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Xiaomi has inflated its cheap health tracker to the scale of a smartwatch with the Good Band 7 Professional. How a lot better is the machine in comparison with the Xiaomi Good Band 7? That is precisely what we set to seek out out on this detailed assessment.

Good

Giant, lovely AMOLED show
Interesting design
Built-in GPS
Good workmanship
Many sports activities modes supported

Dangerous

Nonetheless no NFC
A bit too costly
Chaotic app expertise
Too little innovation for a “Professional”
Vibration motor is annoying
No wi-fi charging supported

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The Xiaomi Good Band 7 Professional in a nutshell
After the Xiaomi Good Band 7 (assessment), Xiaomi additionally launched the Professional mannequin and launched it in varied components of the world, Europe included. What can the Xiaomi Good Band 7 Professional do? Principally, it does all the things that its little brother churns out, along with built-in GPS and a bigger AMOLED show. Thus, the watch turns into a wearable that blurs the traces between health tracker and smartwatch considerably, no less than by way of its appears.Technically, not a lot has modified in contrast with the usual mannequin. Subsequently, the “Professional” within the title is a little bit of an overkill for me.
The Good Band 7 Professional is the health tracker for people who find themselves in search of a cheap tracker just like the Good Band 7, however with a bigger show. It additionally caters to those that wish to depart their smartphone at dwelling throughout sports activities. 
The machine is offered for an MSRP of $120. At the moment, Xiaomi itself provides the Good Band 7 Professional for simply $110, which is fairly affordable.
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Design and show
The show grows to 1.64-inches and presents itself in a wider, rectangular smartwatch format in comparison with the earlier fashions. The design additionally suggests a smartwatch quite than a health tracker with a quite high-quality look regardless of the plastic chassis.What I preferred:
Interesting design.
Good workmanship.
Good and enormous AMOLED show.
Adaptive show brightness.
What I disliked:
Show could possibly be a bit brighter.
Adaptive brightness could possibly be improved.
No speaker included.
If there’s one factor that I can say about this, the machine does look nice on my wrist. I just like the change from the elongated type issue to the oblong look because it appears nicer and extra refined. As well as, this makes the show simpler to learn in comparison with its slim predecessors. In comparison with the Good Band 7, the diagonal measurement of the show elevated solely from 1.62- to 1.64-inches. Nonetheless, that tiny little bit of enchancment has made an enormous distinction in distributing data. Every part is introduced in a much more logical and clearer method, and the legibility of data proven elevated by leaps and bounds.

The Good Band 7 Professional appears fairly elegant for a plastic health tracker. / © NextPit

The Professional’s dimensions are as follows: 44.7 x 28.8 x 11 mm, tipping the scales at 20.5 grams. As compared, the Good Band 7 measures 46.5 x 20.7 x 12.25 mm and weighs 13.5 grams. Because of this the tracker has shrunk by a wee bit not solely by way of size however thickness as properly. Regardless of the extra weight, the machine wears nearly as comfortably as earlier than and is hardly noticeable in your wrist.The closing mechanism has been revised, with the answer chosen right here that includes a pin that closes higher to my liking and in addition holds higher. By the way in which, the wristband is as soon as once more made from plastic (TPU), and replacements are provided in a number of colours to fit your style. Talking of colours, there are black and white to select from. We obtained the black mannequin as our assessment unit. Each variants are made from plastic, whereas the body needs to look as whether it is made from steel with its paint end. Do not go attempting to see how sturdy it’s, as a result of it is not!

I just like the design and the show measurement very a lot. / © NextPit

As soon as once more, there’s nothing a lot to complain about by way of workmanship.
Regardless of the liberal use of plastic, the health tracker appears costlier than it truly is. The AMOLED show can be very interesting to the eyes.
The pixel density stays at 326 ppi with a decision of 280 x 456 pixels. The five hundred nits truly present sufficient brightness, however I by some means hoped that Xiaomi would enhance the Professional model.Nonetheless, that’s simply complaining on a excessive degree. Even when open air, the display screen is generally simple to learn. After I forgot to change to DND mode final evening, I all of the sudden regarded right into a show that appeared so brilliant at three o’clock within the morning that I briefly thought of operating with my sun shades on.Sadly, there’s a step backwards by way of brightness: Whereas the Good Band 7 launched a stepless brightness management, I can now solely choose one among 5 ranges once more. Bizarre. Nonetheless, the long-desired ambient mild sensor is lastly included, which routinely adjusts the brightness every time you choose this mode within the settings. Xiaomi calls this “adaptive show brightness”.

