Amazfit Active 2 Smart Watch 44mm, GPS Maps with Direction, Fitness Tracker, 10 Day Battery, Sleep Monitor, 160+ Sport Modes, Water Resistant, for Android & Apple iPhone, Black Silicone

There are so many things I love about this watch! I've had several smart watches ranging from $25 to $300, and this one is the BEST!! THERE ARE SO MANY FUNCTIONS! I don't like to write reviews because I'm a horrible texter from my phone but, I HAD to sit down and take the time because this watch is just SO AMAZINGIn no particular order:1. I love that you can hit either button on the side in order to turn the display on.2. The connection from bluetooth is seemless3. Once you turn the watch on , you can easily turn the display off by covering it with your hand- which is super helpful at nighttime when you don't want to have a bright light.4. The "find my phone: feature works perfectly even when my actual phone is on vibrate or on silent mode. It makes my phone either vibrate or ding, even if I have the ringer off5. The app is super friendly and easy to use.6. The voice assistant works well7. You can voice text a reply to text messages8. The user interface is easily customizable, allowing you to choose which features you want to quickly access9. The GPS is built in- you do have to download a map of the area you want to locate10. Both a pro and a con - you can only choose 50 numbers to store (which is more than many other watches allow)11. Picture text messages display on the watch12. Sleep tracker is informative13. You get tips on improving your sleep score14. Pretty in depth heart monitoring- tracks various stages beyond pulse (sleep rate, resting rate, tells you if your heart rate increased or decreased after exercise).15. Multiple reminder options: go to sleep, walk, stand, move16. Congratulates you on goals (steps, standing, etc)17. Gives you a pretty in depth summary of your readiness for the day based on your sleep- comments on: physical recovery, mental recovery, sleep RHR, Sleep HRV, breath quality, temperature - tracks it for 7 days.18. Great battery life19. I have tiny wrist and the watch band size/length is perfect because the excess strap does not cover the sensors on my wrist.20. The watch band stays nicely tucked in21. You can easily put it in sleep mode and do not disturb mode22. Easily pair headphones23. Has a lock feature for going swimming24. The initial display tells you a TON of info: time, Heart rate, weather, steps, distance, date, day of week, readiness score, sleep hours from the night before, battery, altitude, hours you've stood, calories burned, etc25. Easily see the weather for the day and full week.26. Quick access to the calendar27. Great to-do check off list (add you're items in the app) check them off from your watch- think grocery list or daily reminders28. Play music29. See upcoming events30. Takes your temperature31. Has a compass32. Has a barometer33. SO MUCH MOREThings I don't like:1. Limited face dial options to switch out. You have to pay for most options - they're about $2. However the standard one is very informative2. Once you look at your text messages on your watch and reply, they automatically delete from your watch history. I would like the option to keep them and be able to send an additional reply.3. You cannot initiate a text message from your watch. You can only reply.4. You can't send an audio text messages and you cannot listen to audio text messagesBut seriously, this is THE BEST Watch I've tested and owned. It blew me away with features. I love it!!

This is an initial review. All too often products over time lose their luster and need to be reevaluated. I try to make a habit of revisiting a review and say whether it stands the test of time. I've owned eight or nine different fitness devices from Polar, Huawei, Garmin and Galaxy primarily to track heart rate during workouts. All either returned or in the junk drawer because they didn't work properly or I didn't like the functionality. The worst of them were the polar chest straps that used to be dead on accurate but over time failed to pair and the Galaxies that stop giving me accurate readings. This watch however really turns my head around... Elegant looking, pretty accurate and very rational functionality. What I really like is the real time heart rate graph right on the watch as you work out. Works great with the Zep app. Kind of cool that it has a limited version of Chat GPT built in so you can give it verbal commands. Glad to dump Polar Flow, Beat and Samsung Health. Only mild dissatisfaction in that you can't customize the complications on the watch faces but that's small potatoes. The other thing I find is that while the Flow Chat GPT app does a good job when you give it a command like set an alarm or order up an app it does okay but if you ask it how to use the watch it doesn't always give you the right answers lol. But this product is a winner and makes me want to buy maybe a higher end product from Amazfit or future offerings as the technology matures. A couple other things I want to mention.. the other watches I've owned were a pita if you just wanted them to function well as a regular watch where they always on feature worked in a satisfactory manner and you weren't constantly plagued with stupid notifications that I didn't want. If you set this one up to shut the heck up it DOES and if you set it for always on it will fade out to a low power very informative watch face every few minutes and goes back to your chosen watch face reliably with a wrist gesture. The engineers and programmers really had it on the ball when they designed this. Smooth an intuitive functionality.

Obviously, it's no Garmin, but it's also not Garmin-priced. Battery life is fantastic; I see around 10% drain per day of use with everything tracking in the background and no GPS use.The watch is bright enough to see in any lighting, even the brightest of sunny days and it's very responsive to swipes.Sleep tracking is good, but not entirely perfect, as there were times I just laid down to watch YouTube and it tracked it as sleep but it's good enough for most people given it's not a $1000 Garmin, while heart rate tracking seems to work as well as any of the Samsung watches I've had. It does only measure in one minute intervals at most, however.The band is pretty comfortable and since it has holes all the way around, it'll fit almost any size wrists. I have the wrists of a 7-year-old and it fits me just fine with room to spare. Being silicone does mean you can shower and swim with it (the watch is waterproof) without worrying about ruining a leather band, which can be a plus for some people.Notifications work well enough and can be customized in the Zepp app to only let certain apps display notifications. If you're on Android, you can actually reply to messaging notifications as well, but apparently that's not an option on iOS. It's a little more clunky than you get with an Apple or Samsung watch, but again, 1/3 the price.So yeah, Garmin does activity/sleep tracking and GPS stuff a lot better while Apple and Samsung do notifications and apps better, but this thing is $100 and 90% as good as any of them.