Amazfit Bip 5 Smart Watch 46mm, GPS, Amazon Alexa Built-in, Bluetooth Calling, 10-Day Battery, Heart-Rate & VO2 Max, Sleep Health Monitoring, AI Fitness Tracker App, for Android & iPhone, Black

Great watch at a great price!
Great fitness watch! Built in GPS is accurate and shares information with iPhone Health app. Lots of free watch faces to choose from or customize your own watch face with photos. Keeps track of Blood Oxygen levels as well as heart rate. Very comfortable fit; so comfortable that I often wear it while sleeping. Great Battery life.

So far I’m impressed.
I had a Wear OS watch that died and wanted to replace it but that wasn’t in my budget. I tried several smartwatches with my Samsung phone running Android 13 with mostly bad results; none of them did everything they claimed. Very frustrating. I wanted a circular style yet I kept looking at the BIP 5. Honestly, the only seller I found that would answer my questions honestly was Amazfit. So I gave it a chance. Glad I did.I’ve developed Android apps so I’m familiar with the “inner workings” as well as being a retired firmware engineer and one of the things that ticks me off is the fact that many Chinese watches aren’t properly designed. For example, Notifications in Android are visible to all apps loaded by the OS design; Android flags them by which app generated it. Many of the watches just read some specific Notifications that they have designed their code to use and ignore others. This means, for example, if you are using Samsung Email instead of Gmail and the watch only accepts Gmail then you will never get email Notifications. This is a major problem because I couldn’t find any watches that worked with everything and I found NONE that worked with a Calendar app…until this one. Based on descriptions and questions I asked, evidently to the Chinese “Calendar” means it will display date and time.Amazfit’s Zepp app is designed to take better advantage of Android’s features. In particular it seeks out all apps on your device and allows you to select whether you want Notifications from specific apps. To that purpose it uses Android’s generic functions so when you look at the list you find them all. Using a different email app than Gmail? No problem. Using a messaging app different than Google Messages? No problem. Using a Calendar? No problem.I exercise often yet I usually don’t wear my watch when I do because I’ve been known to break them. I do like using some of the fitness features yet those are usually just monitoring steps and heart rate; I have an abnormally low heart rate so I was surprised to find just how accurate the Bip 5 is for that. I can’t attest to the other fitness features.I wanted a watch that could run all day without needing charging; my former Wear OS couldn’t do that on busy days but most of the time it would last a single day only. The Bip 5 with heart monitoring on every few minutes has use 9% of the battery in over 24 hours so I suspect 10 days is a good estimate; I will probably charge it once a week.I wanted SMS and MMS Notifications because most “group conversations” are MMS; none of the watches I tried or researched would do that yet Amazfit said theirs would…and it does! Note that if you get a “true” MMS it notifies you that it was received but not show the video/image but I don’t care about that. I just wanted to know I got a message so this works great for both SMS/MMS.I want my Calendar events on my watch…and I get them!I want to see calls coming in on my watch with the ability to reject them…and I get that!I want to get email on my watch…and I get them!I want to have a quick response to emails on my watch; Wear OS allows you to type anything but I found myself only using “canned suggestions” 90% of the time and usually preferred using my phone except for OK, Yes, etc. The Bip 5 allows you to reply with canned responses that you can edit…so I can do that.Supposedly I can instigate a call on the Bip 5; I haven’t found that and never used that on my old watch so I probably don’t care if I find that setting. For grins, I answered a call using the Bip 5 and it worked well although I wear hearing aids so I probably won’t make a habit of that unless it is really quiet but it does work.Basically, the Bip 5 does the 6 things I wanted: read texts, answer texts with canned replies, read group texts, get events from my calendar, get my emails, and lasts more than a day. And it does so without drama.I honestly don’t really care for the basic watch faces and didn’t want to buy a custom one, especially since I wanted a round watch. To my surprise it comes with a “photo” watch face that you can customize with any pic you want that displays date/time over it and another optional message. I really like that so I uploaded a favorite pic. You can make multiple versions of faces, such as seasonal pics, and the app will keep them so it is easy to switch them. I only have two so far so I don’t know if there is a limit to how many but it is nice to have.I read some negative comments about the Zepp app yet those were old comments. It seems well designed and easy to use. To be fair I wrote software/firmware for 35+ years, including a lot of User Interfaces so I’m better versed than most people when it comes to testing the limits of code yet honestly it looks and works pretty well. Better than a lot of other watch apps I tried.

Very Nice Watch But Stand/Progress Reminders Cannot Be Turned Off
No doubt its a very good smart watch for its price.* The face is indeed curved but not the backside that touches the skin.* The glass is scratch-free after 6 months of usage. Have brushed it against walls, doors, and tables countless of times.* Battery lasts long depending on usage, 15 days in my case. I take the watch off at bedtime with the ‘do-not-disturb’ enabled.* A lot of watch faces to choose from, free and paid.* Replaced the strap with a stretchy easy-to-wear fabric type (3-pack on Amazon).* You can make and take phone calls: clear reception on both ends.* There’s no ability to reply to received messages which is just fine.* Weather info updates only if the Zepp phone app is running despite having enabled it in Background Refresh. Not sure if Zepp or iOS 18.2.1 issue.* Zepp phone app must also be running for Alexa to work.* But what really annoys me is that despite turning off the related notifications, I keep receiving stand reminders even after an exercise. Also keep getting progress reminders before and after achieving my goal. The settings to disable them simply don’t work! Loses a star.

Very good battery power. Reliable to use.

We have purchased 5 of these watches now and everyone we have got them for loves them .It does everything an Apple Watch does for a fraction of the price with 4 times the battery life ! I can’t get over how long the battery lasts , my son honestly gets about 10 days between charges .The screen is very high quality and does not appear pixelated at all . The screen does not scratch easy and is very rugged .There is a ton of games available for kids , fitness feature , step count , heart rate , blood oxygen , sleep monitoring . You can answer calls , text messages , Facebook , the list goes on , so feature packed .The app is easy to install and easy to set up , functions great with both ISO and android .This is by far the best bang for your buck in a smart watch ! You will not be disappointed.