Amazfit Verge Lite Smart Watch Fitness Tracker for Android & iPhone, 20-Day Battery Life, GPS Built-in, 1.3 " AMOLED Screen, Heart Rate Sleep Monitor, IP68 Waterproof(White)

First I have to say the battery life is as fantastic as advertised. I got the watch 7 days ago, charged it immediately, set it up and it's at 83% now, so 17% in 7 days; if that holds for the entire charge, that will be over a month using the functions I use. Which are: Time keeping with wrist-action auto-on and 10 second screen auto-off; pedometer; sleep monitoring; heartbeat monitor every 30 minutes with activity detection; app sync with phone; SMS text messages; one daily alarm; weather; and audio control. This includes a number of updates downloaded, and my playing with every watch face. The first charge lasted nearly 40 days; second almost 30; third will be a little more than 30. [Update after 9 months: On average the battery does better than advertised, though if can differ between 20 and 35 days from charge to charge. The meter is also uneven, typically consuming 4%-5%/day at first and reducing evenly until the last 10% tends to be about 2%/day; oddly, it often gets stuck on 7 or 8% for 2 to 3 days. It's never delivered less than the advertised 20 days.]This fits the bill for a basic smart watch and does everything I want it too. It has an OK selection of default watch-faces, and there is a nice selection of just under 500 custom faces available and easily installed using the AmazFaces app, from amazfitwatchfaces.com. I think nearly everyone will be able to find a face that they love, which makes this watch close to perfect. Only three watch faces are stored on the watch (default digital, default analog, and one custom face), so the others need to be pushed to the watch on demand. That's acceptable but I wish that it had the ability to store at least two, and preferably a handful, of custom faces, as I now have several that I'd like to quickly switch between, particularly a custom digital and custom analog face.The band and case are a little bit "plastic" looking, but it looks good enough. I don't think it looks cheap, but it doesn't look expensive either. The strap's retention band has a notch that prevents the excess strap slipping out, but it's a bit flimsy and could have been better -- it does the job but it's merely OK and it's easy to have the excess strap come out of it and be flapping around -- this could really be improved.The touch screen works flawlessly, is plenty bright and has an auto-brightness option that seems to work quite well.The heart monitor works adequately. I know my various heart rates very well and the watch seems to match close to what I expect. When I remove the watch it shows no detection, which is better than my previous, less expensive watch which seemed to just make the heartbeat up, even when it was sitting on my nightstand.The sleep monitor seems to poorly; it's less accurate than my phone's sleep app. Initially I thought it was working well, but after some time it is obviously not very accurate. I've now disabled as much as I can to do with this, and I'd like to be able disable monitoring altogether and extend battery life.The thing I had uncertainty about was the pedometer. But after some anomalies that seemed to be my phone double counting were resolved I've found it to be very accurate. There are movements which cause false counting; two that I've noted in particular are washing my hair and playing drums, both of which involve moving the arm back and forward very uniformly.The AmazFit iPhone app works well enough, watch setup/config is easy, and access to records and history is intuitive (I feel this app is a little better than the MiFit alternative). There are a number of options to tweak the behavior, which pleasantly surprised me: The wrist-movement auto-on has a setting for sensitivity and wrist (right/left) (and on the default, lower sensitivity level it works well without turning on constantly when I am not looking at it); heart rate interval and activity detection; ability to order and select which menu options are offered; alarms can be set on the phone or watch.Overall, after owning this watch for about 6 months, and particularly because I can now install custom faces, I am very pleased with my purchase. Without the custom faces, I would be merely satisfied.

