Re:Quest for My Perfect Watch
by Markoff on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:36AM
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From what I found judging by display these will last just few days unlike Amazfit Bip which can easily last one month with display perfectly readable in daylight without any backlight plus allowing custom firmware.
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Still for sale on their website $39.99.
Is that a different model? Is the website defunct?
Dunno what's their website, it is not sold in any online shop in my country, only power hungry successors are sold. Care to link site where they are still selling new Amazfit Bip or Amazfit Bip S?
https://us.amazfit.com/products/amazfit-bip-s
on closer inspection, it does say 'out of stock'
Amazfit have a few model even Bip has a few. Do you have particular recommendation on them?
Do you care to comment on the smartwatch features or health monitoring one?
Only original Bip and then successor Bip S have battery life measured in weeks, the new versions with fancy displays have already crap battery life. In my country none of the old two is sold anymore. I don't really care for health monitoring (i need smart watch only to get and read notifications), it measures heart rate, sleep, steps, sleep is quite accurate, the others can't say.
I remember there is now basically rebranded Bip with different firmware sold under different name (Bangle.js 2 or some other unknown chinese models), but nothing improved in last few years for low price in compact body. Everything else like those Casio or Garmin watch with good displays and battery life or LILYGO TTGO T-Watch-2020 are like 15mm, more than 50% ticker than original Bip.
Re:Quest for My Perfect Watch
by Humpelstilzchen on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:01PM
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Bangle.js 2 is SMA Q3. But yes, its a nRF52840.
In addition to what Markoff said, I recommend sticking with the original Bip or Bip Lite; nothing else, including other Bip models. Only those two give you access to [the world's largest library of watch faces](https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/bip/fresh).
I like Bip so much that when it failed (because of a design flaw fixed in Lite and later Bip models), I bought Bip Lite (since I never used Bip's GPS, always using the phone's instead).