Amazfit Band 7 Fitness and Activity Trackers and Smartwatches, Heart Rate, SpO2, Sleep Analysis, Amazon Alexa Built-In, 18-Day Battery, Black

Great affordable Fitness tracker, but notifications and linking can be annoying.
I’m going to be thorough, but fair. All the praises (and criticisms) they get are totally warranted, and if y’all don’t like that, then update your darn system! I’ll set this up in a question/answer format.Short review? It’s a good cheap alternative device that works if you know how to use it:Long Review (read all so y’all can be fair and judge the device on its EARNED merits):Q: Does it work well?A: Yes. It does a good job counting steps and heart rate, however you need to move your arm for it to register a step. I’ve walked a mile with my hands in my front coat pockets, not shifting my arms, and it registered maybe half of the steps. I suggest gloves and gentle rocking of your arm. I’ve also tried putting the tracker in my pocket or hand it from a belt loop so I can trick it to register steps, but it doesn’t seem to work. So be aware of that. But for a tracker, it does legit work.Q: Is the app/website easy to use?A: Yes and it shows you all your results, HOWEVER!!!! This tracker forces you to download “Zepp” on your phone, which alone isn’t a big deal. Even Fitbit needs an app to work. MY BIGGEST PROBLEM IS HOW THE APP INTERACTS WITH YOUR NOTIFICATIONS! Holy moley. So your tracker wants to be sending signals to your phone through bluetooth ALL the time. This means using data, which means if you’re old and on a limited plan, means even though the data it uses is very small, still adds up when you have other important apps you use. Still, it’s not terrible. Someone with a 3GB plan could still use this every day no problem.But the thing is, I set it so it only sends signals to my Zepp app when I open the app (usually when I set my phone to Wifi to save data), but good ole Zepp DOES NOT LIKE THAT! In fact, it likes it so little, it’ll proceed to SEND A REMINDER ON YOUR PHONE TO SET UP “ALWAYS TRACKING” EVERY 10 MINUTES!!! LITERALLY EVERY 10 MINUTES WHEN I CLEAR A NOTIFICATION, IT’LL JUST SEND ANOTHER ONE! The most ANNOYING AGGRESSIVE insistence of how I use a digital device I’ve ever used. LIKE REALLY DUDE!? LEAVE ME ALONE!!!So I said to myself “Meh, I’ll just turn off notifications through Zepp directly and it’ll stop.” BUT NO! DOING THIS SEEMS TO MAKE ZEPP JUST IGNORE IT AND IT’LL JUST KEEP SENDING A NOTIFICATION!!! OK I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO KEEP MY DEVICE CONNECTED FOR BEST PERFORMANCE! CUT THE CRAP!!!So how do you make it stop? Simple: SHUT OFF NOTIFICATIONS ALL TOGETHER! So now it’ll record on my wrist and store the info internally, then when I open up the Zepp app it’ll take that load of data and upload it all at once. Perfect.Only one thing…..EVERY TIME I NOW OPEN MY ZEPP IT’LL BEG ME TO TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS AGAIN!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!? LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THIS!!!! I OBVIOUSLY KNOW WHAT I WANT IT TO DO!!! Well it’s not a big deal to just close the window and use Zepp how I want. Plus in this way, no more notifications Thank the lord!Q: Can I use it with Yazio Fitness App?A: Yes absolutely…BUT…..you have to use it in a round-a-bout way. Yazio communicates with some apps, but not directly with Zepp. And vise versa. BUT…both communicate with Google Fit! So you need to link your Zepp with Google Fit….THEN you need to link your Google Fit with Yazio. Finally when you want to update Yazio with your steps/sleep score/etc, you open Zepp…IGNORE THE ANNOYING NOTIFICATIONS…refresh your Zepp so it downloads the data off your fitness tracker watch. Then, you open Google Fit and refresh it. It’ll take data from Zepp and compile it, updating. Then, you open Yazio and refresh it and it’ll take data off of Google Fit, which has the data from Zepp updated. This whole process takes maybe 30 seconds max if you do one after another, and you’ll get use to it. Now your Yazio has your steps and it’ll help you count calories or whatever. Great. Plus Google Fit is free and up-to-date and supported by everyone.Is it annoying to have to do this? Yeah sure I guess, but it works, and it uses only a little data. You’re welcome, I suffered to figure this out so you don’t have to.Q: Is the battery life good on the watch?A: Not only is the battery life GREAT, but it also charges super fast. Impressively fast! You can charge it in a manner of 20-30 minutes from 0 to 100%, and that 100% charge will last you 1-2 weeks of constant use. Pretty great. Super happy with this.Q: Is the watch interface easy to use?A: Yes, but it’s super simple. I will note that if you shower with it (you can safely do this), it will sometimes respond to the water droplets, but it’s not a big deal it won’t go screen to screen and activate things as if you were using your fingers. Not really a problem.Q: What about customizable screens on the watch?A: The website actually offers a lot of free and simple options…HOWEVER…it also has some which you need to PAY to use, which is crazy. So just be careful which interface screen setup you use.Q: Is it sturdy?A: So far it takes a lot of damage, and seems to be doing well. It has MANY holes in its wrist, which allows for lots of sizing. Too tight? Go down one or two and it’ll fit perfectly. My only mild, very mild, gripe is if you get the lip of the wristband caught on some stuff, it might unlatch it. however, even if it comes fully undone, the end will catch on the latch of the watch, and keep it from just straight up falling off. Wear it with a longsleeve shirt will endure you’ll probably never lose it.Suggestion: Look in to buying a small cheap plastic screen protector. Something you can put over to protect the screen from scratches. It has a “sensitivity” option that’ll let you use it through a screen, which is nice. Otherwise if you don’t care about dings on this affordable watch, and it’s all function, then go for it.Q: What about sleep mode?A: It’s pretty good, but it kinda thinks I’m still asleep sometimes when I’m lazing around my bed on Facebook before I wake up. No biggie. It DOES do a GREAT job at detecting REM, Light, or Deep sleep, though. So that’s nice. I know it does this, because I had a Fitbit once, and the results from then and now are practically consistent.Overall: This is a great fitness tracker FOR THE PRICE! Although some aspects of it can be annoying (Zepp y’all BETTER fix that annoying notification bull REAL FAST), there are work arounds. Furthermore, the ability to INDIRECTLY link to apps like Yazio or MyFitnessPal through Google Fit makes it at the very least functionable. I’m happy with it.Would I suggest it to others? Well I am now…..so long as they know what they’re getting themselves in to! Learn from my mistakes, and make the most out of an affordable functionable, and non (physically) intrusive device to help you become a better you.Thanks, but fix the few issues I mentioned above.