I'd love to get a smartwatch from Apple or Samsung -- you know, the fancy ones with the amazing watchfaces with all the bells and whistles. Only I've got charge fatigue. I don't want a watch I have to plug in every day or two. It's ridiculous to have a watch that does sleep tracking but it doesn't hold enough charge to wear it overnight.I've been using these Amazfit watches for quite some time, starting with the Bip. It didn't have the best screen or have a bunch of amazing features, but it was dependable and the battery lasted 30 days easy. I wore it every day and never took it off. I wore it in the ocean and in the shower. It died maybe a year and a half after I had it, but that's about what I expected for something that wasn't even supposed to be water resistant.I like that the Amazfit "community" is pretty active and I knew there were loads of people making watchfaces for these devices. I wanted something with a little more functionality with more colors and a better screen so I picked up the Verge Lite.It's great. Screen and colors are a step up from the Bip. The battery life is easily 30 days between charges. I've had the watch for about 8 months and can't say I've had any problems. It just works.Some people buy these Amazfit devices and get upset because it doesn't measure their activities accurately. If you want that, you need to pay for something more reliable like an Apple Watch or a Garmin device. The price should indicate these aren't for serious athletes. I used the run tracking on this watch and it would just stop recording my progress after 2 miles. Oh well.So why am I not upset? Because it's a cheap device. It cost me around $70 and the things I want it to do well -- send notifications from my phone, alarm, keeping time -- it does well. I like that I can change a song from my watch without pulling my phone from my pocket. I like that I can set an alarm from the watch to remind me to check on my laundry. The "find my mobile" function has been a lifesaver for other household members who put their phone down then can't figure out where it is.There are tons of watchfaces for this device and if you're nerdy, you can figure out how to build them.I consider this a DIY watch. You need to play around with it to figure out how it works. Why are there two apps from the company to use it? Who knows. You need to sign up on a Chinese site to do health tracking. It's a pain to figure out how to swap out the watchfaces. But some of us enjoy all this ridiculousness. If the watch wasn't dependable and if the battery didn't last as long as it did, I wouldn't recommend it to all my friends and family.

While I did return this watch I will say I was very impressed with the battery life. I went about 16days before I decided to recharge it, and even then it was at about 14% and it could have possibly lasted another day or two.The main reason I returned it was because it was not accurately keeping track of when I slept. I work at night so I sleep during the day and (unless I missed the setting) I couldn't get it to measure or record any data when I slept during the day.The other issues I had with it was the connection to the phone. It was almost always behind when receiving messages or phone calls. More than a few times a message or call would come in, no notifications would happen on the watch, but after I answer the call or start to respond to a message the notification would come in for me to answer the call or that I received the message. There is no way to reply to the messages on the watch, so if you are looking for that feature, this is not the watch for you.If you are looking for an entry smart watch with a very long lasting battery, good/basic health tracking features, then look no further, but if you want something with more advanced features, keep searching.

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Lo compre principalmente para registrar mis entrenamientos y mis rutas en bicicleta y aunque es un poco grueso y al principio resulta algo incomodo, es bastante útil y preciso. El display se ve muy bien aún en luz directa y la batería tiene buena duración.

Everything works flawlessly and even exceeding my expectations in some functionalities but the sleep tracking is not as advertised and it is very inaccurate. Battery life is as advertised. Design is 5 stars for me.

Ich bin sehr beeindruckt von dieser Uhr. Das Einrichten und Verknüpfen ist einfach und unkompliziert und der Touchscreen reagiert sehr schnell. Die Uhr ist leicht und wird mit einem weichen Gummiband geliefert, das sie sehr angenehm trägt. Eine meiner Lieblingsfunktionen ist die lange Akkulaufzeit. Die Uhr nicht jeden Tag aufladen zu müssen, ist ein Plus. Das Mikrofon und der Lautsprecher der Uhr sind von hoher Qualität und verfügen über eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, die Sie normalerweise bei intelligenten Uhren mit einem viel höheren Preis sehen. Wenn Sie auf dem Markt für eine intelligente Uhr sind, kann ich das Amazfit Verge wärmstens empfehlen.

