The Xiaomi Heylou Solar smartwatch.

The Haylou Solar smartwatch (it’s pronounced “hello”) has attained its crowdfunding goals and will start sending abroad on May 18 later this year. By the way, if you guessed that the name “Haylou” was not the decent, just wait until you find out that the watch named “Solar” has no solar cell.

No, you simply get a 340mAh battery. To be reasonable, that battery will last a fairly stunning 30 days, half that if you have the 24-hour heart rate tracking facilitated. Not bad at all. Naming aside from, this is actually a considerable smartwatch as you get plenty of hardware for not much money.

It’s similarly IP68-rated, so you can take it in the shower and even swimming in the pool with it. As spoken of, it has heart rate tracking and numerous exercise modes. The watch can also track the quality of your sleep and help you with some breathing activities.

The Solar CNY 150 is either a $21 or €20. That’s reasonable band money, but you get a massive 1.28” circulars LCD with 240 x 240 px resolution. The watch body assesses 45.3mm across and comes with 22mm silicone straps. The build itself is metal.

The Haylou Solar (LS5) links to your Android or iOS smartphone over Bluetooth 5.0 and does the normal smartwatch-y things such as notifications, music regulators, climate information and so on. Note that this runs proprietary software instead than Google Wear OS or comparable. You'll be utilizing the Haylou Fit application to synchronize the watch with your phone.

Haylou emerged one of the first companies to join the Xiaomi ecosystem, by the way, though it mostly concentrated1 on audio accessories until releasing its first smartwatch previous year. And if you're thinking that this pricing is too good to last, it conceivably is.