{"id":161853,"date":"2026-05-28T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/xiaomi-unveils-smart-band-10-pro-buds-6-sound-play-speaker\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:11:52","slug":"xiaomi-unveils-smart-band-10-pro-buds-6-sound-play-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/xiaomi-unveils-smart-band-10-pro-buds-6-sound-play-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Xiaomi made a few announcements today, namely the new 17T series, and now we can add some smart wearables to the mix. Meet the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, Xiaomi Buds 6 and Xiaomi Sound Play.<\/p>\n<p>The Smart Band 10 Pro has been making waves in China for over a week now under the moniker Mi Band 10 Pro. Global wearers get the Smart Band, Chinese buyers get the Mi Band.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the name, the new wearable is very similar to its predecessor \u2013 it has the same size, 1.74-inch display. It&#8217;s 60Hz and 16.8 million colors, but it&#8217;s a little brighter, peaking at 2,000 nits (versus 1,200 on the old one).<\/p>\n<p>The battery is the same 350mAh and promises similar runtime \u2013 up to 21 days of light use, 15 days of normal use and 8 days of always on use.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_022.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new band is slightly lighter at 21.6 grams (the ceramic model is heavier at 28.7 grams), and it&#8217;s also thinner while still maintaining durability.<\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi says that the health sensors are brand new and feature a dual-light PD sensor. The band has upgraded sleep detection algorithms, something Xiaomi said when it launched its predecessor \u2013 innovations every year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Xiaomi Buds 6 are better than its predecessor in several key areas. For starters, the buds have a new 11mm triple-magnet driver that should produce better sound. It also has Qualcomm aptX lossless audio driver support with bitrates up to 2.1Mbps (up from 1.2Mbps on the Buds 5).<\/p>\n<p>Noise cancellation should also be better.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_004.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Buds 6 feature a new &#8220;biomimetic curved design&#8221;, making them thinner and lighter than previous models, while providing a better fit with increased contact area and an improved airflow design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_005.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Xiaomi also introduced something new \u2013 Sound Play, which supposedly lets a Neanderthal ask their Gemini or Alexa to play some music.<\/p>\n<p>The Sound Play has an output of 18W, weighs 415 grams, is IP68 rated, so you can take it to the beach, and can last up to 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_006.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Xiaomi Sound Play supports TWS pairing, which means you can set up two speakers to play simultaneously. Xiaomi says you can connect up to 100 devices to Auracast.<\/p>\n<p>Design-wise, the Sound Play is a beautiful speaker, with an ambient light ring at the bottom that matches the speaker&#8217;s color (either orange, blue, green or purple), and an infinity mirror filling the light that appears to be the speaker&#8217;s bass reflecting chamber.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"956\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/26\/05\/xiaomi-buds-6-smart-band-10-pro-sound-play\/-1200\/gsmarena_007.jpg\" alt=\"Xiaomi unveils Smart Band 10 Pro, Buds 6, Sound Play speaker\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro starts at \u20ac80 and goes up to \u20ac100 for the NFC and ceramic version. The Xiaomi Buds 6 are priced at \u20ac120. The Xiaomi Sound Play speaker is only \u20ac50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mi.com\/global\/product\/xiaomi-smart-band-10-pro\/\">Source 1<\/a> | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mi.com\/global\/product\/xiaomi-buds-6\/\">2<\/a> | <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mi.com\/global\/product\/xiaomi-sound-play\/specs\/\">3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaomi made a few announcements today, namely the new 17T series, and now we can add some smart wearables to the mix. Meet the Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, Xiaomi Buds 6 and Xiaomi Sound Play. The Smart Band 10 Pro has been making waves in China for over a week now under the moniker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[14000,9996,1188,1581,738,4410,3170,5147,11745],"class_list":["post-161853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-band","tag-buds","tag-play","tag-pro","tag-smart","tag-sound","tag-speaker","tag-unveils","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161865,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161853\/revisions\/161865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}