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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by TMWNN on Saturday January 27, 2024 @08:06AM (#39155203)
As others have said, Amazfit Bip is the answer. You want to find the first one (Bip, or Bip Lite); it has the longest battery life. The watch has notifications, weather, and 40,000 third-party faces. I get consistent ~20 days of battery life with heart rate check every minute (automatically speeds up to every couple of seconds during exercise).

I bought Bip in 2018. I bought a $20 used Bip Lite as replacement in 2020 after Bip failed because of a known issue with the case's glue (fixed in later models), since I always run with my phone so don't need Bip's own GPS.

Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by delecti on Sunday January 28, 2024 @10:10AM (#39166466)
Oh, the case glue is a known issue? The face on mine popped off a few years ago and I thought that was an utterly bizarre failure. Fortunately the display stayed attached to the guts, so I just superglued it back on and it kept working.
Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by TMWNN on Sunday January 28, 2024 @02:09PM (#39168820)
> Oh, the case glue is a known issue?

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