. One of the most anticipated smartwatches is it’s, really good enough. Let’S inspect welcome tech pro channel michael here and isn’t it beautiful the new amazing gtr promising to add a lot of new features and improve a lot of the drawbacks of the first generation. If you follow the news around the amazefit gtr series, you may have heard about the famous gps accuracy problems which i never experienced on my end, that seem to affect a lot of people these days, i’ll. Of course, let you know about the gps performance and the rest of the features, as well as everything interesting about the software let’s begin with the price and the closest competitors in terms of features. The gtr 2 is released as a smartwatch, although it’s more or less a feature watch something like a mid band on steroids, with added gps, spo2 sensor, microphone and speaker and a little more functions. Despite these improvements, it remains primarily a fitness tracking device without the ability to be truly smart, as the watch is running, wear always or teasing os and others. Apparently it belongs to the category where we are going to find the huawei watch gt2 the magic watch 2. The ticwatch, gtx and similar the price is around 169 dollars more expensive than the honor magic watch 2, but definitely cheaper than the huawei watch. Gt2 pro so it’s, not bad, but considering the fact you can buy a decent wear os device for a hundred dollars.
More and having about fifty dollars higher price than the predecessor, it should be a pretty good one in order to be successful as usual, if you’re looking to get it from a reliable source at a good price check. The links in the description below the video let’s unbox i’ll be unpacking for you, the aluminium coated sports edition. There also is the stainless steel variation which arrives with a different band and is supposed to look a little more premium. We noticed most of the good size on the amazefit package. Generally, one gets a nice feeling while unpacking the device inside the smartwatch some instructions and, of course, the magnetic charging cable. So no, there is no wireless charging at first sight. The watch seems to have a nice big, oled screen and mostly aluminium construction, which are good signs about decent, build quality. The sensors for measuring your hi and blood saturation are on the back. You’Re gon na also notice these small circles on the top and the bottom, which are the charging pins. If you’re eager to know about the tech specs, they are quite interesting. Amazefit themselves call the watch a classic essential, while the chipset’s exact modem, when specs remain unknown. The same one is used with the gts2 and likely based on arm technology, similar to what we find with the huawei watch gt series. However, you will notice better interface, responsiveness and the animations are running much smoother, there’s, some usable storage, where you can copy music to so.
While there is no lte edition of the watch, you can still keep some offline music and listen to it, while you’re doing sports 1.’ inches oled display 471 milliamp hour battery a weird amount: bluetooth, 5 wi fi microphone, speaker compatibility with 22 millimeter bands, two mechanical buttons On the side, it’s 5 atm waterproof and at some point may even get support for a smart assistant alexa so based on the specs sheet, it’s supposed to be a very capable device. On top of that amazing promising remarkable battery life, namely somewhere between 14 and 28 days, we’ll, see about that. Of course, i’ve been pushing it to the limits with some testing, if you’re, not fans of hearing specs or you don’t care. Much about the details, we’re promised to have great connectivity and hard to match battery endurance combined with a lot of interesting features. So let’s start with the speaker. This is the sound quality because the speaker is located on the bottom left side. If you do this movement and cover it, you’re barely going to hear anything, the controls are easy to reach and you can even connect to a headset. So now a bigger challenge, connect to bluetooth earbuds play some music and let’s start an exercise activity to see what’s going to happen. Does that work, hell, yeah, excellent implementation, which will of course consume a lot more battery than usual, especially if that’s involving a gps activity? What i find very positive is that you can swipe right and exit the workout screen without terminating the exercise.
You can go to the app menu check, the weather settings, for instance, and then get back to the sport activity, so it does cross the border of being multitasking, which is something i see for the first time from a device with such a basic os. Now for the microphone, i was unable to make a good test because there is no integrated recorder, but people hear me find when i was making phone calls. One thing i can complain for sure about is the bluetooth connectivity almost impossible to connect to the phone. If location services are not on, so it seems to be the light edition of bluetooth. 5.. Okay, the hardware so far seems interesting, so let’s check how amazefits are approaching the software layer. It is much different to the gtr1 that’s for sure brand new design of most watch faces similar navigation, but different, app drawer, tidy, better customizable that’s it at the glance. If we look into the details, most of the time you’re going to find yourself navigating through the touch screen swipe down for quick settings, swipe up to see the notifications swipe left to access the main cards and swipe right for this, something like a multi tasker that’s. Pretty good implementation and idea the buttons on the side are also helpful. The one on top is home and app drawer button. The bottom one is configurable default. Action is to open the workouts. The entire app screen is customizable and you can rearrange these entries.
