Gadgetbridge users, can you tell about your smart watch and what are it’s pros/cons.

  • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Amazefit Bip - pro: transflective display with backlight, supreme battery life (weeks), virtually indistructible (although I had massive doubts at the start), all the features I need. con: replaced the wristband almost immediately - really cheap.

    • Mrrdrr@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Bip here. Bought 2018. Have been charging it literally only once a month.

      It relieved me from the battery anxiety of my previous sony smartwatch that ran the full googles smartwatch OS. That thing lasted usually a day. Less if i did anything meaningful on it. It made me seriously think if it needed a watch that would do everything, but ended up doing nothing anyway because of the battery life.

      • unomar@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Exactly this. It’s nice to go on vacation and not even worry about packing a charger.

      • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Amazefit is a Trademark of Huami Technologies, which is a Xiaomi daughter company, according to Wikipedia.

        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          Thanks! I guess I’ll look them up for alternatives. The local Xiaomi store only carries the Mi band 7 pro etc, no longer compatible with gadgetbridge…

    • unomar@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Bip S user here. Formerly a pebble holdout. Nice watch at a nice price and no thanks to the Zepp app

    • Cobrachicken@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Later comments mention the Fossil Hybrid. I just checked that watch, and have to admit it is really nice. There is a strong want urge, for me.

      Then I remembered another pro for the Bip: It is comparatively cheap, at <50€ (I seem to remember 36€ at when I bought it, years ago?).

      So for me, with everyday items like mobiles or watches, I use them heavily till they break. I really would hate to get a scratch on that really nice Fossil, but with the Amazefit, it would not hurt that much.

      So the tldr pro is: Very good feature to price ratio.