Last month, we revealed that the Mi Band 5 will get NFC support in the global market. Our team has also mentioned the SpO2 & Amazon Alexa functions for the international version. Now the leaked resource file for Mi Band 5 has confirmed all of these functions. Xiaomi has unpacked the Mi Band 5 in China on June 11, but the SpO2 & Amazon Alexa features were missing from the tracker. We already know that these functions will be exclusively launched on global versions rather than the home version.
It will be the first time the Mi Band series will receive SpO2 or blood monitoring, along with the Women’s health tool & PAI functions. After the launch of SpO2, it will compete with Honor Band 5, Huawei Band 4 Pro & Fitbit Charge 4, which have blood oxygen monitoring. The animated images of Amazon Alexa have also been spotted in leaked files. It will be the replacement of Xiao Ai’s voice assistant outside China. The revealed code suggests that Alexa will first support Mi Home devices, and later, users may connect it with other devices.
We are also the first to claim the NFC support for the international Mi Band 5. The recent launch of the Mi Band 4 NFC in Russia is the start of it, and the next device will support it in many countries. Also, the resource file shows the images of Mastercard, which is the first partner to pay with Band 5 in many places.
In other countries, the Mi Band 5 will launch in July, and Europe will be the first market. Recently, the fitness tracker has cleared BIS certification in India, so the Indian launch may also be near. In the meantime, the recently leaked source code has mentioned there would be three models – Mi Band L, Mi Band 5 Pro & Mi Band 5 Lite. If that is true, then we also don’t know which model will get SpO2, Alexa, and NFC versions on the board.