Interested in a new smart/GPS watch. I realized that the smart watch needs to be charged daily and GPS watch has ordinary watch face/limited features.
I was a bit disappointed until I Xiaomi Amazfit got my attention.
read few reviews, below is one of them
https://www.igeekphone.com/review-of-the-huami-amazfit-desig…
my summary:
[Pros]
It has nice screen/long battery life/phone app support/BT music to headset/changeable watch face/GPS tracking features.
[Cons]
flat tire display design. i.e. the watch screen is round but display is not round. Similar to Moto 360.
[Language issue]
Phone app is alright.
But there appears to be two version of watches (Chinese version and English versions). I imagine it would be a simple firmware/software update things. But I'd suggest normal buyer to grab a English version to save a bit effort.
[Price, gift and discount]
After a bit search, I found this deal at Aliexpress.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/English-Version-Xiaomi-Huami…
As regarding the price, mind you that
-this price includes a free gift BT headset which is about US$15-20'ish I reckon.
-the standard shipping to Australia is free but slow. Or you can pay extra US$9-11 to get EMS/DHL
-the original price is marked as US$140. But there is a Store Promotion:US $2.00 off per US $100.00 + Get a US $2.00 coupon. Assume you can get double dipping.
-last but not the least, do not forget your 7% cashback from cashrewards.com.au at the moment.
Considering all of above, the watch is about [140 (marked price) - 4 (discount)]*0.93 (cashback) - 15 (headset value) = US$111.50 ~= AU$147.50.
personally I reckon this is a great price.
Got one of these, some notes:
- The English version only supports miles (no km), does not have cycling as an activity (only walk, run, trail run) and the android app is pretty awful.
- The Chinese firmware is WAY ahead of the english version in terms of functionality and updates, it remains to be seen if they've already dumped updating the english version.
- Strava sync works as advertised and is pretty painless.
- HR monitor is reasonably accurate.
- Battery life (+ always on display) is pretty good.