UPDATE DEL 30 MARZO 2019Stamani sono arrivati gli aggiornamenti con il supporto di lingua giap e coreana.- funzione trova telefono che manda uno squillo al telefono se te lo perdi- 7 nuovi quadranti, purtroppo tutti fashion e non fit- misurazione battito cardiaco a riposo anche con la misurazione continua Continuous Heart Rate- bug fixesUPDATE DEL 31 GENNAIO 2019Stamani (ore 9) è uscito l'update di supporto per la lingua italiana.Io continuerò ad usarlo in lingua inglese, ma può avere una certa importanza per chi preferisce usarlo in italiano.***************************Prodotto preso nei primi giorni di gennaio, ho aspettato per recensirlo, perché volevo avere un quadro generale più chiaro per poter dire che è valido. Device improntato al fitness, secondo me validissimo e anche preciso. Ne parlerò in dettaglio nelle singole voci.Estetica, aspetto generale 8Nonostante alcune recensioni critiche, trovo che l'aspetto esteriore non sia affatto cheap. E' un device che si concentra sullo sport, quello vuole essere, ed è comodo. Anche il cinturino, pur essendo in silicone molto morbido, è comodo e di qualità. Avrei preferito colori più vivi di fabbrica. Ho ovviato con una cover del quadrante after market.Orologio 7Ovviamente è sincronizzato con l'ora globale e quindi è precisissimo. I quadranti settabili sono 11, ce ne sono 3 improntati soprattutto al fitness, gli altri 8 sono più da uscita serale. Personalmente avrei preferito il contrario, con quadranti più fitness, ma è una scelta personale.Software 8Basato su Wear OS di Google funziona bene, ma NON è Wear OS, quindi non è possibile interfacciarlo con la app relativa. La app Amazfit funziona bene, ha tutto quello do cui c'è bisogno, monitoraggio fitness, battito cardiaco e sonno. Funziona tutto veramente bene. Il sonno viene rilevato al minuto, attraverso il battito cardiaco. Il battito è precisissimo, misurato e verificato con un altro apparecchio dotato di fascia toracica. Sono veramente molto soddisfatto. Addirittura permette di avere il battito cardiaco rilevato in continuità, cosa credo molto rara, se non su apparecchi di fascia assai superiore che costano il doppio o quasi. Sui passi lo trovo molto più preciso di altri device economici, ma francamente non potrei dire se è precisissimo. Diciamo che misura anche i piccoli passi che si fanno dentro casa. Non è fitness, tenetene conto, però, perché ve li conta. Addirittura l'apparecchio rileva anche i piani rialzati di scale che fate. Ed è anche preciso. Tiene conto anche di distanze e di calorie bruciate. Sulle calorie non ho rilevato molta precisione, unica pecca di un apparecchio davvero preciso in tutto. C'è anche la gestione del meteo nel software interno, ma comunque per il meteo ci sono le notifiche delle app installate sullo smartphone.Audio 8Per musica e telefono, buona qualità, tenendo conto dell'altoparlante. Nulla da dire, anche se ovviamente non si può pretendere chissà che cosa, ma si sente molto bene. Durante le chiamate, chi è dall'altra parte dice che ci sente un po' lontano, ma ci sente lo stesso abbastanza bene.Impermeabilità 8E' un IP 68, in palestra ci faccio la doccia senza problemi, anche bagnandolo proprio sotto il flusso della doccia. Ho provato apposta per fare la recensione. NON è a prova di immersione totale prolungata, a causa del fatto che è dotato di altoparlante.Esperienza d'uso 9Veramente facile da usare. Bella la luminosità, non ho riscontrato problemi anche in pieno giorno, anche se ovviamente siamo in inverno, ma sotto il sole tutto bene. La luminosità automatica funziona benissimo. Il Wrist sense funziona benissimo. La luminosità in stand by è accettabile. Non consiglio di usare l'always on, perché consuma più batteria. Tra l'altro si può selezionare sia il settaggio Aereo, che anche la luminosità azzerata in base a degli orari prestabiliti per tutti i giorni della settimana, addirittura in base ai giorni, tipo feriali, sabato e domenica, singolarmente. Davvero ottimo. Andrete a letto e lo schermo resterà spento tutta la notte, in modalità aereo, ma il sensore del sonno lavora lo stesso e al mattino, quando lo sincronizzerete riprenderà tutti i dati. Spettacolo!Gestione app 9Gestisce tutte le app dello smartphone, settabili singolarmente. I settaggi si possono fare dalla app.ConclusioneE' il primo wearable di fascia media che ho, di più non posso permettermi, pertanto non posso paragonarlo ad altri apparecchi di fascia alta. Ho avuto però numerosi device di fascia bassa e ho notato che non c'è paragone. Questo Amazfit Verge per lo sport è ottimo.Prendetelo!