Amazfit Active 2 Premium Smart Watch Fitness Tracker (Round) for Android & iPhone, 10 Day Battery, Water Resistant, GPS Maps, Heart & Sleep Monitor, HYROX Mode, Sapphire Glass, Leather Sport Strap

Solid contender for Android-using Fitness Buffs. 3/5 for Disability Friendliness. For reference, I use this watch with an iPhone 14, so setting up text message reply has been…I haven’t figured it out for hours of trying. However, as a fitness and overall smartwatch, it’s high quality. The bands are debatable. Some people will love and others will hate the watch bands included. I ended up buying another for mine to more comfortably fit my wrist as the stock leather band is a bit tight in my opinion. Battery life? 5 days and nights. For me, I use this day and night with all health-related tracking features on and I have it import into Apple Health and of course the Zepp app. The zepp app isn’t as easy to navigate and use as built-in iPhone health app. For the price and overall features, I’ll accept 5 days and nights before recharging and I don’t plan on buying another Fruity watch in the future. Although there are other styles from this company and I own a smaller one with fewer capabilities, this one was the best value for the money for me because I needed to be able to track a lot of health data, and the Amazfit Active 2 can do what the smaller Amazfit watches can’t, with upgraded sensors and features that stand out; especially in its new sensor array. For how it tracks, I don’t use GPS as I cannot run. I’m a wheelchair user. I do not get turn by turn navigation when connected to my iPhone. I am going to give this my usual Disability Friendliness Rating. That’s a bit complicated in this situation. This watch is made for athletes. It’s made for people who can ambulate, run, exercise, and not for the sedentary. Being much more sedentary due to disabilities, and also needing feedback about my breathing, oxygen, heart rate, sleep apnea, and more, which this watch can do, I have all those features turned on. However, it’s a bit annoying as a wheelchair and IV-pole user with limited mobility to get an app and watch that want me to do things I cannot do, including intense exercise. LIVING is intense exercise for me, daily. So the BioCharge (renamed feature) after a firmware and app update still just doesn’t capture how I really feel (typically absolutely exhausted!). If you’re buying this for disability-related features instead of running around your neighborhood or up a mountain type features, I’d give this watch a 3/5. You’re still going to get data on heart rate but it’s going to be compared to someone who, say, doesn’t normally have tachycardia or bradycardia. There will eventually be, from other brands, trackers like watches and such which provide more health-centered metrics for people who have disabilities that impact them physically. This one is not it. And frankly, that part cost it a star. I’d thought I could customize it more to my disability-specific needs but I couldn’t. So if you’re looking for that kind of device, I’d say hold on or be willing to pay a premium for what is out there currently with subscription. Did I mention subscription? Well, Zepp app is free. But they will keep reminding you to use Aura, their paid subscription which provides soothing sleep sounds and such (you can try out the free trial and cancel before it’s up and you get charged). I tried Aura, but for my budget, it wasn’t worth the expense so I canceled before the free trial was up. Part of the selling point of the Amazfit watch lineup is that you don’t NEED a paid subscription for many of their watches. However, be prepared to be reminded of the option to pay up. Font size can be small and seems to be fixed for many watch faces. For me, that’s an annoyance. The smallest text, (“Monday” on my always-on watch face and the numbers for various metrics on my main face when I tap it) is very difficult to read. It is hard to find watch faces that show spO2 values, which I need. But there are MANY watch faces to choose from. At night, I have the watch turn the screen green at a set time. I do use always on display for Time, AM/PM, Month, Date and Day – your typical digital watch functions, and I keep the screen mostly black to conserve battery. It still looks neat. Reminder: the band shown in my pictures isn’t stock – I bought one that fit me better.