Frustrating, annoying, and garbage.
Honestly would not recommend this watch at all.First, the heart rate monitor and sleep monitor are very inaccurate. I compared the heart rate measurement several times during various levels of rest or exercise with the readings from my blood pressure arm cuff. While I was expecting some inaccuracies maybe plus or minus a few bpm the watch would report 90 bpm when my blood pressure device read 130 bpm and when my blood pressure cuff read 90 this would often read anywhere from 70 to 140. Sometimes tapping the measure button would read 130 and then 2 seconds later read 80.Second, the device has a feature where if you press and hold the screen you can quickly change the watch face. This is extremely annoying as the screen is extremely sensitive and I found if my coat sleeve slid forward it would trigger it, or if I crossed my arms it would trigger it, or just resting my arms in my lap would trigger it. There is no way to disable this feature and with how sensitive the screen is to any kind of touch from anything it gets very frustrating very quickly.Finally, most of these issues could still be overlooked to an extent but after having it for only about four months the screen popped out on me and was dangling by the ribbon cable connecting it to the circuit board. I carefully set the screen back in place and glued it back in using a compound that would seal it from moisture so it wouldn’t get damaged further but that didn’t last long. I glued it once more with some heavy duty glue but that also failed after about a month. The third time it popped out and I glued it back in the screen had solid white vertical lines so I popped the screen out and discovered parts of the wiring on the ribbon cable had cracked due to the screen hanging freely by it. Now, with no functional screen whatsoever I am unable to turn the device off at all since there is no physical way to turn it off without using the screen. Thankfully I was at least able to turn my alarms off through the Zepp app so it would stop buzzing when sitting on my desk.Overall, this thing is cheap garbage and I wouldn’t waste a penny on it. Only reason I give it 1 star is you can’t give it 0 and my mom likes it cause she has metal allergies and this is the first fitness tracker she’s found that does not have any metal against the skin.

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This was actually given to my daughter after 1 day as it was too small for me (47 yrs old) to read. I also bought the band 7 to replace it. The options, connectivity and sensors work amazing. This was my first smart watch. The price can’t be beat and Amazon backs it’s products. The orange band is more orange-pink in colour for anyone wanting a true orange band. I would recommend if you have great eye sight. Otherwise spend the extra $10 and get the 7.