Xiaomi Smart Band 8 Graphite Black, metallic midframe, fresh and fun watch faces, up to 16 days with typical mode, comprehensive health management (UK version+2 years warranty)

I get these Xiaomi smartwatches for my kids, they are solid (they resits a 5yo) and tend to be discreet. They pair with my phone via Bluetooth very easily and you can manage multiple aspect of the watch and its features through the app. They seem accurate for sleep and activity that's the main feature we use. Overall value for money!

It's amazing value. This thing has worked out a routine for me, and tells me off when I sit down for too long. Tells me when I need to wake up, congratulates me on completing my targets. Has an amazing app. I've spent over 10x more on a watch that didn't do as much. Love it.

Excellent value for the money, lots of useful functions, long battery life and quick charging, good app. Accuracy normally is good (+-2 bpm), but unfortunately as soon as there is any fast paced moving (like running) or tensed muscles (like weight lifting or dumbbell exercises etc) it can be widely inaccurate, showing +-25 bpm difference from real...

So, I have just come from using an Apple Watch Series 7 to using this and I’m honestly blown away by how much this watch does at around a tenth of what my Apple Watch cost! My main issues were the poor battery life of the Apple Watch and it just not tracking my sleep and not receiving notifications etc. I have tattoos so this is going to be a problem no matter what smart watch I use, but so far, the Xiaomi has been tracking my sleep no problem and accurately, notifications coming through every time and the battery life is fantastic! I’m still on 81% after 3 days. My Apple Watch died in around 2 days with many of the features disabled. This does everything I need, works well, has a nice vivid display with many choices of watch faces and never needing to worry about the battery dying. It does lack things like NFC but for the cost, you are getting a lot for your money. Very easy to set up via the app as well. I will say I’m not using this for fitness, the only thing I pay attention to is my steps, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy of fitness features but it seems to be pretty accurate with my steps and my heart rate. The calories seem to be way off, though, so if you’re looking for a dedicated fitness tracker you’d probably be better off looking for a Fitbit or something similar.

Bought this band and it stopped working after a year - tried to return it under the supposed 2 year warranty. I contacted xiamio and they have told me the serial number I have for this product shouldn’t be for sale in the uk - Do not buy this product - the product is NOT a uk product it has been bought in Asia and flogged on Amazon - the 2 year warranty is useless, xiamio will not accept it and they have advised me not to buy any xiamio products from amazon as the products are unofficially imported into the U.K. - how you are supposed to know this is another question - the band itself is of poor quality and the after sales service from the seller non existent

I'm a fan of Mi band, had nearly all of the previous ones. This one has a very nice design and build quality, haven't had any issues with it. If I had a suggestion for improvement it would be around the shortcut for torch. On my band 6 I could add a shortcut for torch in the slide left/right menu. I can add this to band 8 too, only that is not full screen and basically you need to add another shortcut that you not necessarily need just to have your torch handy.

First, amazing product. The screen is a beautiful and very bright! (I know, I know - it's a health band, but esthetics matter). The functionalities are great, seemingly very accurate. Setup was super easy. Very customizable towards what you like and how you want information to be displayed. The 137 different workouts are... odd. For example, dancing has 12 different types of dancing. Ballroom dancing, free style dancing. I get that there's a difference, but ... really? There's a board game playing workout setting. Again... really? The BIG advantage of this band is the battery life. It's advertised as a 2 week battery life. After turning everything on that matters to me, near constant updates on all health vitals the battery life drops to 1 week. STILL - that's AMAZING! With EVERYTHING conceivable turned on. Would I buy again? Hell yeah... as a matter of fact, I got another one for my partner. Here's my niggle... I wore the band for less than 12 hours, noticed that the band was too loose (too loose, not too tight!) and tried to change the hole. The closure popped right off. I was confused, looked at it and... it had broken. The ball closure has a 2 mm thickness. It just snapped off. Which makes sense, because it's plastic and 2 mm thick. I wasn't upset, because I had already ordered a different band because I like elastic bands because they change with your wrist throughout the day and throughout workouts. Just something to be aware off... the band, not their brightest moment.

I have an iPhone and I recently started working out, so I was meaning to get myself a wearable health tracker that's compatible with my phone. Obviously the first option is an apple watch, but I really didn't want to pay so much money for something I'll use for a very specific and limited use case. Then I thought I couldn't go wrong with a £37 purchase and decided to give this watch a go, and I'm so glad I did. The integration blew my mind. The app can communicate with apple health app and can log in step count, blood oxygen level, heart rate and so on. It can receive notification from messaging apps like apple watch, it even has "find my phone" that vibrates the phone. I bought it under the assumption that it'd operate in its own data bubble, this level of cross-platform compatibility is far beyond my expectation. I'm not a big fan of smartwatches in the first place so I couldn't care less about staying in the apple ecosystem. All I wanted was not having a heart attack while rowing (which is an exercise that it tracks) and still I pretty much got the entire package. Admittedly I never owned an apple watch but I'd be shocked if there's in fact a £750 difference in user experience between two devices in the context that I use. One thing that lost me like 5 minutes until I found the relevant reddit page is that the app design is a bit clunky. The initial user agreement page seems to be stuck. in reality there are two invisible toggle buttons on the left side of the agreement rows. In case anyone else can't figure out what's going on.