Amazfit GTS 2 Mini Smart Watch for Men Android iPhone, Alexa Built-in, 14-Day Battery Life, Fitness Tracker with GPS & 70+ Sports Modes, Blood Oxygen Heart Rate Monitor, 5 ATM Water Resistant-Black

The watch is very nice, I really like its style. I bought him a metal strap. To make it look much more elegant and it is. I bought it to use it instead of my Xiaomi smartband with more elegant clothes. And the truth is I quite like it. The only problem I have with the watch is that like me it used the music app a lot. when I want to change the music on my cell phone or increase the volume. The application takes a while to load and when I enter, it tries to use a track that the watch itself has internally because you can save music to the watch and listen to it through its small speaker. But it’s not what I normally use, I use my cell phone and it’s annoying to have to change that all the time. In addition, it is quite slow to enter that music option and make music changes, it is quite slow and it is not pleasant to use for that purpose. My Xiaomi Mi Band 4 does it much better. But for the rest I think it is worth it. Plus the battery lasts a long time. not like apple watches. or samsung watch.

After going through three Fitbits that have died on me after a year, I decided to try another brand of smart watch. While I would love an Apple Watch, the need to charge every day is not ideal. I don’t want to have to add charging my watch each day to the many other things I have to remember to do. So, I decided to try this Amazfit GTS 2 Mini. It is among the thinnest and lightest of smart watches, and I didn’t want anything bulky on my arm.I’m really happy with it so far! It has taken about four days to really play with it and understand all that it can do. For instance, today, i just discovered that I can create customized watch faces. I thought I was stuck with the pre-made ones in their watch store. This really makes me feel like I can make the watch very personalized to me.I really like the long battery life. I also like how immediately and quickly it syncs. It used to take my old fitbits FOREVER to sync. I love that I can customize the shortcuts to only see the features I want in the order I want. I love that I could customize the app to hide the features I won’t use and put the features I will use in the order in which I want to see them. I really like the countdown app, the cycle tracker, the meditation breathing, the sleep tracking, the heart rate monitor, step tracker, the weather (although it could be more self-explanatory), the ability to control sound and move forward/backwards when playing music, podcasts, or other audio from my iphone.My favorite feature is that I can have a plain digital clock display with the date, day, and steps when the screen is off. That was the feature that sold me on the watch!The screen is also beautiful. The band is quite plain-looking relative to the beauty of the watch, but I’m just ordering a nicer band to put on it.I got all of these many new features in a device that still cost much less than what I was paying for those Fitbits!!I’m giving it four stars only because I had a few glitches that I hope won’t become long-term issues. One issue was that some of the notifications weren’t coming through. However, after restarting and changing a setting on my phone, it has been back to working fine. The other issue was that after a day or two the digital clock was not displaying when the screen was off. I’m not sure if that was a watch system issue or if I have a setting somewhere that was not configured properly.It does have Alexa (to provide text-based responses), but I disabled it. It only seemed to work when you have the Zepp app open on the phone. Doing that would get so cumbersome that it would defeat the purpose of having it readily available on the watch.Overall, I am very happy with this watch!UPDATE: I’m actually bumping to five stars. I am so much happier with this watch than my old Fitbits. The screen is gorgeous. I realized that I wasn’t getting the digital screen-off clock because the watch turns it off when it thinks I’m sleeping. After I wake and get moving, it starts displaying again. Neat! The displays of notifications are still unclear to me, and it can’t get the weather for the exact place where I live (only for the next county over). Still, I’m really happy with this watch given its price and the other options out there on the market. I notice that I’m using the meditation/breathing bubble app quite often!SECOND UPDATE: They need a better instruction manual for this watch. Just when I think I had discovered all that it can do, I come across other features that I didn’t know about. I didn’t realize that all of the watch faces can come with their own screen off watch faces. Also, the watch faces you customize have their own bare bones screen off watch face (so that you can get the color of text you want for the screen off face). Being able to customize the screen off watch face has been awesome! I also had not understood the “lit when wrist lift” setting. I now have that off, which is what I prefer. Realizing these functions saves battery life and helps me customize the watch even more to my style and liking. As for battery life, in the first week, I got a little over four days of battery life on a full charge. However, I was playing with it a lot and I had not realized how to use the “lit when lift wrist” function. Now that I turned off the “lit when lift wrist function,” I’m getting longer battery life. Even happier with my watch!

