Realme Band Launched At Rs 1,499 With Hear Rate Monitoring

Harin - Mar 06, 2020

After teasing about its fitness band for the last few months, Realme finally unveiled its Realme Band alongside its Realme 6 series.

After teasing about its fitness band for the last few months, Realme finally unveiled its Realme Band alongside its Realme 6 series at a launching event in New Delhi.

This is the company’s first-ever fitness tracker to take on Xiaomi’s dominance in the Indian market.

For its first attempt, Realme Band has a lot of sweet features to offer, including sleep and heart rate monitoring, a colored display, notifications support, 9 sport modes, USB charging, and many more.

Specs and Features

In terms of design, you will notice that there are some similarities between the Realme Band and the Honor Band 5i. Both devices have a curved design fitting the wrist perfectly. Its 20-gram weight and soft TPU material make it comfortable to wear.

The fitness band has a 0.96-inch TFT LCD display, which is slightly bigger than the 0.78-inch OLED display of the Mi Band from Xiaomi. It isn’t a touch display though. Instead, there is a touch-capacitive button right below the display which you can use to control the band. A single tap lets you go through all pages while a long-press allows you to hang up calls, start exercises, and more.

At the moment, there are five watch faces available and you can get them from the Realme Link app which is also your fitness tracking hub. According to Realme, in the future, it will add more watch faces as via updates. The band supports alarms, notifications, sedentary and drinking reminders, etc.

Realme Band Heart Rate Monitoring — The heart rate sensor will monitor your heart rate at 5-minutes intervals as well as tracking your sleep quality.

Realme Band also comes with a heart rate sensor, gyroscope, and accelerometer. The heart rate sensor will monitor your heart rate at 5-minutes intervals as well as tracking your sleep quality. On the other hand, the gyroscope is handy with its “lift to wake screen” feature. You don’t have to worry about taking off your fitness band while showering as the Realme Band has an IP68 rating.

Realme Band Ip68 — You don’t have to worry about taking off your fitness band while showering as the Realme Band has an IP68 rating.

Nine sport modes are supported including yoga, Cricket, walking, running, climbing, hiking, spinning, climbing, and fitness. You can pin tree of your favorite activities on the band.

Realme Band Sport Mode — Nine sport modes are supported including yoga, Cricket, walking, running, climbing, hiking, spinning, climbing, and fitness.

Design is not the only similarity between Realme Band and the Honor Band 5i as both offer the feature for USB Direct Charge. With this, you can detach one of the straps, plug the fitness band into your computer or power bank’s USB-A port.

Realme Band Charging — You can detach one of the straps, plug the fitness band into your computer or power bank’s USB-A port.

There’s no need for an additional charging cradle or cable. Regarding the battery life, the fitness band comes with a 90mAh battery compared to the 110mAh battery of Mi Band. The Realme Band can work up to 9 days with a single charge if you don’t use the heart rate monitoring feature. If you do use the feature, it can only last 6 days.

Price and Availability

Realme Band Colors — There are three color options for the strap that consumers can choose from including yellow, black, and green.

The price of the Realme Band in India is Rs 1,499. There are three color options for the strap including yellow, black, and green. Consumers can start buying the fitness band from March 9th. However, for those who don’t want to wait, the Hate-to-Wait sale starts at 2:00 pm today.