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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756132775657xiaomi smart band 10 edit.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 fitness tracker. Arthur Fuentes, ABS-CBN News </div>MANILA – The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 is the latest version of the brand’s fitness tracker. It is a good-looking device that’s packed with lots of features for fitness enthusiasts who want to track their workouts but are not ready to commit fully to a smartwatch.  Fitness trackers seem to have become popular lately, thanks to the boom in running in the Philippines. At the UP Oval, it’s quite common to see runners wearing them, along with smartwatches.  And like I said earlier, the Smart Band 10 is one of the better-looking fitness bands on the market. The review unit they sent me was the Midnight Black model, and I really liked it. The rounded-off sides flow into the watch strap, making for an almost-seamless look. This doesn’t look like a smartwatch that shrank after deciding to go on the Ozempic bandwagon, but a cool baller wristband that got beefy, grew a watchface, and got smart. <div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756090792140xiaomi smart band 10.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Xiaomi Smart Band 10 . Arthur Fuentes, ABS-CBN News</div>I often feel like wearing a fitness tracker in place of my sports watch was a downgrade, but this was not the case with the Smart Band 10. It’s pretty stylish, in my opinion.It fits snugly on the wrist, and the watch faces look well-designed. The 1.72-inch AMOLED screen is clear, with crisp colors. And thanks to its 1500 nits of peak brightness, the screen is viewable even in bright daylight, which is very important if you do most of your running or biking after 6:30 a.m.To use the Smart Band, you first need to pair it with your phone, using the Mi Fitness app. The app is available for iOS and Android, and it is a decent fitness app. It doesn’t have as many features as other fitness apps, but personally, that doesn’t really matter because any runner or biker knows that all that matters is that it connects to Strava. As the old saying goes, when it comes to workouts, if it’s not on Strava, it never really happened. And the Mi Fitness app connects well with Strava, so you don&#x27;t need to worry about losing your workouts.<div> </div><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1756090878900strava mi.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/>Xiaomi&#x27;s Mi Fitness app connects well with Strava. Arthur Fuentes, ABS-CBN News</div>The Smart Band 10 has over 150 workout modes, including 6 activities that can be detected automatically, like walking and running. It has an optical heart rate sensor, pulse oximeter, accelerometer, gyroscope, and ambient light sensor. For navigation, it also has an electronic compass, which is nice to have, but doesn’t really equal having GPS.  Like other fitness trackers, the Smart Band 10 doesn’t have a GPS sensor. It relies on the GPS of your phone. Connecting to your phone’s GPS doesn’t seem automatic either–you have to open the Mi Fit app first, sync the Band 10, and only then can you get your run or bike ride tracked via GPS. I wish that getting GPS was more seamless than this, but it’s not really a deal breaker.For swimmers, Xiaomi says the upgraded swim mode features real-time heart rate monitoring and 96 percent lap count accuracy, and 5ATM water resistance.The heart rate broadcast feature, though, still has some kinks. If you’re a serious cyclist who uses a separate cycling computer, you want the cycling computer to do the heavy lifting of tracking your course, speed, altitude, cadence and heart rate.I tried using the Smart Band 10 as a heart rate monitor by connecting it to my Garmin 830 cycling computer, and it wouldn’t. The Garmin 830 could recognize it, but the Xiaomi Band 10 just couldn’t broadcast heart rate data into the cycling computer. I had no such problems with other smartwatches and fitness trackers before. Hopefully, this little issue can be fixed with a firmware update.Another thing I liked about the Smart Band 10 was its sleep tracking feature. Sleep management is one area where fitness trackers make more sense than smartwatches. I never wear my smartwatch to sleep as it just feels too heavy and bulky on the wrist when you’re lying in bed trying to sleep. I have no such problem with fitness trackers, though, because they are small and light enough not to be noticed when sleeping. The Smart Band 10 was also light and unobtrusive when sleeping, and it seemed to be pretty accurate at sleep tracking, too.A nice bonus is the camera control feature. For runners and bikers who like to take photos of their workouts, you can use this gadget as a camera remote so you don&#x27;t have to limit yourself to selfies during your runs or rides. It doesn&#x27;t give you a preview of the shot, but it&#x27;s still a nice feature to have. While it’s not a full-fledged smartwatch, this device can also pick up notifications from your phone. You can set it up to alert you when someone calls or sends you a text message, or for notifications from other apps on your phone.  The battery life was impressive–they weren’t kidding when they said up to 21 days on a single charge. As I’m writing this, the Mi Fitness app says the last time I charged the Band 10 was 20 days ago. The Band 10, meanwhile, says it still has 12 percent battery left, which is enough for 2 days and 14 hours of use. I did not put the display on an ‘always on’ mode, but still, I used it on treadmill runs, outdoor walks, and even on a relatively long bike ride.The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 sells for P2,499 on Xiaomi’s official stores on Shopee and Lazada.

This is a good-looking device packed with lots of features for fitness enthusiasts who want to track their workouts but are not ready to commit to a smartwatch.

This is a good-looking device packed with lots of features for fitness enthusiasts who want to track their workouts but are not ready to commit to a smartwatch.

REVIEW: Xiaomi Smart Band 10 is a good-looking, feature-packed fitness tracker

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REVIEW: Xiaomi Smart Band 10 is a good-looking, feature-packed fitness tracker

Arthur Fuentes,

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Published August 25, 2025 11:15 AM PHT

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Updated August 26, 2025 11:47 AM PHT

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