goal based on
these two trackers so what that means is that you can set a particular goal be it uh distance to be
covered time to be spent during an activity or calories to be burned for an activity you can do
it on these two trackers and that is great you also get all the normal stuff like your timers
your stopwatches you get your weather widgets they both monitor your heart rate continuously they
both monitor your sleep continuously they both can monitor your sleep with three sleep stages so you
like your deep and rem sleep they've got breathing exercises now there are other minuses as well it's
not just the positives so you don't get your auto brightness on these two trackers but because again
they are budget what you have is just five brightness levels on each there's no always
on display but that's okay as well in regards to batteries well you charge it up once and
the amasfit band 5 will last you two weeks and the xiaomi mi band 6 will also last you around 2 weeks
on a single charge now both of these trackers have the world clock both of these trackers also have
shutter control so you can control your camera on either an iphone or an android device from your
band you also have music controls but if on the amazfit band 5 the screen is rather tiny and it's
not easy controlling your music of your smart band it's a bit easier from the mi band 6 but
again because they're both rather slim line it's not the most convenient and it's much more simple
to actually pull out your smartphone and change the track on the actual smartphone now again both
of these trackers do not have enabled gps so if you do want to track your distance or your speed
while you're running or you're cycling you will still need to be using your connected gps so
connected via bluetooth with your smartphone and of course both of these trackers get tons and
tons of customized faces and they're all beautiful but of course they will look much more bright much
more awesome on the me band 6 simply because the screen is much larger much more useful and when
you do use modular faces that is you can actually choose what you want to see like your batteries
calories or your heart rate or your steps and so forth because you've just got more space
to actually functionalize on your screen now both of these trackers also measure
and monitor your spo2 even though it's on demand so spot readings now we've actually tested these
two bands and their spo2 readings and they're spot-on with medical grade pulse oximeters so
there is very good accuracy in these two trackers also in regards to the optical heart rate sensors
on the back of these two trackers they are very sharp in fact the mi band 6 has one of the most
accurate heart rate sensors that we've seen on any fitness tracker across all the fitness records
that we've actually tested on the wes nose tech news and reviews the amasfit band 5 is also quite
accurate but it's just not as good as the xiaomi mi band 6. okay so here are the overlaps what
about the gaps so is it just the larger screen is it just the slightly more bright display well
no let's talk about it so if we talk about sport modes the band 5 gets 11 sport modes the list
is not expandable and you get two auto detected activities so you're walking and you're running
now with the xiaomi mi band 6 you actually get 30 sport modes now they're not expandable either but
30 is way more than 11 and you get 5 auto detected activities so you're walking you're running you're
cycling you're rowing and elliptical workouts so these activities actually get auto detected
and your calorie burn for those activities will be more accurately calculated on your smart band also
these two trackers get the pi metric so your personal activity index and this is a single value
metric that basically sums up all your weekly activities and the intensity at which you perform
those activities and provides you a single value that describes your cardiovascular health and the
rule of thumb is that as long as that number is above 100 points you're 25 percent less prone to
getting heart disease also the amasfit band 5 gets alexa so it actually has a microphone on board
and as you speak into it alexa will be able to set up your shopping list to set up your alarms
and generally just tell you about the weather so both of these trackers are very cool
but if you are looking after a very sporty a very beautiful and much more contemporary design
i would definitely choose the me band 6. anyway thank you for watching this review and comparison
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