Is the bracelet worth buying? Xiaomi vs Keep

I believe I'm not the only one. What can too many people do with bracelets? There are doubts in itself. Bracelets are the product of the evolution of watches. Traditional watches have got rid of the simple function of watching time, and are more used to show their identity and decoration. Unfortunately, both bracelets are difficult to make.

Let's talk about the keep bracelet and mi band 3, as well as the product form of the bracelet.

Everyone is no stranger to Xiaomi. Keep is an organization that makes sports and fitness apps. I believe that friends who exercise regularly must be familiar with it. There are also two bracelets without NFC, and the prices are not much different. What is the difference?

Personally, I think the mi band is more beautiful than the keep bracelet. Whether it is the integration of the strap, the connection between the dial and the strap, or even the concave surface on the dial is more exquisite. On the whole, Xiaomi is better.

Later, I gradually understood why keep chose the "non-mainstream" design. The design of two-color stitching is very recognizable, and it is easy to have a sense of group identity. When you meet someone who wears a keep bracelet, you will have a feeling of meeting the same kind, just like wearing Nike, using a hammer mobile phone, and wearing G-shock can represent a class of people.

This is because keep itself is a sports App with people who love sports, but Xiaomi does not have such a gene, or such a gene is not obvious.

The Keep bracelet is a color screen, and the mi band is a black and white screen. Both of them are backlit and can be seen roughly in the sun. Aesthetic nature is that color screen is better. Add color, you can use different colors to distinguish functions. For example, today's overview, like the ring display of Apple Watch, the outer ring green represents the number of steps, and the inner ring purple represents sleep.

Open the bracelet and start connecting the phone. Keep is more user-friendly and open the App scan code connection. Mi band didn't give any hints about how to connect.

Keep is also better in terms of interaction. Keep only has four basic operations: up stroke, down stroke, click stroke and long stroke, while Xiaomi has added left and right strokes. After a project is drawn to the right, you can't use it up and down, and it's not very intuitive to go back to the next one. They are similar in key functions, for example, the primary key is Return, click OK, and long press to open a long action (such as running). ...

In use, it is also found that keep does not require so high accuracy of operation, and it can be switched with a single stroke, while Xiaomi needs a slightly longer stroke.

Generally speaking, there is not much difference between appearance and interaction, mainly depending on what they can do.

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What can a bracelet do?

Is the bracelet worth buying? The key to this question is: What can a bracelet do?

Basic functions such as counting steps and watching time can also be completed by mobile phones. Here are some functions that can be done better by giving them to the bracelet. (Some of the following functions need to be turned on after connecting the mobile phone.)

1, as the extension of mobile phone.

Compared with the mobile phone, the bracelet is integrated with us and the mobile phone is separated from us. Even if you look at the time, it is more convenient to raise your hand than to take out your mobile phone. Based on the intimate characteristics with us, some functions on the mobile phone will be more convenient on the bracelet:

Keep: Breathing, WeChat notification, sedentary reminder

Xiaomi: Weather, event reminder, notification reminder.

Left: Keep the bracelet function, right: mi band function.

In the keep bracelet, my favorite function is breathing, similar to meditation and other applications. The bracelet will prompt you to exhale and inhale in the form of a slight vibration. Just close your eyes for a minute and the whole person will calm down.

Why do you like this function? I think the best form of this kind of application is a watch, which won't interrupt your calm like a voice reminder on a mobile phone, and the feedback is obvious. The only drawback is that there is no clear signal at the end. Usually my eyes are closed when I meditate and breathe, which leads me to vomit for a long time before I find it over. ...

In terms of reminders, mi band has done a good job. Keep can only be reminded by WeChat and telephone, and there is no such record after you read it. In addition, Xiaomi also has functions such as event reminder and weather viewing, and its application scenarios are more extensive. Pushing the notice on the mobile phone to the bracelet can reduce the number of times of holding the mobile phone to a certain extent.

It is not impossible for a mobile phone with the above functions, but it is presented in the form of a bracelet, which will be more suitable for using the scene.

