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Gadgetbridge users, can you tell about your smart watch and what are it's pros/cons.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Amazefit Bip - pro: transflective display with backlight, supreme battery life (weeks), virtually indistructible (although I had massive doubts at the start), all the features I need. con: replaced the wristband almost immediately - really cheap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bip here. Bought 2018. Have been charging it literally only once a month.

It relieved me from the battery anxiety of my previous sony smartwatch that ran the full googles smartwatch OS. That thing lasted usually a day. Less if i did anything meaningful on it. It made me seriously think if it needed a watch that would do everything, but ended up doing nothing anyway because of the battery life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. It's nice to go on vacation and not even worry about packing a charger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is the Amazefit made by Xiaomi? Just curious, no l not sure how they seem to share hardware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazefit is a Trademark of Huami Technologies, which is a Xiaomi daughter company, according to Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I guess I'll look them up for alternatives. The local Xiaomi store only carries the Mi band 7 pro etc, no longer compatible with gadgetbridge...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bip S user here. Formerly a pebble holdout. Nice watch at a nice price and no thanks to the Zepp app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Later comments mention the Fossil Hybrid. I just checked that watch, and have to admit it is really nice. There is a strong want urge, for me.

Then I remembered another pro for the Bip: It is comparatively cheap, at <50€ (I seem to remember 36€ at when I bought it, years ago?).

So for me, with everyday items like mobiles or watches, I use them heavily till they break. I really would hate to get a scratch on that really nice Fossil, but with the Amazefit, it would not hurt that much.

So the tldr pro is: Very good feature to price ratio.