Xiaomi Smart Band 8 review

15 October 2023
The latest iteration in Xiaomi's Smart Band lineup brings a more premium design, updated display and great battery endurance.

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  • Stephen
  • vGi
  • 15 Oct 2023

Is it supposed to be 7-6 hours or 7-6 days for the battery life when you mentioned using it with all health tracking and stuff. Cause if it's the former then that's quite bad but if it's the latter then it's good. I'm curious because I'm hoping to upgrade to band 8 since I currently have a band 6 which is not working well anymore, the battery is dying out every second day.

    Indonesian price is 500K IDR ($32) which is amazing..

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      • Anonymous
      • PIa
      • 15 Oct 2023

      I bought mine 3 weeks ago and charged it yesterday for the 1st time. I'm more than satisfied!

        I like it.

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          • Anonymous
          • tZk
          • 15 Oct 2023

          Anonymous, 14 Oct 2023Didn’t even know the differences were that big. I thought i... moreThe Mi Band 8 is giving the Huawei Band 8 a run for its money. I prefer Huawei Band over previous Mi Band mainly bcos of its strap mechanism. With the Mi Band 8's new strap, I am really tempted to replace my Huawei Band 7 with one. Having a metal frame while still feeling like wearing almost nothing is another plus point.

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            • kx2
            • 15 Oct 2023

            Staring eyes, 15 Oct 2023Battery last for hours? is that a sarcasm or mistake?It can last you for up to two weeks so yh probably sarcasm. Surprisingly surpasses other expensive smartwatches.

              Battery last for hours? is that a sarcasm or mistake?

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                • Anonymous
                • IV5
                • 14 Oct 2023

                Any other recommendation/option for this within the same price range?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 0cB
                  • 14 Oct 2023

                  Somebody tell me if this is global version. If so will gift my Mi Band 6 to my sister and will buy this one. Thanks.

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                    • kx2
                    • 14 Oct 2023

                    Adding this to my wishlist.

                      I'm annoyed that GSMArena still hasn't improved reviewing of AOD. I saying "it has AOD" enough? The lack of proper reviews in this regard doing good analysis of AOD is why I was so disappointed with Xiaomi Smart Band 7 Pro. It's a great smartwatch actually, but the fact that 3/4 of watch faces use some generic totally different AOD was so incredibly annoying. And no one mentioned that anyway. That was on top of the fact that out of 6 or 7 installed watch faces, only 2 can be user selected. So you have bunch of watch faces on a watch that you'll never use, taking up space that could be used for user selected watch faces. It was so bad I ended up buying Galaxy Watch 4 at work where I could test it before I bought it in the end. Every watch face is identical in normal and AOD mode, just like on Apple Watch. Unlike 3/4 of other "smart" watches. It's why AOD and watch faces being reviewed properly MATTERS a lot.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3SI
                        • 14 Oct 2023

                        Didn’t even know the differences were that big. I thought it only had different band styles. But it also having a metal frame, as well as a display with double the refresh rate and higher brightness, are pretty big upgrades, especially at that price.

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