2. What's the use of measuring heart rate?

Heart rate is the number of heartbeats per minute. Too high or too low will affect health. The role of heart rate for ordinary people is exercise assistance and sleep monitoring, but for some patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is a life-saving alarm.

Heart rate monitoring and exercise heart rate monitoring are actually two situations. Heart rate monitoring plays a long-term role, while monitoring heart rate during exercise is to keep heart rate within a certain range, so as to achieve better exercise effect. In fact, the focus of the two companies can be seen from the handling of this function.

Mi band can only measure the heart rate by default, and can turn on the all-day monitoring function after connecting with the mobile phone. Heart rate will also be collected during exercise, but it will not be linked with the mobile phone during exercise. For ordinary people, the biggest role of mi band lies in sleep monitoring.

Keep bracelet always monitors heart rate by default, and combines exercise and heart rate on the premise of supporting sleep monitoring. The two most important sports are heart rate running and HITT training.

In these two sports, the heart rate detected by the bracelet will be synchronized with the mobile phone. When your heart rate is too fast, the mobile phone will prompt you to slow down or even lengthen the rest time between exercises, so that your heart rate can be restored to a more efficient state of burning fat.

However, it is not clear how keep determines that the heart rate is too high. As you can see, there is no prompt when the heart rate reaches 172, and the prompt is too high only when it reaches 149. It may be that each action has different requirements for heart rate, or it may be that the synchronization speed of App is not so fast.

After the exercise, keep will generate the data of this exercise, and you can intuitively see your heart rate and the overall changing trend when you do each action. Only give the results, no reasonable suggestions, unfortunately, it is difficult for ordinary fans to know how to improve.

Xiaomi is not as good as keep in sports. The linkage with the mobile phone only synchronizes data, and there is no reminder to adjust the heart rate during exercise. Some training, including Xiaomi Sports, is in the form of video with low flexibility.

Both bracelets are waterproof, so swimming for a long time is no problem. Because of the touch screen, touching water occasionally makes mistakes. Unfortunately, neither of them has a swimming mode. Keep App shows that there will be something behind, and Xiaomi has no specific news yet.

3. Which one is worth buying?

After a series of attempts, on the basis of the same price, there is no doubt that keep is more worthwhile. Professional sports fitness apps and auxiliary bracelets are difficult to compare with products of the same price in sports.

Mi band has an advantage in functional richness, but it is very weak in sports.

If you like sports, the keep bracelet is the best choice. If you don't exercise regularly, want to monitor your sleep, and want more functions, maybe you can add some money and buy the mi band NFC version. Let's wait for mi band 4. According to the latest news, it's not far away.

It should be noted that although it is called a sports bracelet, it does not mean that buying a bracelet will make you love sports more. Just like buying a book, it doesn't mean you read it. If you are equipped, you can certainly exercise more effectively, but whether you can exercise or not depends on yourself.

finally

When I first got the keep bracelet, I despised a bracelet that didn't even have NFC. The function on the bracelet is not interesting either. Later, after I deeply experienced the mi band 3 and the keep bracelet, as a sports enthusiast, I had the impulse to buy the keep bracelet. However, these two bracelets have been used for several days at the same time, and I want to buy an Apple Watch now.

In the process of using these two bracelets, it is interesting to change a concept: I began to think that only smart watches are the trend of technological development.

These two products have some shortcomings, and the products that can make up for their shortcomings can only think of Apple Watch. The more you know about Apple Watch, the more you can feel the importance of technology products close to the human body. From the initial computer to the current mobile phone, smart devices are getting closer and closer to us. Proximity brings convenience. No matter how close the mobile phone is, it should be put in your pocket. Unlike a watch, it is a part of your body.

Another advantage of products like Apple Watch is "less". Mobile phones give us too much now, and I can't concentrate. I want more, but at the same time I'm afraid of being disturbed. Most of today's smart watches are not "less" but simple. Even Apple Watch has many problems.

I look forward to the future when we go out with only watches, and the mobile phone will become a computer-like existence with a fixed place.

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