Amazfit Active 2 Review: affordable, attractive fitness tracker

Amazfit’s partnership with Hyrox, Crossfit fashion racerIt is also in front and center, from advertisements in the application to top offered tracker workout. I paid extra money for a Wild.Ai subscription ($ 6 a month), the program that allows women to optimize their workouts according to their monthly menstrual cycles. Tracking the clock cycle is free, although Amazfit does not work with Natural cyclesOne of the most popular applications for tracking the period. Coach Zepp, which offers you a daily workout, is also free. (Its previous iteration was Zeppp Fitness and cost $ 30 a year.)

Another big difference is that with the last Amazfit watch I tested, the company seemed to deliberately hide its privacy policy. It is now in front and center of the product page, along with notes that it has data protection via Amazon Web Services and is compatible with GDPR.

Battery life is advertised for up to 10 days, but with all 24/7 health monitoring – the sleep breathing monitor, low blood oxygen signals – I have more like five. Like Garmin, this awakens you with a cheerful morning report, although Zeppp is ridiculously inaccurate. The time application in Zeppp is sometimes up to 20 degrees from the actual temperature outside. In addition, Zep’s shows you PAI fitness metrickwhich covers heart rate, age and gender and carries almost no relevance to the real world. It slides more and further into the application, as its non -elevation becomes more pronounced.

Screen Photos with the kind assistance of Adrien So

Finally, automatic strength exercises do not work as well as the advertised. I have been strength training Many lately, it is incredibly annoying to have to click on your watch when you go from one series of reps to another. Active 2 can be assumed that it automatically recognizes 25 strength exercises, but from them it has not been able to recognize me that I do pulls, bodies of body weight and push -ups, among others.

With all the above, this opposes the belief that Amazfit has somehow managed to get all this functionality in a tracker, which costs only $ 100. For years, one or the other version of Fitbit Charge has topped my list of best fitness trackers because it is available. But the functions of Active 2 blow out charge 6 of the water, and It looks more good. It almost doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work so well and it’s not so reliable. Almost.

We’ll need to see if Amazfit is able to pass trivial problems such as turning your neighborhood into the Dead Sea. When all the features of Active 2 finally, uh, work, this will be over For the rest of Cheapos.