Software program and operation
Working the Xiaomi Good Band 7 Professional is a reasonably easy matter through the show. Thus, there is no such thing as a bodily controls like a crown or a button.What I preferred:
Optimized person interface.
Logical operation.
What I disliked:
App could possibly be refined additional.
Too many steps required to entry the specified sport mode.
Vibration motor is annoying.
The 
large plus level of this mannequin, for my part, is the clear structure of the person interface
The assorted screens make good use of the width of the panel, so even these with less-than-perfect eyesight can nonetheless view all data proven with however a single look. Sadly, this doesn’t apply to all areas of the software program. For instance, the music widget might simply present me extra of the music title than simply the primary few letters, which does not actually assist.The state of affairs is comparable in the case of notifications: You obtain each WhatsApp message, climate forecaset, and details about incoming calls delivered to your wrist. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to solely learn the primary letters in every case. I additionally observed that not all emojis in WhatsApp will be displayed correctly.Talking of notifications: I used to be actually scared when the vibration motor fired up for the primary time. What’s good about it’s how one can change the depth of the vibration within the settings. As for what’s not that nice, the one change you may make is to have it vibrate at a fair stronger degree.All in all, this isn’t actually an issue for me. What I discovered worse was how Xiaomi didn’t obtain any memo about its chaotic app. When setting it up, I first tried Zepp Life (beforehand Mi Match), however the QR code can’t be scanned. You can’t use this app, which the Good Band 7 helps with no downside, with the Professional model.So we tried it out with the Mi Health app. It took me a number of tries earlier than the QR code could possibly be scanned. Alternatively, you can too discover the mannequin within the app, and the pairing course of labored easily. The unrefined app can be annoying as a result of each apps don’t supply an identical options. Google Match is supported by Zepp Life, however not by Mi Health. I’d lastly wish to see respectable software program assist from Xiaomi for the Good Band 8!In any other case, I don’t miss any {hardware} buttons or another bodily factor throughout operation. In case you swipe down, you’ll be able to view notifications. A swipe up will take you to the app drawer. A swipe to the correct presents you with the short settings and to the left allows you to scroll by the assorted widgets.

Shortcuts are solely a swipe away. / © NextPit

I discovered it a bit annoying after I chosen an exercise that goes past strolling, operating, or biking. Typically it takes loads of steps to get to the specified exercise in sports activities mode. Swiping up from the underside, tapping “Coaching”, after which deciding on the game – there is no such thing as a assure. You will solely discover a handful of sporting disciplines there, the place you then must faucet once more on the backside to show extra. There, you can be introduced with totally different choices like “Dancing” or “Ball sports activities”, which summarize a number of sports activities. You then faucet on them and seek for the suitable sporting exercise. Both that, otherwise you stay within the earlier display screen and choose one other menu on the backside, the place you’ll be able to even select one thing else like racing.It’s nice that there are such a lot of supported sports activities modes, however it’s quite mediocre to downright annoying when it’s a must to navigate by the menu for a very long time to reach at your required sporting exercise. In any other case, the Mi Health app does no less than supply you choices to arrange apps and widgets in accordance with your preferences. By the way in which, additionally, you will discover what you’re in search of on this app if you wish to change the watch faces. 5 of them arrive preinstalled, and you may obtain just a few extra on-line. Nonetheless, there are considerably fewer watch faces out there than Xiaomi guarantees on its website with its “over 150 watch faces”.

The sleep tracker labored so exactly that you would be able to acknowledge my two pee breaks throughout the evening. / © NextPit

Except for that, the app’s structure is acquainted to anybody who has used it earlier than for an additional machine. You select from the 4 tabs “Well being”, “Coaching”, “Machine” and “Profile” and have all of the recorded information proven there. Sadly, there’s nonetheless no “cell cost” choice within the app.

Options and monitoring: The place are the brand new capabilities?
Pulse, SpO2, sleep monitoring, cycle monitoring and extra:
The Good Band 7 Professional can just about do what the Good Band 7 can do – plus GPS!
What I preferred:
GNSS/GPS.
Alexa assist.
Many sports activities modes…
Competitors mode.
What I disliked:
… fewer sports activities modes than the Good Band 7.
No NFC supported.
Not far more worth in comparison with the usual mannequin.
That is the part that I’ll hold quick, or the place I check with the assessment of the Xiaomi Good Band 7. Coronary heart charge monitoring and SpO2 monitoring takes place continuously because the Good Band 7 was launched, and the opposite capabilities remained nearly an identical. The one new function is a contest mode, which supplies you the choice to compete in opposition to associates.The largest function replace is undoubtedly having GNSS assist. That is the long-awaited built-in GPS, which is lastly a part of the setup. Customers can now depart their smartphones at dwelling and monitor their routes with the assistance of the health wristband.By the way in which, I didn’t emphasize on whether or not the monitoring labored properly in a standalone machine. That’s as a result of I bumped into just a few difficulties throughout the assessment. Principally, the Xiaomi health trackers supply very dependable and exact monitoring. Now, I wished to create a flowery comparability image for you: That is how the Good Band 7 Professional tracks with smartphone assist – in addition to with the standalone GPS.The outcomes had been quite out of whack, as a result of there was a section which was tracked utilizing the smartphone within the preliminary days, whereas monitoring utilizing the an identical route with nothing else however the Good Band 7 Professional was interrupted. I am nonetheless desirous about what brought on the monitoring to pause a number of instances throughout the operating route. Earlier than I make a remaining evaluation, I wish to spend just a few extra days with the machine and can then replace this part of the assessment accordingly.However I’ll say this a lot: Preliminary laps with smartphone delivered the standard exact outcomes, and aside from the dropped sign, the tracked route appears superb even with the smartband’s personal GPS. Subsequently, I believe a distinct sort of error occurred and don’t wish to let that negativity be mirrored for the second. You will obtain an replace on the matter in just a few days’ time, I promise!