After my third fitbit died, I wanted find a more affordable option. One smartwatch I found was OK, but it’s companion app drained my phone’s battery mercilessly, no matter what I tried to reduce the apps functionality.So I decided to give the Amazefit GTS2 a try, but I learned that only the GTS2 Mini was available on short notice.So far I have used the watch now for three days and I am pleasantly surprised. The features of the watch are slightly more advanced than the Fitbit Versa 3, but the cost of the watch is 70% less. The associated Android app is fully featured and is behaving well on my phone. The watch has a build-in GPS, so I can leave my phone at home on my walks, yet still register my route. The analysis of my exercises is great. I see many details I never have seen before with my Fitbits. The GTS2 Mini also has room to load my music, though I still have to figure out how to do that. (it is not a priority to me.)The setup was a breeze. Just be sure to load the app first before linking the watch to the phone. Let the app reach out to the phone. The screen is very bright and easily readable in full sunshine. The colors are very intense. The watches battery life seems good. Over 3 days I just used 30% of it’s battery capacity based on the watch’s reporting. Aside from the build-in GPS I was surprised to find that it also has a barometer and fairly accurately reports my altitude as well as altitude gains/decreases during my walks.According to the documentation the watch is waterproof up to 5 meters, so a thoughtless jump into the pool does not kill the watch.In short, I am so far very happy with this watch and it phone app.

So far I am very happy with this watch, the value and price makes it perfect. I’m not an athlete…. just trying to keep an eye on my health and activities lately. This checked off all the boxes that I was looking for mainly so I can answer calls  while I’m  jogging or bike riding  without having to pull my phone out of my pocket. Of course There are tons of SmartWatches out there almost all identical since I’m on a modest budget  and this really fits the bill. It’s lightweight I like the size, and there’s a ton of aftermarket watch bands bumpers and covers that will fit on it. I’ve used it for over a month now and don’t really use all of the functions that it has but they’re there if I need them. the voice activation works well, and so does the GPS. Sometimes it drops off however when it reconnects and I checked the app it seems like all the tracking syncs and seems to be pretty accurate.I read some of the reviews that people left in my opinion there people that are buying this watch expecting it to be perfect but let’s be honest nothing’s perfect so if it gets you close to where you want to be than this is the one, Without having to spend hundreds of dollars. CONS:The only con that I can come up with after using this for over a month is that the battery life is really nowhere close to what they have it listed as. There’s no way that this thing will last for 7 days on one charge. The only way it’ll last 7 Days on one charge is if it just sits on a counter and isn’t attached to your body. that being said I’ve run it with a lot of the apps functions open  change the watch face to a digital look with lots of colors and lots of information ,used it while I was sleeping and all sorts of other stuff when you do that the battery has about a day and a half. When I changed the watch face back to the original display cut out the constant O2 monitoring and the Sleep portion of it I was able to get about 2 days per charge. In reality it’s no big deal at the end of the night you throw it on the charger a couple hours later it’s done.I definitely would recommend this watch for the price you really can’t beat it because of the ability to answer phone calls. Update 12/6/21Have had this watch 10 months now and have to say I’m still very happy with it. There has been a update and now the battery seems to be lasting alot longer I’m now getting close to 4 days on a single charge and that’s with most of the features turned on. The reason for the update is about the durability. I was working on my truck and took my watch off while I was underneath it and placed it on the concrete driveway.when I was done I forgot to pick it up and and backed up over it. Only got a slight scratch on the back side and that was it. Got lucky but it still works great!!!

Love it!