Xiaomi Huami Amazfit Bip Smartwatch Is Your Cheap Fitness Tracker

A good fitness tracker doesn’t need to look like the Apple Watch in order to succeed, but it sure helps. The Xiaomi Huami Amazfit Bip is a head-turning wearable device that is worth your attention even you know it isn’t an Apple Watch.

The Amazfit Bip looks very much like an Apple Watch. It's got that same square shape with rounded corners, the same curved glass that glistens around the bezels. The rounded-off square case made of plastic makes the watch very light and pretty comfortable, hardly feels like you are wearing anything on your wrist. There's a crown on the right side, it's a button.

The Amazfit Bip has an always-on 1.28-inch color touchscreen display protected using a 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 3 layer, comes with 176 x 176px resolutions. The best suitable screen size with high definition picture displaying gives you the great experience. Trans-reflective technology is something that you do get to commonly see, it also allows you to read right under the sunlight. It has impressive back lights along with tap to wake display and twist gesture. The bright display of the watch serves you in every kind of light conditions.

Moving around the tracker’s interface is done on the touchscreen, but waking it with the side button is mandatory. This design choice might seem like an annoyance, though it’s defensible when you realize how easy it can be to accidentally swipe the screen when you’re working out. The display is smaller than the area on the top of the case, so it's surrounded by a chunky black border with the Amazfit logo at the bottom edge.

Its 20mm bands are interchangeable and the entire device has an IP68 water-and dust-rating It weighs just 1.1 ounces and the 190mAh battery can provide up to 45 days of autonomy. However, this does not mean that Xiaomi had to remove the GPS tracking abilities since the Amazfit Bip comes with built-in GLONASS support, an optical heart rate sensor, a barometer, as well as a compass.

Amazfit BIP smartwatch is primarily a fitness watch for it has the 4 sports modes as running outside, treadmill, walking, and cycling. The watch is programmed to measure your calories, sleep, distance, and heart rate. The overall activities that you would execute while wearing the watch would get noticed by the wrist piece you carry. No matter whether you run, walk, indoor activities and bike ride, the watch would everything to make you impressed.

The capability to track objects and body structure is just perfect. The voice imparts you a notification after every single mile you travel. The indoor treadmill steps are calculated on the basis of steps taken. The overall accuracy percentage lie in-between 85%-90%.

The watch needs to be paired with the smartphone for tracking the exact GPS location.  It establishes synchronization through an app called strava. The activities are well tracked through this app in the most visible form. The most impressed thing is its sleep-tracking data, the device correctly estimated your sleep times each night and showed periods of light and deep sleep, along with awake periods in the Mi Fit app. 

The Amazfit Bip is compatible with the both iOS and Android devices. It performs seamlessly with the devices and let you access all notification on your wrist. To get more control on the watch need to download companion app from the App Store.  The Bip's device settings live in the profile page of the Mi Fit app, along with your personal information. Current battery percentage sits at the top of the settings page, followed by a number of options that you can change, including alerts for calls, texts, events, apps, emails, and goals. This is also where you can change the heart rate monitor's frequency settings and your location for the weather app. In addition to the few watch faces that come pre-installed on the Bip, about ten more are available to download onto the watch from this page as well.

A smartwatch that doesn’t have a good battery is totally a waste of money. However, you don’t have to fear when you own something like Xiaomi Amazfit Bip. With the 190mAh battery capacity of the watch have the ability to run the 45 days without charging. Now you don’t have to carry the charger every where you go, just charge it for once and done. It also has a USB port that gives it a faster charging experience.

The Amazfit Bip is nevertheless an impressive offering, it’s smart, comfortable, capable. Best of all, it’s a cheap way to get into effective fitness tracking.