Amazefit Bip - pro: transflective display with backlight, supreme battery life (weeks), virtually indistructible (although I had massive doubts at the start), all the features I need. con: replaced the wristband almost immediately - really cheap.
Bip here. Bought 2018. Have been charging it literally only once a month.
It relieved me from the battery anxiety of my previous sony smartwatch that ran the full googles smartwatch OS. That thing lasted usually a day. Less if i did anything meaningful on it. It made me seriously think if it needed a watch that would do everything, but ended up doing nothing anyway because of the battery life.
Later comments mention the Fossil Hybrid. I just checked that watch, and have to admit it is really nice. There is a strong want urge, for me.
Then I remembered another pro for the Bip: It is comparatively cheap, at <50€ (I seem to remember 36€ at when I bought it, years ago?).
So for me, with everyday items like mobiles or watches, I use them heavily till they break. I really would hate to get a scratch on that really nice Fossil, but with the Amazefit, it would not hurt that much.
So the tldr pro is: Very good feature to price ratio.
Amazefit Bip - pro: transflective display with backlight, supreme battery life (weeks), virtually indistructible (although I had massive doubts at the start), all the features I need. con: replaced the wristband almost immediately - really cheap.
Bip here. Bought 2018. Have been charging it literally only once a month.
It relieved me from the battery anxiety of my previous sony smartwatch that ran the full googles smartwatch OS. That thing lasted usually a day. Less if i did anything meaningful on it. It made me seriously think if it needed a watch that would do everything, but ended up doing nothing anyway because of the battery life.
Exactly this. It’s nice to go on vacation and not even worry about packing a charger.
Bip S user here. Formerly a pebble holdout. Nice watch at a nice price and no thanks to the Zepp app
Is the Amazefit made by Xiaomi? Just curious, no l not sure how they seem to share hardware.
Amazefit is a Trademark of Huami Technologies, which is a Xiaomi daughter company, according to Wikipedia.
Thanks! I guess I’ll look them up for alternatives. The local Xiaomi store only carries the Mi band 7 pro etc, no longer compatible with gadgetbridge…
Later comments mention the Fossil Hybrid. I just checked that watch, and have to admit it is really nice. There is a strong want urge, for me.
Then I remembered another pro for the Bip: It is comparatively cheap, at <50€ (I seem to remember 36€ at when I bought it, years ago?).
So for me, with everyday items like mobiles or watches, I use them heavily till they break. I really would hate to get a scratch on that really nice Fossil, but with the Amazefit, it would not hurt that much.
So the tldr pro is: Very good feature to price ratio.