Amazfit - Bip S

I use an AmazFit Bip at times. Slow to acquire satellites, not nearly as nice as the T-Rex, but quite inexpensive. Basically just records the GPS route and keeps track of time; no mapping.

True. My Bip has taken some beatings, but not nearly as robust as the T Rex.

>a lot of smartwatches had to be recharged every few hours, not just every day My Amazfit Bip had about 3 weeks of battery life, Amazfit GTS3 had 2 weeks, and the current Amazfit Bip 5 have 7 to 10 days.

Amazfit BIP was very nice. Still miss that MIP screen. Had BIP U Pro, T-rex Pro, T-rex 2 and their screen wasn't nice as BIP's MIP. And yes, Garmin is years ahead of Amazfit in terms of software..

I bought an original Amazfit bip 4-5 years ago and still use it for the gym to track time between sets. That's about all it's good for.  A few months ago I went deep down the rabbit hole of affordable smart watches and weighed cost, features, battery life, ecosystem, HR monitoring accuracy,  developer support, etc. and I think the winner at the time was the Amazfit Active/Edge (now supersedes by the Active 2 for $100).  For less than $40 new you're not getting anything that's much worth using. Slow, laggy screens, HR monitoring will be way off, likely to have QC issues, GPS will lose tracking and be inaccurate, no chance of standalone music or Bluetooth connection to other devices, battery may degrade quickly, and they'll probably have proprietary OS with poor app options and support. I'm a big Amazfit fan, so I'd say maybe the Bip 5 on sale right now for $50 is worth it. Has Zepp 3.5 which has some nice features.  I'd say you're either seeing bot reviews or people with very low expectations. If all you want is to read notifications, see the weather on your wrist, skip music tracks, and read the time then sure, but beyond that you can't expect much. 

u/expensive_dev73 Usually the screen, and especially the always-on screen, is the main battery drainer. But how is it possible that, for example, the 8 year old Amazfit Bip with screen has a battery that lasts 45 days, and now a brand-new planned product, with an external shape that is probably the same size or even larger and does not have a screen, only lasts 7 days? Even the battery of some smart rings lasts a longer time. Logically, the battery of this new product should last not 7 but 70 days.

Amazfit bip s, transflective. Also known as the right display technology for a wrist watch.

Bip s. I literally bought a backup unit because it's so cheap and so good

> I have a discontinued xiaomi smartwatch from like 7 years ago and the battery lasts 30 days, and the display is always on. Mi Band or Amazfit Bip? I loved the Bip, as basic as it was, and it usually gave me three months of battery life easily.

I used 2R for a while with OnePlus Nord 4, and I can agree that notifications don't sync in time from phone to watch. But now when I'm testing (just for fun) original Amazfit Bip (A1608), all the notifications appears in watch exactly at the same time as in phone. So can't really say that the problem is OnePlus phone itself, has to be something to do with OnePlus Watch 2R also. Or did you mean that OnePlus phones has this notification delay problem only with WearOS watches? Btw, awesome review, very detailed and especially that info about Power Saver Mode was really cool to read. Kudos to you!

I use Amazfit Bip S. It has everything I need: - Has always-on screen, I don't have to press the button or raise my arm to see the time - It gives me the time - It vibrates on calls and certain notifications (configurable) - It has battery for 1 month - It's very cheap compared to high-end watches (about 50€ or so) It also measures your heart rate and has sports tracking with gps but I never use those things since they're quite useless anyway. Perfect watch for me. I've bought it 3 times already (not because it stops working but rather because I'm a clumsy idiot that can't stop scratching the screen with random stuff)

Kinda regretting getting the round early. I'm used to the square Bip and this feels sexy.