Xiaomi has turned the humble washer into a countertop-sized oddity: the new Mijia Washing Machine Mini Dual-Zone Wash & Dry 1kg is now on sale in China for $220, and it tries to do something bigger machines often fumble – handle tiny loads without wasting space. It is built around two independent wash-and-dry zones, so one side can wash while the other handles a different job, which is the sort of practical gimmick that sounds niche until you live in an apartment and suddenly care a lot.
The compact machine is aimed at everyday laundry rather than family-sized chaos. Xiaomi says it supports separate washing, separate drying, or a combined cycle, with a 1.0 kg washing load and 0.4 kg for drying. That puts it squarely in the category of machines for shirts, underwear, and other small items that are annoying to hand-wash but ridiculous to run through a full-size appliance.
Mijia Mini Dual-Zone Wash & Dry 1kg features
Xiaomi is leaning hard on convenience features here. The machine includes intelligent soft drying that monitors temperature to avoid overdrying, a 45-minute quick wash-and-dry cycle for light items, separate water inlet and drainage channels for the two drums, and support for 17 scenarios in the Mijia app. There are also six programs on the control panel, plus app controls for settings such as water level and temperature.
- Model: Mijia Washing Machine Mini Dual-Zone Wash & Dry 1kg
- Catalog number: XHQB10MJ103
- Wash load: 1.0 kg
- Dry load: 0.4 kg
- Quick cycle: 45 minutes
- Boil wash: 95°C
- Dimensions: 530 × 371 × 410 mm
Why Xiaomi is pushing a mini washer now
This is classic Xiaomi behavior: shrink a familiar appliance, add app control, and sell the idea that ”mini” can still mean useful. The pitch makes sense in China’s dense urban housing, where space is tight and a dedicated machine for small loads can be easier to justify than a full-size washer-dryer. It also puts pressure on other home-appliance brands that have been slow to make compact laundry gear feel genuinely premium instead of merely tiny.
The 95°C boil-wash mode is the loudest spec on the sheet, but the smarter feature is probably the split-zone design. That gives the machine a reason to exist beyond novelty, especially for people who want to wash one type of clothing while drying another without juggling cycles on a larger unit.
China launch price and availability
The Xiaomi Mijia Mini Dual-Zone Wash & Dry 1kg is available in China now for $220. For a product this small, the pitch is straightforward: give apartment dwellers a compact washer-dryer that handles small loads without taking over the room, while keeping the price low enough to feel more like a practical upgrade than a major appliance purchase.