If you have waited to buy the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 you have made an excellent choice, because now the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 NFC has arrived on the market, with mainly two novelties that really characterize it on the market: the NFC chip for digital payments and the integrated Alexa assistant.
The two novelties of the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 NFC
Payments via integrated NFC
The big news of this smart band is 2, the first carry it in its name and is the NFC chip. For the uninitiated, it is a very short-range transmitter that allows you to exchange sensitive information. On smartphones, it has been used for some time to exchange data between one phone and another and above all to make digital payments simply by bringing it close to the POS to use Google Pay. This chip has actually been inserted into the Mi Band and, thanks to a digital payment system developed by Xiaomi and Nexi, we can now pay simply with the smart band.
The configuration is very simple and we explain it in the video but obviously, your card must be compatible, currently, it only works with Mastercard circuit cards and only for banks supported by the Mi Band 6 NFC. Alternatively, if you don’t have one of those banks, you can do as we do or use the Curve service. This in fact allows you to pay via the Curve Card that you will receive (first only digitally and then also as a physical card) by charging the amounts to your main credit card. In short, an intermediary card, which offers numerous other services, compatible with Mi Smart Band 6 NFC.
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What about security? The smart band forces you to type in a PIN that you will have to enter once a day at the first use of the band, after which it will not ask you again until the next day or until you remove it from your wrist, a security measure adopted to avoid fraudulent payments if it is lost. . Entering the PIN is not exactly easy on such a small screen but somehow you can.
Integrated Alexa, to use voice commands
The second novelty of the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 NFC is the presence of a microphone, absent in the classic Band 6, and the integration with Alexa, a bit like we had seen on the Amazfit Band 5 . Scrolling through the items in the menu, in fact, there is Alexa’s voice and once called up we can ask him for information, such as trivially the weather, or perform actions based on what we have activated in terms of Skill in the application.
At the level of user experience, however, it is not flawless, in fact, it happens that sometimes it returns an error message that tells us that Alexa is not ready. Also, it cannot be called up by voice.
Price and offer of the Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 NFC
Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 6 NFC has a list price of 54.99 Euros, however on the occasion of any promotional periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it is not difficult to find it discounted by a few euros, as in this case, it is available on GoBoo at around 44 Euros, a decidedly honest figure for the cheapest and most complete smartband on the market. Alternatively, it is also available on Amazon for 40.84 euros.