I have pai spo2 and hr tracking, which are placed at the top there aren’t too many of them if we scroll more alarm events, stress measuring and widgets area, where you can find this lovely barometer altimeter, which is using the gps and is going to give you Pretty exact data where you are at the moment and also the height and the atmosphere pressure sports are also well implemented. The gtr 2 was initially launched with only 12 workout modes, but now, after the last firmware update, i can see more than 90 remarkable. Not only that, but it is capable of automatic sports detection, just like its much more expensive, siblings from tick watch, samsung and garmin. Wearables here is one more cool feature: the offline audio commands. Let me show you how it works now: an example with sports start walking and there we go just automatically light up screen now that was too late, but anyhow, you can read the commands inside the app and just apply them depending on how you have set the Settings up in terms of accuracy believe it or not: it undercounts the steps by around 10, which now seems to be corrected with the new firmware gps logs rather quickly and seems to be accurate. I haven’t experienced any of the issues. Some people were reporting with the original gtr, so at this stage i consider the gps performance to be reliable. You can only activate the gps if there’s an outdoor workout that you launch as mentioned.
They are quite many now let’s analyze, some data with the help of the smartphone app. If you enable continuous hr measuring and sleep tracking besides visible on the watch, it will have detailed statistics shown on the phone. The app here is called zap enemies which use it now for most of their products is the formerly called amazefit app, i can’t say i’m impressed with the design, but it seems to be all right. Steep data collection is great and it also packs recommendations about how to improve your sleep. Hr tracking is very precise, really good job about it. Unfortunately, amazfit haven’t included continuous spo2 tracking. You can measure it manually, though. Still i really love the feature on the huawei watch. Gt2 pro, where it’s being tracked, 24 7., there are some other nice sides of the software like the customizable watch faces. Some of them are really good. The collection is rich in different designs and is getting bigger and bigger. Oh and, of course, it’s amaze fit. So you can link it to both google fit and strava, potentially at some point of time for certain regions, the gtr 2 is supposed to be a lexus smart assistant enabled not for now, though, also while every early review is promising nfc support, it seems to be Missing from the unit at least not accessible in my international version, the weirdest part of the software and app was the way the phone calls are handled might be something better working with me phones, but on the oneplus i had two options to either not get any Notification about calls at all or to transfer all the calls to the watch by switching the feature from the smartphone app and this to be picked as primary speaker and microphone.
The whole process was pretty frustrating and i hope it will get fixed soon with a software update. Note that everything mentioned so far about the calls is only possible if you have the watch as a bluetooth device, meaning that it’s likely utilized as something like a bluetooth. Speaker that’s, not the only disadvantage. I noticed. However, generally i find the bluetooth implementation very unreliable and found myself missing. Maybe two thirds of all notifications i’ve received for the time of testing a little disappointing for amaze with high quality standards, not to mention the smart unlock feature which worked occasionally. The automatic workout detection also has questionable efficiency, at least for now, and the wi fi currently can only be used for music transfers, maybe because the bluetooth is terribly slow. I also find the analog clock face around the screen. A little weird, looking it’s obvious that amazefits were trying to somehow better utilize the available space. But i tend to like the thick ring on the gtr1 a lot better lack of nfc proprietary charging, cable, no way to respond to notifications, lack of any additional smartwatch apps and now even the huawei watch gt series have started offering such these are some key areas Where amaze, we should focus on good news is that they are all related to software and firmware and could be that many of them are addressed at the time. You’Re watching this video already definitely great battery endurance, because the battery was lasting, an entire week with continuous hr, tracking sleep, tracking, occasional sports and always on screen and that’s, even slightly better than the huawei watch gt2 pro.
But in my opinion, that’s not good enough to justify the relatively high price at the moment, so yeah. If price doesn’t matter – and you want this exact maze fit device. The gtr2 could be a good choice, but definitely you can find a lot of other great options. Doing almost the same for far less money, therefore, i hope to see its price settling down at around 130 250, which might be a tolerable amount of money to spend for these features, if alexa arrives as an update, of course, so that’s about the gtr2 by amazefit And in terms of performance, you can expect more or less the same from the gts2 in a different shape. If you want to get yours, make sure to check the video description for a link and a discount code. These reviews are taking a lot of time and effort, so please support the channel. Every like counts and subscribing is for free and guarantees that you will watch a lot more cool tech reviews.x_edr32b2_0
