![]() ![]() Both of these hardware features are absent from the Band that is sold outside of China. The Mi Band 4 that is sold in China comes with NFC for payments and a microphone to control Xiaomi's voice assistant. Hopefully, Xiaomi explores better charger designs for the next generation. I have had to hold my tracker in place by placing a heavy object on top, so I count the charger as a negative. ![]() Even within just 3 charges, I have already begun facing issues with getting my tracker to tightly sit within the charger cup - the pogo pins just bounce it out all the time, and the small latches on the inner sides of the charger are ineffective to hold the tracker in place due to the build material and design of the charger. Chargers have always been a weak point for the Mi Bands in my experience - I have had difficulty in getting my tracker to charge reliably, consistently and effortlessly on the Mi Band 3 and I foresee even more of the same as the Mi Band 4's chargers are worse in my opinion. The charger has a cup-like design, with a USB Type-A on the other end of the wire. Despite the change, you still have to pop out the tracker from the strap to charge it. The tracker now has pogo pins exposed on the bottom as opposed to the pogo pins being stealthily hidden away on the side in the previous-gen product. What isn't cross-compatible is the charger, as the Mi Band 4 comes with a new charger design. The band has been very well received in China, selling out 1 Million units within just eight days of its launch in the region so we expect to see similar fireworks in other regions. With the new Mi Band 4, Xiaomi is bringing in some big, and colorful, changes to its fitness tracker, making a competitive product even more attractive. Xiaomi's entry into the fitness tracking segment with the original Mi Band sowed the seeds of rapid change, expanding the target audience of this segment from established fitness aficionados to amateurs who were just looking to get started. Much of the same is true for Xiaomi's presence in the fitness tracker segment - a segment that was once dominated by expensive options that did the task well but could be afforded by only those who were serious about staying fit. In countries like India, Xiaomi has brought about a revolution in the segments that it has existed in, pushing down prices very hard and driving up the utility to the end-user. One of the biggest draws from Xiaomi as a brand is the fact that one can expect a really strong value deal from practically everything that the company decides to put its name to - ranging from smartphones to accessories to just about everything in the Xiaomi ecosystem. ![]()
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