AmazfitBip 6 Smart Watch 46mm, 14 Day Battery, 1.97" AMOLED Display, GPS & Free Maps, AI, Bluetooth Call & Text, Health, Fitness & Sleep Tracker, 140+ Workout Modes, 5 ATM Water-Resistance, Stone

Edit (06/10/25): Now about 8 days into the Bip 6. After a week of use, the watch was sitting at 50% charge. I charged it up to 96%+ in about an hour. I'm using a USBC charger which I think provides about 2A. Can't say for sure as it's a charger built into a lamp in my bedroom that has both USBC and USBA; the "C" charger shows my Pixel phone charges "rapidly" whereas the "A" plug charges normally (slower but fast enough for the phone to hit 100% sometime during the night). I did try the "A" port (with an A-to-C cable) but it is slower. Still totally happy with the Bip 6. More feedback in a few months.Early days but I thought it might be helpful for those trying to decide between a Fitbit and this Amazfit Bip 6 (a truly unfortunate name). I had been using a Fitbit Charge 5 for a couple of years. The first week I wore it, the Charge 5 detected Afib and that probably saved my life. So I wanted to really like the Charge 5 and continue using it. However, I discovered it was terribly inconsistent in providing a sleep score and HRV; perhaps 40% of the time it just failed. A month or so ago (after 2+ years of use), it would just go "black screen" if I did anything with the Charge 5 other than simply looking at the screen. The battery also didn't last very long and the charger "connection" (magnetic) was hit-or-miss so it was time for a new watch.After deciding against another Fitbit (reviews have gotten worse over the years and Google has already said Fitbit will soon no longer be supported properly), the choice was either an expensive Garmin (and they're all expensive), a Samsung Galaxy watch (also $$$), or one of these "cheap" Chinese brands. (Can't use an Apple watch as my phone is of the Android variety). This Amazfit seemed to have the best reviews of the cheap smartwatches so I bought it with the 3-yr warranty for under $100 total. Amazon delivered it the next morning. Followed the prompts and set it up in a few minutes so it syncs with my Pixel 6a with the Amazfit Zepp app.I charged it using the provided charger "puck" (you must provide your own USB-C cable, remember this!) and, once it reached 100% (a couple of hours maybe), I strapped it on and configured the watch both with the watch's preferences and the Zepp app. I have most of the integration with the phone switched off; why did I need to answer my phone with the watch when I have my phone on my hip all day? I just wanted the watch to keep track of my steps, heart health, and sleep (the latter the most important point).So here we are after three nights and the watch seems to be 100% accurate in sleep tracking and heart health reporting (and it keeps perfect time, of course). As I indicated above, these are still early days but I'm thrilled with this Bip 6. I even am dabbling in the watchface creation app on the web and even that works! Why would I want to use that? I hate tiny type on a large screen so why not make a watchface that really shows off how large all the information can be presented? Great stuff.I am not going to test how waterproof the watch might be; I remove it before showering or swimming and am careful otherwise. BTW: There's a function on the watch where you can "eject" any water that might have found its way into the speaker. (Yes; the watch can play music and you can speak through it to your phone but I'm not going down that patch.)The only downside I can see (and it's not for me) is the length of the band; I have a small wrist but the fourth hole in the strap makes the watch fit properly; I would have expected a longer strap for larger wrists. However, using that fourth hole leaves about 1.75" beyond the buckle (.75" of which tucks back inside the band and that's fine). I would recommend to Amazfit that they provide a longer strap for larger wrists (much like how Fitbit does it).Oh, yeah; one more thing. One of the included apps on the phone is a compass! I set it up so one of the buttons on the side of the watch launches it. You know when your GPS starts off by saying "head east"? Who knows where that is without a compass? Now I know.I'll report back in a few months with more info.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:I bought this to replace my Fitbit Versa 2, which I had for almost three years before the heart rate monitor just stopped working and the battery needed charging every other day. I found out this was common, fitness watches apparently only last a couple years -- if you're lucky -- and none (excepting Apple watch) are designed to be fixed or have their batteries upgraded -- they're built to be disposable. I cringed to see how expensive the latest Fitbit and Garmin watches are now -- there's no way I'm spending $200 or $300 on something I have to throw away after a couple years. Thankfully there are a lot of inexpensive ones on the market now, you just have to make sure it has the features you want. You also have to worry that you don't get some cheap thing thrown together that has a confusing UI on the watch face or on its phone app. Something I really like about the Versa 2 are how polished the UI on the watch and the phone app are. It's not perfect, but Fitbit has been around a long time and they have done one of the better examples of it. I think Garmin's UI and app are really messy and confusing, for example. I'm happy to say that this Amazfit is feature loaded, I didn't have to give up anything at all -- got way more, actually, it has its own GPS receiver?! -- and I like the dimensions better by far than the Versa 2, it's thinner with a bigger screen and all with excellent quality, very solid construction.The battery time is far better than the Fitbit was when it was new. The phone app isn't as refined and clear as Fitbit, that's one ding I'd give it. There's so much that this thing can do and the app designers haven't done a super job of making it easy to configure, their phone software is all over the map. But after only an afternoon of playing with my delightful new toy I was set, it's all laid out even more to my liking than was so for the Fitbit.And all for $75? How can it be this good for $75. How can it be? I'll end with one disappointment that is a pretty big one. I liked using the Fitbit for calorie counting, I really like the food counting tool in the Versa's phone app. If you get an Amazfit, be prepared to use a different app (like MyFitnessPal or Fitbit, which I'm using instead). Amazfit took a shortcut and instead of being able to scan the barcode of your food label or type it in, they have an AI engine ballpark it based on what food you name. Which is worthless, you need a food database to access and it does nothing like that. But that's it. Highly recommended otherwise. I am so happy with this watch. I hope they fix the food log, then they'll be a threat to Fitbit and Garmin that no one saw coming.