It’s less than a week before Xiaomi will officially release the Mi Smartwatch and we’ve got to see what it look like.
A live demo posted on Weibo Wednesday afternoon by Qu Heng, general manager of Xiaomi ecosystem, showed the user interface has a simple 3x3 app grid with square icons and a dark background.
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We also get to see the digital crown in action which can be used to navigate the interface and also acts as a power button.
The demo showed the watch can run apps including WeChat, Alipay, Douyin (TikTok in China), Sogou map, Himalayan, and the streaming app Bilibili.
However, due to the limited screen size and storage, the watch might not support the installation of regular Android apps. So these apps are basically the lightweight versions of the regular Android Apps.
Xiaomi announced on Monday a smartwatch will be released alongside with the Mi CC9 Pro which features a 108 MP camera will be launched on November 5.
(Photo: Xiaomi)
It will be available in White and Black. Pricing is still unknown but given that the release date is coming up soon we should be getting more clues in the days to come.
The watch will ship with the c Wear 3100 SoC and will feature GPS, NFC, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity alongside eSIM capabilities for added autonomy.
The Snapdragon Wear 3100 SoC was announced by Qualcomm in September last year.
As part of Qualcomm’s new Big-Small-Tiny hierarchical architecture for wearable platforms, the Wear 3100 platform consists of high-performance quad-core A7 application processors (Big), a highly-efficient integrated DSP (small), and a new ultra-low-power co-processor (QCC1110) (Tiny).
The new platform on its own increases battery life from 4 to 12 hours when compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon Wear 2100 platform, although the exact battery life improvement depends on the battery capacity, display size, and device configuration.
Specifically, power reductions versus the Snapdragon Wear 2100 platform were made in the following areas:
- Lowest power mode (67%)
- GPS/location batching (49%)
- keyword detection (43%)
- per minute/second clock updates (35%)
- MP3 playback (34%)
- voice queries over Bluetooth/Wi-Fi (13%)
