Writing this Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Active review, I wasn’t exactly expecting it to hit our list of the best fitness trackers on the market — it’s startlingly cheap, designed for people who just need the fundamentals of health tracking.

Staying active is incredibly important to me, and my aerospace physiologist husband has drilled into me the importance of tracking data from my activities and daily life. Because of that, it's rare to catch me without a good fitness watch on my wrist.

Give me the better display, longer battery life, and Apple Watch-like design on the Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro over the Active any day.

You can pick up the Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro for £62.99 / AU$99.99 (roughly $75). That’s a fairly significant price hike, in the UK at least, over the $60 / £24.99 / AU$79.99 ‘standard’ Band 9, though it matches its predecessor the Smart Band 8 Pro.

Xiaomi's most affordable smartband to date. Xiaomi’s Smart Band lineup (formerly Mi Band) is now in its ninth generation, and the Smart Band 9 Active