Xiaomi's Apple Watch clone is official with tweaked Wear OS and a killer price
As you can imagine, the key selling point of the Xiaomi Mi Watch is a $185 or so price tag in China that's enough to cover many of the same specs and features offered by a $500 Apple Watch Series 5 in the US. We're talking everything from built-in GPS support and continuous heart rate monitoring to standalone LTE connectivity, while the 1.78-inch AMOLED display is itself no pushover, with a resolution of 410 x 410 pixels and always-on functionality.
Under the hood, the Mi Watch shares a mediocre Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor with most Wear OS devices released of late, although it's not like Xiaomi had any decent alternatives. After all, the company may have "borrowed" the rectangular shape, digital crown, and button layout from the industry-dominating Apple Watch lineup, but Cupertino's excellent chips were obviously out of reach.
On the bright side, at least Xiaomi put the apparent heft of the Mi Watch to good use, squeezing a massive 570mAh battery into a robust aluminum chassis. In contrast, the large Galaxy Watch Active 2 version, for instance, merely packs a 340mAh cell. Of course, that's paired with a smaller 1.4-inch screen, but what Xiaomi is offering for less than $200 (in China) remains pretty impressive... as long as you're not too bothered by the glaring Apple Watch similarities.
