Earlier this year, in July, Honor launched it latest
fitness tracker named Honor Band 5. Now, the company has been teasing the
launch of another variant of the same, which is dubbed Honor Band 5i. Today, the upcoming Honor Band
5i, which is expected to launch in China on 22nd October, is up for reservation
on TMALL. However, the pricing of the device remains unknown as the eCommerce
listing shows a placeholder price of 9,999 Yuan.
The listing as well as the poster shared by the
company confirms that the Honor Band 5i will be made available in three color
options — Pink, Black, and Olive Green. As for the design, it looks similar to
the original device with an elongated body and silicone strap.
While the display size is yet to be confirmed, it
looks similar to the standard Honor Band 5 that features a 0.95 inch OLED
AMOLED display which is capable of displaying 43 characters at once. The teaser
shared by the company also confirms that Band 5i variant will have an Spo2
meter to measure blood oxygen and will also come with a step counter.
Usually, the “i” suffix are used for watered down
and affordable variants of the standard handset and similar strategy is
expected to be adopted with the Honor Band 5i. Even though this cannot be
confirmed, we assume the only major alteration with this variant will be the
new type of charging connector and the lack of NFC.
