


The Smart Band 7 also offers sleep tracking. Plus, heart rate monitoring seems more accurate in controlled indoor settings than when you're out running or biking. The Band gives you a great high-level overview of how you're doing overall - as long as you don't care about getting a perfect reading or a perfectly accurate graph after you're done with your workout. That means it can be with you in almost all circumstances, whether you're at the gym, running, riding a bike, or going for a swim. The Smart Band 7 is one of the smallest and lightest options, making it a great everyday companion that you will mostly not even notice you're wearing. And Apple Watch should also be far out of reach for the Smart Band 7. The Smart Band 7 still can't compete with trackers from Fitbit, though. My heart rate is usually more spot-on during workouts and cycling tours, and sleep tracking got more consistent. However, Xiaomi's manufacturer improves the accuracy with every new model, and during my testing, I can confirm that the Band 7 feels more accurate than its predecessor. That shouldn't be too surprising, considering how affordable the Mi Bands are. Xiaomi's fitness bands have historically not been the most accurate, with Mi Bands way too often displaying much lower values than what a chest strap would give you while working out. It's a shame because it's possible to switch out the complications on other watch faces. I'd also love to customize this watch face by, say, replacing the current weather with the date, but that's not possible. The analog clock feels overly cramped, and the small screen would be better served with a digital clock displaying hours at the top and minutes at the bottom.


As good as this works, I still wish Xiaomi offered the option to pick a digital clock for this watch face. The Band 7 intelligently incorporates its pill-shaped display into that interface, using the corners to display progress bars. You can see how soon you've reached your steps, calories, Xiaomi's custom PAI stats (Personal Activity Intelligence, indicating your overall workout efficiency, similar to Fitbit's Active Zone Minutes), roughly how much battery life you've got left, the weather, and your current heart rate. The oval screen fills out almost the entire front of the device, though it still has a bigger bezel at the bottom than at the top.īy default, the Xiaomi Band 7 comes with an analog watch face that gives you details on six core stats. The screen grew ever so slightly and is now a 1.62-inch AMOLED with 326 pixels per inch, the same pixel density as the Band 6. Compared to the Mi Smart Band 6, there are some small improvements in the Band 7.
