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Amazfit GTR 2 review

Introduction

Over the past few years, Amazfit products have successfully ascended from being an intriguing curiosity on our radar to somewhat of an important mainstay in our regular smart wearable coverage. Rightfully so, since the company continues to deliver a selection of great-looking and feature-rich wearables, with a clear focus on great battery life and tantalizingly competitive pricing.

The new Amazfit GTR 2 fits right into that description. It is a smart wearable that builds upon the original GTR and its already impressive hardware and feature set. It adds things like a microphone and speaker for voice commands and Bluetooth calls, 3GB of independent music storage, and a lot of polish inside the UI and the watch face selection. All of this while still maintaining a solid battery endurance promise of 14 days on a single charge. Plus, as affordable price point of $180.

Amazfit GTR 2 specs

Body: 46.4 x 46.4 x 10.7 mm; Sports edition – aluminum alloy – 36g., Classic edition – stainless steel – 39g.; 22mm strap; 5 ATM water resistance (up to 50 m); 3D Corning Gorilla Glass, with an anti-fingerprint coating and optical “Diamond-like Carbon (oDLC) coating front
Display: 1.39” AMOLED, Resolution 454×454, 326 ppi
OS: Proprietary; Support for Android 5.0 and above, iOS 10.0 and above (Zepp companion app)
Memory: around 3GB – user accessible for storing MP3 files and watch faces
Battery: 471mAh (14 days typical use); Magnetic charging base (2.5h for a full charge)
Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0 + BLE; Wi-Fi 6; GPS+GLONASS; NFC (for AliPay)
Misc: BioTracker 2 PPG biological tracking optical sensor, 6-axis acceleration sensor, 3-axis geomagnetic sensor, Air-pressure sensor, Gyroscopic sensors, Ambient light sensor; Speaker and microphone for calls, music playback and voice assistant (Offline commands available at launch, Amazon Alexa integration coming in OTA update)

Amazfit is a brand of the Chinese company Huami Technology. Huami is probably best known as an exclusive provider of smart wearables for Xiaomi. As such, it is the company behind the popular Mi Band line of products. That should be enough of a pedigree in itself, yet Huami has a lot more to “flex,” like the fact that it is listed on the New Your Stock Exchange (NYSE) and is the first Chinese smart hardware company to have its stock traded on the US capital market. Last year the cumulative global shipments of Huami’s smart devices exceeded 100 million units. And after Apple, Huami is probably the world’s second-largest smart wearable manufacturer.

The watch we are reviewing today does not have a full-blown OS with third-party apps like Apple’s Watch OS, Google’s Wear OS, or Samsung’s Tizen OS. It doesn’t have an app store with third-party apps. Still, it occupies a niche that is experiencing a renaissance of sorts. If you can live without features like notification replying or the ability to order a pizza or call a cab right from your wrist, going for one of these dumber smartwatches saves you money, and you can enjoy a battery life that’s miles better than a real smartwatch.

The Amazfit GTR 2 offer pretty much every modern hardware feature out there sans a powerful enough chipset to make third-party app development viable. It’s got a heart rate sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, air pressure sensor, ambient light sensor, speaker and microphone, GPS receiver, Wi-Fi 6, and Bluetooth 5.0, all sitting behind a 1.39-inch AMOLED display is vibrant, power-efficient, and comes with always-on features. Building on years of activity tracking experience and general UX improvements, the GTR 2 also has all of the typical smart features well covered.

Unboxing

The Amazfit GTR 2 ships in a very similar box to the one we got the Amazfit T-Rex a few months ago. It is a solid two-piece box, complete with a silky-smooth finish.

The charging cradle you get in the box is like the one for the Amazfit T-Rex, which is a departure from the one shipped with the original Amazfit GTR. It’s a slimmed-down magnetic “snap-on” charging attachment rather than a full circle. It uses a pair of pogo pins to connect instead of something fancier like Qi wireless charging.

The downside of this cheaper approach is that you can’t just use any other wireless charger, and placing the charger onto the watch is a bit fiddly despite the magnetic connection. Still, you charge these wearables so rarely that it never becomes a burden.

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Moto G Stylus 2021 – we got to know the almost complete specification

A huge leak has appeared on the network with the technical specifications of the successor to this year’s Motorola Moto G Stylus smartphone. I have already had the opportunity to test the first generation of the device, which in Europe is called Motorola Moto G Pro. The phone was to be an alternative for people who can not afford to buy Samsung Galaxy Note series smartphones, and who necessarily want to take advantage of the possibilities offered by the stylus. To evaluate the device, I refer you to my test publication. Today we’re taking Moto G Stylus wallpaper 2021, which I think will also hit our market under a slightly different name. Although the specification is unofficial, the data source has repeatedly proven the verifiability of reports.

We got to know the technical specification of the Moto G Stylus smartphone 2021. The progress compared to the predecessor is visible on the screen, processor and camera. Here are the details.

Motorola Moto G Pro.

Motorola Moto G Pro – test of a smartphone with a stylus and Android One

I remember Windows Phone devices in which the stylus was an inseparable element. Operating a smartphone with a resistive screen was not particularly convenient, and the stylus significantly increased the comfort of use. With the growing popularity of capacitive screens, the market slowly forgotten about the stylus, although some manufacturers offered devices dedicated to the mentioned method of operation. A good example here will be the Samsung Galaxy Note. The potential was also noticed by LG and Motorola, which released the Stylus and Moto G Stylus models. Apparently, the idea turned out to be successful, because the second smartphone will be followed directly. We already know the technical configuration.

Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone test 20: Is it worth the money?

Moto G Stylus 2021, because that’s what the device will probably be called, it will be equipped with 6, 81 – inch screen with resolution 2400 x 1080 pixels, Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, 4 GB RAM and data memory of 64 or 128 GB depending on the version selected. We will take photos with the main camera consisting of units 48 Mpix, 8 Mpix, 2 Mpix and 2 Mpix, and also using the front camera for selfies with a resolution of 16 Mpix. The Android system will watch over the efficient operation of the device equipped with a battery with a capacity 4000 mAh. . Of course, there will also be a stylus and a fingerprint scanner on the side edge of the housing. You only need an NFC module for happiness, but we won’t have one here.

Source: Evan Blass, XDA-Developers