Amazfit’s partnership with HYROX, the latest trendy crossfit competitor, is also front and middle, from ads in the app to a top suggested training on the tracker. I paid extra money for a subscription to Wild.ai ($ 6 per month), the program that lets women optimize their training according to their monthly menstrual cycles. Cyclus tracking on the clock is free, although Amazfit does not work with natural cycles, one of the most popular period -tracking apps. Zepp Coach, which offers you a daily suggested training, is also free now. (Its previous iteration was Zepp Fitness and it cost $ 30 a year.)
Another big difference is that with the last Amazfit watch I tested, the company seemed to have deliberately hidden its privacy policy. Now it is in front and middle of the product page along with notes that it has data protection via Amazon Web Services and is GDPR compatible.
The life of the battery is touted as up to 10 days, but with all the 24/7 health monitoring turns on – Sleep Breathing Monitor, Low Blood Oxygen Alerts – I became more like five. Like a Garmin, it wakes you with a cheerful morning report, though zepps is ridiculously inaccurate. The weather stairs in Zepp are sometimes as much as 20 degrees from the actual temperature outside. It also shows you Zepps Pai Fitness -metrical, which makes up your heartbeat, age and gender and bears little to no relevance to the real world. It slides further and further into the app as its irrelevance becomes more pronounced.
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Finally, the automatic strength training exercises do not work as well as advertised. I have been strength training very recently and it is incredibly annoying to have to click on your watch when you switch from one series of reps to another. The active 2 can allegedly automatically recognize 25 strength education exercises, but of these it could not recognize me to do pull-ups, body weight squats and push-ups, among others.
With all that said, it defies the belief that Amazfit has somehow managed to push all this functionality into a tracker that costs only $ 100. For years, some version of the Fitbit tax has topped my list of the Best Fitness -Trackers because it’s affordable. But the active 2’s features blow the charge 6s out of the water, and It looks nicer. It hardly means that it does not work so well and is not so reliable. Almost.
We will have to see if Amazfit is able to gather trivial problems such as transforming your neighborhood into the Dead Sea. When all the features of Active 2 finally, oh, work, it will be over For the rest of cheap.