Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic Smartwatch Evaluate

I’ve been testing the Xiaomi Watch S1 Active for a month now, and I can undoubtedly advocate it for people who find themselves searching for an important bang-for-the-buck health smartwatch.

It’s acquired inside GPS, can file 117 sport modes, has all-day coronary heart charge and blood oxygen monitoring, steps and sleep monitoring, and extra. Let me discuss to you extra about it in my vlog beneath. Or scroll down for a fast abstract and technical specs.

Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic Technical Specs

• Design & Dimensions: 1.43” AMOLED display screen (watch dimensions: 46.5 x 47.3 x 11mm); 36.3g
• 200 Watch faces
• Strap choices: Moon White, Area Black, Ocean Blue, Yellow, Inexperienced, Orange
• Body colours: Moon White, Area Black, Ocean Blue
• Battery life: 12 days
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth® 5.2 BLE
• GPS: Twin-band 4-system
• Health Monitoring: 117 Sports activities modes
• All-day coronary heart charge and SpO2 monitoring
• Water Resistance: 5ATM

Health Monitoring

I solely do six sports activities or train actions, and throughout the testing interval I did quite a lot of operating outdoor. The Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic helped me monitor tempo, distance, and coronary heart charge in actual time. (Only a notice: it is advisable to put on the watch snugly to get extra correct wrist coronary heart charge readings.) The GPS measurement was inside about 200 meters of the measurement I acquired from different gadgets.

For indoor biking, this watch measures calorie burn, coronary heart charge, and period. (Just like the Mi Watch I reviewed final 12 months, it will possibly’t pair to exterior sensors. It gained’t have the ability to choose up velocity and cadence from ANT+/Bluetooth sensors you may already personal.)

I used to be actually impressed by the pool swimming mode as a result of it was in a position to monitor my relaxation intervals in between my swim intervals, and I didn’t should hit any keys on the watch to try this. I might focus extra on the swimming and neglect about hitting lap buttons. (It is going to monitor your distance so long as you do entrance crawl, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly; kick and drill units will go untracked.) The display screen throughout pool swimming mode shows earlier lap time, variety of lengths accomplished, complete elapsed time, and time of day. While you’re finished swimming, the watch robotically clears water from any crevices by emitting a sound to assist shake water out.

I used to be actually excited to see that the Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic has a triathlon mode, which it's also possible to customise to create different multisport actions. It additionally tracks transition time, which is nice.

The Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic syncs with Strava via the Mi Health app. It’s in a position to sync most actions besides swimming, so hopefully Xiaomi contains swim exercise sync to Strava sometime.

Smartwatch Features

The Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic connects together with your smartphone utilizing Bluetooth. Except for syncing previous recorded exercises to your cellphone, should you’re doing exercises whereas the watch and cellphone are linked, the Mi Health app robotically begins logging the exercise.

Digicam management: there are a couple of smartwatches on the market that permit you to management the digital camera in your smartphone, and that is very helpful for taking selfies. Even when the digital camera management continues to be a function in beta for the Xiaomi Watch, it’s totally useful.

Notifications: To get notifications in your Xiaomi Watch from an Android cellphone, it is advisable to allow the operate inside the Mi Health app; you can also customise which app notifications get pushed to your watch. Get an audio and vibration notification from the watch when a notification is available in, and flick your wrist or swipe down from the highest of the display screen to view it. I like this function as a result of it saves me the hassle of choosing up my cellphone to take a look at what sort of notification rolled in, particularly if I’m attempting to work undistracted.

Music management: I like listening to music once I’m working or understanding. It’s a problem to maintain choosing up my cellphone to flick between tracks on a playlist, so this watch undoubtedly helps!

I’ve had a good time utilizing the Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic and gained’t hesitate to advocate it to anybody who asks. All these options at a worth your pockets will love? You possibly can’t beat that.

The Xiaomi Watch S1 Energetic at present retails at PhP 8,999. Store it on Lazada at the official Xiaomi Philippines store.