Sep 28, Version 1. Bug fixes. Ratings and Reviews. App Privacy. Information Seller Mio Labs Inc. Size Compatibility iPhone Requires iOS Mac Requires macOS Languages English, Simplified Chinese.
Price Free. App Support. Family Sharing With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app. More By This Developer. Hapi Health. You Might Also Like. OnBeat - group heart rate app. Selfloops Spark. We've been told that adding history and trends for sleep, resting heart rate and PAI scores is on the Mio roadmap, but there's no time frame for when that's going to happen.
It seems very odd that this wasn't considered a feature that would be beneficial right from the off. So what is a PAI score? Mio's metric is based on age, gender, resting heart rate and maximum heart rate.
It's calculated on a rolling seven-day score of your heart rate intensity and the aim is to keep it above It is designed to really show how hard you have worked your body, whether you've been sedentary or really pushed yourself, and not simply just present you with the number of steps you've taken. Read this : How your fitness tracker can actually get you fit. Mio's algorithms are based on a long-term health study called the HUNT study , which found that resting heart rates can predict cardiovascular health.
It also found that keeping your PAI score above could add up to 10 years to your lifespan and help to protect you from lifestyle diseases. Now in theory, it sounds like a great idea. We've always debated whether step counting is really the key to getting you in shape. In practice, there's some good and bad in the PAI approach and its attempt to keep us motivated to stay active.
The idea is that the higher you keep your heart rate, the more PAI points you unlock. You're given a total of points to unlock every week and this system is broken down into low, moderate and high heart rate based activity. What you need to remember is that a big long walk is not going to get you the same kind of PAI points you'd get from a short interval running session. That makes sense in accordance with how the Slice and PAI aims to work.
So when we entered a 10 mile race, we quickly notched up about 80 PAI points in a day. From a motivational point of view though, not even making a dent in that score psychologically can be deflating, which did happen on some lazier days.
There's also nothing in the way of reminders to keep that heart pumping, which would've been a nice touch. If you're already at a good level of fitness, then you'll get a good sense of when you're dropping off from your routine and when you need to up your game. If you're a beginner, we're not sure what it'll do for your confidence when you think you've put in a good day's worth of strenuous activity, but you haven't hit those high BPM readings.
It's no surprise to find that for a device that makes heart rate the focal point, it does a pretty admirable job of delivering accurate data. Mio's devices have impressed on this front in the past and it's more of the same with the Slice. We put it up against the Polar H7 chest strap and the TomTom Spark 3, which in our opinion packs in the best wrist-based heart rate monitor, and we were pleased with the results.
Resting heart rate readings were consistent with the two other devices and it handled high intensity workouts on a stationary bike and out running with no issues. At the most it was 1 or 2 bpm out, but Slice on the whole delivers the goods. Mio might still be playing catch up on the design front, but it is at least embracing the idea of keeping you away from your smartphone, letting you view notifications from the Slice's display and working a bit like a makeshift smartwatch.
You can't do things like control music playback, but it does double as a watch, using gestures to wake up the screen when you raise your arm. Unlike an Apple Watch or an Android Wear smartwatch, it's a lot more basic with notifications, flashing up calendar icons not calendar items to let you know an event is coming up, caller ID when someone tries to call your phone, or a simple flash of a contact name when a text comes through.
There's no way to act on the notifications from the screen, and while there's no lag in their delivery, you will still need to pick up your phone in most cases as so little information is available on the tracker itself. If you've used Mio's companion apps before, you'll know things are kept pretty streamlined and, if anything, things get more basic in the Mio PAI 2 app. It's available for iOS and Android and now ditches the dark hue for something brighter and cleaner that makes data a lot easier to digest.
The home screen is where you'll find you weekly PAI scores displayed and you'll get a pretty good idea if you're not keeping up. The second tab digs a little deeper, showing the daily breakdown of low, moderate and high heart rate scoring. You can also view activity tracking and sleep data, the latter of which is broken down into deep sleep, light sleep and awake time. As we've already mentioned, there's not much in the way of analysing data or trends over a period longer than seven days.
The final tab is dedicated to customising the hardware and viewing battery status. Like we've said, it's very basic, and that of course has its advantages. But it does feel extremely threadbare in areas where it could do more as far as explaining how PAI works and how you can make improvements.
Mio claims you should get up to five days of battery life from the Slice and that's pretty much what we've found over the last few weeks.
That should be enough for using it during the day and while in bed. Throw in a workout session each day and you're going to get less than those five and closer to three or four days.
The micro USB charging cradle clips securely into the back of the Slice and while it's initially a little fiddly to get it in place, it's not going to budge when it's propped up on your bedside table. We can definitely get on board with the concept of swapping steps for heart rate as a means to keep you more active, but the execution of that concept still needs work. Whether Mio cares or not, it needs to work on housing its tech into a more attractive body, while the software still feels like a work in progress.
You can't fault this heart rate monitoring fitness tracker on the accuracy front, but it needs to do much more than that to convince us that PAI is the future of fitness.
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