Redmi Smart Watch 2 Lite by Xiaomi - 1.55’’ Touch Screen, 5ATM Water Resistant, 10 Days Battery, GPS, 100+ Sports Mode, Steps, Sleep, Heart Rate Monitor, Fitness Activity Tracker [Official UK]

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After the first Redmi smartwatch was released in this country as the Xiaomi Mi Watch Lite the successor is now available in Europe directly under the Redmi brand name. The Redmi Watch 2 Lite resembles its predecessor almost like two peas in a pod. It does offer some improvements, though not as many as the Redmi Watch 2, which is once again reserved for Asia.

REM: need to turn on advanced sleep monitoring in additional settings on Xiaomi Wear/Xiaomi Wear Lite App to have this feature.*Battery life test data has been obtained from 70mai Labs. Actual results may vary. As a running watch, you can set up alerts based on time and distance and set goals based on time, calorie and distance. After a 3-second countdown you can scroll through to see information like pace, average pace, heart rate, stride, cadence and data from your previous kilometre. The Redmi Watch 2 Lite is a cheap smartwatch that's promising to punch above its budget price tag. The Xiaomi-owned company launched the first generation Redmi Watch in the first half of 2021 and its parent company dished out a very similar-looking Xiaomi Mi Watch Lite, which we reviewed earlier this year, just months later. We've been putting the Redmi Watch 2 Lite through its paces to see if this is a cheap smartwatch worth considering. Here's our full verdict.Thanks to an energy-efficient screen, the latter is rated to last for 12 days on regular usage as opposed to 7 days on the former. However, users can get up to 12 days of endurance on the Redmi Watch by enabling a power-saving mode. Both Redmi Watch (REDMIWT01) and Redmi Watch 2 (M2102W1) feature a polycarbonate (plastic) body with a square-shaped dial and an interchangeable TPU strap. However, the newer product is slightly lighter at 31g (with strap) compared to the 35g weight of the older model. was synced with a phone once a day. The watch also monitored one outdoor exercise session a week, lasting 35 minutes.

Without the strap, the Redmi Watch and Redmi Watch 2 measure 41 x 35 x 10.9mm and 39.1 x 34.4 x 9.98mm in dimensions respectively. In other words, the newer model is a bit smaller in form factor. This product and its features are not designed to be a medical device, and are not intended to predict, diagnose, prevent, or cure any disease.So how well does the Watch 2 Lite perform? Well, we'd say actually not that bad overall, but if you want supreme accuracy on all fronts, unsurprisingly, you're not going to get that here. The duo comes with an accelerometer, an ambient light sensor, a compass, and an optical heart rate sensor. Additionally, the Redmi Watch 2 also has a gyroscope and an SpO2 sensor. Unlike some budget smartwatches, the Watch 2 Lite does work with iOS and Android devices and our experience was spent largely with the latter. While sleeping heart rate impressed, heart rate monitoring during the day seemed a bit more unreliable, tagging us in general with a resting heart rate 10bpm over our usual. You''re also getting stress data, which is powered by heart rate variability measurements, which suggested there weren't very many stressful parts of our day, but doesn't offer any really useful insights around why it's monitoring your stress.

Manuel Vonau is Android Police's Google Editor, with expertise in Android, Chrome, and other Google products — the very core of Android Police’s content. He has been covering tech news and reviewing devices since joining Android Police as a news writer in 2019. He lives in Berlin, Germany. During our usual cycling test with the smartwatch, we noticed large deviations in comparison to a Polar H10 chest strap as a reference device during high dynamics, i.e. strongly fluctuating pulse values (interval training). Whereas the strap outputs readings of 122 (average) and 156 (maximum) for the activity, the smartwatch outputs 75 and 112. These are differences that are absolutely unacceptable to this extent and actually make the smartwatch unusable. And that's not all: Even for the resting pulse, the Redmi Watch 2 Lite initially showed significantly too high values compared to the reference in the first of our two testers While heart rate and SpO2 measurement are standard nowadays even in even cheaper smartwatches, integrated GPS and more than 100 sports modes are quite eye-catching. There are also some practical features like music and camera control as well as breathing exercises, which are also not uncommon on other smartwatches.

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So is it worth spending more on the latest Redmi Watch 2 or should you save some penny by settling down for the Redmi Watch? We try to answer this question in our detailed comparison of these two wearables’ specifications Redmi Watch 2 vs Redmi Watch: Detailed Specs Comparison The original Redmi Watch only supports 7 sports modes. But its successor Redmi Watch 2 arrives with a whopping 117 sports modes. It's a neat and tidy smartwatch in appearance. Crucially doesn't feel cheap, the screen is reasonably good quality, and it is one you should be able to wear 24/7 indoors and outdoors no problem. The gesture-based UI on the proprietary software is easy to get to grips with, so living with it isn't a taxing time. You do have to live with those laggy, slightly slow moments scrolling through screens, but it's a cheap smartwatch that performs solidly in this department.