Xiaomi's Apple Watch clone costs $61, has 9-day battery life

Xiaomi's new smartwatch won't win any originality contests — it's a dead-ringer for Apple Watch. But it beats the Apple Watch in two key regards, and by a massive margin.

The Xiaomi Mi Watch Lite, as it's called, is a rectangular smartwatch with a 1.4-inch LCD display, with 320x320 pixel resolution. It supports phone notifications, music controls, fitness tracking with 11 sports modes, heart-rate monitoring, and sleep monitoring.

Advertised battery life is pretty good: 9 days.

The watch is water resistant with a 5 ATM rating, and has a built-in GPS/GLONASS positioning chip, as well as a barometer and an accelerometer. Read more...

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