Xiaomi Mi Band 5 under development; May debut next year

Within months of launch, the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 has received immense love and popularity, owing to its affordability and attractive features.

Buoyed by the success and the huge popularity of Xiaomi Mi Band series, Huami, the manufacturer of Xiaomi's fitness tracker, has reportedly started working on the Mi Band 5, the successor of Xiaomi Mi Band 4 which was launched back in June 2019.

"We are actually developing Mi-Band 5 with Xiaomi," Wang Huang, CEO, and founder at Huami Corp. was quoted as saying by Wareable, a website dedicated to wearable technology. This came in response to a question over Huami's future cooperation with Xiaomi and whether it would still produce the Mi Band 5.

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When asked about the Huami's future product lineup, Huang said: "We do not have - we do not have a fixed time when we're going to launch Mi-Band 5. But I would say that we have already started working on Mi-Band 5 with Xiaomi and it's not going to take that long. So we just launched Mi-Band 4, but potentially toward the [Indecipherable] of next year, we may launch Xiaomi Mi Band 5."

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Well, Xiaomi's fitness trackers never fail to fascinate users with affordable prices and attractive features. Within months of launch in China, the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 has received immense love and popularity, owing to its affordability. It sports a 0.95-inch colorful AMOLED display with 120 x 240 pixels resolution and a microphone for voice commands. It supports basic health monitoring features like heart rate monitoring, heart rate alerts, sleeps monitoring and idle alerts and records health data in the Mi Fit app.

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Xiaomi Mi Band 4 features, specifications

The Mi Band 4 sports a 0.95-inch colorful AMOLED display with 120×240 pixels resolution and a microphone for voice commands. It supports basic health monitoring features like heart rate monitoring, heart rate alerts, sleeps monitoring and idle alerts. It comes with 6 workout modes that include Treadmill, exercise, outdoor running, cycling, walking, swimming and tracks step counts, distance, calories burned during sports. It supports Bluetooth 5.0 (Low Energy), and Android 4. 4, iOS 9. 0 and above. It packs a 135 mAh battery that lasts upto 20 days on a single charge and is water-resistant up to 50 meters.

Other features include Alarm, proximity sensor, pre-set watch face, customizable watch face, lock screen, timer, stopwatch, phone alarm and notifications, incoming calls, message notifications, calendar notifications, app notifications, weather forecast, Find my phone, phone unlock, event notification, Night mode, Do not disturb mode (works even without phone), music controls on band, Bluetooth broadcasting, battery level display, different ways to wear, OTA updates. The smart band is available at a starting price of USD 40.

The Mi Band 4 is yet to launch in India.