Amazfit - Band 5

If you want to try something inexpensive but solid, get one of the Amazfit band products. Lots of bang for your buck and tracks different strokes well. Not sure how it would deal with changing strokes mid-lap but it does well with IMs.

What I found with mine is I had to reboot it every couple swims after a while then it worked great again. I have a 5 and a 7.

I have the band 9 and I have no issues with mine, the only dislike is that the mi fitness app keeps telling me to have the app running on the background and I've already gone to my phone settings and allowed majority of everything, that way I can keep getting notifications from my phone. But overall, I love my 9, I still have the mi band 4 and an amazfit band 5. I just purchased the amazfit bip 6, because I just found out that you can reply to your texts with that one, and I've been searching for something like that. It won't arrive until the 9th

I came to recommend an Amazfit 5 (I don't know what a Bip is). That is the watch I am currently wearing right now and have had for years. It is priced at half your budget and given that your previous watch was an Amazfit 5, you're already familiar with its interface. Are you sour on them because of a warranty process (by the way, *what* warranty? As a fellow owner, I would love to know. I thought this watch was so cheap it was unsupported after purchase.), or would you give them another chance? It's a solid watch, ocean-worthiness notwithstanding.