Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro review

Introduction, unboxing

This is the caller Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which launched globally astatine the extremity of May. You tin look astatine it arsenic a successor to the Smart Band 9 Pro (review here), oregon arsenic its ain thing.

If you comparison the Smart Band 10 Pro to its predecessor, precise small has changed. It has the aforesaid wide plan (though it is simply a spot lighter and thinner), the aforesaid artillery (350mAh), and mostly the aforesaid show - a 1.74-inch 60Hz portion (but a spot brighter - up to 2,000 nits vs 1,200 nits).

Looking astatine the Smart Band 10 Pro connected its own, it's a €75 wearable (it goes up to €100 for the NFC/Ceramic version) that ticks much boxes.

Speaking of boxes, this year's Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro has the aforesaid unboxing acquisition with a azygous charging cablegram accessory. It's inactive a two-pin magnetic charger and inactive ends connected a USB-A transportation alternatively than USB-C. That's a shame successful 2026.

You person your prime of 4 colors - pink, black, and metallic connected the aluminum models, and a achromatic ceramic (which is what we've got for review).

Continuing connected the earlier thread, if you're looking for a tiny wearable to bent connected your wrist time and night, person it way your wellness and fitness, and not interest astir artillery life, oregon whether you'll scuff the thing, due to the fact that it's excessively expensive, past the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro is simply a good choice.

You get broad wellness tracking, which has improved successful this generation, acknowledgment to an all-new PPG module, GPS to way your runs, immoderate 150+ sports modes, a wide scope of ticker faces, and a comfy consciousness connected your wrist, acknowledgment to the tiny signifier factor. Let's tackle plan next.

Design, display

I person the ceramic peculiar variation of the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which means that it's somewhat larger and heavier. It besides comes with a fancier fluororubber strap arsenic opposed to the basal TPU connected the aluminum models. The strap does consciousness smoother than what I'm utilized to from basal TPU straps connected akin wearables.

The lawsuit is precise creaseless and shiny connected the ceramic edition. It's overmuch classier to some look astatine and touch. However, immoderate radical mightiness similar the brushed aluminum decorativeness connected the regular models. It's matte and besides comes successful silver, black, oregon pink. This exertion finds the achromatic ceramic exemplary a spot excessively shouty and would similar a much understated unit.

Then there's the seamless design. For yet different year, Xiaomi went with a buttonless design. It makes this wearable precise balanced and clean. And yet, it's a prime that radical volition either emotion (and bargain the Smart Band 10 Pro) oregon marque the main crushed to disregard the wearable altogether.

Using lone the touchscreen to navigate the UI isn't a usability hassle. You get utilized to the set wrong a fewer days of wearing it. It's not a immense issue. But if you're coming from a akin wearable with a button, you whitethorn find the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro hard to unrecorded with.

There's besides nary talker oregon microphone connected the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which puts it and its Pro moniker astatine a superior disadvantage against nonstop rivals. It means you can't instrumentality calls connected your wrist. It's not a immense dealbreaker, but it's inactive a dealbreaker for immoderate users.

The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro feels feather-light connected your wrist. I can't springiness you a feminine position connected wearability, but connected my slender-to-regular-sized wrist, the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro disappears and is forgotten. I regular thrust a somewhat bigger Huawei Watch 4 Pro and find the smaller size connected the Xiaomi refreshing. It would beryllium an adjacent bigger disparity for users who are utilized to wearing a full-sized ticker connected their wrists.

This year's Smart Band 10 Pro has a high-voltage linear vibration centrifugal for improved haptics. It's beardown and won't spell amiss during your day.

The show is simply a rectangular OLED with a 1.74-inch diagonal, 480x336px resolution, a 60Hz refresh rate, and a 2,000 nit highest brightness successful car (1,500 successful precocious brightness mode). It's an fantabulous surface with large viewing angles and is easy legible successful agleam sunny conditions.

The solid connected apical is curved connected each sides. Xiaomi calls it a 2.5D curve. It makes swiping astir a beauteous experience, and conscionable adds a perceived consciousness of premiumness to the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro.

There is, of course, an always-on show mode disposable connected the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro. It's nicely done and mirrors the plan of whichever ticker look you've chosen. Mind you, it halves your artillery runtime.

Like its predecessor and astir different astute bands connected the market, the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro comes with proprietary straps. They connect easy with a propulsion fastener mechanism, and you lone request to propulsion a tiny lever connected the underside of the ticker to region the strap. There are some authoritative and third-party straps disposable aplenty online.

Interface

The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro runs HyperOS 3 and uses the Mi Fitness app connected Android oregon iOS to sync to your phone. Navigating the UI is casual capable - a swipe from the bottommost reveals the apps grid. You swipe down from the apical for notifications. A swipe from the near borderline shows your speedy toggles (the alarm and flash toggles are conveniently there), and a swipe from the close borderline shows your customizable database of cards oregon widgets (weather, fitness, bosom rate).

Lacking a fastener means there's nary mode to unfastened your astir caller apps (essentially your multi-tasking menu). And, erstwhile you've dug into a multi-layered menu, you request to swipe from the near borderline aggregate times to get to the ticker face.

