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This is not related to "non-brand" or discount brand phones with a generic Android slapped-on with some crap. Xiaomi is actually the Chinese high-end, and their OS called MIUI is actually a very well maintained project with a consistent UI (I'd say it borrows ideas from iOS and TouchWiz, in any case it is simple and familiar), continuous updates with the latest Android kernels and various useful extras. In fact, they build packages for hundreds of third party phones (including all the popular LG, Samsung, HTC, Moto etc) should you want to try it out: http://en.miui.com/download.ht... . Although for non Xiaomi phones not all features are available and also I have no idea if the experience will be as polished.
Xiaomi originally pissed off the GPL people for not releasing their source (I guess not many Chinese companies do), but I think they eventually did publish it - in any case you can look it up if that is something you care about.

Here is some info:
http://en.miui.com/thread-2985...

Single 18650 battery weights about 40-50 grams. Xiaomi states it uses 20 of them so the battery alone is about 1kg.

The bike weight is 14,5kg.

Yup, a less mangled source seems to confirm this.

And how much does Xiaomi pay you?

MIUI is free. Download and try it yourself, or read any of the reviews out there.

http://en.miui.com/download.ht...
http://www.androidpit.com/miui...