As typical, the sensors are situated inside, which monitor your coronary heart charge, amongst different issues. / © NextPit

Past that, there’s little or no else by way of new options. Pulse, SpO2, sleep monitoring, the now widespread “girls’s well being” aka menstrual cycle monitoring, we all know all this from its little brother and naturally, discover it once more within the Good Band 7 Professional. As with the Good Band 7, there are once more a three-digit variety of sports activities modes supported. Solely my favourite sports activities – archery, cream pie consuming, and karaoke – are sadly nonetheless not included.However all jokes apart, there are literally “solely” 117 sports activities modes as an alternative of the 120 on the Good Band 7 for some cause, in order that’s a wierd downgrade, is not it?Additionally, please keep in mind that the monitoring solely ever reveals approximate values. Steps and distances typically differ from costlier wearable units and values for pulse, and many others., don’t change correct medical advise in any approach. I discover the “rise up” monitoring quite curious on this context as I do not understand how the tracker obtained the concept that I solely obtained up 5 instances immediately and suspect that the displayed worth is solely made up.To check this, I obtained up a number of instances in a row and in addition walked round for just a few steps. To not brag, however I stood up extra instances throughout this assessment than Rocky Balboa did within the first 4 components mixed. Nonetheless, the app detected that I solely stood up twice.What’s the reviewer attempting to say? That there’s principally not very a lot that’s new functionally within the Professional mannequin and I ask myself whether or not we are literally coping with a Professional variant right here or merely a Good Band 7 “Plus”.

Xiaomi Good Band 7 Professional battery

Extra capability, but additionally a bigger show: In actuality, which means that the battery capability is greater, however the battery runtime drops. It’s a pity that there’s nonetheless no wi-fi charging supported.
What I preferred:
Prices fully in a single hour.
Battery life is ample.
What I disliked:
No wi-fi charging.
Brief charging cable.
The battery has grown from 180 to 235 mAh. However, the battery life communicated by Xiaomi dropped from 14 to 12 days. In actuality, I’m someplace in day 6 out of 14 on a full cost, and that with some fairly heavy utilization sample. Now the damper for these of you who wish to buy this Professional health tracker: With very intensive use, you’ll drain the battery empty in simply two to 3 days!

New tracker, new charging cable – and as all the time, too quick! / © NextPit

It sounds scary, I do know. Nonetheless, I do not suppose you may must make the journey to the opwer outlet each 48 hours. Through the assessment, I turned on all the things the machine needed to supply. At all times-on Show was activated always, I actually had each notification despatched to the machine, and so forth. With out AoD and attempting out each function, I’m positive that it could have lasted no less than twice as lengthy with each day intensive use. Twelve days is considerably a stretch for my part, however with very minimal utilization, you need to have the ability to obtain wherever from six to seven days of use.Lastly, my typical gripe with Xiaomi’s health trackers as soon as once more: there’s a quick charging cable included that expenses the health tracker magnetically. Why cannot they simply make that cable some 20 to 30 inches longer? Wi-fi charging can be nonetheless not supported. Nonetheless, the machine expenses rapidly: It takes solely an hour to totally cost the machine.

Conclusion

Effectively, what can we consider this machine? I’ve checked out opinions of the Good Band 7 Professional on different websites and a few of them contemplate it the perfect health tracker round. I can not fairly share this optimism. I really like the bigger show and the GPS assist. However does that alone make a Good Band 7 a Good Band 7 Professional?

I just like the look of the widgets higher within the new type issue. / © NextPit

To be trustworthy, I simply do not see this as a “Professional” mannequin. Capabilities have solely been added in a really minimal method. There may be even a downgrade within the sports activities modes and by way of brightness degree! I consider that the health tracker does all that it will possibly do equally properly as its little brother. The underside line is, the perfect cheap health tracker has obtained a pleasant show and GPS improve. The issue is that the machine is solely not that low cost this time round. Xiaomi itself expenses $120, which is an excessive amount of for my part. Positive, GPS isn’t par for the course on this worth vary, however the competitors provides a lot better coaching assist and statistics.

Xiaomi has merely not moved forward sufficient over the past two to 3 years. The time has in all probability been spent on ensuring that we customers are fully confused by the complicated app. It’s because worth and efficiency don’t go properly along with the Good Band 7, therefore I’d solely wish to award it 4 out of 5 stars. Regardless of all of the complaining, I feel that’s justified as a result of the Good Band 7 Professional nonetheless does many issues very properly.
So, is that this a purchase suggestion or not? I feel $120 is simply an excessive amount of for such a tool. My private candy spot can be round $80, so hold your eyes peeled for corresponding offers!
In case you already preferred the Good Band 7 and need a bigger show and GPS, you should buy it with out hesitation.

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No editors had been tortured or injured for this assessment.

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