There are conscionable astir each the apps you request - a flashlight (very useful successful implicit darkness), a upwind app, a calendar, a compass, and adjacent a camera app that acts arsenic a distant shutter for your telephone (you request to unfastened the camera app first).

The Smart Band 10 Pro supports dual-device connection sync, truthful it volition show notifications from an Android telephone and an iPhone, if you're into utilizing 2 phones.

If you've bought the NFC mentation of the wearable, you tin acceptable up Xiaomi Pay from your Mi Fitness app to wage with the wearable. It works lone with Mastercard and Visa and whitethorn necessitate you to get further information support from your bank.

Health and fittingness tracking

Both the fittingness and wellness tracking features of the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro person been updated. Similar to the Xiaomi Watch S5, there's an all-new PPG module with dual airy sources (green and red), and dual PD sensors (although the Smart Band 9 Pro besides has dual LED and dual PD). The wellness and fittingness tracking algorithms person been improved arsenic well.

The caller wearable supports HRV (heart complaint variability) monitoring during sleep, which, on with the upgraded slumber algorithm 2.0, leads to amended slumber tracking (11% slumber and aftermath accuracy, 14% slumber signifier accuracy).

All of these improvements are a bully happening due to the fact that Xiaomi's wearables were a spot enthusiastic successful their measurements for years. I ever deterioration a ticker portion I sleep, and with astir modern smartwatches, I'm getting astir 10% heavy slumber per nighttime (with the unusual 15-20% connected play nights). Those numbers are successful enactment with the readings of the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro. I was consistently getting 2 hours oregon much of heavy slumber per nighttime successful my reappraisal of the Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro (yeah, I wish).

The ticker was adjacent accordant with my Huawei successful estimating erstwhile I was awake, nice!

The Smart Band 10 Pro assigns you a slumber carnal arsenic good arsenic a slumber people and gives you suggestions connected however to amended your sleep. You get an ratio people based connected your full clip successful furniture and the magnitude of clip you've really slept. The ticker besides tells you your mean bosom rate, humor oxygen, breathing rate, and HRV per night.

Sleep tracking

Sports tracking is besides broad and fantabulous connected the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro. Heart complaint measurements were dependable some during a lifting session, an outdoor run, and an aggravated outdoor shot match.

The ticker locks onto GPS instantly, and it's intolerable to accidentally propulsion a fastener your mode retired of an progressive grooming session, dissimilar immoderate different wearables. You request to swipe to get to the controls and past clasp the intermission fastener for a fewer seconds to extremity a workout. Unlike Huawei's wearables, though, the ticker doesn't show your dropping bosom complaint aft a session.

I recovered the GPS tracking accuracy to beryllium spot on, matching my accustomed way to a T. The VO2 max speechmaking is besides successful enactment with my different wearables - nice!

Battery life, charging

The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro packs the aforesaid 350mAh artillery arsenic its predecessor. Impressively, I got noticeably amended endurance from the caller wearable. The ticker was astir 24-7 connected my wrist, with slumber tracking and notifications enabled, rise to wake, and 3 to 4 workouts per week, always-on show off. I got 21 days of changeless use, which is precisely what Xiaomi claims (impressive). This is bonkers endurance that easy nudges the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro into worry-free territory.

The set recharges from 0% to 100% successful astir 90 minutes.

Verdict

It's casual to urge the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro. For astir €80, you get conscionable astir everything you'd request from a astute wearable, and perfectly thing you don't. And champion of all, it tin spell for weeks without the request to charge.

Despite the simplicity, the Smart Band 10 Pro isn't lacking successful astute features. It tin header good with your wellness and fittingness demands.

In presumption of rivals, you've got a fewer - Huawei's Band 10 and 11 (the Pro adds GPS), the Honor Band series, the Amazfit Active 2, though it's a spot much expensive, arsenic is the Fitbit Charge 6. The Samsung Galaxy Fit3 is harder to urge arsenic it costs more, it's getting connected successful years, and it lacks GPS for moving tracking.

There are precise fewer cons to deliberation about, the deficiency of a button, speaker, and microphones, seemingly the biggest. The buttonless plan won't beryllium an contented for astir users who conscionable privation to assistance their wrist and spot the time. And who adjacent uses their astute set oregon smartwatch for calls anyway?

Get the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro connected Amazon Germany - €75 for the regular (non-NFC) model, and €100 for the NFC/Ceramic version.

Pros

• Well made, particularly the ceramic version
• Pay €20 much for the NFC variant and you could pat to pay.
• Display is agleam and legible
• Forget-about-it artillery beingness - much than 20 days with tracking and notifications.
• Extensive wellness and fittingness tracking capabilities.
• Seemingly much close wellness tracking than predecessor.
• The ticker works with each phones, with dual notifications betwixt Android and iPhone.

Cons

• No button, constricted usability.
• Still nary talker and microphone connected board.
• Non-standard ticker bands.
• USB-A charging cablegram with two-pin plan is annoying successful 2026.